The Wolverine: Covering University of Michigan Football and Sports
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14 THE WOLVERINE ❱ OCTOBER 2025 ❱ INSIDE MICHIGAN ATHLETICS ❱ Student-Athlete Of The Month Football Junior Tight End Zack Marshall Junior tight end Zack Marshall, an Academic All-Big Ten honoree last year, was thrown into the fire earlier this season when senior captain Marlin Klein was side- lined in the Oklahoma game due to injury. Depth in the position group is a roster strength, but you still need to be ready when your number is called. Marshall, who is focused on a degree in business administration, embodies that for the Wolverines and takes pride in doing whatever is asked of him during the week and on game day. "When one guy goes down, you want to be the guy who can literally do anything," Marshall said. "Keep yourself versatile. You see Colston [Loveland] lining up in the backfield now for the Chicago Bears. You never know when people are going to ask you to do whatever. You just want to be one of the next guys that can go in, whether playing in I-formation or in an offset wing. … You never know what you have to do. So, be able to do it all." Michigan emphasizes cross-training its players in their position groups so they can do whatever is asked of them on the field. Marshall sees that woven into the pro- gram's "all hands on deck" mentality. "Intensity and versatility is one of the biggest things," Marshall said. "We're at this university because we can play darn good football, but also because we're smart. We're able to play multiple roles and able to be the person that Michigan needs you to be. That's what we get told all the time. "It's not about anything other than 'The Team, The Team, The Team.' Be who Michi- gan needs you to be. If Michigan needs me to be Max Bredeson's backup, I'll do that. If it needs me to be Bryce Underwood's backup, darn it, I'll play quarterback. I don't care. … I'll go play defense if they ask me to do it." Speaking of Bredeson, the two-time captain has been the biggest positive influence on Marshall. "I would say the biggest person I've learned from is Max Bredeson," Marshall said. "Just the mentality of how to show up every day with a lunch-pail mentality. You're going to love it. It doesn't matter where your emotion stands that day. Just show up and be the same person every single day." — Anthony Broome MICHIGAN'S TOP PERFORMERS Football freshman Bryce Underwood: The Detroit native was tabbed as Big Ten Freshman of the Week following a stellar per- formance at quarterback in a 63-3 win over the Central Michigan Chippewas Sept. 13. In less than three quarters, Underwood passed for 235 yards and a touchdown and rushed for 114 yards and 2 more scores Men's soccer junior Isaiah Goldson: The goalkeeper came up with the penalty save in the final minute to seal Michigan's 3-2 win over No. 1 Indiana Sept. 13, the program's first-ever win over a top-ranked team. The Wolverines led 3-2 with less than a minute to go, and Goldson deflected a shot off the post and away from the goal to stymie the Hoosiers' chances. Through the win over the Hoosiers, Goldson had made 9 saves, allowed 6 goals and gone 4-0-2 in net. Field hockey graduate student Abby Tamer: The Whitmore Lake, Mich., native scored the game-win- ning goal at 59:52 — with just 8 seconds remaining — after tipping a pass that came from midfield in a 3-2 win over Stanford Sept. 14 in Palo Alto. The Wolverines scored 3 un- answered goals in the second half, and the game-tying goal came just prior to Tamer scoring, with junior forward Juliette Manzur getting on the board at the 58:58 mark. That was Tamer's fourth goal of the season and second game-winner, joining a tip goal with 27 seconds to go against Wake Forest Aug. 31, in a 2-1 win at the ACC/Big Ten Challenge in Iowa City. Women's soccer senior Sophie Homan: The Rochester, Mich., native put together an out- standing showing in a score- less draw with Ohio State Sept. 12, earning Big Ten Goalkeeper of the Week hon- ors. Michigan was out-shot 22-13, and Ohio State had 12 corner kicks, but Homan helped the Wolverines shut out the Buckeyes, marking the second time this season that OSU hasn't scored a goal. That was Homan's third clean sheet of the season and second in a row. — Clayton Sayfie Marshall, an Academic All-Big Ten honoree last year, earned his first career start against Central Michigan Sept. 13. PHOTO BY LON HORWEDEL