2012-13 University of Notre Dame Athletics Annual Report

Year in review

academics

student welfare and development

facilities

mediarelations

fighting irish digital media

monogram club

external affairs

recsports

compliance

sports performance

Youth & communitY programs

event marketing & ticket operations

seasons in review/ honors and awards

appendix

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The 2012-13 academic year produced another season of

outstanding performances by University of Notre Dame student-

athletes on the field, in the classroom and in the community.

In a year that saw the final seasons of league affiliations in both

the BIG EAST Conference and the Central Collegiate Hockey

Association, Irish teams and athletes ended the era with individual

and team championships while earning their share of awards and

accolades. And while both of those conferences provided great

homes for our athletic teams over the years, I look forward with

great anticipation to future associations with our new friends at

the Atlantic Coast Conference and

Hockey East.

The pages that follow chronicle another year of great success

at Notre Dame—a year that produced a trip to the Bowl

Championship Series title game, 12 conference championships, 22

NCAA Championship appearances, an overall winning percentage

of better than 72 percent in head-to-head competition, and a

ninth-place finish in the Directors’ Cup all-sports competition.

This publication gives you the opportunity to review the

achievements of our student-athletes both on and off the field.

The celebration of 125 years of Notre Dame football featured

a magical campaign that started in September with a win over

Navy in Dublin, Ireland. What followed were 11 more wins,

an undefeated regular season and a No. 1 ranking as the Irish

advanced to their first BCS Championship game in January.

Despite a loss to Alabama in the national title game, the 2012

season was one for the ages.

Nine Notre Dame teams won their final BIG EAST Championships

as men’s soccer, men’s swimming and diving, women’s indoor

track and field, women’s basketball, women’s outdoor track and

field, men’s and women’s tennis, women’s golf and rowing added

championship trophies. Women’s basketball and softball also

captured regular-season titles. Hockey won the final CCHA

postseason tournament, and men’s and women’s fencing captured

their respective Midwestern Fencing Conference titles.

An amazing 20 of 26 Irish teams advanced to their respective

NCAA Championships with women’s basketball playing in a third

consecutive women’s NCAA Final Four and men’s and women’s

fencing finishing second in their NCAA championship in March.

More than 75 Irish student-athletes earned All-America honors

with 21 of them receiving first-team honors. Among them were

unanimous selections Manti Te’o (football) and Skylar Diggins

(women’s basketball).

Te’o captured an amazing seven national awards—the Walter

Camp Player of the Year, the Bronko Nagurski Award, the Chuck

Bednarik Award, the Lott Trophy, the Maxwell Award, the

Lombardi Award and the Outland Trophy—while being the

runner-up for the Heisman Trophy and AP’s Player of the Year

honors. Diggins captured the Nancy Leiberman Award for the

second year in a row and the Dawn Staley Award. Men’s soccer

standout Ryan Finley was a finalist for the M.A.C. Hermann

Trophy as the top player in the nation. Notre Dame coaches Brian

Kelly (football) and Muffet McGraw (women’s basketball) were

consensus national coaches of the year in their respective sports.

Away from the playing venues, our student-athletes continued

their excellence in the classroom. Few institutions can match the

level of consistency that we achieve across the board from year to

year. Since the NCAA first began tracking federal graduation rates,

Graduation Success Rate (GSR) and Academic Progress Rate (APR)

scores, no school has consistently been at the top or near the top of

the rankings more than Notre Dame.

• In the NCAA’s report of GSR numbers in October of 2012, 19 of our 22 athletic programs compiled graduation rates of 100 percent, and none were below 91 percent.

• None of the 120 Football Bowl Subdivision programs had a higher percentage of 100 GSR scores than Notre Dame’s .863 percentage. That marked the seventh time in eight years that we ranked first in percentage of teams with 100 scores.

• Among our 22 sports, nine recorded perfect scores in the federal graduation rate analysis.

• Notre Dame tied for first with 15 teams honored by the NCAA with APR public recognition awards for their latest multi-year scores that ranked in the top 10 percent of all squads in their respective sports. The 15 Irish programs honored this year for their achievements were baseball, men’s basketball,

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men’s cross country, women’s cross country, fencing, men’s golf, women’s golf, men’s lacrosse, men’s soccer, softball, men’s swimming and diving, women’s swimming and diving, men’s tennis, men’s indoor track and field and men’s outdoor track and field.

Eight student-athletes earned Capital One Academic All-America

honors last year including four first-team selections—Manti Te’o

and Mike Golic Jr., from football, Elizabeth Tucker from the women’s

soccer team and men’s tennis standout Greg Andrews. We currently

rank second all-time with the 231 Academic All-Americans, clearly a

great testament of the importance that we place on the term “student-

athlete” here at Notre Dame.

