Ross Cumming Class: Senior Hometown: Laguna Niguel High School: Santa Margarita/Naval Acad. Prep Height / Weight: 6-1 / 230 Position: LB Birthdate: 09/28/1987 Experience: 3V

CAREER: He has 20 career tackles.

2011: Cumming will serve as a backup linebacker and key special teams player as a senior in 2011.

2010: Cumming, a one-time walk-on who earned a scholarship in the fall of 2010, was a reserve linebacker and key special teams player as a junior in 2010. Overall in 2010 while appearing in all 13 games, he made 8 tackles (2 each against California and Oregon and 1 each against Washington, Stanford, Arizona State and Oregon State).

2009: As a sophomore linebacker reserve linebacker and special teamer in 2009, he made 9 tackles (including 2 against Oregon State) while appearing in all 13 games.

2008: As a first-year freshman linebacker and special teamer in 2008, he had 3 tackles while appearing in USC's final 9 games.

HIGH SCHOOL: He spent 2006 and 2007 at the Naval Academy Prep School, but did not play football because of an injury. He had 45 tackles on defense and 9 receptions for 146 yards (16.2 avg.) with 4 TDs (including a 65-yarder) on offense in 2005 as a senior tight end and linebacker at Santa Margarita High in Rancho Santa Margarita (Calif.). As a junior in 2004, he made All-Serra League while getting 60 tackles, 20 tackles for loss, 6 sacks, 3 fumble recoveries and 3 deflections.

PERSONAL: He is a public policy, management and planning major at USC.

GAME-BY-GAME WITH ROSS CUMMING

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