"Mark Parent" is a Canada/Canadian clergy, author, academic, and former politician in Nova Scotia.

Parent is the son of Convention of Atlantic Baptist Churches/Baptist Missionary/missionaries Hazen Coles Parent and Hazel Mildred Anderson. Parent was raised in Bolivia, South America before returning to Canada for post secondary studies. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from York University, a Master of Divinity from Acadia Divinity College, and a Doctor of Philosophy from McGill University.

Parent is married to his second wife Margie Jenkins and together they have five grown children. His first wife, Cathy, died in 1998.

Parent served in various churches in Ontario, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia before returning home in 1994 to serve as pastor of the Pereaux, Nova Scotia/Pereaux United Baptist Church. During the late 1990s he was an associate professor of Religious Studies at Mount Allison University.

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I tip my hat to San Diego, they had a first-place season. Our guys, to get to this point from where we were, was a pretty good accomplishment. But it wasn't good enough, and I was just proud of my guys.

Other than a handful of games, we usually had a shot to win it at the end. That's called competing, and that's what our guys did. I'm really proud of the fact that they did that all year. They handled themselves like professionals.

He did a great job and kept us in the game. If you'd told me we'd have been tied when he was out there, let alone have a three-run lead, I'd have been happy.