Zac Michener, who was a multiple sport star at Kennedale High School, has made the transition from junior college baseball to a D-I university showing the same type of success he showed at Kennedale. {{more:[Full Story]}}
Michener graduated in 2013 from Kennedale. While at KHS, he played both football (quarterback) and baseball (shortstop), earning MVP honors in both sports. He was a member of the 2011 Wildcat baseball state championship team. His senior year he batted .420 with 27 RBIs, 17 stolen base and helped lead the Cats to the regional semifinals and earning a spot on the DFW Region Super Team.
Signing day 2013 with parents behind & surrounded by KHS coaches including Head Coach Jet Teague and the Weatherford
College coach.
At Weatherford College, Michener was a first-team All-Conference honoree for the Coyotes as a sophomore in 2015, leading the North Texas Junior College Athletic Conference in on-base percentage (.517).
This year at Stephen F Austin, as a junior playing in the outfield, he earned the Southland Conference Newcomer of the Year Award for a standout regular season. Michener hit .340 with a .435 on-base percentage and a .489 slugging percentage. He posted a 25-game on-base streak and ended the regular season with 18 multi-hit games. In Southland Conference games, he hit .363. He finished the season with 66 hits including 13 doubles and 5 homeruns and batted in 33 runs while scoring 39 runs.
Michener became only the second Lumberjack to win the Newcomer of the Year Award. He was also named a third team All-Conference selection this year.Michener does come from a baseball family. His father,
David, played catcher and outfield for Oral Roberts University. His younger
brother, Luke, played outfield for the Kennedale Wildcats this year as a
sophomore.
Zac is a Criminal Justicemajor at SFA.
About Stephen F Austin …Stephen F Austin University is located in Nacogdoches, Texas. It was founded in 1921 and has a current enrollment of approximately 12,950 students. moreSFA plays in the Southland Conference that consists of the University of Central Arkansas, Lamar University, McNeese State University, Nicholls State University, Northwestern State University, Sam Houston State University, Southeastern Louisiana University, Stephen F. Austin State University, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, Abilene Christian University, Houston Baptist University, the University of Incarnate Word in San Antonio and the University of New Orleans. more
