STANFORD, Calif. – Tanner Beason and Amir Bashti were named United Soccer Coaches NCAA Division I All-Americans on Thursday night. It's the fifth consecutive season Stanford has had multiple players honored.
Beason, a redshirt junior center back, earned a spot on the first team and Bashti, a senior forward, the third team. With their selections, the Cardinal has accumulated 11 All-America honors since 2014.
Beason joins an exclusive list of Stanford first team All-Americans that includes Foster Langsdorf (2017), Tomas Hilliard-Arce (2016, 2017), Jordan Morris (2014, 2015), Brandon Vincent (2014, 2015), Bobby Warshaw (2009), Todd Dunivant (2002), Lee Morrison (2001), Ryan Nelsen (2000) and Jamie Clark (1998).
Also one of 15 MAC Hermann Trophy Semifinalists, Beason put together a brilliant redshirt junior campaign in which he was voted the Pac-12 Player of the Year and Pac-12 Defensive Player of the Year, the first in conference history to receive both honors. He led the Pac-12 in both goals (6) and points (15) in conference matches and had career-high totals of eight goals and five assists this season.
Defensively, the Cardinal was eighth in the country in team goals against average (0.625) and fifth in shutouts (12).
An All-Pac-12 first team pick, Bashti finished sixth in the league in scoring and fifth in points with a career-high seven goals and six assists this season. The senior twice earned Pac-12 Player of the Week awards following a brace against Delaware on Sept. 16 and a two-goal, two-assist weekend to begin conference action in late September against San Diego State and UCLA. Bashti played in 88 matches during his career, scored 19 goals and had 13 assists.
Bashti, who also boasts a 3.45 cumulative GPA as a science, technology and society major, was voted CoSIDA Academic All-District in early November.
Stanford went 12-4-5 this season, won its record fifth consecutive conference championship and advanced to the quarterfinal round of the NCAA Tournament for the fourth year in a row.
