Zach Zulli '13
Hometown: Schwenksville, PA
High School: Perkiomen Valley
• Bachelor's Degree in Management (December '13)
• 2012 Harlon Hill Trophy Winner (Division II’s Most Valuable Player)
• 123 passing TDs – 2nd in PSAC History, 3rd in NCAA DII history
• 10,988 passing yards – 4th in PSAC History (one of 30 in DII history w/10,000+ yards)
• 313.9 yards/game in 35 games at QB – 3rd in NCAA DII history
• 11,663 total offense yards – 4th in PSAC History, 20th in NCAA DII history
• NCAA DII Record: Points Responsible for in a Season (344, 2012)
• NCAA DII Record: TDs Responsible for in a Season (57, 2012)
• NCAA DII Record (tie): Passing TDs in a Season (54, 2012)
• Broke 35 school records
Harlon Hill Trophy: Full List of 2012 Accomplishments/Records
Video: Zulli's Harlon Hill Trophy Press Conference (December 2012)
Video: 2013 Season Highlights (Senior Year)
Video: 2012 Season Highlights (Junior Year)
Career Bio:
2013 (R-Senior): Named to the All-PSAC East First Team at quarterback for the second consecutive year after leading the conference in touchdown passes for the third straight season…finished the regular season with 35 touchdown passes (fourth-most in the nation) to go along with 11 interceptions on conference highs of 294 completions on 480 attempts…his 3,500 passing yards led the PSAC East and ranked sixth in the country…his 26.73 completions per game were seventh-most in the country…honored with selections to the Don Hansen’s Football Gazette All-America squad (honorable mention) and All-Region First Team in addition to a spot on the Daktronics All-Super Region 1 Second Team…completed 31-of-39 passes for 466 yards and five touchdowns in a nationally-televised victory over eventual PSAC Champion and then-No. 5 ranked Bloomsburg…performance marked fifth-most yards thrown in a single-game in school history…had seven games of 300 or more passing yards…threw for two or more touchdowns in 10 of 11 games…completed 70 percent of his passes in four games…matched season-high of five touchdowns in victory over Millersville (28-of-36 passing)…surpassed 270 passing yards in 10 of 11 games…totaled 78 rushing yards and three touchdowns…caught a pass for 24 yards against West Chester…kicked three pooch punts…completed season-long touchdown passes of 84 yards against Bloomsburg and 81 yards against East Stroudsburg…had a season-long rush of 31 yards against West Chester.
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.