STANFORD, Calif. – Stanford redshirt senior defender Adam Mosharrafa has been selected as one of 30 Division I men's soccer candidates for the 2018 Senior CLASS Award®.
To be eligible for the award, student-athletes must be classified as NCAA Division I seniors and have notable achievements in four areas of excellence: community, classroom, character and competition. An acronym for Celebrating Loyalty and Achievement for Staying in School®, the Senior CLASS Award focuses on the total student-athlete and encourages students to use their athletic platforms to make a positive impact as leaders in their communities.
The candidates will be narrowed to 10 finalists midway through the regular season, and those 10 names will be placed on the official ballot. Ballots will be distributed through a nationwide voting system to media, coaches and fans, who will select one who best exemplifies excellence in the four Cs of community, classroom, character and competition. The Senior CLASS Award winners will be announced during the 2018 NCAA Men's and Women's College Cup® championships in December.
Stanford has done well recently as far as the Senior CLASS Award is concerned. Last season, Foster Langsdorf (first team) and Tomas Hilliard-Arce (second team) earned Senior CLASS Award All-America status. Brian Nana-Sinkam (2016) and Brandon Vincent (2015) were also named to the Senior CLASS Award All-America second team each of the two years prior.
A computer science major, Mosharrafa owns a 3.52 GPA and is a three-time Pac-12 All-Academic honorable mention selection. This past spring, he was awarded best senior group project in CS-210, a software project experience class, for Aerie-Tech, a platform that provides situational awareness to first responders by using autonomous drones to survey desired areas. Mosharrafa has also interned as a software developer at Tophatter, a revolutionary e-commerce company.
For the past two years, Mosharrafa has worked as a section leader for Stanford's introductory Computer Science class (CS106A), teaching weekly sections to small groups and tutoring students. A multi-talented student-athlete, he also co-wrote the country song "Damn Good Time" in 2015 with up-and-coming country artist Tyler Dial.
Mosharrafa founded the Middle Eastern Club at Brophy College Prep to create an open, healthy forum for weekly discussion about current events in the Middle East and was a committee member of the 2014 Summit on Human Dignity: "Exploring Race in the 21st Century."
The redshirt senior defender has appeared in every one of Stanford's 52 matches the past two-plus seasons and made 51 starts. During that time the Cardinal has not only won a pair of national championships, but has done so without allowing a goal in either tournament and owns an active NCAA-record postseason shutout streak of 12 matches - a stretch of 1,214 minutes and 20 seconds. Mosharrafa played right back during the Cardinal's 2016 national championship campaign when its defense finished fourth in the country with a 0.56 goals against average. Last season with Mosharrafa at center back, Stanford's 0.382 goals against average set school and conference records and was second nationally. With Mosharrafa in the starting lineup, the Cardinal has posted 0.44 goals against average with 34 shutouts.