Jaden Abas named 2024 Pac-12 Wrestling Scholar-Athlete of the Year

Stanford’s Jaden Abas named 2024 Pac-12 Wrestling Scholar-Athlete of the Year
by Pac-12 Conference
Mar 10, 2024

Stanford redshirt senior Jaden Abas has been named the 2024 Pac-12 Wrestling Scholar-Athlete of the Year, the Conference office announced during Sunday’s Pac-12 Wrestling Championships in Corvallis, Ore. The award, which is presented in each of the 24 sports the Pac-12 sponsors, was established to honor collegiate student-athletes that are standouts both academically and in their sports discipline.

Abas, a graduate student from San Diego, California, majored in Psychology as an undergraduate student at Stanford and graduated with a cumulative 3.80 GPA. The ninth Stanford wrestler to win the award, Abas holds a 3.91 GPA in grad school while studying Sociology.

Abas has once excelled on the mat again this season. The redshirt senior currently stands at 16-6 on the season, bringing his career record to 71-28, not including his true-freshman season where he went 23-4 wrestling unattached. Abas picked up Pac-12 Wrestler of the Week honors on February 13th, the 3rd time he’s done so in his Stanford career, after knocking off then No. 5 ranked Chance Lamer (Cal Poly) 4-3 to help lead the Cardinal to a 30-9 dual victory over the Mustangs. It was his second win over a ranked opponent this season, having beat then No. 27 ranked Noah Castillo (Chattanooga) on January 2nd in the Southern Scuffle.

The 2021 Pac-12 Champion at 149 lbs, Abas is a three-time NCAA qualifier (2021, 2022, 2023) and a 2021 NCAA All-American. The 2021 Pac-12 Newcomer of the Year was also the runner-up at 149 lbs in the 2023 Pac-12 Championships.

Abas has appeared on the Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll three times (2021, 2022, 2023) as well as earning NWCA Scholar All-American honors in each of those three seasons. A three-time team captain, Abas was also named a 2023 ACE Participant, traveling to South Africa to contribute to self-empowerment and sustainable development projects in communities around Cape Town through educational and sports workshops, and supported local outreach and educational awareness programs. He will participate in a Wu Tsai Performance Alliance Research Program this summer at Stanford, studying peak performance, with the goal of enabling all people to achieve optimal health and well-being.