PRIOR TO TUFTS: Attended The Taft School in Watertown, Connecticut, where he earned four varsity letters in boys soccer and two varsity letters in track & field...A two-year co-captain of the soccer team, he earned numerous postseason accolades, including Sports Illustrated Prep School All-America recognition, All-NEPSAC Team honors and the Founders All-League Award...He helped lead Taft to two NEPSAC Class A Championships and three Founders League Championships during his career while also earning the Livingston Carroll Soccer Award (Coach's Award)...Additionally, competed at the club level with Connecticut FC ECNL...In the classroom and community, he received the Joseph I. Cunningham Award, Lawrence Hunter Stone Award and Citizenship Award.

PERSONAL: Parents Hamlet Santana and Rossina Cruz...one sibling, Hamlet Daniel...chose Tufts "because it surrounds me with wonderful people, and offers me the perfect balance between its incredible academics and top-level soccer."