JUNIOR SEASON (2012): Appeared briefly against Wake Forest (Nov. 17) in a reserve role.
HIGH SCHOOL AND PERSONAL DATA: Two-year letterwinner at Fenwick High School … captain and two-time all-conference selection … summer research assistant at Children[apos]s Memorial Hospital in Chicago … traveled to Honduras to help an orphanage and surgery center as part of the Friends of the Orphans program … member of the National Honor Society and valedictorian of Fenwick High School … born in River Forest, Ill. … son of Rocky and Peggy Romano … coached by Joe DiCanio at Fenwick High School … grandfather, Buddy, graduated from Notre Dame in 1950 and helped the Irish to a national championship … father and two sisters also graduated from Notre Dame … enrolled in the College of Science as a science-business major.