Vance Honeycutt (2024) - Patterson Medal Winners - University of North Carolina Athletics

Vance Honeycutt

Induction:
2024
Class:
2024

2024— Vance Honeycutt: Baseball (Salisbury, N.C.)
Became one of the top five-tool players in college baseball, displaying the hitting, power, speed, defense and arm that earned him multiple first-team All-America honors as a junior in 2024. The centerfielder twice broke UNC’s single-season record for home runs (25 in as a freshman in 2022 and 28 in 2024) and is the Tar Heels’ career home run king with 65, fourth most in ACC history.

In 2024, he became the first Diamond Heel ever to earn first-team All-America honors as a player and first-team Academic All-America honors. He became the first player to win ACC Defensive Player-of-the Year honors for a second time and won an ABCA/Rawlings Gold glove.

He leads UNC with seven multi-home run games, is one of two Tar Heels with homers in five consecutive games, scored the fourth-most runs, has the fifth-most total bases, sixth-most steals and is 10th in runs batted in. He is the only Power 5 conference player ever with at least 60 career home runs and 70 stolen bases.

Honeycutt helped UNC win the 2022 ACC Tournament and 2024 regular-season title. He holds the UNC record with 10 homers in NCAA Tournament play, had two walk-off hits in the 2024 NCAA Tournament and led Carolina to the College World Series, where UNC tied for fifth.