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A two-time All-Empire 8 selection, Zac Cronk is set to begin his collegiate coaching career with the Lycoming College baseball team as an assistant coach. It was announced by coach Rick Oliveri on Thursday.
Cronk joins Oliveri and Dustin Johnson on the Warriors' coaching staff, as baseball returns to Lycoming in 2023 for the first time since 1971.
Cronk earned three letters at Utica University, earning back-to-back All-Empire 8 selections as an infielder in 2021 and 2022. He hit .305 as a junior, scoring 30 runs and driving in 24 while striking out just five times in 105 at bats. As a senior, he hit .250, but again proved key to the Pioneers' offense, scoring 16 times and driving in 21 while again striking out just five times in 80 at bats.
Cronk had a .951 career fielding percentage in 224 career chances and finished his time with the Pioneers with 52 hits, 46 runs and 46 RBIs.
He also spent two years at Southern Vermont before the school closed in 2019. He earned two letters and, as a sophomore, he stepped into the starting lineup and hit .294 with 22 runs and 10 RBI, striking out just twice in 109 at bats, as he was the hardest player in Division III to strike out that season.
While completing his playing career, Cronk also has stepped into coaching, working with the Saratoga Stampede and AllStars Academy programs near his hometown of Saratoga Springs, N.Y. He also served as a head coach in the Beach Collegiate Baseball League.