Columbia University Athletics

Honors & Awards:
- 2019 Ivy League Rookie of the Year
- 2019 Second Team All-Ivy League
- Ivy League Rookie of the Week (Nov. 11, 2019)

2019: Named Ivy League Rookie of the Year and Second Team All-Ivy League ... Played in all 17 games in the attacking midfield, earning 11 starts ... Totaled 14 points on five goals and four assists ... Ranked Top 5 in the Ivy League in points and assists, while ranking sixth in goals scored ... Put 22 of his 39 shots on goal, ranking atop the Ivy League and 18th nationally in SOG percentage (0.564) ... Also ranked among the top 100 nationally in shots on goal per game (1.29) ... Played 62 minutes off the bench in his collegiate debut at Omaha (Sept. 6) ... Earned his first start and first assist in his home debut, helping the Lions draw Army, 1-1 (Sept. 13) ... Blasted in his first collegiate goal from outside the area off a set piece at UConn, helping the Lions earn a 3-2 victory in Storrs (Sept. 20) ... Scored 54 seconds into the match as part of a 2-0 victory over Monmouth (Sept. 27) ... Assisted John Denis' 12th-minute goal in his Ivy League debut, a 3-2 Columbia victory over Brown (Oct. 5) ... Scored 38 seconds into the match at Commisso Stadium, resulting in a 1-1 draw with Penn (Oct. 13) ... Took a season-high eight shots and put away a 79th-minute goal with Columbia a man down at Princeton (Oct. 19) ... Scored and assisted two goals for a season-high four points to lead the Lions in a 6-1 rout of Harvard (Nov. 10) ... Went on to be named Ivy League Rookie of the Week (Nov. 11).

The first-year midfielder was one of the most accurate shot takers in the nation, ranking 16th in the NCAA in shot accuracy (.564), putting 22 of his 39 shots on goal. He scored five times and assisted five additional goals to also earn second-team status. He tied for fourth in the league in points (15) tied for third in assists and was top 10 in goals, shots and shots on goal.

Prior to Columbia: Spent four years on the club circuit between Bethesda-Olney and Bethesda SC of the USSDA ... Scored 20 goals for Bethesda SC in his last three years alone, including 10 goals in 24 games during the 2017-18 campaign ... Scored five goals the spring of his senior season, notching a brace against both PA Classics and Oakwood ... Had a top performance in 2018 when he recorded a hat trick in a U16/17 game against D.C. United Youth Academy ... Two-year assistant captain for Bethesda’s U17 and U19 squads and was invited to train with D.C. United U23 over the summer of 2018.

Personal: Born April 28, 2001 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ... Son of Mindi Cohen and Paul Zeitz ... Older brother, Yonah, played Div. III soccer at St. Mary's College of Maryland (2014-17) ... Chose Columbia over considerations from several schools, including Penn, Yale, Dartmouth, Denver, Lehigh, James Madison and Colgate ... Spent three weeks of 2016 in Mtubatuba, South Africa doing community service through sport ... Volunteered at D.C. Central Kitchen, an organization that provides food for the homeless in the D.C. area ... Plans to study human rights.