Zach Martin begins his secomd season as the Linebackers Coach and Special Teams Coordinator and his first season as Recruiting Coordinator for the Wheeling University Football team in 2023.
In 2021, Martin's Linebackers set several program records, and both Jason Simon and Jayvon Johnson earned All-MEC honors under his watch. Johnson and Simon were the team's leading tacklers on the season, with Johnson setting the career total tackle (223), Solo Tackle (129), and Assisted Tackles (94) record. On special teams, the Cardinal's Field Goal unit was one of the best in the conference, with Kicker Matt Greenwood going 13-16 in Field Goal attempts, including kicking a program record 49-yard field goal.
As Recruiting Coordinator, Martin worked closely with the Cardinal's different camps throughout the summer of 2023, with both seeing exponential growth. Martin helped bring over 300 atheltes from the surrounding region to campus through the Elite Camp and Friday Night Lights camps. He was also selected to represent Wheeling Football at the 2023 Ohio High School Football Coaches Association (OHFCA) Coaches Clinic.
Prior to Wheeling, Martin served as the Special Teams Coordinator and Linebackers Coach at SUNY Morrisville from March 2022 to August 2022 where he helped run the team's special teams packages and assisted in training the linebackers for the season. He also spent a season as the Quality Control coach at Lehigh University from March 2020 to August 2020.
Prior to Clarion University, He spent the 2019 season at #15 ranked Susquehanna University where he coached the Outside Linebackers and helped lead the team to a 10-1 record.
Martin was a linebacker at Susquehanna University in his playing days.
