NDSU

COLLEGE: Spent two seasons with the NDSU football program in 2023 and 2024...Played in one game against Western Illinois as a sophomore in 2023...Named to the Missouri Valley Football Conference Honor Roll and earned the MVFC Commissioner's Academic Excellence Award in both 2023 and 2024...Recipient of the MVFC Presidents Council Academic Award in 2024...Spent the 2021 and 2022 seasons at Missouri...Did not appear in any games with the Tigers.

HIGH SCHOOL: 2021 graduate of Elkhorn South High School, where he was an all-conference and all-state performer...Played for coach Guy Rosenberg...Three-year starter on the offensive line...Part of three playoff teams including a state runner-up finish his senior year...Also participated in lacrosse.

PERSONAL: Graduated from NDSU in May 2025 with a degree in university studies...Son of Jon and Sarah Zatechka...Father played football at Nebraska before a professional career with the NFL’s Arizona Cardinals and in NFL Europe with the Berlin Thunder...His uncle, Rob Zatechka, was the 1994 Campbell Trophy winner at Nebraska and played in the NFL for the New York Giants...Has a sister, Estella, who plays volleyball at Missouri.