Shippensburg University Athletics

2012 Harlon Hill Trophy Winner
2012 AP Little All-America First Team
2012 Daktronics Ron Lenz Offensive Player of the Year
2012 Daktronics Super Region 1 Offensive Player of the Year
2012 Don Hansen’s Football Gazette Super Region 1 Offensive Player of the Year
2012 PSAC Eastern Division Offensive Player of the Year
2012 Daktronics All-America First Team
2012 D2Football.com All-America First Team
2012 All-PSAC Eastern Division First Team

2012 (R-Junior): Won the Harlon Hill Trophy as Division II’s top football player during his third full season with the Red Raiders…named to the AP All-American Team and was chosen as the Offensive Player of the Year by Daktronics (SID) and Don Hansen’s Football Gazette among a multitude of postseason plaudits…broke 25 school records, seven conference records and four national records during a historic season…set or tied NCAA single-season marks for passing touchdowns (54), total offense touchdowns (56), touchdowns responsible for (57) and points responsible for (344)…surpassed previous PSAC single-season records with 342 completions, 544 pass attempts and 4,747 passing yards…led all divisions of college football in passing yards…established multiple new single-game standards with a 46-of-61 day at Kutztown in which he threw for 581 yards and nine touchdowns…furthered his single-game total offense record with 576 yards in the regular season versus Bloomsburg…toppled previous school marks with a 62.9 completion percentage, 365 passing yards per game, 4,971 total offense yards and a 165.2 quarterback efficiency rating…extended his consecutive games streak with a passing touchdown to 21…went 200 consecutive passes during the regular season without throwing an interception…cut down six SU career records, including touchdown passes, yards, total offense touchdowns and rushing yards by a quarterback…selected five times as a PSAC Eastern Division Offensive Player of the Week and once as NCAA.com’s Division II Offensive Player of the Week…quarterbacked the No. 1 total offense (529.92 ypg) and No. 2 passing offense in Division II (387.69)…individually ranked No. 3 in Division II for total offense and No. 5 in passing efficiency…surpassed 200 yards through the air and had at least 17 completions in all 13 games of the season…notched a career long 89-yard touchdown pass at Lock Haven…recorded four or more passing touchdowns in 10 of the first 11 games of the season…ended up with eight 300+-yard passing games and four 400+-yard passing games in addition to his 581-yard effort at Kutztown…ran for touchdowns against LIU Post and Bloomsburg…caught a four-yard touchdown pass against Slippery Rock…played in all 13 games but started 12, yielding his regular post to Jeff Tomasetti on Senior Day…kicked three punts, averaging 33 yards per boot, with one touchback. 

2011 (R-Sophomore): Had one of the greatest statistical seasons by any quarterback in school history in his debut season as the Raiders’ signal caller…set school single-season records of 226 completions and 34 passing touchdowns…touchdown mark led the PSAC…2,741 passing yards were good for second-most in single-season school history…threw just 11 interceptions in 385 pass attempts…finished third on the team in rushing with 364 yards and four touchdowns…was 12th in the NCAA in total offense with 282.27 yards per game…set a single-game school record with six touchdown passes at Cheyney while throwing for a career-high 384 yards (fourth most in a single-game in school history and the most since 1999)…reached those totals in just three quarters of play…was  named the PSAC Eastern Division Offensive Player of the Week for his performance against the Wolves…also surpassed 300 yards (318) at Bloomsburg…threw for at least four touchdowns on five separate occasions…in Homecoming win against Kutztown, threw for 215 yards and four touchdowns and ran for another in being named the Shippensburg VFW Offensive MVP of the game…for his efforts against the Golden Bears, was also named the PSAC Eastern Division Offensive Player of the Week…set career highs in rushing against East Stroudsburg, toting the ball 14 times for 126 yards to go along with one touchdown…totaled a career high two rushing touchdowns and had a career-best completion percentage of 71.4 (20-for-28) against Clarion...threw a career-long 64-yard completion (for a touchdown) in the season finale against Mercyhurst.

2010 (R-Freshman): Made his debut as a split end for the Red Raiders…appeared in the final nine games of the season…ran the ball twice for nine yards against Cheyney…ended up as the team’s primary punt returner…totaled 11 punt returns for 91 yards…attempted a pass on a reverse against Kutztown that fell incomplete…amassed 100 all-purpose yards.

2009 (Freshman): Redshirt season.

Perkiomen Valley High School: Finished his senior season having thrown for 2,541 yards and 27 touchdowns while competing for the Vikings under head coach Scott Reed...compiled a 59.2 completion percentage and averaged 8.3 yards per throw...also led his team in rushing, scampering for 676 yards and an average of 4.1 yards per rush...scored nine rushing touchdowns to lead his team...was a talented All-State player who boasts extreme efficiency from the quarterback position...completed his high school career throwing for 5,844 yards and 65 touchdowns in just 31 games, averaging 188.5 passing yards per contest…played safety as a senior and made 36 tackles along with one interception… was the MVP of the PAC-10 as a junior… earned All-Area honors from three different publications…named an Old Spice Red Zone Player of the Year in 2007…honored as a Montgomery County All-Star while also playing in the East-West All Star Game.

Personal: Full name is Zach Tanner Zulli…is the son of Paul and Chelsea Zulli…majoring in accounting.