By Adrian Vitale – Staff Reporter

Freshman Matthew Sanchez has made his mark on the Law boys soccer team this season as a swinger playing for both varsity and JV. 

Sanchez thinks playing both varsity and JV is a good opportunity to get better through more practices and games and he is grateful for the chance.

“I love having the chance to play with varsity players that have more experience with the sport,” Sanchez said. “While having JV can really bring an opportunity to help work on things like leadership.” 

Freshman Erik Borowski, who also plays both JV and varsity, agreed with Sanchez about the benefits of participating in both.

“As a freshman I would like to improve as much as I can,” Borowski said. “I can really do that, playing on both JV and varsity.” 

Many of Sanchez’s teammates and captains have been impressed with his play this season.

“After being on the same team as Matthew for a while now, he has shown great leadership skills and I can see him becoming a captain in the future,” freshman Yusuf Abdelsalam said. “He is always motivated and always strives to be better and brings his team with him. I believe in him and wish him the best.”

Showing how it is to be a teammate of Sanchez’s and how he has had such an affect on his teammates.

“He’s a good player that listens to the captains,” junior captain Jared Saludes said. “I’m glad that he’s a part of our team.”

Sanchez said he is very grateful that his teammates and captains think so highly of him.

“I am grateful and very happy to know that my teammates, and captains alike think of me so highly,” Sanchez said, “I’m glad to make my mark on this high school team at such a young age, and hope to bring this to varsity next year when I do hopefully make strictly varsity.” 

Sanchez said that he has been playing soccer since he was four years old.

“I think that my experience has also given me a great advantage in this field,” Sanchez said. “I think it has also given me a great advantage in my leadership skills compared to many of the other JV players.”