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Really just trying to get to the end zone, hang on to the ball and see if anyone's coming up behind ya, looking over your shoulder.
It happens so fast and you just react.
My name's Zach Zenner and I'm from Eagan, MN.
I chose SDSU, first and foremost, because it was my only Division I opportunity to play football.
I play running back.
People ask how fast I am. I feel like I'm faster on the field than I am running a forty.
I think someone told me that I was close to the top in leading the country in rushing yards.
How fast am I? Fast enough I guess you could say.
My favorite moment, athletically, would be the home playoff game that we had this year.
We had a Thanksgiving meal together as a football team and we crushed Eastern Illinois.
So, it was a good game for the rushing attack, offensive line and the whole team in general.
Coach Stig is a big supporter of giving back to the community.
We were required to do at least three service projects throughout the year being on the football team.
I'm an officer of SAC, which is the Student-Athlete Advisory Council.
It's a window, I would say, for our student-athletes to get more involved in the community.
Whether it be the Brookings community or the SDSU community.
So I've done quite a bit of volunteer activities this year.
Balancing academics and athletics can be difficult at times.
This year there's year-long course, organic chemistry.
There's only one class time offered for lecture and its from 3:00 to 4:15.
What they did is they moved practice back a little bit, basically just for us
so that we could go to class and then also participate in the majority practice.
Coaching staff is definitely all about the student-athlete. My major is biology pre-med.
And I'm going to do research this summer with Doctor Tummala and the pharmacy department. So I'm excited about that.
My aspect of the research is to be formulating a capsule that will release
its contents in the large intestine, or colon, to treat colon cancer.
You know it's going to be really neat experience for me to get in that lab setting and that different side of medicine.
After school or after I graduate, if I had a chance to maybe play football somewhere I would.
If I got a chance to be on the practice squad for an NFL team I would definitely take that opportunity.
There's no way I could pass that up.
But then after that I like to go to medical school and be a surgeon.