The BIG EAST Conference honored five of our student-athletes with

the league’s Scholar-Athlete Sports Excellence Awards. That total was

the most among all BIG EAST schools and marked the third time that

Notre Dame has had five student-athletes honored. Greg Andrews

from men’s tennis, Alexa Aragon from women’s track and field,

women’s swimmer Kim Holden, women’s tennis standout Jennifer

Kellner and rowing’s Abby Meyers highlighted the list of honorees.

The Scholar-Athlete Sport Excellence Awards are given to one

student-athlete in each BIG EAST-sponsored sport based on academic

credentials, athletic accolades or performances and volunteer service

to the community. Student-athletes who have attained junior academic

standing and a minimum cumulative grade-point average of 3.00

are eligible.

At Notre Dame, we ask a great deal of our student-athletes in their

sports and in the classroom. We also emphasize their roles in the

community and their willingness to “give back.” Again, they don’t let

us down. They have embraced community service and truly amaze me

with their spirit for serving others.

I am honored to have the opportunity to work with so many

outstanding coaches and student-athletes. And to be able to do that at

my alma mater is a special blessing. I could not be more proud of what

our student-athletes achieve and how they represent our University.

Jack Swarbrick

Vice President

Director of Athletics

University of Notre Dame


in memoriam

athletics 2012–13

By Pete LaFleur

True Notre Dame legends, by definition,

are hard to find, but Michael DeCicco

clearly was one such enduring spirit.

DeCicco passed away on Good Friday,

March 29, 2013, at age 85.

Known as “Coach,” DeCicco was much

more than a highly successful collegiate

fencing coach. His impact on Notre

Dame athletics (and beyond) clearly

places him on the short list of influential

figures in the history of Notre Dame

athletics. Most notably, alongside his

coaching accomplishments, DeCicco made

immeasurable contributions to academic

advising, both at Notre Dame and at the

national level.

In the mid-1960s, Notre Dame President

Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C., and

Executive Vice President Rev. Edmund

P. Joyce, C.S.C., approached DeCicco,

asking him to build an athletics academic

advising program from scratch (while

maintaining his duties as fencing coach).

DeCicco, a well-respected mechanical

engineering professor at Notre Dame at the

time, accepted “Ted and Ned’s” challenge

to create the nation’s first athletics

academic advising program at a Division I

institution.

Over time, DeCicco molded an operation

that later became the Office of Academic

Services for Student-Athletes—a program

that served as the model for athletic

departments nationwide. Coach was a

fierce advocate for academic excellence

from all Notre Dame student-athletes,

whether they were elite stars or walk-ons.

Notre Dame’s 1988 football team was

the first national champion in big-time

collegiate football history to boast a 100

percent graduation rate, at a time when the

national average for top Division I football

programs hovered around 50 percent

graduation success.

DeCicco’s 34-year coaching career (from

1960 until 1994)—highlighted by five

NCAA team titles and a gaudy 680-45 (.938)

record—already places him among the

all-time greats in Notre Dame athletics

history. Pairing his visionary work with

the academic advising program with his

impressive coaching achievements elevates

his legacy another level.

DeCicco did not simply start an academic

advising program. He ruled it with intense

focus and tough love. He motivated the

underachievers and slackers, and inspired

the high achievers to aim even higher.

When legendary Notre Dame football

quarterback Joe Montana was inducted into

the NFL Hall of Fame in 2000, he invited

DeCicco and his wife, Polly, to attend the

ceremony. During his speech, Montana

singled them out as key influences from his

formative collegiate years.

A few years later, when Austin Carr was

inducted into the Notre Dame Basketball

Ring of Honor, he also mentioned DeCicco

as a vital influence in his life, both as a

student and alumnus. Countless other

former Notre Dame football and basketball

greats—Alan Page, Ross Browner, Digger

Phelps, to name a few—have praised

DeCicco’s influence over the years, with

Phelps dubbing DeCicco “the godfather of

the Notre Dame athletic department.”

Coach Mike DeCicco … A True Notre Dame Legend


Over seven decades, DeCicco led the Notre

Dame “fencing family,” a loyal group that

assembled to honor its departed coach

during the funeral Mass at the Basilica of the

Sacred Heart. As the pallbearers and family

members exited the Basilica, they walked

under an archway of fencing swords—foils,

By Pete LaFleur

For those who knew Susan Reed

McGonigal, these two simple words—

professionalism and personality—

encapsulated much of her influence during

her 35 years of service to the Notre Dame

athletics department. McGonigal, 59, lost

her battle with cancer on March 22, 2013,

leaving a void in the hearts of those who

knew her.

