Fahy Named Scholar-Athlete of Year

MONMOUTH, Ore. – Stanford graduate student Steven Fahy was named Pac-12 Men's Cross Country Scholar-Athlete of the Year on Friday before the conference championship meet.

Fahy, a native of Carlsbad, California, and the reigning NCAA steeplechase champion in track and field, is pursuing his master's in comparative medicine after completing his undergraduate studies in human biology with a focus on sport and exercise physiology last spring with a 3.76 grade-point average.

Fahy helped Stanford to the 2017 conference team title with a third-place individual finish to earn first team All-Pac-12 honors. He followed that up with third place at the NCAA West Regional to earn All-Region honors for the second straight year before going on to earn first-team All-America honors with a 17th-place showing at the NCAA Championships.

Fahy was named to the CoSIDA Academic All-America second team in 2018-19, has twice earned recognition on the USTFCCCA Cross Country All-Academic Team (2016, 2017) as well as three selections to the Pac-12 All-Academic second team in the sport. Fahy is the conference-leading sixth Stanford recipient of the Men's Cross Country Scholar-Athlete of the Year since the award's creation in 2007.

Previous Stanford winners were Neftalem Araia (2007), Elliott Heath (2010), Chris Derrick (2011), Tyler Stutzman (2013), and Grant Fisher (2018).