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Good athlete from a great program, the Gilman School ... has played in 10 games during his Notre Dame career, while picking up three ground balls ... helped bolster the Irish man-down defense last season and will look to do the same during his senior campaign ... will also give the team depth at close defense ... first Fallston native ever to be a student-athlete at Notre Dame.
AS A JUNIOR: Appeared in a career-high eight games ... picked up three ground balls ... saw action in the first four games of the season (#13 Loyola, Penn State, #4 Cornell, #15 North Carolina) ... played in wins over Bellarmine, Villanova, Air Force and Lehigh ... collected a career-high two ground balls in a 16-4 league victory over Air Force ... scooped up one ground ball in a 15-5 triumph of Villanova.
AS A SOPHOMORE: Played in one game ... saw time in a 19-7 victory over Quinnipiac in the regular-season finale.
AS A FRESHMAN: Played in one game ... made his collegiate debut in the 22-6 victory over Butler.
PREP AND PERSONAL DATA: Attended the Gilman School, where he competed in lacrosse and football ... collected four letters in football as an outside linebacker and three in lacrosse as a defenseman ... attended Top Star lacrosse camp in 2003 and also was named to the Fab 40 ... three-time conference football champion ... all-conference and all-city football player his junior campaign ... that year his team went undefeated in winning the conference championship and achieved a No. 14 national ranking ... captain of the football squad his senior season ... played alongside Notre Dame football players Victor Abiamiri and Ambrose Wooden ... joins fellow high school teammate Alex Wharton on the Irish roster ... son of Linda and Dennis Caperna ... has one older brother ... born March 19, 1986, in Bel Air, Md. ... carries a 3.292 cumulative GPA ... enrolled in the Mendoza College of Business as a finance and economics double major.
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