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2019 Football

23 Zach Evans

  • Height 6-2
  • Weight 225
  • Class Senior
  • Hometown Harrison, N.Y.
  • Highschool Harrison

Biography

Career Accolades: 2016 Ivy League champion … 2019 Second Team All-Ivy.

2019: Second Team All-Ivy … Started all 10 games at linebacker … Led the team with 83 tackes, including 1.0 TFLs … Had one interception … Recorded five pass breakups … Had seven tackles and one pass breakup at Delaware (9/21) … Had nine total tackles, including eight solo stops, at Lafayette (9/28) … Had 12 total tackles, including 10 solo stops, against Dartmouth (10/04) … Had nine total tackles at Columbia (10/19) … Recorded nine total tackles, including .5 TFLs, at Yale (10/26) … Registered 10 total tackles, including .5 TFLs, and one pass breakup against Brown (11/02) … Had six tackles, one interception and two pass breakups against Cornell (11/09).
 
2018: Appeared in all 10 games at linebacker … Finished sixth on team with 37 tackles … Had 3.5 tackles for loss and one sack … Forced two fumbles and blocked one kick … Made nine total tackles against Bucknell (9/15) … Had four tackles including a solo sack against Lehigh (9/22) … Had three tackles including a tackle for loss at Dartmouth (9/29) … Had five solo tackles, forced two fumbles and blocked a kick against Yale (10/19) … Made four tackles at Brown (10/27) … Had four tackles against Harvard (11/10).

2017: Appeared in two games … Saw action against Ohio Dominican (9/16) and Yale (10/21) … Had two solo tackles against ODU.

2016: Did not see any game action.

Harrison: Three-year letterwinner … Served as team captain senior season … 2015 honorable mention All-State … 2015 All-Conference selection … Led Section I in interceptions … 2015 “Golden Dozen” Scholar-Athlete from the Westchester Chapter of the National Football Foundation … Also lettered five times in basketball, serving as team captain junior and senior seasons … Was first eighth grader in school history to play varsity basketball … 2015-16 All-Conference selection in hoops … 2015-16 Section I All-Star … Named to “Court of Excellence” Scholar-Athlete Basketball Team for Section I … Lettered three times in track and field … Part of 2013 and 2015 league champion track teams … Named 2016 New York Section I Male Scholar-Athlete of the Year … National Honor Society member … National Foreign Language Honor Society member … Graduated Magna Cum Laude … President of the DECA Business Club … High Honor Roll student.

Personal: Son of Jill and Christopher Evans … Father played football at Penn, playing linebacker for 1986 Ivy League championship team … Enrolled in Wharton with a concentration in Finance and Strategic Management.
 

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Historical Player Information

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    2016Freshman

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    6'2" 215 lbs
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    2017Sophomore

    DB
    6'2" 215 lbs
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    2018Junior

    LB
    6'2" 220 lbs
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    2019Senior

    LB
    6'2" 225 lbs
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