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Message: [QUOTE="BillSU, post: 5373545, member: 6809"] [B]EDITED 3/11/25 @ 8:44 P.M. NOE: At Shady Side HS in Pittsburgh a partial list of kicks are 21,33,35,37,43 YDS[/B] [I][B]OFFERED> HARRAN ZUREIKAT 2026 FOX CHAPEL SCHOOL PITTSBURGH AREA PA[/B][/I] [B][I]# 4 6' 0" 180 #1 KICKER, # 2 PUNTER IN USA, MAX PREPS AA BEST CAMP PUNTING AVG. 48.8 HANG TIME 4.21// Did you know that Fox Chapel has an All-American kicker ranked No. 1 nationally in the junior class? Meet Harran Zureikat, an interesting kid with a booming leg who recently landed his first Power Four offer. *****STAR EDITED 3/3/25 @ 7:44P.M. SEE BELOW + STORY[/I][/B] [IMG alt="FoxChapelKicker-scaled.jpg"]https://syracusefan.com/attachments/foxchapelkicker-scaled-jpg.250037/[/IMG] At the December 2024 Showcase Camp, Harran scored an impressive 109.16 points in punting, which reflects his combined distance and hang time across multiple punts. For context, Kohl's scoring system values both metrics, but it doesn’t directly translate to a simple yards-per-punt average like you’d see in game stats. Earlier, at the 2023 Kohl’s Midwest Winter Showcase, he hit a standout punt of 51 yards with 4.21 seconds of hang time, showing his leg strength and consistency. These camp numbers suggest he’s capable of booming punts well over 40 yards with solid hang time. At [B]2026[/B] National kicker Ratings we only evaluate campers that we have personally seen at a Kohl's camp. [B]In order to assure yourself a ranking you must attend a Kohl's Showcase camp or the Scholarship camp.[/B] When ranking we ask the question, "If there was a college game today, is this athlete ready to help a college team win?". We look at the camp charts and take into account the different conditions at each camp. We also look strongly at how an athlete performs in drill work when they know they are being evaluated and graded. We see how they handle pressure and react in the camp competitions. We see certain athletes multiple times a year and try to grade them on their average performance. [HEADING=3]Kohl's sees more athletes than anyone else in America at our 135 events.[/HEADING] There will be over 300 Kohl's high school seniors playing college football next season. There are many good prospects at the 4.0 and 4.5 star levels that will start in college in the future. [HEADING=3]Looking for other 2026 rankings?[/HEADING] [LIST] [*]Kickers [*][URL='https://www.kohlskicking.com/national-player-ratings/punters/2026']Punters[/URL] [*][URL='https://www.kohlskicking.com/national-player-ratings/long-snappers/2026']Long Snappers[/URL] [/LIST] [HEADING=3][/HEADING] [B]KICKING[/B] [TABLE] [TR] [TH]Rank[/TH] [TH]Name[/TH] [TH][/TH] [TH][/TH] [TH]State[/TH] [TH]Coach Observations[/TH] [TH]Committed[/TH] [/TR] [TR] [TD]1[/TD] [TD][URL='https://www.kohlskicking.com/player-profiles/harran-zureikat']Zureikat, Harran[/URL][/TD] [TD][/TD] [TD][/TD] [TD]PA[/TD] [TD]Zureikat recently competed at the Underclassman Challenge in January of 2025. He… [URL='https://syracusefan.com/javascript%3A;']continue reading[/URL][/TD] [TD][LIST] [*][B]Offered:[/B] Syracuse [*][B]Offered:[/B] Akron [/LIST][/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE] [B]PUNTING[/B] [TABLE] [TR] [TD]2[/TD] [TD][URL='https://www.kohlskicking.com/player-profiles/harran-zureikat']Zureikat, Harran[/URL][/TD] [TD][/TD] [TD][/TD] [TD]PA[/TD] [TD]Zureikat recently competed at the Underclassman Challenge in January of 2025. He… [URL='https://syracusefan.com/javascript%3A;']continue reading[/URL][/TD] [TD][LIST] [*][B]Offered:[/B] Syracuse [*][B]Offered:[/B] Akron [/LIST][/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE] [HEADING=2]PUP recruiting notebook: Fox Chapel’s Harran Zureikat, the nation’s No. 1 kicker in the junior class, has a unique background and a Power Four offer[/HEADING] by [URL='https://www.unionprogress.com/author/beverett/']Brad