SAN FRANCISCO – Earning one of the conference's top honors with an impact both on and off the floor, senior James Keefe has been named the 2023 Pac-12 Scholar-Athlete of the Year.
Keefe is the seventh recipient in program history since the award's inception in 2008, joining an elite group comprised of Landry Fields (2010), Dwight Powell (2014), Chasson Randle (2015), Dorian Pickens (2018), Oscar da Silva (2021) and Sam Beskind (2022). It is presented annually to the top senior student-athlete in the conference in each of the Pac-12's 24 sponsored sports.
The Cardinal is the first basketball program in conference history – men or women – to earn the award in three consecutive seasons. There have been 12 teams of any sport to win three straight times, with eight of those being Stanford programs.
Keefe is a two-time CoSIDA/CSC Academic All-District honoree and is on pace for his third and second selections this season to the Pac-12 honor roll and NABC Honor Court. He has appeared in 102 games in his career with 33 starts, and has averaged more than five points and four rebounds in each of the last two seasons.
The forward from Los Angeles has led the team in 'floor burns' over the past two seasons, and has helped Stanford to a 20-win campaign in 2019-20 and to 62 wins since his arrival on campus. Perhaps the most notable win for Keefe was in the 2022 Pac-12 Tournament, where he scored at the buzzer to help Stanford advance past Arizona State.
Off the court, Keefe has completed two internships while maintaining an immaculate grade point average. In 2021, Keefe was a global investment analyst intern with Nuveen NWQ Investment Management and in 2022 he served as a private equity summer analyst with KKR & Co. in their real estate division.