 Lombardozzi graduated from Atholton High School in 2007.A player on the school's varsity baseball team, he was named a preseason third-team Rawlings high school All-American in 2005.Lombardozzi was playing with the Holyoke Blue Sox in the New England Collegiate Baseball League (NECBL) when he was selected by the Washington Nationals in the 19th round (571st overall) of the 2008 Major League Baseball Draft out of St. Petersburg College.