McGonigal was the top administrative

assistant in the sports information/

media relations office, working closely

with three members of the College

Sports Information Directors of America

(CoSIDA) Hall of Fame: Roger Valdiserri,

John Heisler and Bernie Cafarelli. Several

former assistant directors within the Notre

Dame media relations office—Jim Daves

(now heading athletics media relations at

the University of Virginia), Mike Enright

(holding a similar role at the University of

Connecticut) and Doug Walker (in the same

position, at the University of Alabama),

along with Eddie White (formerly with the

Miami Dolphins and now with the Indiana

Pacers) and Eric Reuscher, formerly the

sports information director at Hobart/

William & Smith Colleges, all credited

McGonigal for helping them along the way

to their positions.

McGonigal’s professionalism and

competence in the workplace may have

gone unnoticed, largely because she

completed routine tasks so effortlessly. An

official office biography listed her primary

duties as: media credential issuance for

football and basketball; football gameday

media will-call operations and sideline

security; ticket allotment distribution;

office budget reconciliation; all travel and

catering needs for the department; and

special projects for the director/office.

Despite the fact that so many of her

responsibilities were completed without

fanfare, her work served as the backbone

of the daily media relations operation.

McGonigal also cultivated numerous

relationships with members of the media,

stretching all the way to the nation’s

elite producers,

announcers, writers

and photographers.

She similarly garnered

great appreciation

and respect from

the office’s group of

student workers, many

of whom went on

to pursue their own

careers in

sports media.

Spanning five decades,

McGonigal was right

in the thick of some

of the big moments

at the University, in

addition to her daily

responsibilities.

Known equally for her passion for the

job and for her candid comments and

unique personality, McGonigal was an

honorary member of the Notre Dame

National Monogram Club. She completed

training to become a Certified TravelND

Specialist, and served on various councils

and committees at the University over

the years.

A South Bend native and graduate of John

Adams High School, McGonigal’s signature

high energy extended to her family life

with husband Sean and daughter Chelsea,

now left to cope with their loss.

epees and sabres alike—held aloft by 50 or

so Notre Dame fencing alums, paying their

final respects in simple, fitting fashion.

At the reception that followed, 26 people

shared stories about the coach who helped

shape the lives of young athletes. The

heartfelt tributes lasted more than an hour

and a half, highlighting the friendships,

mentoring and abundant love that defined

this Notre Dame legend.

Susan McGonigal … Professionalism With Personality


Three-Peat!

Notre Dame’s third consecutive NCAA Women’s Final Four appearance (its fifth in school history), followed one of the greatest seasons in program history as the Irish finished with a 35-2 record that included a school-record 30-game winning streak.

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NCAA Final Four

the irish won their second consecutive outright BiG eASt conference regular-season title (third in school history) with a perfect 16-0 mark and claimed the program’s first BiG eASt championship crown. it marked the first time in 20 years that a program other than connecticut swept both the BiG eASt regular-season and tournament titles in the same year.

Notre dame set or tied no fewer than 15 single-season school records: wins (35), winning percentage (.946), fewest losses (2), conference winning percentage (1.000), longest winning streak (30), scoring average (81.2 ppg), most 90-point games (10), most 100-point games (3), field goals attempted (2,400), free throw percentage (.798), rebounds (1,621), rebounding margin (+10.9 rpg), assists (722), assist/turnover ratio (1.27) and double-doubles (25).


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Notre Dame took a landmark step in

1995–96 when it began competing as a

member of the BIG EAST Conference.

For 18 seasons, the BIG EAST was home

to 23 of the school’s Olympic sports

programs that saw Fighting Irish teams

capture an unprecedented 126 conference

championships.

Bill Moore remembers it well.

So did the late George Thomas.

Moore became the star of the University of

Notre Dame’s first BIG EAST Championship

success story in October 1995 when he

earned medalist honors for the Irish men’s

golf squad at the TPC/Avenel course in

Potomac, Md. He shot 72 and 71 and helped

Notre Dame, under veteran head coach

Thomas, claim a five-shot victory over

Connecticut.

A little more than a month later, the Irish

women’s soccer team followed suit, as

fifth-ranked Notre Dame knocked off third-

ranked Connecticut 1-0 in the BIG EAST

Championship title match in South Orange,

N.J. Amy VanLaecke, then a junior forward,

won the BIG EAST Championship Most

Outstanding Player award that year.

The Irish competed in their final BIG EAST

Championship—with Notre Dame taking

away a 10th straight title in rowing, with

this last league event held May 2013 in

Mercer County, N.J.

All of that that began and ended the

relationship between Notre Dame and the

BIG EAST Conference—and it’s been a fun,

interesting and successful run.

In between those three championships, the

Irish won another 123 BIG EAST trophies,

and that doesn’t count the handful

of regular-season titles that merited

hardware for Notre Dame as well. No other

league member won as many conference

titles during that 18-year span.

Some good years, indeed.

