Honaker
| Honaker High School | |
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|---|---|
| Location: Honaker, VA | |
| Coaches | Alex Zachwieja |
| State Championships | VHSL 2014 |
| National Championships | none |
| Program Status | Unknown |
| School Size | Unknown |
| NAQT Page | link |
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 sixteen years, and usually also Region D Champions. They have been VHSL state tournament competitors almost every year since the launch of VHSL ScoBowl in its current format. In 2010, after attending 9 VHSL State Competitions, Honaker finished runner-up in Group A, followed by two more runner-up performances in 2011 and 2013. After the 2013-14 reassignment of VHSL Academic Teams based on school size, Honaker took home the first 1A VHSL State Championship, as well as the first state title in the program's history.
Honaker's unique and physically distant position from other competitive Virginia teams prevents the program from attending very many weekend tournaments; to compensate, they regularly schedule around 30 VHSL "regular season" games per year, far more than the average VHSL team.
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
- Honaker coach Alex Zachwieja was a member of the VHSL Scholastic Bowl Advisory Committee. He took up the position in 2009, and currently has over 400 VHSL regular season victories along with an eight-year undefeated streak in the Black Diamond District/now Crooked Road District and six straight Regional-level titles.