31   Vinnie Mauro
	Class: Junior Hometown: Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. High School: St. Thomas Aquinas Height / Weight: 6-2 / 220 Position: LB

High School / Personal: A 2010 graduate of St. Thomas Aquinas High School, Mauro was a three-year letterwinner in football and picked up a pair of letters as an outfielder on the baseball team ... named the 2009 Miami Herald Outstanding Football Player of the Year ... a First-Team All-State (Fla.) selection in football his senior year, he also took first-team all-county honors awarded by the Miami Herald and the Sun-Sentinel ... the same publications named him second-team all-county as a junior ... led the football team to the 2007 state title with a 14-1 record ... the following year St. Thomas Aquinas not only won the state championship, but also a national crown with a 15-0 record ... served as team captain of the football team his senior year ... a two-time honorable mention all-county selection in baseball (2008, `09) ... member of the National Honor Society ... high school teammate of current Notre Dame football players Jordan Cowart, Ben Turk and Dan Wenger ... father, Frank, played basketball at Keene State College ... son of Frank and Jackie Mauro.