Biography
Honors
• MVC Player of the Week (Feb. 26, 2024; March 4, 2024)
• ABCA All-Region Second Team (2024)
• CSC Academic All-District (2024)
• MVC Scholar-Athlete Second Team (2024, 2025)
• MVC Freshman of the Year (2023)
• All-MVC Second Team (2023, 2024)
• Perfect Game Freshman All-America Second Team (2023)
• Collegiate Baseball Freshman All-American (2023)
• Danny Cook MSU Rookie of the Year (2023)
• Athletic Director’s Honor Roll (Fall 2022, Spring 2023, Fall 2023, Spring 2024, Fall 2024, Spring 2025)
• MVC Honor Roll (2022-23, 2023-24)
2025 (Junior)
Started 50 games for the Bears and batted .269 with 11 home runs and 31 RBIs...Joined Jason Hart, Ryan Howard and Nick Kays as the only players in school history with three double-digit home run seasons at Missouri State...Tied a school single-game record by walking five times against Valparaiso (April 13)...Had 12 multi-hit games and eight with multiple RBIs on the season...Hit a walk-off home run against Valparaiso (April 11)...Registered third career multi-homer game against Evansville (April 27)...Had three-hit games at Wichita State (March 7), versus Belmont (March 28) and against Indiana State (May 10)...Season high of three RBIs against Belmont (March 28) and Evansville (April 27)...Ended the season ranked seventh in school history in career home runs (44), seventh in game-winning RBIs (17), 18th with 82 extra-base hits and 20th with 358 total bases.
2024 (Sophomore)
Built on his stellar freshman season by batting .300 with team highs of 21 home runs and 55 RBIs...Picked up second-team all-MVC honors for the second consecutive year and was an ABCA All-Region pick...Home run total tied for the No. 10 spot on MSU’s single-season list and brought his career total to 33, good for 15th at MSU...Won consecutive MVC Player of the Week awards on Feb. 26 and March 4, the first Bear to do that since Jeremy Eierman (final 2016, first in 2017)...Became the 11th Bear with 20-plus home runs in a season...Tallied 21 multi-hit games and 11 with multiple RBIs...Collected 31 total extra-base hits and slugged .630 while ranking eighth in the MVC with 143 total bases...Had a pair of two-homer games, driving in five runs against Arkansas State (March 3) and six versus UIC (April 11)...Slugged grand slams against UIC (April 11) and Evansville (April 28)...Drove in five runs at Evansville (April 28) and four at Bradley (April 6)...Had three or more hits in six games, including all three for extra bases on May 12 at Belmont.
2023 (Freshman)
MVC Freshman of the Year, second-team all-MVC selection and a Freshman All-American according to Collegiate Baseball and Perfect game after hitting .302 with 12 homers and 61 RBIs as the Bears’ everyday right fielder...RBI total trailed only Ryan Howard (66 in 1999) among true freshmen in school history...Clobbered 32 extra-base hits, the third-most for a true freshman at MoState behind Jason Hart (36 in 1996) and Howard (33)...Ranked ninth nationally among freshmen with 18 doubles and 11th in RBIs among first-year players...Had two double-digit hit streaks on the year, with a long of 13 from Feb. 22-March 15 that was the longest for a true freshman at MSU since 2016...Led the Bears with 15 multi-RBIs games and eight game-winning RBIs...Doubled twice and collected four RBIs in his second career game, Feb. 18 at Cal Poly...Homered and hit two doubles against No. 12 Oklahoma State (Feb. 28)...Drove in four runs with a homer and two doubles versus Evansville (March 26), and collected multiple extra-base hits in six different games...Hit a grand slam at UIC (April 15), and had additional four-RBI games against Valparaiso (April 29) and Omaha (May 2) for a total of five on the season...Had a season-high four hits at Murray State (May 5)...Ranked 11th in the MVC with a .563 slugging percentage, second in RBIs, third in doubles, 10th in home runs and seventh in total bases with 125.
Background
Rated as the No. 44 incoming freshman in the nation according to Perfect Game...Enjoyed a stellar career at nearby Lebanon High, earning second-team all-state honors as a senior by hitting .403 with five homers and 24 RBI in 26 games...Ozark Conference MVP as a junior after hitting .425 with seven home runs and helping the Yellowjackets to their best record in 10 years...First-team all-state pick in 2021 and member of the Ozarks Sports Zone First 9, when he also struck out 65 batters in 39 innings on the mound...Batted .397 with three homers as a freshman on the way to all-conference and all-district honors.
Personal
Zackary Stewart is the son of Mike and Jodi Stewart...Born July 30, 2003, in Springfield, Mo....Father was a member of the 1998 MSU baseball team...Majoring in agricultural business.