Back in 1995 when Notre Dame

transitioned from the Midwestern

Collegiate Conference, its players and

coaches may not have known exactly what

lay ahead.

They may not have known what to expect

in Storrs, or Providence, or Syracuse.

They may not have completely understood

what it meant when Georgetown or

Villanova or St. John’s came to town in

their respective sports.

The men’s golf team was one of the first

dynasties of Notre Dame’s BIG EAST era,

winning three consecutive league titles

from 1995 to 1997, including Notre Dame’s

first official crown as a BIG EAST member

in October 1995.

But the chain of successes suggests the

Irish became quick learners. The high point

came in 2005–06 when Notre Dame teams

took home championship honors in 13

sports—men’s and women’s cross country,

baseball, men’s golf, rowing, women’s

soccer, softball, men’s and women’s

swimming and diving, women’s tennis,

women’s indoor track and field, men’s

outdoor track and field and volleyball.

No sport featured more Notre Dame blue

ribbons than women’s swimming—as the

Irish won a league-record 14 straight BIG

EAST crowns (1997–2010). Notre Dame won

13 women’s tennis titles and 11 in women’s

soccer. The current streak in rowing stands

at 10. The list included nine for volleyball—

plus eight each for men’s tennis, men’s golf

and men’s outdoor track and field.

Even some of the sports that featured fewer

titles have been just as memorable—with the

Irish 2013 women’s basketball title (the only

one ever won by Notre Dame) in Hartford

over Connecticut a perfect example.

Rivalries that never existed became annual

dogfights. Who could have imagined

that seven Notre Dame-Louisville men’s

basketball games since 2006 would require

one or more overtime periods to determine

a winner? The 2013 version that lasted five

overtimes at Purcell Pavilion will rank as

one of the more remarkable events ever on

the Notre Dame campus.

The cast of characters changed a bit over

the years. Boston College, Miami, West

Virginia and Virginia Tech left for other

opportunities. The BIG EAST, in turn,

added DePaul, Marquette, Louisville, South

Florida and Cincinnati—with the influx of

Midwest institutions rekindling some old

rivalries for the Irish.

The Fighting Irish women’s rowing team,

which did not even compete in its first

regatta until 1998 (three years after Notre


Dame joined the BIG EAST), was one of the

dominant programs in conference history,

winning 10 consecutive titles, including

Notre Dame’s 126th and final BIG EAST

championship in 2013 on Mercer Lake in

New Jersey.

It’s probably impossible to place a value on

many of the benefits Notre Dame’s various

programs received over the years from

the BIG EAST association—from access

to NCAA Championships to league player-

and coach-of-the year awards to dozens of

television opportunities.

Men’s basketball, for example, went

from its independent status that meant

struggling for opponents the final week of

the season—to playing annually in March

at Madison Square Garden, one of the most

fabled venues in the world.

Memories, indeed.

The long series of women’s basketball

meetings between the teams of Notre

Dame’s Muffet McGraw and Connecticut’s

Geno Auriemma became must-see events.

Every sport at Notre Dame featured

matchups and rivalries that meant just as

much in their own right.

The BIG EAST benefited from the all-sports

excellence of a broad-based Notre Dame

program that proved itself a legitimate

league contender in nearly every sport in

every year.

The Irish benefited from 18 years of

rubbing elbows with their athletic brethren

in one of the premier athletic conferences

in the nation.

Changes are afoot—with Notre Dame

headed to the Atlantic Coast Conference

and the former BIG EAST now split into the

new BIG EAST and the American Athletic

Conference.

For those 18 years, however, it’s safe to say

Notre Dame and the BIG EAST comprised a

pretty good run.

BIG EAST Championships

In their final season as a member of

the BIG EAST Conference, Irish teams

won a league-best nine conference

championships—men’s soccer, women’s

indoor track and field, men’s swimming and

diving, women’s basketball, men’s tennis,

women’s tennis, women’s golf, women’s

outdoor track and field and rowing.

During its 18-year association with the

league from 1995–96, Irish teams won

126 titles, more than any other school in

conference history.

baseball (5)

2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006

Women’s basketball (1)

2013

men’s Cross Country (5)

1997, 1999, 2001, 2004, 2005

Women’s Cross Country (3)

2002, 2003, 2005

men’s Golf (8)

1995, 1996, 1997, 2004, 2005, 2006,

2011, 2012

Women’s Golf (5)

2003, 2004, 2008, 2011, 2013

Women’s l aCrosse (1)

2009

roW inG (10)

2004–2013

men’s soCCer (3)

1996, 2003, 2012

Women’s soCCer (11)

1995-2001, 2005-06, 2008, 2009

sof tball (6)

1999, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2006, 2009

men’s sW imminG and di v inG (6)

2005, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2012, 2013

Women’s sW imminG and di v inG (14)

