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Jersey Number 31
Amari Harper
- Position:
- Utility
- Height:
- 5-7
- Class:
- Senior
- High School:
- Santiago HS
- Hometown:
- Corona, Calif.
CAREER HONORS
- 2026 NFCA All-America Third Team
- 2026 NFCA All-Mountain Region First Team
- 2026 All-Big Ten First Team
- 2025 All-SEC Second Team (UTIL)
- 2023 NFCA All-South Region Third Team (2B)
RECORD WATCH
Tied for fourth in UO season slugging percentage (.779 / 2026)
Tied for ninth in single-season home runs with 15 (2026)
AUSL GOLDEN TICKET & 2026 DRAFT
Received an AUSL Golden Ticket April 19 and was drafted in the third round by the OKC Spark (14th overall pick) in the 2026 AUSL Draft on May 4.
SENIOR (2026)
Started all 55 games ... Second on the team in batting average (.396), runs (47), hits (61), doubles (10), home runs (15), RBI (49) and slugging percentage (.779) ... Tied for the team lead in on-base percentage (.512) ... Ranked10th in the Big Ten in batting average and ninth in on-base percentage ... Was seventh in the league with five sacrifice flies ... Smashed previous career high in homers (eight) with 15 ... Had a career-best 13 game hitting streak April 12-May 15 ... Also had an 11-game hitting streak March 1-20 ... Hit her first home run as a Duck Feb. 6 vs. Clemson ... Went 2-for-3 and scored twice Feb. 7 vs. Liberty ... Hit .333 (4-of-12) at the Feb. 13-15 Cardinal Classic with two doubles, a home run and four RBI ... Was 2-for-3 with a double and two RBI Feb. 13 vs. Fullerton ... Hit her second home run of the season Feb. 15 at Stanford ... Hit a home run and drove in three runs Feb. 19 against Auburn ... Homered with three RBI in Oregon’s 11-8 win over No. 20 Duke (Feb. 21) ... Went 2-for-2 with a double March 3 vs. Samford ... Huge weekend at the Jane Sanders Classic (March 6-8) where she hit .533 (8-of-15) with two doubles, a home run and six RBI to raise her batting average 51 points ... Went 3-for-4 and drove in four runs with a double and a home run March 6 against Oregon State ... Was 2-for-2 with two RBI against Nevada (March 7) ... Reached base in 10-of-11 plate appearances in the Penn State series (March 13-15) with five hits, three walks and two hit-by-pitches ... Had first career two-homer game March 13 vs. Penn State (three RBI) ... Went 2-for-4 with a home run and three RBI March 23 at Indiana ... Hit .500 (4-for-8) in the Iowa series (April 3-5) with six RBI ... Hit two home runs in the Ducks’ 10-1 win over Iowa on April 3 ... Went 3-for-4 with a two-run home run April 10 at Maryland ... Hit .500 (4-for-8) in the Washington series (April 17-19) with two homers and five RBI ... Went 2-for-3 in the opener against UW (April 17) and drove in two runs ... Homered in both the second and third games against UW ... Went 2-for-3 April 22 against Oregon State with a triple ... Hit . 571 (4-for-7) in the Ohio State series (April 24-26) with a home run, three RBI and four walks ... Hit her 14th home run and drove in three runs vs. Ohio State on April 26 ... Went 5-for-10 at UCLA (May 1-3) with a double, home run and three RBI ... Was 3-for-4 with a double, home run and three RBI in a 13-11 win at UCLA (May 2) ... Was 2-for-4 and hit her career-best 15th home run and drove in two May 7 vs. Wisconsin.
BEFORE OREGON
Played in 154 career games at Texas A&M and started 144 … Career totals with the Aggies include a .364 batting average with 22 doubles, nine home runs and 85 RBI.
JUNIOR (2025)
Started 51 games, including 22 in right field, 12 at first base and nine at second base, for a Texas A&M squad that went 48-11 and was the No. 1 overall seed for the 2025 NCAA Tournament … Earned all-SEC Second Team honors after ranking eighth in the league in batting average (.421), fourth in on-base percentage (.536) and 22nd in slugging percentage (.698) … Had eight home runs, 11 doubles, 51 RBI and scored 52 runs, while adding 21 walks and 16 hit-by-pitches ... Was named SEC Co-Player of the Week on March 18 after going 5-for-7 with two home runs, five RBI, three runs and a 2.464 OPS in the series sweep at No. 22 Auburn ... Set an SEC Tournament single game RBI record with six in the semifinal win against No. 3 seed Texas ... Recorded a career-best 22-game on-base streak from March 14 to April 25, in which she batted .500 at the dish, while hitting five home runs, six doubles with 21 RBI and led the team with 32 runs during the stretch.
