The 2015-16 season will mark a milestone of coaching for Jay Parker who enters his 19th seson as a member of the Suffolk coaching staff and 30th year of coaching baseball overall.

Parker's years of coaching have been divided between high school - Mission High, Boston and Trinity Catholic - and seven years with the All-Dorchester Sports League (ADSL) Connie Mack 16-18 team. In 2000, the ADSL Connie Mack team participated in an international tournament held in Havana, Cuba where they were the first American team to beat Cuba on their home soil.

Parker moved up to the collegiate level when he joined the Suffolk University baseball program in 1999. During Parker's first year, the Rams finished the season as GNAC and ECAC Championships and set a school record for wins (38), as well as, making it to the NCAA Regionals in Portland, Maine.

Parker is an alum of Catholic Memorial '81 and a 1986 graduate of Bridgewater State College.