Howell is a Star at Duke
What a spring it was for Zach Howell. He scored 29 goals and added 19 assists to help the Duke University men’s lacrosse team win the Atlantic Coast Conference championship and reach the NCAA Division I semi-finals, where the former Blue Devil great scored three goals in a losing effort against eventual national champion Syracuse.
The 6’0, 175 lb. Howell was a sensational football and lacrosse player for Huntington High School, earning All-Long Island honors at quarterback and garnering All-American recognition for his stellar play at attack for the Blue Devil lax team.
This year at Duke, the 20-year old Howell started 18-of-19 games, tallying 48 points, launching 80 shots, including 52 on goal, scoring a pair of game winning goals and scooping up 35 ground balls.
Howell’s two goals in this spring’s ACC championship game, a 15-13 win over North Carolina, earned him a spot on the All-ACC Tournament team. Game-after-game he turned in impressive performances and has rapidly ascended into the ranks of the best college players in the country
Last year as a freshman he saw action in 16 games, scoring 11 goals and contributing four assists. He notched a hat trick in the 2008 ACC semi-finals against North Carolina. It was another sign of things to come.
Ironically both Huntington and Duke share the same nickname: Blue Devils. Howell has also earned Academic All-ACC honors for his fine results in the classroom, continuing a trend that started many years ago as an elementary school student.
In his last three years at Huntington, Howell helped the Blue Devil lax team go 63-1 and win two state titles. Over the course of his high school career he scored 143 goals and added 126 assists for an all-time school record of 269 points.
An All-State football player as a senior, Howell completed 146 of 211 passes for 2,368 yards and 20 touchdowns – the most on Long Island. In three years as the Blue Devil varsity quarterback, he compiled a 73 percent completion rate, connecting on 367 of 501 passes for 5,337 yards and 50 touchdowns. He was picked off only 17 times.
Howell’s best game ever came in the 2006 Suffolk Division III semifinals against Kings Park when he threw for 472 yards on 10-of-17 passing.
Howell’s former Huntington teammate, Sean Brady, is also a Duke lax player. The 6’0, 180 lb. Brady is an up-and-coming goalie. This past spring he saw part-time action in five games, recording 10 saves and coming up with two ground balls. He played 45 minutes, which is a good amount of time considering Duke was in contention for the national championship.
In high school, the now 20-year old Brady helped lead the Blue Devils to a 42-1 record during his junior and senior years. He won All-American honors as a senior.
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