KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Stanford junior forward Jordan Morris is one of three men’s finalists for the Missouri Athletic Club’s (MAC) Hermann Trophy, the National Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA) announced Friday.
Morris, from Mercer Island, Wash., is a finalist along with Georgetown senior forward Brandon Allen (Old Bridge, N.J.) and Creighton junior forward Fabian Herbers (Ahaus, Germany).
The MAC Hermann Trophy is the highest individual intercollegiate award administered by the NSCAA, and presented annually at the Missouri Athletic Club in St. Louis. This year’s trophy presentation and banquet will take place Friday, Jan. 8, 2016. Stanford has never had a men’s player win the MAC Hermann Trophy.
NCAA Division I coaches that are NSCAA College Services members voted for their top choices from the list of 15 semifinalists in early December. Soccer fans were also encouraged to vote for their favorite player on the MAC’s website hosted by LockerDome. The semifinalists were the top vote-getters from the combined NSCAA coaches and weighted fan votes.
The Pac-12 Player of the Year, Morris has a career-high 11 goals in 16 appearances for Stanford in 2015. In his last 12 games with the Cardinal, the junior has 10 goals, three assists and 23 points. He is ninth in the country in game-winning goals (5), 12th in goals per game (0.69) and 13th in points per game (1.56).
The junior missed five collegiate matches this season due to responsibilities with U.S. Soccer. He split time between the senior team, making six appearances with the MNT in 2015, while also earning 11 caps with the U-23s, scoring six goals and tallying four assists. With the USMNT, Morris scored against Mexico on April 15 and assisted on the game-winning goal against the Netherlands on June 5. A Type 1 diabetic, he also lent his support to Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation’s (JDRF) “T1D Looks Like Me Campaign” for National Diabetes Awareness Month (NDAM) in November.
Morris has led the Cardinal to its first College Cup in 13 years. Stanford plays Akron at Sporting Park on tonight in one national semifinal on ESPNU (7:30 p.m. CT).