2006 Men's Lacrosse Roster
Roster

Greg Rommel
- Position:
- Midfielder
- Height:
- 6-0
- Weight:
- 198
- Class:
- Senior
- Hometown:
- Syracuse, N.Y.
- High School:
- Henninger
Senior Year (2007): Named to the ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America At-Large Third Team … First SU lacrosse player to earn national Academic All-America honors … ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District At-Large First Team … Lowe’s Senior All-America Second Team … Orange team captain ... Lowe’s Senior CLASS Award Finalist … Was a Coach Wooden Citizenship Cup honorable mention selection by Athletes for a Better World … Member of SU's top midfield line ... Started all 13 games ... Tallied 21 points … Scored at least one goal in 12 of the Orange’s 13 contests … Led SU with four man-up tallies … Scooped up 15 ground balls … Netted a season-best two goals against Virginia, Cornell, and Rutgers … Tallied a season-high with three points (2g, 1a) in two consecutive games versus the Big Red and Scarlet Knights … Had a man-up goal in SU's season-opening win against Hobart ... Scored one goal and had an assist versus Army ... Netted one goal at Georgetown ... Scored a goal and tied his career high with two assists versus Johns Hopkins ... Also had goals against Binghamton, Loyola, Princeton, Albany, and Massachusetts … Member of the Athletic Director’s Honor Roll in the fall and spring.
2006:
Winner of the Soladay Award, the highest honor bestowed by the Syracuse Department of the Athletics on a student-athlete … University Scholar … Team captain … Appeared in two games before redshirting due to injury … Had two goals versus Army … Member of the Athletic Director’s Honor Roll both semesters.Junior Year (2005):
STX/USILA Second-Team All-American … Started all 13 games as a member of the Orange’s top midfield line … Posted a career-high 28 points (25 goals, three assists) to rank fifth on the team in scoring overall, third in goals … Scored at least one goal in every game and had two or more goals on nine occasions … Equaled his career-high with three goals against Massachusetts in the NCAA First Round … Named to the ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District I Men’s At-Large Team for the second consecutive year … Featured on ESPN and ESPN2 during championship weekend as part of a Microsoft program honoring accomplished student-athletes … Named to the Athletic Director’s Honor Roll both semesters.Sophomore Year (2004):
Scored 13 goals on the season and had 14 points to finish tied for eighth on the team in scoring with linemate Brett Bucktooth … Scored a hat trick against Notre Dame … Came up big in the NCAA playoffs with two goals in the semifinals and one goal in the championship against Navy … Snagged five ground balls on the season … Named to the CoSIDA All-Academic District I At-Large Team … Made the Athletic Director’s Honor Roll for the fall and spring semesters.Freshman Year (2003):
Played in all 16 games … Finished as the team’s ninth-leading scorer with nine points (eight goals, one assist) … Was the second-leading freshman scorer behind Brian Crockett … Scored a season-high two goals in the win at Georgetown … Scored one goal in the NCAA semifinals against Johns Hopkins … Tallied four goals in SU’s last six games … Saw most of his minutes with the second midfield unit, along with seniors Mike Smith and Pat Hogan … Joined the first midfield line with Sean Lindsay and Brian Crockett after Steve Vallone was injured in the Massachusetts contest … Named to the Fall 2002 and Spring 2003 Athletic Director’s Honor Rolls.High School:
Had 44 goals and 27 assists as a senior and 201 goals and 101 assists for his career at Henninger High School … Was a team captain as a junior and a senior … Played in the Empire State Games in 1999, 2000 and 2001 … Earned All-CNY honors all four years … Named an All-American as a senior … Named team offensive MVP … Was the quarterback for the football team all four years … Selected as the co-recipient of the Eastern Region High School Scholar-Athlete of the Year by The National Football Foundation and College Hall of Fame.Personal:
Born Jan. 1, 1984 … Son of James and Janet Rommel … Has two brothers … Pursuing his master’s degree in bio-engineering.
Year |
Games |
Goals |
Assists |
Points |
GB |
Faceoffs |
GW |
2003 |
16 |
8 |
1 |
9 |
9 |
0-0 |
0 |
2004 |
17 |
13 |
1 |
14 |
5 |
0-0 |
1 |
2005 |
13 |
25 |
3 |
28 |
6 |
0-0 |
2 |
2006 |
2 |
2 |
0 |
2 |
0 |
0-0 |
0 |
2007 |
13 |
15 |
6 |
21 |
15 |
0-0 |
0 |
Totals |
61 |
63 |
11 |
74 |
35 |
0-0 |
3 |