Parker Bangs - Baseball Coach - Davidson College Athletics

Parker Bangs

Title:
Assistant Coach
Email:
pabangs@davidson.edu
Phone:
2002

2nd Season
South Carolina '10

In his first official move as head coach, Rucker Taylor announced the hiring of Parker Bangs to complete his inaugural staff. Bangs joined Davidson baseball July 2018, and will serve as the team's pitching coach and assist with recruiting and game day operations.

Bangs joins the Wildcats after spending the last three seasons at Presbyterian College in Clinton, S.C., where he held the same role. While at Presby, Bangs led the Blue Hose to a number of program-bests since moving to Division I, including 433 strikeouts, 16 saves, and a 4.32 ERA in 2017. The squad also allowed its fewest runs (321) and earned runs (258) since 2013 as the team recorded a D1-era best 32 wins. Under his guidance, the Blue Hose named two pitchers to the All-Big South squads.

Presby’s pitching staff also made significant strides in 2016 under Bangs' first season, including making their first-ever appearance in the Big South title game.

Bangs played collegiately at South Carolina, taking home a National Championship in 2010 before continuing his career with three seasons in the Kansas City Royals organization. In his three years with the Gamecocks, Bangs compiled a 7-5 record, tallying nearly 100 strikeouts over 74.2 innings, and also spent time at the plate, posting a .301 career clip with 21 doubles, 10 home runs, and 60 RBI.

Taken by the Royals in the 31^stround of the 2010 MLB Draft, Bangs made 17 appearances with nearly 30 innings of work.

Prior to his stint at PC, Bangs was the head coach of the Wilmington Sharks in the Coastal Plain League for two summers and spent three seasons as head coach of Heathwood Hall Episcopal School in Columbia, S.C. He also served as the pitching/hitting coach for the Columbia Blowfish, also of the CPL, and hitting coach for at Dutch Fork High School in Irmo, S.C.

A native of Laurinburg, N.C., Bangs graduated from South Carolina in 2010 with a degree in experimental psychology and sociology minor, and then went on to earn his Masters from there in 2015 in Public Administration.

Parker, his wife Ariel, and newborn son Wyatt are excited to join the Davidson community and now reside in nearby Cornelius.