[1][2] Sanchez was born on April 23, 2007 in Middletown, New York to parents, Johana, a school teacher, and Jose, a retired police officer.

[3] Sanchez is Puerto Rican and serves as an ambassador of Diversify Ice, an organization that strives to support competitive figure skaters from minority groups.

Following this, he began watching figure skaters compete on TV and ultimately decided that he wanted to pursue the sport.

[6][7][8] He then began training under 1984 Olympic pair bronze medalists, Larisa Selezneva and Oleg Makarov at the Hudson Valley Figure Skating Club.

In the men's singles individual event, Sanchez won the short program but placed sixth in the free skate, dropping to fourth overall.

[2] Competing at the 2024 World Junior Championships in Taipei, Taiwan, Sanchez placed ninth in the short program and fifteenth in the free skate, finishing tenth overall.

[2][1] Sanchez started the season by on the junior level at the 2022 Cranberry Cup International, where finished second behind New Zealand skater, Yanhao Li.

[2] Competing on the 2024–25 ISU Junior Grand Prix series, Sanchez won gold at 2024 JGP Turkey.

In the free skate, Sanchez would deliver a strong performance, less than a point below his personal best and second in the segment behind Seo Min-kyu.

"[14] In mid-November, Sanchez made his senior international debut at the 2024 Tallinn Trophy, where he won the gold medal.