Zach Gerch joined the Cloud County Community College baseball program as its hitting coach in 2021. He is also responsible for implementing the team's strength and conditioning and nutrition program.

During his first four seasons with the T-Birds, Gerch has coached 20 All-Kansas Jayhawk Community College Conference hitters, sent 16 hitters to NCAA Division I schools, and has set new program bests in wins (48), hits (681), runs (603), runs batted in (545), singles (435), doubles (143) and home runs (82).

In 2025, with Gerch at the helm of the offense, Cloud County had eleven players finish the year with a .300 or better batting average including Nolan Freund (.422), Luke Clayton (.415), David Simmons (.387), Joey Marino (.373), Noah Konings (.363), Matthew Evans (.356), Kaden Budke (.339), Austin Coyle (.319), Lucas Laukkanen (.317), Eric Bradicich (.316), and Cam Macleod (.308). The T-Birds led all Kansas Jayhawk Community College Conference schools in home runs, doubles and extra-base hits, and the team was second in the conference in runs and runs batted in.

Under Gerch's guidance, sophomore Nolan Freund became Cloud County's all-time and single-season hits leader after becoming the first T-Bird in program history to tally 100 hits in a season. Freund finished the 2025 season as one of just two players in NJCAA Division I Baseball to record at least 100 hits. The product of Kingman, Kansas, Freund led all Kansas Jayhawk Community College Conference offensive players in hits (100) and total bases (152), on his way to being named First-Team All-KJCCC West and First-Team All-Region 6.

Along with Freund, Matthew Evans received First-Team All-Kansas Jayhawk Community College Conference - West Division honors in 2025. Sophomore catcher Cam Macleod was named to the conference second team, while sophomore outfielder Austin Coyle and freshman middle infielder Joey Marino earned honorable mention conference honors.

Gerch also helps coach Cloud County's catchers, and has developed two NCAA Division I catchers during his four-year tenure - Macleod (Washington State) and Ty Wevers (Canisius College). Macleod was named to the Kansas Jayhawk Community College Conference Gold Glove baseball team in 2025. Behind the plate, Macleod had a .997 fielding-percentage with 329 put outs and 26 assists with 10 runners caught stealing. Offensively, Macleod led the T-Birds with 13 home runs on the season while hitting .308 on the year, with 45 hits, 48 runs scored and 51 runs batted in.

Prior to Cloud County, Gerch spent four seasons as associate head coach and recruiting coordinator at Frontier Community College in Fairfield, Illinois. He also spent four years as a volunteer/graduate assistant coach at Ottawa University in Ottawa, Kansas.

A native of Omaha, Nebraska, Gerch played baseball as a catcher at Southwestern Iowa Community College and Ottawa University.

Gerch is married to his wife, Heather, and the couple have three children: Maddux (4), Amelia (4), and Lucy (1).