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2025 MIT Football Roster

1 Armando Melendez

  • Position WR
  • Height 5-10
  • Weight 175
  • Class Junior
  • Hometown Parlin, N.J.
  • High School Red Bank Catholic

Biography

Accolades:
  • 2024 NEWMAC Academic All-Conference
2024:
  • Did not appear in a game
2023:
  • Appeared in three games at the wide receiver spot
Before MIT
  • NJ Academic All-Shore Team
  • Red Bank Catholic Football Most Improved Offensive Player in 2021
  • Received the Peter Apollo Memorial Scholarship
  • Won the 2021 NJ State Championship, along with finishing as the runner-up in 2022
  • Won six total varsity letters between football, track and field and hockey
  • Also played baseball and basketball
  • Member of the National Honor Society 
  • National Hispanic Recognition Program-College Board
  • Four-year Honor Roll student
  • Red Bank Catholic Engineering Club
  • Red Bank Catholic Student council member
  • FCA - Fellowship for Christian Athletes member
  • RBC Performing Arts Department-Actor/Singer
  • Casey Student Ambassador
  • Montessori School Teaching Assistant
  • Youth Jr. Football Coach
  • Labrecque Leadership Institute Award
Personal:
  • Majoring in artificial intelligence
Favorite Sports Memory:
  • Pop Warner Championship Game
Favorite Moment as an MIT Student-Athlete:
  • Staying in a hotel for the first away game

Statistics

Season:
2025

Season Statistics

Season Statistics

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Career Statistics

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Historical Player Information

  • 17

    2023First Year

    WR
    5'10" 175 lbs
    17
  • 1

    2024Sophomore

    WR/RB
    5'10" 175 lbs
    1
  • 1

    2025Junior

    WR
    5'10" 175 lbs
    1