Career
She is part of the current American record women"s 4x100-meter freestyle relay team, and is the short-course yards American record-holder in the 200-yard freestyle and 4x200-meter freestyle relay. At the 2012 United States Olympic Trials, the qualifying meet for the 2012 Olympics, Romano narrowly missed the Olympic team by finishing seventh in the 200-meter freestyle with a time of 1:58.56 (the top six finishers were selected for the relay). Romano also competed in the final of the 100-meter backstroke and place eighth in the final.
On the first day, Romano led off the relay and had a split of 1:56.03 in the 4×200 free relay.
Romano earned her first individual medal with a silver in the 100-meter free on the third day of competition, finishing behind Germany"s Britta Steffen with a 52.48. Later, she anchored the 4×100 medley relay to a bronze-medal-winning 3:51.43 with the fastest split in the field of 51.90.
At the 2013 World Aquatics Championships in Barcelona, Romano anchored the women"s 4×100-meter freestyle relay to a gold medal, overtaking Australia"s Alicia Coutts in the final 100 meters. She entered the water 7 tenths of a second behind Coutts, but beat the Australian by a margin of 0.12.
Her split of 52.60 was a personal best and second-fastest of anyone in the field
The final relay time of 3:32.31 bettered the previous American record of 3:34.24. Romano earned her second medal, a gold, in the 4×100-meter medley relay with Missy Franklin, Jessica Hardy, and Dana Vollmer. Swimming the anchor leg, Romano recorded a split of 53.43 and the team finished with a time of 3:53.23.