SOPHOMORE (2024)
Was second on the team in runs (35) and third in batting average (.348) ... Appeared in 47 games, including 45 starts between first base and second base, for a Texas A&M team that advanced to the NCAA Super Regional round … Drove in a run in the NCAA Regional win over Albany ... Led the team with a 1.155 OPS in the Ole Miss series sweep, finishing 4-for-10 at the plate, including her first career home run on April 20 ... Hit 5-for-12 with a double and drove in two runs, while scoring four runs and stealing a base in the series victory at No. 13 Alabama ... Batted 3-for-5 and scored two runs, while driving in a run in the series-clinching win over Kentucky ... Hit 2-for-4 in the series opener at No. 7 LSU and recorded her first career three-walk game in game two ... Led the Aggies in batting average (.538), hits (7) and doubles (3) in five games at the Judi Garman Classic ... Hit 1-for-3, including a triple and two RBIs, in the win over LMU on Feb. 17.
FRESHMAN (2023)
Earned NFCA All-South Region Third Team honors ... Was the only freshman to have started each game, doing so at second base ... Finished second on the team with a .414 on-base percentage and finished the season with the third best batting average of .323 ... Played a key role in the postseason, finishing second in batting average (.375), slugging percentage (.375) and on-base percentage (.444), while registering a .955 fielding percentage ... Got first collegiate hit on Feb. 10 against Tarleton driving in two runs and had two hits on the night ... Had three hits in three at-bats, while registering two sacrifice flies against A&M-Commerce (Feb. 12) ... Recorded a double and scored a run in the win over Sam Houston on March 5 ... Had a hit and an RBI in the 9-1 win over No. 7 Arkansas on March 12 ... Was 2-for-3 and scored a run against No. 18 Georgia on March 17 ... Had a double, stolen base, walk, RBI and a run at No. 11 Kentucky in the second game of the doubleheader sweep on March 25 ... Scored a run in each game in the series sweep of Mississippi State (April 8-10) and was 1-for-3 with 2 RBI in the series opener ... Registered her first two-run game in the run-rule win over Texas State on April 19 ... Was 4-for-9, including a .615 on-base percentage and scored a team high five runs in the road series win over Ole Miss ... Had two RBI, while going 2-for-4 and scoring a run in the series clinching win over Missouri on April 30 ... Went 6-for-16 in the postseason, including a .444 on-base percentage.
CAREER HIGHS
Hits: 3, 11x, last at UCLA (May 2, 2026)
Runs: 4, vs. LMU (Mar. 30, 2025)*
RBIs: 6, 2x, last vs. Saint Francis (Pa.) (May 16, 2025)*
Doubles: 1, 31x, last at UCLA (May 2, 2026)
Triples: 1, 5x, last vs. Oregon State (Apr. 22, 2026)
Home Runs: 2, 2x, last vs. Iowa (Apr. 3, 2026)
Stolen Bases: 1, 20x, last vs. Washington (Apr. 19, 2026)
* while at Texas A&M
HIGH SCHOOL
A two-sport athlete at Santiago High School … Earned three letters as a starter for the softball program … Batted .415 with a .551 on-base percentage, while adding 11 walks and not committing an error defensively as a senior ... Was Santiago’s defensive player of the year in 2019 … The No. 18 prospect in the nation on the Extra Inning Softball 2022 Extra Elite 100 list … A two-time all-conference performer … Also listed as a top recruit by MaxPreps and Softball America … Member of the Firecrackers Brashear club organization 2016-22, where she hit over .400 to help her 18U team to a third-place finish at the Alliance Nationals and a fifth-place finish at Triple Crown Nationals … Four-year member of the Gold academic honor roll.
PERSONAL
Born in Anaheim, Calif. … Parents are Carrie and Baraka Harper … Mother Carrie was a shortstop in college at Oklahoma (1993-96) and Cypress Community College (1991-93) … She was a teammate of current Oregon head coach Melyssa Lombardi at Oklahoma … Father Baraka played wide receiver at TCU (1989-93) … Majoring in general scocial science.
