This week’s Orange Panther of the Week is senior lacrosse attacker Jay Parker. For the sixth consecutive season, the Orange lacrosse team won the conference championship. Parker is second on the team with 32 goals and 56 points. For his career, Parker has scored 57 goals and 87 points. This season, Parker has had five hat tricks. He scored four goals in Orange’s 18-10 win over Seaforth on May 1 at Auman Stadium in Hillsborough. Parker also scored four goals in a 17-11 victory over J.H. Rose on April 16. Parker has had a noteworthy year extending back to the fall. He was a wingback for the Orange men’s soccer team, which had the most successful season in the 38-year history of the program in 2025. For the first time ever, Orange won a conference championship and reached the round of 16 in the 5A State Playoffs. Parker scored four goals in an 11-7 win over Carrboro at Jaguars Stadium on April 7, which kept the Panthers in first place in the Big 7 Conference for the rest of the year. Last season, Parker scored 14 goals and 19 points as Orange reached the state quarterfinals. He had a crucial goal against Seaforth in 2025 in a 10-8 Orange win in Pittsboro. Parker will return to action next week when Orange starts play in the 6A-1A State Playoffs.