1997-2010

men’s tennis (8)

1996, 1999, 2002, 2004, 2005, 2007,

2008, 2013

Women’s tennis (13)

1996, 1997, 1999, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2006,

2008–2013

men’s indoor tr aCk and field (5)

2003, 2005, 2007, 2010, 2012

Women’s indoor tr aCk and field (3)

2002, 2006, 2013

men’s outdoor tr aCk and field (8)

2000, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2009,

2010, 2012

Women’s outdoor tr aCk and field (2)

2007, 2013

volleyball (9)

1995-1998, 2000–02, 2004, 2005


On September 12, 2012, Notre Dame accepted

an invitation to become a member of the

Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) in all sports

except football and hockey, and will begin

competition in 2013–14. Current ACC members

for the upcoming school year include Boston

College, Clemson, Duke, Florida State,

Georgia Tech, Maryland, Miami, North

Carolina, North Carolina State, Virginia,

Virginia Tech and Wake Forest.

The Fighting Irish have joined the Atlantic

Coast Conference.

It’s arguably the most noteworthy across-

the-board change in the history of Notre

Dame’s sports programs.

The Irish have championed their

independence in football since a century

ago when Notre Dame traveled to West

Point and knocked off a more established

Army team.

The ACC connection in that sport begins

in 2014 when Notre Dame begins playing

five football games per season against

ACC members—while also gaining critical

access to the league’s slate of postseason

bowl options.

Even sooner, 24 other Irish teams

(hockey becomes a part of Hockey

East in 2013–14) immediately begin

competing for ACC championships.

This change represents the next step in

the evolution of Notre Dame athletics.

As Notre Dame’s roster of varsity sport

offerings began to grow in the late

1970s (largely because of the addition of

women’s athletics), the University needed

a conference partner to help provide

access to comparable competition and ease

scheduling challenges. Membership in the

North Star Conference and the Midwestern

Collegiate Conference provided a

temporary home for various sports as they

moved from regional entities into national

competitors. In 1995, Notre Dame joined

the BIG EAST in sports other than football,

hockey, lacrosse and fencing, and that

affiliation helped parlay a number of Irish

programs onto the national stage.

Irish competitions in virtually every BIG

EAST sport included some headline-

making achievements. Notre Dame won

national titles in women’s basketball

and women’s soccer while a member of

the BIG EAST and used league success

as a springboard to many more NCAA

Championship runs in other sports.

Irish teams won 126 BIG EAST

championships over the course of the

relationship—and that doesn’t count regular-

season titles. The Irish won long series of

consecutive titles in sports like women’s

swimming and diving as well as rowing.

Now, the scenes of Irish athletic

competition shift.

The presence of former BIG EAST

representatives Boston College, Miami,

Pittsburgh, Syracuse and Virginia Tech

(with Louisville to come in 2014–15) means

Irish teams and fans will still book trips to

those campuses.

Beginning this fall, Notre Dame trades

itineraries that read Providence, Storrs,

Hello Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC)

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Milwaukee, Chicago, Cincinnati, New York,

Tampa, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C.,

Newark and New Brunswick—for new bag

tags that will say Clemson, Durham, Chapel

Hill, Winston-Salem, Tallahassee, Atlanta,

College Park, Raleigh and Charlottesville.

In virtually every sport, the challenges ahead

loom large—yet they are the sorts of hurdles

on which every athlete and coach thrives.

An ACC championship banner—no matter

the sport—will come well earned. More

than 130 combined NCAA titles by ACC

members since the league formed in 1953

tell the story.

In 2012–13 alone, ACC representatives took

home NCAA first-place trophies in men’s

lacrosse (Duke), women’s lacrosse (North

Carolina), men’s tennis (Virginia) and

women’s soccer (North Carolina).

Like the BIG EAST, the ACC built its

reputation around basketball. Yet, sports

excellence across the board is no stranger

to ACC members. Four ACC members—

North Carolina, Duke, Florida State and

Virginia—stood among the top 25 schools

in the final 2012–13 all-sports standings, as

did Notre Dame.

Count on hearing that the new ACC is the

best men’s basketball league in the country

(not even computing 2013 NCAA champion

Louisville’s addition a year from now).

You can make a good case for that same

branding in women’s basketball and several

other sports.

For its part, Notre Dame enters into its new

assignment coming off the most successful

athletic year in its history in terms of

achievements across all 26 sports. The

Irish didn’t win a national title in 2012–13,

but fencing (men’s and women’s combined)

finished second, and the Irish women’s

basketball program advanced to the NCAA

Final Four for a third straight year. Notre

Dame’s men’s soccer team earned the No. 1

national seed in the 2012 NCAA bracket,

and men’s lacrosse in 2013 claimed the

No. 2 national seed.

