Romero Earns National Honors JUNE 1, 2005 – Fullerton, Calif.
Pitcher Ricky Romero was named to the College Baseball Foundation’s
2005 Honors Team as announced by the Lubbock, Texas-based foundation Wednesday
morning.
Starting in March, the CBF released a weekly National Honor Roll, saluting
the finest performances of that past week's action as nominated by conference
and university baseball media contacts. Romero, a junior from East Los
Angeles, Calif. earned the weekly honor four times throughout the regular
season and joins fellow Big West pitchers Cesar Ramos (Long Beach State)
and Garrett Olson (Cal Poly) on the season-end list that features 30 of
the nations best collegiate baseball players.
Romero, is also a semi-finalist for the Brooks Wallace Award presented
by the College Baseball Foundation to the country’s finest college
baseball player. The Wallace Award, in its second year, was presented
last year to Cal State Fullerton catcher Kurt Suzuki.
