Basinger, Hunter and Parks Win Clemson Department Awards
Well Deserved Awards
CLEMSON, S.C. — Reese Basinger, Chase Hunter and Walker Parks have been named recipients of Clemson Athletic Department Awards for the 2024-25 academic year. Basinger is the recipient of the IPTAY Athlete of the Year, Hunter is the recipient of the Frank Howard Award and Parks is the recipient of the Brandon Streeter Award.
The IPTAY Athlete of the Year is presented each year to the Clemson student-athlete who excels on the field and in the classroom. Basinger was named the ACC Pitcher of the Year for 2025, the first Clemson pitcher to win that award. She won 18 games and posted a 2.94 ERA over her 44 appearances in earning first-team All-ACC and first-team All-Region honors.
Basinger’s 18th and final win of the year took place at the NCAA Super Regional in Texas where she led the Tigers to a victory over eventual National Champion Longhorns. Basinger was a major contributor as Clemson won the ACC Championship for the first time and reached the Super Regional of the NCAA tournament.
The native of Evans, Ga. was named the ACC Softball Scholar Athlete of the year after earning a 4.0 GPA in biology. She was named a third-team Academic All-American by the College Sports Communicators and was named an NFCA All-America Scholar.
The Frank Howard Award is presented each year to a Clemson student-athlete for bringing honor to Clemson. Hunter was the leading scorer on the Clemson basketball team that posted a record 27 wins, including a record 18 in ACC play and a record nine ACC road wins.
The native of Atlanta, Ga. was a first-team All-ACC selection on the court and was also selected to the Academic All-ACC team. He joined former teammate Hunter Tyson as the only Clemson basketball players to be selected to both first-team All-ACC teams in the same year. He was also named the the NABC All-District team.
Hunter set a Clemson record by playing in 110 wins over his career. He finished third on Clemson’s career scoring list with 1,768 points and is sixth in assists with 435. As a senior in 2024-25, Hunter averaged a career high 16.8 points per game. He shot 41 percent on three-point goals and 87 percent from the foul line.
The Brandon Streeter Award is presented each year to the student-athlete who has overcome injury or illness to have an outstanding season on the field.
In 2022, Parks played the majority of Clemson’s ACC Championship campaign with torn ligaments in his ankle, an injury that was first suffered in an early October win against NC State. He missed most of the offseason after undergoing ankle surgery to repair three lateral ligaments and address bone spurs.
In the second game of Clemson’s 2023 season, Parks suffered an ankle injury, and an MRI revealed that his Subtalar joint —the joint that acts as a bridge between the foot and ankle — had fused together. Parks faced two different surgery options: one that would definitively fix the ankle but instantly end his football career, or another that Parks and medical personnel called “a flip of the coin.” He chose the latter and missed the final 11 games of the 2023 season.
Parks came back strong in 2024 and earned third-team All-ACC honors and was a big reason Clemson won the ACC Championship and reached the College Football Playoff. In addition to earning third-team All-ACC honors on the field, Parks was also a first-team Academic All-ACC selection.
Entering 2025, Parks has played 2,810 snaps over 53 games, 12th in Clemson history in total plays. He played 703 snaps in 2024 while starting all 14 games and helped Clemson to a top-15 national ranking in total offense with 452 yards per game. The native of Lexington, Ky. is a returning starting offensive lineman on Clemson’s 2025 team.
