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Jersey Number 24
Rafa Romo
- Position:
- Defender
- Height:
- 6-1
- Class:
- Junior
- Weight:
- 186
- Hometown:
- Gilroy, Calif.
- High School:
- Bellarmine College Prep
- Previous Club:
- De Anza Force
- College:
- Fu Foundation School of Engineering & Applied Science
2024: Played in 10 matches in his first competition season, earning five starts ... Totaled 491 minutes of game action, one goal, one assist, three shots and one shot on goal ... Made his Columbia debut off the bench at Quinnipiac (Aug. 30) ... Earned a nod in the Starting XI for the first time against Sacred Heart, playing the full 90 minutes (Sept. 14) ... Started in his home Ivy League debut, played the full 90 minutes and assisted the game-winning goal in a 1-0 victory over reigning Ivy League Tournament champion Yale (Oct. 5) ... Scored his first collegiate goal to give the Lions a 1-0 lead at home against Princeton (Oct. 19).
Prior to Columbia: Tried out and made the Columbia roster as a first-year in the spring ... Hails from the San Francisco Bay Area city of Gilroy, California ... Trained and developed through the club ranks at De Anza Force (2016-23) before moving to Santa Clara Sporting as a senior in 2023 ... Also competed for Bellarmine College Prep ... Helped Bellarmine win the CCS Division II Championship multiple times, as well as a NorCal Championship ... National Questbridge Scholarship recipient ... Spent a year on the Bellarmine wrestling team.
Prior to Columbia: Tried out and made the Columbia roster as a first-year in the spring ... Hails from the San Francisco Bay Area city of Gilroy, California ... Trained and developed through the club ranks at De Anza Force (2016-23) before moving to Santa Clara Sporting as a senior in 2023 ... Also competed for Bellarmine College Prep ... Helped Bellarmine win the CCS Division II Championship multiple times, as well as a NorCal Championship ... National Questbridge Scholarship recipient ... Spent a year on the Bellarmine wrestling team.
Highlights: MSOC | Columbia 5, Fordham 1
Tuesday, October 28
Postgame: MSOC | Zielinski on 5-1 Win vs. Fordham
Tuesday, October 28
Postgame: MSOC | Newman on 3-1 Win Over Harvard
Saturday, October 25
Highlights: MSOC | Columbia 3, Harvard 1
Saturday, October 25
