Zach Peters

Photo by: Dylan Smith

Height:
5-9
Class:
Senior
Hometown:
Garden Grove, CA
High School:
Los Alamitos
Position:
UT/RHP

Junior (2024): Played in 39 games with 29 starts…Hit .290 with 31 hits, one home run and 19 runs batted in…Seven multi-hit games on the year…Closed season hitting safely in five of the last six games…Had season-high three hits vs. San Jose State in MW tournament…Recorded 51 putouts with just one error.

Sophomore (2023): Made 17 relief appearances, including one start...Struck out 22 batters in 26.1 innings...Tallied career-high 3.0 IP on February 24 versus Navy...Punched out season-high four batters on March 5...Also appeared in 25 games off the bench as a pinch-runner or defensive replacement, seeing nine at-bats.

Freshman (2022): Appeared in three games, primarily as a defensive replacement...Produced one walk in his only plate appearance.

HIGH SCHOOL (Los Alamitos): Played for Matt Nuez at Los Alamitos High School…named First-Team All-Sunset League…member of Griffins team that won Sunset Surf League Title…three-time letterwinner…member of National Honor Society and California Scholarship Federation…Played club ball for So Cal Birds for four seasons.

PERSONAL: Member of Cadet Squadron 21...Parents are Brooks and Mara Peters…has one sister, Sydney…also goes by “Petey”…Intended major is Military and Strategic Studies…Plans on Minoring in Nuclear Weapons and Strategy…born in Garden Grove, Calif…His second-cousin Gary Manning served in the United States Army…Greatest team sports moment was clinching a place in the CIF playoffs his senior season of high school…something people may not know is he formerly was a competitive figure skater and played the flute…favorite player is Marcus Stroman…Pregame ritual includes listening to DaBaby and Metallica…credits former coach Mike Cosgrove for having the biggest impact on his baseball career.