Jovanny Zarzabal enters his first season on the Coppin State baseball coaching staff for the 2020 season. Coach Zarzabal will be assisting Coach Watkins with hitters, while also working with catchers. 
 
Prior to Coppin State, Zarzabal served as a Student Manager with the Towson University softball program. There, he helped prepare pitchers for games by reviewing scouting reports and analyzing pitching sequences with them. It is also at Towson University where Zarzabal is working on his Master's degree in Communication Management. 
 
Before coming to Baltimore, Zarzabal served as the varsity pitching coach for Homestead Senior High School for the 2018 season. During this time, Zarzabal helped send three of his pitchers to play at the collegiate level.
 
Zarzabal earned his Bachelor’s degree in Broadcasting from Florida Memorial University in 2018. Zarzabal played three years for the Lions, where he acted as a relief pitcher for most of his college career. 
 
Zarzabal is a native of Homestead, Florida where he attended Somerset Academy South Homestead and played baseball at Homestead Senior High School. His family is very active in the community, with his mother (Debbie) and father (Luis) running a local nonprofit baseball organization for the last twenty years. The middle child of five siblings, Zarzabal has two older sisters (Bethany and Nicolette) and two younger siblings (Emmanuel and Esmeralda). Emmanuel also played baseball at the collegiate level at SUNY Sullivan in New York.