At Fremd HS: Ran the 300-meter hurdles and qualified for sectionals with a time of 39.24 sec. ... ran in the first heat of the IHSA state quilifer in the 300-meter hurdles and clocked in with a time of 41.33 sec. ... member of the football team all four years

Personal: Born 3/23/89... son of Phil and Sue Perna ... has two brothers, Ben (16) and Chris (12) ... his mother, Sue, ran track at St. Joseph University, and his two uncles, Rich and Tom Perna, played football at Millikin ... majoring in marketing.