Early career Sanchez began figure skating in 2012 at the age of five. He originally wanted to be a hockey player so his mother enrolled him into "Learn to Skate" lessons. However, he was unable to use hockey skates so he tried using figure skates instead. He ultimately decided that he enjoyed the feeling of balancing and gliding across the ice in those skates. Following this, he began watching figure skaters compete on TV and ultimately decided that he wanted to pursue the sport. At that event, Sanchez placed second in the short program with a score of 79.24, only 0.15 points behind leader,
Rio Nakata. 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. However, with an overall score 227.38, Sanchez earned enough to win the gold medal overall. Following the event, Sanchez said, "I have so many emotions right now. If you would have asked me at the beginning of the season that I would go to the JGP final and medal I wouldn’t have believed it. Also the last week and a half was pretty rough. I was quite sick last week and also had some problems with my lower back but I didn’t let that get to me. The skates weren’t perfect but I pushed through." He also credited fellow competitor and close friend, Rio Nakata for helping him through the competition, saying, "It’s been great to be on this whole trip together with Rio, have him by my side and also see him again after quite a long time." Selected to compete at the
2025 World Junior Championships in
Debrecen, Hungary, Sanchez placed third in the short program and fifth in the free skate, finishing in fourth place overall, only 3 points off the podium.
Senior career 2024–25 season: Senior international debut In mid-November, Sanchez made his senior international debut at the
2024 Tallinn Trophy, where he won the gold medal. At the
2026 World Junior Championships, Sanchez placed fifth in the short program after putting a hand down on the first part of his triple Lutz-triple toe combination. He then placed fifth in the free skate, with a score of 148.07, placing fourth overall. "I think I still got a pretty good score, and I feel like I have seen a lot of progress from last Junior Worlds until now," said Sanchez after the free skate. "During the three-jump combination, I actually thought back to last year’s Worlds and how big that was for me. I am happy that I overcame that because I had been thinking about it a lot. But I was able to pull it off, and I had a couple of good saves out there, which I am really happy with. So I can really see the progress." A few days before the
2026 World Championships,
Jason Brown withdrew from the competition. Sanchez, as the third alternate, was called up to compete. At the World Championships, Sanchez placed tenth in the short program with 85.15 points and twelfth in the free skate with 156.59 points, finishing twelfth overall. He set personal best scores in both the short program and the total score. == Programs ==