Assistant Coach Bobby Romano (1st season)High School: Vineland
College: Rutgers University-Camden (2015)
Major: Accounting
After two seasons helping the Rutgers-Camden baseball team as a center fielder, Bobby Romano joins the coaching staff this season.
Romano earned honors as the baseball team’s Most Valuable Player during his senior season in 2015, hitting .277 with 30 runs, 31 RBIs, 10 doubles, nine triples and two home runs, while playing outstanding defensive ball in center field. He also captured New Jersey Athletic Conference Honorable Mention and added NJAC Academic Second Team recognition.
Romano lettered in baseball and football at Gettysburg College during the 2011-12 scholastic year and played baseball at Rowan University in 2013 before transferring to Rutgers-Camden. In his first season with the Scarlet Raptors in 2014, he started all 44 of his games, hit .261 with 22 RBIs and 26 runs, and helped the Scarlet Raptors earn their first berth ever in the NCAA Division III tournament.
Rutgers-Camden won the NJAC regular-season baseball title during both seasons of Romano’s Scarlet Raptor career. He started all 88 of his games over that span, hitting .269 with 56 runs, 53 RBIs, 16 doubles, 10 triples and three home runs. He also drew 31 walks, collected 29 stolen bases and had 241 putouts, four assists and a .980 fielding percentage. He posted a .347 on-base percentage and a .416 slugging percentage.
A Dean’s List student and National Scholar-Athlete Award winner during his collegiate career, Romano was a National Honor Society member at Vineland High School, where he earned three varsity letters apiece in baseball and football. He was a First Team All-Cape-Atlantic League outfielder and First Team Atlantic City Press All-Star in baseball, while also earning a NJCBA Sportsmanship Award. He also received the National Football Foundation’s South Jersey Chapter Scholar-Athlete Award and graduated Summa Cum Laude.
An Accounting major at Rutgers-Camden, Romano graduated in May, 2015.
