Honaker

Honaker High School
Location: Honaker, VA
Coaches	Charlie Perkins (2015-Present) Alex Zachwieja (1998-2014)
State Championships	VHSL 1A 2014 VHSL A Runner-Up 2010, 2012, 2013
Program Status	Active
School Size	~400 Students

Honaker is a team from deep southwestern Virginia that mostly plays in the Virginia High School League. They are known as the dominant team over the Group A Black Diamond District for the past twenty years, whilst also advancing to the VHSL state tournament almost every year since 1998, and the team has won 3 State Runner-Up Titles (2010, 2012, 2013) and 1 State Championship (2014).

2009-2010

Records

• Roanoke College Fall Invitational: 5-2, Second Place

• Cave Spring Invitational IV: 4-4, Ninth Place

• VHSL Black Diamond District Tournament: 3-0, First Place

• VHSL Region D Tournament: 4-0, First Place

• VHSL Group A State Tournament: 3-2, Runner-Up

• VHSL Record: 34-3

2008-2009

Records

• VHSL Record: 25-4 (Overall), 8-0 (District Reg. Season)

• Cavalier Classic XIII: 6-3, 6th place

• EQUINE II: 6-3, 5th place

• Cave Spring Invitational III: 6-2,5th place

• Robinson Invitational IV: 5-2, (tied) 5th place

• VHSL Black Diamond District Tournament: 3-0, 1st place

• VHSL Region D Tournament: 4-1, 1st place

• VHSL State Tournament: 2-2, 4th place

2007-2008

The 2007-2008 season was the first year for Honaker at Non-VHSL tournaments. The team attended the Cave Spring Invitational II and the EQUINE II, the latter of which featured Honaker A in second place after the final tournament rankings. At the VHSL State Tournament, the team had a similar performance to the previous year, finishing 0-2 with losses to the soon-to-be champions Radford High and Rappahannock County, who would finish 4th.

2006-2007

Honaker High only had one senior in the 06-07 season; despite this, the team finished the season with a 19-7 record, becoming Black Diamond District Champions for the tenth consecutive year, and they were also Region D Champions. Honaker finished the 2007 VHSL State Tournament with an 0-2 record after losses to Mathews High and Rappahannock County.

Other Notes

- Former Honaker coach Alex Zachwieja was a member of the VHSL Scholastic Bowl Advisory Committee. He took up the position in 2009, and finished his coaching career with over 400 VHSL regular season victories along with an eight-year undefeated streak in the Black Diamond District/Crooked Road Conference. Teams under his tutelage also won six straight Regional-level titles. Zachwieja retired from Honaker High School after the 2014 state championship season, bringing an end to his 16-year tenure as head coach (1998--2014).

After a year of minimal activity and working with a "blank slate" (2014-2015) by comparison, the team was turned over to one of Zachwieja's former players, Charlie Perkins (Honaker Class of 2010). Under his guidance, the team has returned to prominence once again, and the team of all rookies won the 2016 Crooked Road Conference Tournament as well as the Region 1A West Tournament en route to a return to the VHSL State Tournament.