Sam Beskind Season 2019-20

In the News:
- Winter Wonderland: Stanford Players Run Basketball Clinic For Local Kids - Savanna Steward, Stanford Daily
- Senior Spotlight | Stanford Daily
- Sam Beskind 'lived and breathed' Wildcats basketball as a boy; tonight, he'll face his hometown team | Tucson Daily Star
- My Stanford Story | Stanford Athletics

Career Highlights:

• Pac-12 Scholar-Athlete of the Year (2022)
• Spirit of Stanford Award (2022)
• Three-time Pac-12 Winter Academic Honor Roll (2020, 2021, 2022)
• Two-time NABC Honors Court (2021, 2022)

As a Redshirt Junior (2021-22)

• Pac-12 Scholar-Athlete of the Year
• Spirit of Stanford Award recipient
• Pac-12 Winter Academic Honor Roll
• NABC Honors Court 
• Appeared in 29 games with four starts
• Scored 11 points with 17 rebounds, eight assists and eight steals
• Made second-career 3-pointer at Cal (Feb. 26)
• Played 10 or more minutes seven times, grabbed a career-best four rebounds against Dartmouth (Dec. 16)
• Sixth recipient of the Pac-12 Scholar of the Year honor, joining Landry Fields (2010), Dwight Powell (2014), Chasson Randle (2015), Dorian Pickens (2018) and Oscar da Silva (2021)

As a Redshirt Sophomore (2020-21):

• Pac-12 Winter Academic Honor Roll
• NABC Honors Court
• Appeared in 11 games off the bench
• Scored two points at North Carolina A&T (Dec. 6) and one against Cal (Feb. 4)

As a Redshirt Freshman (2019-20):

• Pac-12 Winter Academic Honor Roll
• Appeared in 14 games off the bench
• Scored first points of his career with a triple against Long Beach State (Nov. 12)

As a Freshman (2018-19):

• Redshirted the season
• Played one minute against Eastern Washington (Dec. 15)

Prior to Stanford

• 2018 graduate of Catalina Foothills High School
• Finalist for Arizona High School Boys Basketball Player of the Year
• Helped lead Catalina Foothills to 24 wins as a senior
• Averaged 22.1 points, 11.7 rebounds and 5.2 assists his final season with the Falcons
• Helped lead Catalina Foothills to the 4A semifinals his junior season
• Named the Kino Region Player of the Year as a senior
• Scored 1,383 career points in his high school career
• Won a gold medal with Team USA at the Maccabiah Games in Israel in 2017