Zack Mills
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Zachary Eric Mills (born May 1, 1982) is a former American football quarterback and current assistant football coach at Temple University. He was a three-year starter at Penn State University.
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[edit] High School
Mills attended Urbana High School in Frederick County, Maryland from 1996-2000, where Mills led the team to consecutive 2A state championships in 1998 and 1999, going undefeated both years. In the course of his high school career he broke Maryland public school records both for passing yards (5,638) and touchdown passes (59) and won countless awards including first team All-CMC and first team All-Mid-Maryland. Mills was also a standout on the basketball team.
[edit] College
As the quarterback of the Nittany Lions from 2001 to 2004, Mills led the team to the Capital One Bowl following the 2002 season. That season, he was named All-Big Ten. Mills was a three-time Davey O'Brien Award finalist and was presented with the 2004 Hall Foundation Award as Penn State's outstanding senior football player.
Mills holds many Penn State passing and total offense records: He finished his career with a school record 7,796 yards of total offense, his 41 career touchdown passes and his 16 career 200-yard passing games both tie school records. Mills is the first Nittany Lion under head coach Joe Paterno to throw, catch, and run for a touchdown in a single game (in 2003 versus Akron).
He graduated in 2004 with a Bachelor of Science in Kinesiology.
[edit] NFL
Mills spent the 2004 preseason in the Washington Redskins' training camp as an undrafted free agent, but was released before the season began.
[edit] Coaching
In February 2006, Mills was hired as an assistant coach by incoming Temple head coach (and fellow Penn State alumnus), Al Golden.
[edit] External links
- "NFL draft analysis for Zack Mills"
- "Zack Mills Named Senior MVP At Nittany Lion Football Banquet" gopsusports.com, December 12, 2004
- "Mills' agent optimistic about NFL prospects," The Digital Collegian, March 16, 2005
- "Passing into History," The Digital Collegian, March 3, 2005
- Zack Mills' Temple Athletic Department biography
- "Zack Mills Named Graduate Assistant Football Coach at Temple," www.owlsports.com, February 20, 2006