600 Club: AC Flora baseball coach Andy Hallett notches big milestone
Andy Hallett thought coaching high school baseball was a temporary stop to what he thought would be a long career in college baseball.
But 28 years later, the longtime AC Flora baseball coach couldn’t imagine doing anything else. Hallett has built Flora into one of the top programs in the state, and he notched win No. 600 on Tuesday night as the Falcons defeated South Pointe, 11-1 in a run-ruled victory.
“It is funny, 28 years ago my whole objective was to win 100 games as fast as I could and try to get in the college ranks,” Hallett said Tuesday night. “For whatever reason, God has a plan, and it just didn’t work out. I have been blessed to say I have been in for 28 years and have had some talent come through the place. The community and Falcon baseball has been something special. They have supported me since I have been here and support what we do. It is a really big honor to do it here at home.”
After the game, AC Flora assistant athletic director Patti Moore presented Hallett with a banner commemorating the milestone. Hallett said he got texts from former players throughout the day wishing him good luck and some were attending the game as well.
Hallett acknowledged he started thinking about the milestone, who might it come against and where it might occur before the season began.
“Really glad it was over because it does start to wear on you. You do think about it even though you try not to,” Hallett said. “It is a really cool thing for a guy who came to South Carolina 30-plus years ago just to go to school.”
Hallett becomes the fourth active coach in SC high school baseball with 600 wins or more, joining Gilbert’s Ashley Burnett, Lake View’s Kip Herlong and Dorman’s Jack Jolly, who accomplished the feat earlier this month.
Hallett said it is way too early to speculate if he will be around to try and go for No. 700, which has only been by David Horton and David Stoots. Horton finished with more than 800 wins and Stoots more than 900.
Hallett grew up in Upstate New York, just north of Syracuse, and was a big Don Mattingly and New York Yankees fan. He played baseball growing up and played collegiately at Oswego State, a Division III school in New York.
Hallett moved to SC in fall of 1994 to get his master’s degree at South Carolina. His first coaching job was as an assistant for Barry Mizzell at Richland Northeast. He coached with Mizzell, who is now the Blythewood athletic director, at RNE for two years before landing at A.C. Flora for the 1997-98 school year.
“The Flora position was sitting there waiting for someone to take it over and move it up, and he has done that,” Mizell said back in 2021.
Under Hallett, the Falcons have won seven state championships, the first coming in 2001. AC Flora won three straight 3A titles from 2012-14. No team above the Class A level had won three baseball titles in a row before the Falcons did it.
The Falcons’ last championship came in 2021, which is the same year Hallett won his 500th game. He hopes that could be the case this season and thinks his team is capable of a deep playoff run.
The Falcons are 10-3 on the season and 5-0 in region play.
“I think we have a really good mix,” Hallett said. “We are extremely athletic. We can run, play defense. We try to pitch to our strength, let them put balls in play and let our defense work. I am really proud of our kids. Coming out of Georgetown (IP Classic), we played really well down there. We stumbled a little against Blythewood, but we are finding our footing, and I am really proud of what we are doing.”
This story was originally published March 31, 2026 at 10:30 PM.