- 2026 NFCA All-America Third Team
- 2026 NFCA All-Mountain Region First Team
- 2026 All-Big Ten First Team
- 2025 All-SEC Second Team (UTIL)
- 2023 NFCA All-South Region Third Team (2B)
RECORD WATCH
Tied for fourth in UO season slugging percentage (.779 / 2026)
Tied for ninth in single-season home runs with 15 (2026)
AUSL GOLDEN TICKET & 2026 DRAFT
Received an AUSL Golden Ticket April 19 and was drafted in the third round by the OKC Spark (14th overall pick) in the 2026 AUSL Draft on May 4.
SENIOR (2026)
Started all 55 games ... Second on the team in batting average (.396), runs (47), hits (61), doubles (10), home runs (15), RBI (49) and slugging percentage (.779) ... Tied for the team lead in on-base percentage (.512) ... Ranked10th in the Big Ten in batting average and ninth in on-base percentage ... Was seventh in the league with five sacrifice flies ... Smashed previous career high in homers (eight) with 15 ... Had a career-best 13 game hitting streak April 12-May 15 ... Also had an 11-game hitting streak March 1-20 ... Hit her first home run as a Duck Feb. 6 vs. Clemson ... Went 2-for-3 and scored twice Feb. 7 vs. Liberty ... Hit .333 (4-of-12) at the Feb. 13-15 Cardinal Classic with two doubles, a home run and four RBI ... Was 2-for-3 with a double and two RBI Feb. 13 vs. Fullerton ... Hit her second home run of the season Feb. 15 at Stanford ... Hit a home run and drove in three runs Feb. 19 against Auburn ... Homered with three RBI in Oregon’s 11-8 win over No. 20 Duke (Feb. 21) ... Went 2-for-2 with a double March 3 vs. Samford ... Huge weekend at the Jane Sanders Classic (March 6-8) where she hit .533 (8-of-15) with two doubles, a home run and six RBI to raise her batting average 51 points ... Went 3-for-4 and drove in four runs with a double and a home run March 6 against Oregon State ... Was 2-for-2 with two RBI against Nevada (March 7) ... Reached base in 10-of-11 plate appearances in the Penn State series (March 13-15) with five hits, three walks and two hit-by-pitches ... Had first career two-homer game March 13 vs. Penn State (three RBI) ... Went 2-for-4 with a home run and three RBI March 23 at Indiana ... Hit .500 (4-for-8) in the Iowa series (April 3-5) with six RBI ... Hit two home runs in the Ducks’ 10-1 win over Iowa on April 3 ... Went 3-for-4 with a two-run home run April 10 at Maryland ... Hit .500 (4-for-8) in the Washington series (April 17-19) with two homers and five RBI ... Went 2-for-3 in the opener against UW (April 17) and drove in two runs ... Homered in both the second and third games against UW ... Went 2-for-3 April 22 against Oregon State with a triple ... Hit . 571 (4-for-7) in the Ohio State series (April 24-26) with a home run, three RBI and four walks ... Hit her 14th home run and drove in three runs vs. Ohio State on April 26 ... Went 5-for-10 at UCLA (May 1-3) with a double, home run and three RBI ... Was 3-for-4 with a double, home run and three RBI in a 13-11 win at UCLA (May 2) ... Was 2-for-4 and hit her career-best 15th home run and drove in two May 7 vs. Wisconsin.
BEFORE OREGON
Played in 154 career games at Texas A&M and started 144 … Career totals with the Aggies include a .364 batting average with 22 doubles, nine home runs and 85 RBI.
JUNIOR (2025)
Started 51 games, including 22 in right field, 12 at first base and nine at second base, for a Texas A&M squad that went 48-11 and was the No. 1 overall seed for the 2025 NCAA Tournament … Earned all-SEC Second Team honors after ranking eighth in the league in batting average (.421), fourth in on-base percentage (.536) and 22nd in slugging percentage (.698) … Had eight home runs, 11 doubles, 51 RBI and scored 52 runs, while adding 21 walks and 16 hit-by-pitches ... Was named SEC Co-Player of the Week on March 18 after going 5-for-7 with two home runs, five RBI, three runs and a 2.464 OPS in the series sweep at No. 22 Auburn ... Set an SEC Tournament single game RBI record with six in the semifinal win against No. 3 seed Texas ... Recorded a career-best 22-game on-base streak from March 14 to April 25, in which she batted .500 at the dish, while hitting five home runs, six doubles with 21 RBI and led the team with 32 runs during the stretch.
