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Career Highlights:
- CoSIDA Academic All-America second team
- Pac-12 Scholar Athlete of the Year (2021)
- Pac-12 Tom Hansen Medal recipient (2021)
- Three-time All-Pac-12 - 2019 (HM), 2020 (1st), 2021 (1st)
- Pac-12 All-Defense (2021)
- Two-time NABC All-District - 2020 (2nd), 2021 (1st)
- USBWA All-District - 2021 (1st)
- Two-time Pac-12 All-Academic (2019, 2020)
- Spirit of Stanford Award recipient (2020)
- Biff Hoffman Award winner (2021)
- Three-time Pac-12 Player of the Week (Feb. 3, 2020, Dec. 21, 2020, Jan. 11, 2021)
- NABC Honors Court (2020)
- Senior CLASS Award finalist (2021)
- Karl Malone Power Forward of the Year Top-10 Finalist (2021)
- Naismith and Wooden Trophy watch lists, on Naismith Trophy midseason team (2021)
- Finishes career ranked 15th all-time at Stanford with 1,446 points
As a Senior (2020-21):
- CoSIDA Academic All-America second team
- Pac-12 Scholar Athlete of the Year
- All-Pac-12 first team
- Pac-12 All-Defensive Team
- NABC All-District first team
- USBWA All-District first team
- Senior CLASS Award finalist
- Karl Malone Power Forward of the Year Top-10 Finalist
- Naismith and Wooden Trophy watch lists, on Naismith Trophy midseason team
- Two-time Pac-12 Player of the Week (Dec. 21, Jan. 11)
- Appeared in 24 games, all starts, averaged 18.5 points, 6.7 rebounds and 2.4 assists per game while shooting 56.9 percent from the floor. He was one of two players nationally to hit those benchmarks
- He finishes the season ranked 15th all-time at Stanford with 1,446 points, and ranks 13th in made field goals, 14th in field goal percentage, 13th in rebounds, seventh in blocks and 12th in minutes played
- Scored a career-high 32 points on just 11 shots at CSUN (Dec. 15). Had two games of 30 or more points and 10 games with at least 20
- Co-led Pac-12 with six double-doubles in conference play
- Scored at the buzzer in Stanford’s 73-72 (ot) victory over UCLA (Jan. 23). First buzzer-beating win for Stanford since 2018
As a Junior (2019-20):
- All-Pac-12 first team
- NABC All-District second team
- Pac-12 Winter Academic Honor Roll
- NABC Honors Court
- Spirit of Stanford Award recipient
- Pac-12 Player of the Week (Feb. 3, 2020)
- Appeared in 31 games, all starts, averaging a team-leading 15.7 points and 6.4 rebounds. Ranked 10th in the conference in scoring.
- Paced the team with 57.0 percent shooting from the field, which ranked third in the Pac-12.
- Tallied seven 20-point games and four double-doubles.
- Scored a career-best 27 points in a win over then No. 10/11 Oregon (Feb. 1). Grabbed a season-best 15 rebounds in the same game.
- Became 48th member of program’s 1,000-point club.
- Ranked second on the team in blocks, moved into 10th on the program’s all-time list with 96.
- Helped lead Stanford to the nation’s seventh-best defense (KenPom) and 16th-best scoring defense (62.5 ppg).
As a Sophomore (2018-19):
- Pac-12 All-Academic Honorable Mention selection
- Only player to start all 31 games
- Averaged 9.5 points, 6.0 rebounds, 1.8 assists and 1.3 blocks
- Ranked second on the team with 40 blocks
- Ranked 13th in the Pac-12 in rebounding
- Posted double-double with 15 points and 10 rebounds against Washington (March 3)
- Scored career-high 23 points twice, most recently at Oregon State (Feb. 7)
- Totaled four 20-point games, 13 double-digit scoring games and five double-digit rebounding games
As a Freshman (2017-18):
- Appeared in all 35 games, making 11 starts
- Averaged 6.2 points and 4.7 rebounds
- Established school freshman record with a team-leading 55.8 three-point field goal percentage
- Totaled six double-digit scoring games and two double-digit rebounding games
- Recorded first career double-double in third career game and first career start with 12 points and a career-best 17 rebounds against Eastern Washington (Nov. 14)
- 30 blocked shots ranked second on the team and seventh-most by a freshman in program history
- 29 three-point field goals ranked third on the team and eighth-most by a freshman in school history
Prior to Stanford
- Native of Munich, regarded as one of Germany’s top prospects
- Played for Germany’s Under 19 National Team that competed in the 2017 FIBA U19 World Cup in Cairo, Egypt, leading Germany to fifth place in the tournament
- Started all seven games for Germany in the tournament and averaged 10.3 points, 4.0 rebounds, 1.7 steals and 1.4 blocks in 25.7 minutes per game
- Competed for Germany in the Under 18 European Championship in 2016, leading Germany to a fourth-place finish with an average of 9.5 points and 6.0 rebounds per game
- Also played for Germany's Under 18 National Team in the prestigious Albert Schweitzer Tournament in April of 2016, averaging 7.0 points, 5.4 rebounds and 1.7 blocks
- Standout for Ludwig Gymnasium in Germany
- Member of the Nachwuchs & Jugend Basketball Bundesliga’s (NBBL) MTSV Schwabing
- Two-time NBBL All-Star (2016 and 2017), averaging 21.0 points, 8.3 rebounds, 2.0 assists, 2.0 steals and 1.7 blocks
- Speaks six languages fluently (English, German, Portuguese, Spanish, French and Latin)
- Works in the stem cell research lab on campus preparing tissue samples (cutting and imaging them), studying certain cell functions and discovering what inhibiting them does to the cell and how that can minimize diseases. Presented his abstract at a medical conference in Baltimore in April of 2019
- Brother, Tristan, starts his freshman year on the basketball team at Colorado in 2020-21.