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2024 MIT Baseball Roster

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15 Jake Sonandres

  • Class Graduate Student
  • B/T R/R
  • Height 5-6
  • Weight 165
  • Hometown Torrance, Calif.
  • High School West
  • Major Aerospace Engineering

Biography

Career Highs
Hits 3 Four times, last at Chapman (March 8, 2024)
Runs 3 Twice, Most Recently at Emerson (April 23, 2024)
Doubles 2 Twice, Most Recently vs. Springfield (April 4, 2023)
Triples 1 Twice, Most Recently at Emerson (April 29, 2023)
Home Runs 2 vs. Southern Maine (April 1, 2022)
RBI 4 vs. Southern Maine (April 1, 2022)
Stolen Bases 1 Twice, Most Recently at Haverford (March 28, 2023)
Walks 4 at Amherst (April 24, 2022)

Accolades:
- NEWMAC Academic All-Conference (2021, 2022, 2023, 2024)
- CSC Academic All-District (2023, 2024)
2024:
- Appeared in 34 games, starting in 31 of them
- Recorded 29 hits with 23 runs, 5 doubles, and one home run
- Drew 10 walks and stole four bases out of five attempts
- Finished with a batting average of .257

2023:
- Started 31 of 32 games he appeared in, posting a .281 batting average
- Finished with 32 hits, 23 runs scored, eight rebounds, two home runs and 22 runs batted in
- Recorded at least one hit in 24 of 32 games, including seven multi-hit games


2022:
- Started 33 of 36 games he appeared in with a .263 batting average
- Posted 25 runs, 35 hits, eight extra-base hits and 18 runs batted in
- Had 10 multi-hit games, including back-to-back three-hit outings vs. Endicott and Southern Maine


2021:
- Did not appear in a game as season was cancelled due to Covid-19 pandemic


2020:
- Appeared in two games as a rookie, making his debut at Endicott on 3/7
- Season was cancelled after three games due to Covid-19 pandemic


Favorite Sports Memory:
- Hitting a 3-run homerun in my high school senior night against a league rival


Favorite Moment as an MIT Student-Athlete:
- Eliminating three of the five teams in the NEWMAC Tournament as the fifth-seeded team


Off the Diamond at MIT:
- Majoring in aerospace engineering with a minor in computer science and a concentration in Spanish
- 2020 Northrop Grumman Systems Engineering
- 2021 Northrop Grumman Mission Engineering/System Analysis and Simulation Intern
- Research on Astrodynamics, Space Robotics, and Controls Laboratory (ARCLab) UROP researching situational awareness and space traffic management in low-Earth orbit
- Graduate studies in aerospace controls applications and computational mechanics simulation development
- 2020 MIT Office of the First Year Service Award Recipient
- 2023 Graduate Presidential Fellowship
- Brotherhood Chair of Phi Beta Epsilon
- Unit Leader and Counselor with Camp Kesem


High School:
- Three-year varsity letter winner from 2017-2019
- As a senior, he hit .400 with a .531 on-base percentage, four home runs and a 1.211 OPS
- First Team All-League as a senior
- Second Team All-League as a junior
- Second Team All-Southern Section as a senior
- Selected to the South Bay Senior All-Star Game
- CSF member
- AP Scholar
- CSF Seal Bearer
- Seal of Billiteracy
- Principal's Honor Roll every semester


Club Team:
- Played for the South Bay Surf, the South Bay Saints and TB SoCal

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Historical Player Information

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    2020First Year

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    5'6" 165 lbs
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    2021Sophomore

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    5'6" 165 lbs
    15
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    2022Junior

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    5'6" 165 lbs
    15
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    2023Senior

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    5'6" 165 lbs
    15
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    2024Graduate Student

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    5'6" 165 lbs
    15