Owen Dueck

Height:
6-1
Weight:
170
Class:
Freshman
Hometown:
Aptos, CA
High School:
Aptos HS

High School -- A 2022 graduate of Aptos High School in Santa Cruz County ... under head coach Jason Biancardi, hit .344 with a .475 on-base percentage and .453 slugging percentage as a senior with nine steals, two home runs and 19 RBIs ... also was 3-0 with a 1.58 ERA over 31 innings with 40 strikeouts ... earned second-team All-Santa Cruz Coast League honors for the second year in a row ... Mariners were 23-7 overall, won league title with 14-1 mark and earned a spot in the first round of the CIF-Central Coast Section Division I playoffs ... as a junior hit .237 in 16 games with eight RBIs and posted a 4.11 ERA in five appearances (no decisions) with 24 strikeouts over 15 1/3 innings ... tossed a complete-game four-hitter with 11 strikeouts in a victory over Harbor High School ... Mariners were 15-3 in COVID-shortened 2021 season ... played for Port Angeles Lefties in West Coast League during summer of 2022, posting 3.21 ERA over his last three starts with 11 strikeouts in 14 innings ... season ERA of 5.29 over 17 innings ... played club baseball for Cal Club Baseball (five seasons) and Alpha Prime (two seasons) ... chose to further his academic and athletic careers at Cal Poly because "the culture is a lot like Santa Cruz, where I grew up, which I liked, and I heard nothing but great things about the baseball program and coaches."

Personal -- Son of Brian and Kate Dueck ... two sisters, Cameron and Jessie ... Cameron played beach volleyball at Pepperdine while Jessie has played beach volleyball on the USA National Beach Volleyball Team since 2016 ... cousin Maddi Dueck played beach volleyball at Cal while Peyton Dueck currently plays indoor volleyball at UCLA. ... cousin Paige Dueck is a 2022 Cal Poly graduate ... Owen is an experienced offshore fisherman and spends a lot of time in the water surfing his local break, Pleasure Point, in Santa Cruz ... born in Aptos, Calif. ... majoring in communication studies with a minor in real property development.