Tristan Sinclair Season 2023-24

Career Accolades

• All-Pac-12 Honorable Mention (Coaches)
• Fourth Team All-Pac-12 (Phil Steele)
• Three-time Pac-12 All-Academic Honor Roll (2020, 2021, 2022)
• Al Masters Award
• Jack Huston Award

As a Fifth Year (2023)

• All-Pac-12 Honorable Mention (Coaches)
• Fourth Team All-Pac-12 (Phil Steele)
• Al Masters Award
• Jack Huston Award
• Started all 12 games at the linebacker position in 2023
• Set career-highs across the board in solo tackles (38), total tackles (71), tackles for loss (5), and sacks (1) ... finished second on the team in tackles
• Posted a new career-high in tackles on four occasions
• Recorded six tackles, including five solo tackles, at No. 6 USC (Sept. 9) ... matched that total the following week vs. Sacramento State (Sept. 16)
• Had seven tackles and his first full sack during the Homecoming Reunion Game vs. UCLA (Oct. 21)
• In the win at Washington State, posted a new career-high in tackles with nine
• In just over two quarters of play during the 126th Big Game, reached double-digits in tackles for the first time with 10 (Nov. 18) ... added 1.5 tackles for loss and two quarterback hits, both career-highs

As a Senior (2022)

• Pac-12 All-Academic Honor Roll
• Appeared in 10 games,  making two starts
• Totaled 37 tackles, adding one tackle-for-loss, part of a sack and an interception
• Recorded first career interception at #13 Oregon (Oct. 1) 

As a Junior (2021)

• Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll
• Appeared in 11 games on the season
• Made 31 tackles with 1.5 TFLs and one QB hurry
• Returned from injury to have three tackles, one for a loss, against Kansas State (Sept. 4)
• Had a career-high five tackles against Washington (Oct. 30) and at Oregon State (Nov. 13)

As a Sophomore (2020)

• Pac-12 All-Academic Honor Roll
• Did not see action

As a Freshman (2019)

• Played in four games - eligible to retain year of eligibility per NCAA redshirt rules
• Made his career debut at UCF (Sept. 14)
• Finished with seven tackles, one tackle for loss and one pass breakup

Prior to Stanford

• Prepped at San Ramon Valley (Calif.) under head coach Andrew Becker
• Four-star recruit by 247Sports, ESPN and PrepStar
• Nation’s 105th-best recruit by 247Sports and 256th by PrepStar
• Nation’s eighth-best outside linebacker by 247Sports, 19th by PrepStar, 29th by ESPN, 35th by Rivals
• California’s 19th-best recruit by 247Sports, 33rd by PrepStar, 43rd by ESPN, 56th by Rivals
• PrepStar All-American
• 2019 All-American Bowl
• First All-American in school history
• 2019 Polynesian Bowl
• 2018 The Opening Finals
• All-USA California second team (2018)
• All-league running back first team (2018)
• All-league linebacker first team (2018)
• All-league defensive back first team (2017)
• All-Bay Area (2017)
• 1,024 yards and 11 touchdowns on 138 rushes; 179 yards and four touchdowns on 10 receptions as a senior
• 290 yards and six touchdowns on 28 carries as a junior

Personal

• Son of Julie and Andrew Sinclair
• Father played football at Stanford
• Has two older siblings, Alina and Connor
• Brother, Connor, plays football at Claremont McKenna
• Mother, sister and both aunts went to Cal
• Attended numerous Stanford games as a kid
• Told Richard Sherman after a game that it was his dream to play at Stanford
• Built his first computer in sixth grade