Everett[/URL]September 9, 2024 Harran Zureikat is a junior at Fox Chapel who is regarded as the No. 1 kicker in the country in his class. (Dan Esper) Back in January, Fox Chapel football coach Dave Leasure was told by a few of his players that “a really good kicker” had just transferred to the school. Admittedly, Leasure was a bit skeptical. “No one transfers to Fox Chapel and is a great football player. It just doesn’t happen, especially coming off of an 0-10 season,” Leasure said. “I didn’t think anything of it. And then two weeks later, I get a message from a major college program asking to come by and talk about my kicker. So I thought, ‘Oh my, I better look this kid up.’” So, he did, and, let’s just say Leasure came away impressed with what he read about him. But not as impressed as he was when he got to see him kick in person. “I finally got to meet him,” Leasure said. “He’s a great kid. And he is a talent. I’ve never seen anything like it and I probably never will again.” That kid is Harran Zureikat, a junior who transferred from Shady Side Academy midway through his sophomore year. Zureikat has quite the interesting background in that his family is from the Middle East. Both of his parents were born in Jordan. And Zureikat is sort of like the “Jordan of high school football kickers.” Kohl’s Kicking ranks Zureikat as the No. 1 kicker in the country in the junior class. “Honestly, for the first few weeks or months, I was definitely in shock since I’m still pretty new to the sport,” Zureikat said of the ranking. “But right now I don’t think much of it. I use it more as a motivation and a drive.” Zureikat, who began kicking in eighth grade, was last month selected to the Preseason MaxPreps Junior All-America Team. And then, two weeks ago, he picked up his first college offer when Syracuse offered him a full scholarship — colleges typically don’t offer those to high school kickers — while on a gameday visit. “I mean, I was honestly stunned,” he said of the offer. “Me and my dad went to the game, and we weren’t expecting that.” Just like Zureikat wasn’t expecting to have a future in football, but that all changed one day the summer before his eighth - grade year. A soccer player since the age of 6, Zureikat and his dad would often play pickup soccer at Carnegie Mellon. While there with some friends one day, he decided to see if he could make a field goal. Well, he did … from 40 yards. “I didn’t think much of it, but my friends told me it was pretty good,” the personable teen said with a laugh. Zureikat decided to stop playing soccer following his freshman season at Shady Side Academy in order to focus on kicking the pigskin. He connected on 5 of 6 field goals as a sophomore. In just two games this season at Fox Chapel, he is 4 of 4 with a long of 35 yards (he said he’s hit from as long as 62 yards in practice) and all 10 of his kickoffs have resulted in touchbacks. One of those kickoffs clanked off the crossbar. “When you’re kicking off and you’re hitting the crossbar at the other end, you’ve got some range,” Leasure said. The kid with the booming leg might even be a good luck charm for Fox Chapel, which had lost 22 games in a row before a 38-7 win at Baldwin in Week 1. Leasure said that his new kicker has changed the way he approaches certain situations in games, starting from the very beginning of them. “As far as the coin toss goes, we prefer to defer now,” Leasure said. “We’ll give them the ball at the 20, try for a three-and-out and try to get the ball at midfield. That changes our strategy.” Zureikat had a busy summer as he attended a national scholarship camp in Tennessee in addition to going to college camps at Ohio State, Pitt, Georgia, Duke and Penn State. He plans on making several more gameday visits this season, as well. [B]EXCELLENT OFFER![/B] [/QUOTE]

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