Bio

Zach Honeycutt was promoted to head coach in the summer of 2022.

He was named Assistant Coach and Recruiting Coordinator in 2019.  He served as Assistant Coach in 2018. His primary duties include pitching coach, working with catchers and baserunning, while assisting with hitter development. Honeycutt is entering his 5^th season coaching college baseball and has coached 8 players selected in the Major League Baseball first year amateur draft. Those players include; John Ghysel (RHP), Blake Whitney (RHP), AJ Bumpass (OF), Mason Fox (RHP), Connor Grant (OF), Tre Todd (C), Alex Moore (RHP), and Ryan Troutman (RHP).

Before coming back to Mar Hill, Honeycutt spent two years in Greenwood, S.C. at Lander University where his primary duties included leading the catching core while assisting in player development with both pitcher and hitters.  The summer before joining Lander Honeycutt coached with the Forest City Owls of the Coastal Plains League. While coaching that summer he help the Owls become second half champions of the Eastern Division and continue on to the playoffs to compete for the Petitt Cup. While with the Owls, Honeycutt was the pitching coach while working with catchers and assisting with defense and hitters under Head Coach JT Maguire.

In 2016, Honeycutt began his coaching career at USC-Upsate in Spartanburg, S.C. During that time, he was the catching coordinator, coached first base, assisted with hitters, and pitchers. In his lone season as an assistant at Upstate, pitchers accumulated nearly eight strikeouts per nine innings (7.98 K/9), a strikeout to walk ratio of 2:1 over a 52-game span, while surrendering the least amount of home runs in all of the Atlantic Sun Conference on the season (23).

Honeycutt’s playing career began in 2010 at Mars Hill. He was a catcher from 2010-2015 taking a redshirt his true freshman season. Honeycutt’s best season came as a redshirt freshman, batting .333 in limited action with an OBP of .455, serving mainly as a designated hitter or defensive replacement behind the dish for the Lions.

Honeycutt grew up in Locust, N.C. where his family still resides. Honeycutt attended West Stanly High School where he played Baseball, Basketball, and Football.