For the first time every one of Notre Dame’s

fall and winter sports teams scored NCAA

Championship points—including the

football team’s appearance in the Bowl

Championship Series title game after a

12-0 regular season.

Speaking of football, that aspect of Notre

Dame’s ACC relationship doesn’t kick

in until 2014, the first year of the new

College Football Playoff. Five games per

year against ACC institutions means it

will take three years for the Irish to match

up against every other league member. It

will take six years for Notre Dame to make

a road trip to each member campus. The

Irish expect to maintain football rivalries

with USC, Stanford and Navy. The ability

to be included in the ACC bowl lineup will

provide future Notre Dame football teams

with viable opportunities when the College

Football Playoff is not an option in any

given year.

Notre Dame’s new affiliation will give rise

to plenty of historical references based

on past Irish competition against ACC

foes. It may be simply a coincidence that

two of the most memorable Irish football

wins in Notre Dame Stadium came against

top-ranked teams from Miami in 1988

and Florida State in 1993 (though neither

opponent was an ACC member at the time).

Away from the fields of play, Notre Dame’s

entrance into the ACC means it will join

a league that boasts more highly ranked

institutions in the U.S. News & World

Report ratings than any other major athletic

conference. Current league members Duke,

Virginia, Wake Forest, North Carolina,

Boston College, Georgia Tech and Miami

stood among the top 50 in the 2013 edition

of that widely respected listing.

There already are a handful of connections

between Notre Dame and other ACC

members. Wake Forest President Nathan

O. Hatch is a former Notre Dame provost.

North Carolina athletics director Bubba

Cunningham and Georgia Tech athletics

director Mike Bobinski are former Irish

student-athletes and Notre Dame athletics

administrators. North Carolina executive

associate athletics director Larry Gallo is

a former Notre Dame head baseball coach.

Virginia baseball coach Brian O’Connor is a

former Irish assistant coach in that sport.

From a fan and alumni standpoint as well

as a recruiting viewpoint, Notre Dame

sports now will do business all the way up

and down the Eastern Seaboard—from

Boston to Miami. The ACC’s geographic

footprint makes it the most valuable TV

market in the nation when it comes to

population and television households

(13 of the top 30 TV markets).

Crank up your GPS device and set it

for Charlottesville, Tallahassee or

Chapel Hill.

Check out the hotels and restaurants

and hot spots in places like Raleigh and

Winston-Salem and Coral Gables.

Make sure you’ve got your Irish schedule

cards, because it’s a new day for Notre

Dame athletics.

Notre Dame and the ACC—coming now

both to South Bend and lots of campuses

near you.


The Irish hockey team has moved to a

new conference. The 2013–14 school year

marks the program’s first as a member of

Hockey East. Notre Dame announced its

decision to join the league on Oct. 5, 2011,

and played each of the final two seasons in

the Central Collegiate Hockey Association

(CCHA).

July 1 marked Notre Dame’s first official

day as a member of Hockey East. The Irish

become the 11th member of the conference

as it celebrates its 30th anniversary during

the upcoming 2013–14 campaign.

Notre Dame’s move to Hockey East actually

began in the summer of 2011 when the

overall landscape of college hockey made

some major changes.

It all began with Penn State making the

announcement that the Nittany Lions would

be joining the Division I ranks with their

hockey program. That gave the Big Ten six

teams and allowed the league to start its

own hockey conference. With the birth of

Big Ten hockey in 2011, the movement got

underway as Michigan, Michigan State and

Ohio State left the Central Collegiate Hockey

Association and Minnesota and Wisconsin

left the Western Collegiate Hockey

Association to join those three schools and

Penn State to form the six-team Big Ten

hockey conference.

Those moves set off a chain reaction that

would bring to an end the 40-year history of

Notre Dame’s hockey conference, the CCHA.

Miami University and Western Michigan left

the CCHA to join the newly-formed National

Collegiate Hockey Conference (NCHC) along

with former WCHA teams Colorado College,

Denver, Minnesota Duluth, North Dakota,

Nebraska-Omaha and St. Cloud State.

Former CCHA schools Alaska, Bowling

Green, Ferris State, Lake Superior State and

Northern Michigan moved to the WCHA

to join with that conference’s remaining

schools—Alaska Anchorage, Bemidji State,

Michigan Tech and Minnesota State—

to form the new WCHA. This past spring,

Alabama-Huntsville became the WCHA’s

10th team.

While the CCHA was disbanding and the

NCHC was starting, Notre Dame made the

decision to go east and joined the highly-

successful Hockey East Association. The

announcement was made on Oct. 5, 2011,

at the almost-finished Compton Family Ice

Arena, just weeks before the new home of Irish

hockey opened on the Notre Dame campus.