SOPHOMORE (2024)
Was second on the team in runs (35) and third in batting average (.348) ... Appeared in 47 games, including 45 starts between first base and second base, for a Texas A&M team that advanced to the NCAA Super Regional round … Drove in a run in the NCAA Regional win over Albany ... Led the team with a 1.155 OPS in the Ole Miss series sweep, finishing 4-for-10 at the plate, including her first career home run on April 20 ... Hit 5-for-12 with a double and drove in two runs, while scoring four runs and stealing a base in the series victory at No. 13 Alabama ... Batted 3-for-5 and scored two runs, while driving in a run in the series-clinching win over Kentucky ... Hit 2-for-4 in the series opener at No. 7 LSU and recorded her first career three-walk game in game two ... Led the Aggies in batting average (.538), hits (7) and doubles (3) in five games at the Judi Garman Classic ... Hit 1-for-3, including a triple and two RBIs, in the win over LMU on Feb. 17.
FRESHMAN (2023)
Earned NFCA All-South Region Third Team honors ... Was the only freshman to have started each game, doing so at second base ... Finished second on the team with a .414 on-base percentage and finished the season with the third best batting average of .323 ... Played a key role in the postseason, finishing second in batting average (.375), slugging percentage (.375) and on-base percentage (.444), while registering a .955 fielding percentage ... Got first collegiate hit on Feb. 10 against Tarleton driving in two runs and had two hits on the night ... Had three hits in three at-bats, while registering two sacrifice flies against A&M-Commerce (Feb. 12) ... Recorded a double and scored a run in the win over Sam Houston on March 5 ... Had a hit and an RBI in the 9-1 win over No. 7 Arkansas on March 12 ... Was 2-for-3 and scored a run against No. 18 Georgia on March 17 ... Had a double, stolen base, walk, RBI and a run at No. 11 Kentucky in the second game of the doubleheader sweep on March 25 ... Scored a run in each game in the series sweep of Mississippi State (April 8-10) and was 1-for-3 with 2 RBI in the series opener ... Registered her first two-run game in the run-rule win over Texas State on April 19 ... Was 4-for-9, including a .615 on-base percentage and scored a team high five runs in the road series win over Ole Miss ... Had two RBI, while going 2-for-4 and scoring a run in the series clinching win over Missouri on April 30 ... Went 6-for-16 in the postseason, including a .444 on-base percentage.
CAREER HIGHS
Hits: 3, 11x, last at UCLA (May 2, 2026)
Runs: 4, vs. LMU (Mar. 30, 2025)*
RBIs: 6, 2x, last vs. Saint Francis (Pa.) (May 16, 2025)*
Doubles: 1, 31x, last at UCLA (May 2, 2026)
Triples: 1, 5x, last vs. Oregon State (Apr. 22, 2026)
Home Runs: 2, 2x, last vs. Iowa (Apr. 3, 2026)
Stolen Bases: 1, 20x, last vs. Washington (Apr. 19, 2026)
* while at Texas A&M
HIGH SCHOOL
A two-sport athlete at Santiago High School … Earned three letters as a starter for the softball program … Batted .415 with a .551 on-base percentage, while adding 11 walks and not committing an error defensively as a senior ... Was Santiago’s defensive player of the year in 2019 … The No. 18 prospect in the nation on the Extra Inning Softball 2022 Extra Elite 100 list … A two-time all-conference performer … Also listed as a top recruit by MaxPreps and Softball America … Member of the Firecrackers Brashear club organization 2016-22, where she hit over .400 to help her 18U team to a third-place finish at the Alliance Nationals and a fifth-place finish at Triple Crown Nationals … Four-year member of the Gold academic honor roll.
PERSONAL
Born in Anaheim, Calif. … Parents are Carrie and Baraka Harper … Mother Carrie was a shortstop in college at Oklahoma (1993-96) and Cypress Community College (1991-93) … She was a teammate of current Oregon head coach Melyssa Lombardi at Oklahoma … Father Baraka played wide receiver at TCU (1989-93) … Majoring in general scocial science.
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