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8 Kyle Sandell

  • Position C
  • Height 6-5
  • Class Senior
  • Hometown Mountain View, Calif.
  • High School Los Altos

Biography

Career Stats
Year Goals Shots Assists Ejections Drawn Ejections Vs. Blocks Steals Sprints Won
2018 30 66 2 25 23 4 29 0
2019 5 7 1 3 4 0 1 1
2021 77 164 13 55 30 N/A 47 0
Totals 112 236 16 83 57 4 77 1
 
Career Game Highs
Goals 10 vs. Augustana (October 23, 2021)
Assists 2 vs. Brown (October 9, 2021)
Ejections Drawn 6 vs. Princeton (October 30, 2021)
Field Blocks 1 Four Times - Most Recently vs. Harvard (November 4, 2018)
Steals 6 vs. St. Francis Brooklyn (October 30, 2021)
 
Accolades:
- CWPA Offensive Player of the Week (10/26/21)
- CWPA Championship First Team All Tournament (2021)
- Second Team All-NWPC (2021)
- ACWPC Second Team All-American (2021)
- ACWPC All-Academic - Outstanding Honors (2021, 2019)
- CWPA Division III Eastern Championship All-Tournament Second Team (2018)
In the Record Books:
- Set single season record with 10 goals in a game against Augustana on October 23, 2021
- Tied for fifth with 77 goals in a single season (2021)

2021: [Season Stats]
- Finished the year second on the team with 77 goals
- Set the program record with 10 goals in a game on Oct. 23 against Augustana
- Grabbed 47 steals and added 13 assists
- Recorded 13 hat tricks 
- Scored in 24 of 29 matches


2020:
- Was not a member of the team


2019: [SEASON STATS]
- Led MIT to the inaugural USA Water Polo Division III National Championship where the Engineers placed third overall


2018: [SEASON STATS]
- Tallied five hat tricks which came against Penn State Behrend on September 15, against Brown on October 6, against Harvard on October 7, against Brown on November 3 and against Harvard on November 4
- Aided the Engineers to their ninth CWPA Division III Eastern Championship in program history


Favorite Sports Memory:
- Winning League Championships my senior year of high school


Favorite Moment as an MIT Student-Athlete:
- Winning DIII Eastern Division Championships


Out of the Pool at MIT:
- Majoring in computer science with a minor in finance and a concentration in economics
- Was a software engineering intern at Robinhood, NASDAQ, and TripAdvisor
- Was a machine learning engineer at Elemeno
- Intuit Scholarship
- George Hansen Scholarship
- Theta Tau Professional Engineering Fraternity
High School:
- Graduated from Los Altos High School
- Earned four varsity letters in water polo and two in swimming
- Two-time water polo captain and two-time swimming captain
- Named to the 2017 CCS All-Star Water Polo team
- 2017 Los Altos Water Polo MVP 
- 2017 SCVAL All-Conference
- 2016 Second Team All-Conference
- 2015 First Team All-Conference
- As a senior scored 133 goals and dished out nine assists
- Also competed for the San Jose Water Polo Foundation where he placed 12th in the Platinum Division at the 2018 National Junior Olympics 
- California Scholarship Federation 
- Four-year Los Altos Hacks Tech Team Member
- CCS Scholar-Athlete

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Historical Player Information

  • 8

    2018First Year

    C
    6'3"
    8
  • 8

    2019Sophomore

    C
    6'4"
    8
  • 8
    C

    2021Senior

    C
    6'5"
    8
    C