After winning Athlete of the Year, Team MVP and First-team all-league honors at Whitney High School, Park attended the University of California, Berkeley, for a brief semester before transferring to Claremont McKenna College in the spring of 1998. He played four years for Coach Randy Town and the CMS Stags mainly as a middle relief pitcher. His claim to fame at the school, however, did not involve any pitching at all. In his only collegiate at-bat, Park drove a 3-2 hanging curveball deep into Cal Tech�s fenceless left field and proceeded to hit an inside-the-park-homerun.
Coach Park teaches economics and civics at Los Altos and will be attending Cal State Fullerton in Fall 2004 to pursue a master�s degree in economics. This summer, he will travel to Latin America as an assistant coach for the Athletes in Action baseball squad, which is the athletic ministry of Campus Crusade for Christ.