UC SANTA BARBARA
2023
Named Big West Defensive Player of the Week on Sept. 11 … Selected to All-Big West Preseason Team and named one of six NCAA Division I Goalkeepers to Watch by United Soccer Coaches … Started 19 of 20 games for the Gauchos, playing 1710 minutes, reaching the third-most career minutes played by a goalkeeper in program history (5575:29) … Also reached the sixth-most shutouts (20) and saves (210) in a career … Holds the eighth-lowest career goals-against average (1.18) … Made a season-high eight saves in the Gauchos’ 2-1 win over UNLV on Sept. 9.
2022
United Soccer Coaches NCAA Division I Men’s All-Far West Region Second Team … Big West Co-Goalkeeper of the Year… All-Big West First Team… Big West All-Academic Team… Named Big West Defensive Player of the Week on Oct. 3 … Started every game for the Gauchos, totaling 1820 minutes… Second in the Big West in save percentage (.778), shutouts per game (.350) and goals against average (.989) … Third in saves with 70 and sixth in saves per game (3.50) … Made a season-high eight saves in a 2-2 tie against UC Irvine (Oct. 26), five of which came from the second half.
2021
Made the All-Big West Second Team as only a sophomore… Big West All-Academic Team … Started and played in all 32 games for the season, allowing only 20 goals on a 0.88 goals-against average … Posted 82 saves with eight shutouts throughout the season… Had a winning record of 12-5-4 with a .804 save percentage… Averaged a major 3.95 saves per contest in the regular season.
NEWBERRY COLLEGE (D-II)
2020
Joined the football team as a wide receiver after the COVID-19 Pandemic led to cancelation of the soccer season.
2019
Two-time South-Atlantic Conference Defensive Player of the Month … 2019-20 SAC Commissioner’s Honor Roll … Started 13 of the Wolves’ 14 games … Recorded four shutouts on the season … Made 58 saves, with a 1.91 goals-against average.
CLUB
German Youth National Team member at both the U15 and U17 levels … Played in the youth academies of German professional sides Viktoria Köln (2015-2017) and Greuther Fürth (2017-2019) … Trained with Fürth’s first team, which competed in the 2. Bundesliga at the time … Trained with EFL Championship side FC Barnsley in England before deciding to continue his soccer career in the United States.
HIGH SCHOOL
Attended Helene-Lange Gymnasium in Fürth.
PERSONAL
Born Nov. 21, 2000 in Mechernich, Germany … Grew up in Zülpich, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany … Son of Anne and Dirk Zeller … Has a younger brother, Jason … Majoring in Global Studies at UC Santa Barbara.