After 22 years in the CCHA, facing the likes

of Michigan, Michigan State, Ferris State,

Northern Michigan, Bowling Green, Ohio

State, Miami, Lake Superior State, Alaska and

Western Michigan on a regular basis, Notre

Dame hockey fans are going to develop a new

group of teams against whom to root.

The Hockey East Association has continued

its steady rise to prominence since its

founding charter on July 11, 1983, when


the possibility of an apparent Ivy League

departure threatened the ECAC hockey

conference. In response, athletic directors

from Boston College, Boston University, New

Hampshire, Northeastern and Providence

College unveiled a new Division I ice hockey

conference. Together, Bill Flynn of Boston

College, John Simpson of Boston University,

Andy Mooradian of New Hampshire, Joe

Zabilski of Northeastern and Lou Lamoriello

of Providence launched Hockey East.

Lamoriello assumed the role of the league’s

first commissioner.

Later that summer, the board of directors

added the University of Maine and the

University of Lowell (now UMass.-Lowell).

Official conference play began in the

1984–85 season. Expansion brought the

league to nine teams with the additions

of Merrimack College (1989) and the

University of Massachusetts (1993).

The University of Vermont joined the

conference for the 2005–06 season to bring

the conference to 10 teams. Notre Dame

made the move in October 2011 and the

University of Connecticut will become the

12th team beginning in 2014–15 with that

announcement coming in June 2012.

Since its inception, Hockey East has set new

competitive standards for college hockey

success, annually compiling an impressive

winning percentage against non-conference

opponents, including a .705 mark in

2002–03 and a .669 winning percentage

during the 25th anniversary season in

2008–09.

During the last 20 years, Hockey East teams

have earned 30 of 80 berths in the NCAA

Frozen Four while capturing eight NCAA

championships: the University of Maine in

1993 and 1998, Boston University in 1995

and 2009 and Boston College in 2001, 2008,

2010 and 2012. Three of four Frozen Four

participants in 1999 came from Hockey East

and in 2007, both Boston College and Maine

made it to the Frozen Four after five teams

(including Boston University, Massachusetts

and New Hampshire were selected to the

16-team field. Hockey East again sent

three teams to the NCAA championship in

2012 (Boston College, UMass-Lowell and

New Hampshire), marking nine times in

the last 10 years that league teams have

accomplished that feat.

// Notre Dame hockey with the Mason Cup in the final year of the CCHA before moving to Hockey East.


Skylar Diggins completed a remarkable

college career that saw her rewrite the

Fighting Irish record books, leaving

campus as the holder (or co-holder) of

no fewer than 32 game, season or career

records at Notre Dame. She ranks among

the top five on an astounding 105 of the

program’s game, season or career charts,

including school records for career points

(2,357), steals (381), games started (144) and

double-figure scoring games (121), just to

name a few.

What’s more, Diggins is the only player (of

either gender) in Notre Dame basketball

history to register 2,000 points, 500

rebounds, 500 assists and 300 steals in her

career, and one of only six NCAA Division I

women’s basketball players since 1999–

2000 to reach those impressive marks. She

also stands among the top 15 players in BIG

EAST history (regular-season games only)

in four career categories—assists (15th),

steals (tied-15th), free throws made (7th)

and free throws attempted (11th).

Diggins is the only player in program

history to be a four-time All-America

selection, earning consensus first-team

honors the past two years to join Ruth

Riley as the only Fighting Irish cagers ever

to pull off that feat. In addition, she broke

new ground in the Notre Dame history

books as a three-time NCAA Regional

Most Outstanding Player (2010-Dayton,

2011-Raleigh, 2012-Norfolk), a two-time

BIG EAST Player of the Year and a two-time

recipient of the Nancy Lieberman Award,

given annually to the nation’s top point

guard (the past two seasons making her

just the third two-time honoree in the

award’s history), along with being the 2013

recipient of the Dawn Staley Award.

As a senior in 2012–13, Diggins started

all 37 games, leading the BIG EAST in

assists (6.1 apg; also 19th in nation),

while ranking fourth in scoring (17.1 ppg)

and third in steals (3.1 spg; also 18th in

nation; school-record 114 steals overall)

and fourth in free-throw percentage

(.814). She also is among the conference’s

best in assist/turnover ratio (5th-1.67)

and three-point percentage (6th-.362),

and she led the team with 33 double-

figure scoring games, including twelve

20-point outings. Furthermore, she added

three double-doubles and her second

career triple-double after piling up 17

points, 10 rebounds and 10 assists in a

Feb. 24 win at DePaul.

On April 15, Diggins was selected with

the No. 3 overall pick in the first round of

the 2013 WNBA Draft by the Tulsa Shock,

becoming Notre Dame’s second WNBA

Draft lottery top-four selection in as many

years and matching the highest choice in

program history (Devereaux Peters was

chosen third by the Minnesota Lynx in the

2012 draft).

