Bowling Green State University Athletics
2025 Football Roster

Jersey Number 46
Zach Long
- Position:
- Kicker
- Height:
- 6-3
- Weight:
- 190
- Class:
- Graduate Student
- Hometown:
- Tampa, Fla.
- High School:
- Hillsborough HS
- Prev School:
- Troy
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Bowling Green |
2025 | Senior
- Appeared in all 12 games this season as the kicker on kickoffs
- Booted the ball 56 times on the kickoff unit, totaling 3,331 yards and 20 touchbacks
2024 | Junior
- Appeared in all 13 of BGSU's games as the kickoff specialist, including the last six as the team's primary kicker
- Went 13-of-19 on field goal attempts, went 22-for-22 on PATs and registered 70 kickoffs on the season
- Notched his first career field goal in the win vs. Kent State
- Made two field goals and a career-best five PATs in the victory at Toledo
- Posted three field goals in the win at Central Michigan
- Made a career-long 50-yard field goal in the victory vs. Wester Michigan
- Recorded three field goals in the win at Ball State
- Registered a 41-yard field goal against Miami (OH)
- Made a 38-yard field goal in the 68 Ventures Bowl against Arkansas State
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Troy |
Troy, Ala. |
• Appeared in 25 career games over three seasons (2021-2023) at Troy
• Redshirted the 2021 season
• Used primarily as the kickoff specialist with 70 career touchbacks
Hillsborough High School |
Tampa, Fla. |
• Played at Hillsborough High School for head coach Earl Garcia
• Helped lead Hillsborough High School to a pair of district championships
• The Terriers posted a combined 16-5 overall record his final two seasons
• Finished his career 87-of-90 in extra-point attempts and 19-of-26 in field goals, with a long of 53 yards
• Booted a school record 51-yard field goal before reestablishing the record with his 53-yard kick
• Also holds the school record for points in career by a kicker (146)
• First-team all-conference as a kicker and punter
• Two-time Kohl's National Kicker of the Week during the 2020 season
• Named the Hillsborough High School Outstanding Special Teams Player of the Year in both 2019 and 2020
• National Kicking Rankings Five-Star Kicker
Personal |
• Son of Jessica Raia-Long and Michael Long
• Father played Sprint football at Army West Point
• Played competitive soccer for 10 years, including five years in the US Soccer Development Academy and two years in the MLS Next Academy
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