Parker Douglass

Position:
Place Kicker
Height:
5-8
Class:
Senior
Hometown:
Columbus, Neb.
High School:
Columbus

Parker has excelled both athletically and academically during his career at SDSU ... enters season second among Division I Football Championship Subdivision kickers with 46 career field goals ... already holds school records in 16 different categories and is poised to add to that collection this season ... has been named Great West Football Conference Special Teams Player of the Year each of the last two seasons ... two-time member of the Academic All-Great Football Conference Team and ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District First Team ... received ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America second-team honors in 2006

2006: Continued his fine kicking by making 15-of-21 field goal attempts en route to GWFC Special Teams Player of the Year honors, as well as team’s Adam Vinatieri Award for special teams MVP ... second-team All-Northwest Region honoree by Don Hansen’s Football Gazette ... named a Special Teams All-Star and GWFC Special Teams Player of the Week after connecting on 4-of-5 field goals, including the game-winning 46-yarder with 14 seconds remaining in win at 16th-ranked McNeese State (La.) ... also earned conference weekly honors after connecting on season-best 53-yard field goal in win at Southern Utah ... honored on Football Championship Subdivision Athletic Directors Association Academic All-Star Team

2005: Received third-team All-America honors from The Sports Network and Don Hansen’s Football Gazette ... would have led Division I-AA in field goals if SDSU wasn’t in the transition period to Division I ... earned first-team all-Great West Football Conference
honors and was named conference Special Teams Player of the Year after leading GWFC in scoring with 99 points, an average of 9.9 points per game ... three-time GWFC Special Teams Player of the Week ... did not appear in Montana game ... his 19 field goals set an SDSU record, and his 99 points shattered the previous SDSU single-season scoring mark by a kicker (69, by Russ Meier in 1981) ... booted a school-record 54-yard field goal versus UC Davis in Sioux Falls ... had a 55-yarder in the UC Davis game nullified by a penalty and just missed on a 65-yard attempt ... made three field goals in a game four times ... had streak of SDSU-record 52 straight extra points come to an end in Hobo Day game versus Missouri-Rolla

2004: Walked on and won the kicking job as a first-year freshman ... set SDSU record with six field goals against Western Oregon, making 6-for-7 in that game ... led team in scoring with 65 points ... connected on 12-of-22 field goal attempts with a long of 43 yards against Western Oregon ... was 29-for-29 on extra points

Before SDSU: Earned all-conference in both football and soccer at Columbus High School, where his football coach was Dick Luebbe ... earned honorable mention all-state honors and was also an academic all-state selection