SCHOLAR ATHLETE: Julian Sonnenfeld ’11

Scholar Athlete
JULIAN SONNENFELD ’11

Julian Sonnenfeld ’11 ended his four years on the Wesleyan baseball team with a .377 batting average, 122 RBI, and a .625 slugging percentage, supported by his 17 career homers. He received his third straight nod to the all-NESCAC squad and second year in a row on the first team as the Cardinals’ career record-holder for both runs scored (148) and doubles (59) in 2011.

Three times a first-team CoSIDA District I academic All-American, he was also a third-team national academic All-American in 2010, when he hit .418 and led Division III in doubles.

Sonnenfeld graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a double major in biology and Science in Society. He worked in Prof. Gloster Aaron’s neuroscience lab, studying epilepsy in mice, and was a teaching assistant in physics and biology for the past two years. He plays jazz and classical piano, enjoys bass and fly fishing, and served as vice president for the Wesleyan chapter of the American Medical Student Association. He will be attending Tufts University School of Medicine this fall. UPFRONT