STANFORD, Calif. – Stanford redshirt senior Adam Mosharrafa has been named the Pac-12 Men's Soccer Scholar-Athlete of the Year.
The award, which is presented in each of the 24 sports the league sponsors, was established in 2007-08 to honor student-athletes that are standouts both academically and in their sports discipline. Mosharrafa is Stanford's third men's soccer awardee, joining Brandon Vincent in 2015 and Bobby Warshaw in 2010.
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, where he will work full-time starting in January. He will graduate from Stanford at the end of this quarter with his degree in computer science specializing in human computer interaction.
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 65 matches the past two-plus seasons and made 64 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 with last night's 2-0 victory over UC Irvine now owns an active NCAA-record postseason shutout streak of 13 matches - a stretch of 1,304 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. This fall, the Cardinal's 0.545 goals against average is seventh.
With Mosharrafa in the starting lineup, the Cardinal has posted 0.50 goals against average with 40 shutouts.
In order to be eligible for the Pac-12 Scholar-Athlete of the Year award, student-athletes must be a senior (in athletics eligibility) on track to receive a degree, have a cumulative grade point average of 3.0 or higher, participate in at least 50% of the scheduled contests in the sport and have a minimum of one year in residence at the institution. Each Pac-12 institution may nominate one individual per sport, and the winners are selected by a committee of Pac-12 staff members at the conclusion of each sport's regular season. The athletic accomplishments of the nominees are a consideration in the voting for the award.
