Dan Prindle, a senior offensive tackle for the University of Dayton, was named the winner of the 55th presentation of the Lt. Andy Zulli Memorial Trophy at halftime of Saturday's Dayton-Drake football game.

The award goes to the Flyer senior who best exemplifies the qualities of Zulli, a former UD football player who was killed in a military vehicle accident while serving in the Army in Germany.  Zulli was not a star football player at Dayton, but his qualities of sportsmanship, scholarship and leadership were so exceptional that this award was created in his memory shortly after his death.

Prindle is a three-year letterwinner and two-year starter at right tackle for the Flyers.  A Mechanical Engineering major, he has been a mainstay on an offensive line that has allowed just one sack a game this season, even though UD averages over 25 pass attempts per game.  Dayton also has 28 rushing TD’s this year, versus just seven for its opponents.

Off the field, he is the University of Dayton’s first student-athlete on the Allstate AFCA Good Works Team.   Allstate and the AFCA annually select the 22-member team, which is one of the most prestigious off-the-field honors in college football.  Honorees are selected based on their contributions to their community and campus. 

Prindle is also an executive officer of Dayton’s Student-Athlete Advisory Committee and has served as a representative at the NCAA’s APPLE Conference which concentrates on improving substance abuse prevention programming and policies in athletics departments.

The late Vic Cassano, Sr. began the award in 1956.  His family has continued the support of the award, and also makes a $1,000 annual contribution to the Harry C. Baujan Scholarship Fund at UD in memory of Andy Zulli.