Zach Howell grew up on Long Island in Huntington. He had a tremendous run in both football and lacrosse. Zach graduated as the lacrosse program's all time leader in points. He was an alternate on the Long Island Empire team after his sophomore year and would win the gold medal with the Long Island team at the Empire games following his junior year in high school. Other lacrosse honors included being named the Division II Rookie of the Year as a freshman, all division and all county three times a piece, and Under Armour All American as a senior. His Huntington teams were among the best high school teams ever. The Blue Devils went 63-1 over his last three years and won state championships in 2005 and 2006. Zach was named MVP of the Suffolk County and State Championship games in 2006.
Zach's high school lacrosse career was certainly very impressive, but his football career may have been even better, as he was the Section III MVP in both 2005 and 2006 with Huntinton winning a Long Island championship in 2005. Zach would be named All Long Island and finish up number two on the Long Island all time passing yardage leader board.
Zach would incredibly have as many accolades in college at Duke University. The team made the Final Four in each of Zach's four years at Duke, including winning the national championship in 2010. They also won three ACC championships. Zach's individual honors included being named 3rd team All American, ACC All Tournament Team, NCAA All Tournament Team, USILA Scholar All American, All ACC Academic three times and the ACC Honor Roll. Zach would finish his Duke career as the University's seventh all time goal scorer (135 goals) and eleventh in points (193). He was even better in the playoffs with 25 goals and 31 points which was good for 4th and 5th on Duke's all time books. In the four years that Zach was at Duke, only Stony Brook's Jordan McBride would score more goals. Zach was drafted by the Boston Cannons in the MLL with the 46th pick. He is currently in a training program at HSBC.
