NFF National Scholar-Athletes

Jake Brendel

  • School
    UCLA
  • Induction
    2015

UCLA – Center
Economics – 3.43 GPA
Head Coach: Jim Mora Jr.
Athletics Director: Dan Guerrero

-Academic All-District and three-time Academic All-Pac-12 honoree

-Recipient of team’s Academic and Athletic Balance Award and consistent member of Athletics Director’s Honor Roll

-Two-year team captain and four-year starter twice received All-Pac-12 laurels and was a Freshman All-American in 2012 while leading the Bruins to three straight bowl games

-UCLA’s 2014 recipient of the N.N. Sugarman Award for leadership served as a peer mentor for children with disabilities

-Hailing from Plano, Texas, he becomes the ninth NFF National Scholar-Athlete from UCLA

-Currently a member of the San Francisco 49ers