FDU Knights Athletics

2020: Started all 16 games for the Knights ... Recorded nine hits and drove in four RBI's ... Batted .225 and an OPS of .626 ... Scored five runs, registered a double, a triple, and 12 total bases ... Hit a triple and scored a run in a win against Grambling State (2/14)... In the Knights second victory against Grambling State (2/16), Mendoza drove in a pair of runs ... Registered a multi-hit contest against Deleware State (2/29).

2019: Started 36 of 40 games played at shortstop as a junior ... Finished with 15 hits, 10 runs scored, three doubles, four RBI, six walks and two stolen bases ... Batted .300 in NEC games ... Finished 3-for-6 with two runs scored, two doubles and two RBI in doubleheader sweep at Saint Peter's (3/19) ... Drove in the tying run in the 10th inning of 11th-inning victory over Sacred Heart (3/31) ... Went 2-for-3 with two runs scored at Bryant (4/13) ... Doubled and scored a run while going 2-for-3 at CCSU (4/14).

2018: Started all 43 games played as a sophomore ... Hit .264/.311/.314 with 18 runs scored, three doubles, two triples and seven RBI ... Ended the season with a nine-game hitting streak ... Recorded seven multi-hit games, including two with three hits ... Went 3-for-4 with a run scored and a RBI against Coppin State (3/3) ... Drove in season-best two runs against Morgan State (3/4) and Hartford (4/11) ... Finished 2-for-3 with a double against George Washington (3/11) ... Totaled five hits in eight at-bats with four runs scored in sweep of Wagner (4/29) ... Went 3-for-7 with three runs scored in series sweep of Robert Morris (5/5).

2017: Started 36 games and appeared in 38 total … Hit .269/.327/.308 with seven runs scored and six RBI … Third on the team in walks (7) … Had a streak of eight games of reaching base safely, fourth longest on the team … Had six multi-hit games, good for fourth on the team … Had multiple RBI at UConn (4/19) … Had a season-best three hits in a game against Manhattan (5/3).

Prior to Fairleigh Dickinson: Lettered four years in both soccer and softball at Liberty … A three-time All-Madera Tribune and NSL First-Team performer … Named NSL Defensive Player of the Year and an All-Count All-Star as a senior … Played club softball with the Central California Dirt Dogs.

Personal: Parents are Anthony and Sonya ... Anthony played football at Oregon Tech ... Sister is Rita ... Interests Outside of Sports include reading and traveling ... Favorite Sports Memory is making friends with people all over the country and creating a special bond with them ... Favorite Professional Sports Team is the Los Angeles Dodgers ... Favorite Movie is Zootopia.