Diggins was a recipient of the 2013 Byron

V. Kanaley Award, the highest honor

awarded to a graduating Notre Dame

student-athlete.

Skylar Diggins ... A Remarkable Career


Extolled by Irish football coach Brian

Kelly as a “once-in-a-lifetime type kid,”

linebacker Manti Te’o galvanized a

University and led the resurgence of the

Notre Dame football program in 2012 all

the way to the No.1-ranking in November

and an undefeated regular season.

Te’o captured the Lott Trophy, Nagurski

Trophy, Butkus Award, Lombardi Award,

Bednarik Award, Maxwell Award and

Walter Camp Player of the Year, thus

becoming the first player in college football

history to sweep the seven awards. In fact,

no other player in college football history

had ever captured more than five major

awards in one season.

In a season full of amazing achievements

and exploits, Te’o became the 33rd

unanimous All-American in Notre Dame

history. He was the first Irish defensive

player to earn such an honor since

cornerback Shane Walton in 2002. Te’o was

named a first-team All-American by the

Football Writers Association of America,

American Football Coaches Association,

Sporting News, the Walter Camp Football

Foundation and the Associated Press

when he was selected to their respective

All-America squads.

A first-team Capital One Academic

All-America® honoree (after earning

second-team honors in 2011) as a design

major in the College of Arts and Letters,

Te’o was the recipient of the Senior CLASS

Award® given annually to an individual

who has had notable achievements in

four areas of excellence—classroom,

community, character and competition. He

also was awarded the University’s Byron V.

Kanaley Award.

He was Notre Dame’s fourth-ever

unanimous All-America linebacker and

first since Michael Stonebreaker in 1990.

Te’o was Notre Dame’s first Heisman

Trophy finalist since quarterback Brady

Quinn in 2006. He finished second with

321 first-place votes and 1,706 points—

the most ever by a defensive player in

college football history. Te’o nearly became

the third player to ever be named a first-

team Academic All-American and win the

Heisman Trophy in the same year, joining

Pete Dawkins (Army) in 1958 and Danny

Wuerffel (Florida) in 1996.

As an Irish team captain, Te’o was the

leader of an Irish defense that ranked

second nationally in scoring defense,

allowing just 12.8 points per game. He

made 113 tackles and collected seven

interceptions. Te’o registered three

consecutive 100-plus tackle seasons and

ranks third in Notre Dame history for

career tackles with 437.

His seven interceptions ranked tied for

second in the Football Bowl Subdivision

to lead all FBS linebackers. Te’o owns

the school record for interceptions by a

linebacker in a single season while no FBS

linebacker registered more single-season

interceptions than Te’o since 2001. He

helped generate nine total turnovers (two

fumble recoveries), tied for best in the

FBS. Te’o helped play a role in 11 of the 23

turnovers forced by Notre Dame’s defense.

Drafted in the second round as the 38th

overall pick by the San Diego Chargers in

the 2013 NFL Draft, Te’o was the highest-

drafted linebacker from Notre Dame since

Demetrius DuBose was the 34th overall

selection by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in

the 1993 draft.

Manti Te’o ... A Man For The Ages


Greg AndrewsGreg Andrews, who recently completed his

junior year, sports a 3.867 GPA in accounting

from the Mendoza College of Business. The

Richland, Mich., native has appeared on

the dean’s list all six semesters he has been

at Notre Dame and was named a first-team

Capital One Academic All-America® for the

men’s Division I at-large team.

The two-time BIG EAST Player of the Year

(2012 and 2013) helped lead the Irish to the

BIG EAST men’s tennis crown in April after

going 18-7 at the No. 1 singles spot during the

spring season and 26-13 overall for the year.

Named the Most Outstanding Player at the

2013 BIG EAST Championship, Andrews has

led the Irish to an NCAA Championship team

berth in each of his three seasons. This year, he

also advanced to the round of 32 at the NCAA

Singles Championship, his best showing in two

years playing in the event.

Andrews was the third player to earn

Academic All-America® honors in program

history, but the first first-team honoree.

Five Irish Student-Athletes Honored With BIG EAST Sport Excellence Awards

For the second consecutive year, five Notre

Dame student-athletes were winners of the

2012–13 BIG EAST Scholar-Athlete Sport

Excellence Award recognizing academic and

athletic achievements as well as community

service. Irish student-athletes earning the

awards this year included: Greg Andrews

(men’s tennis), Alexa Aragon (women’s

outdoor track and field), Kim Holden

(women’s swimming and diving), Jennifer

Kellner (women’s tennis) and Abby Meyers

(rowing).

The Scholar-Athlete Sport Excellence

Awards honored one student-athlete in each

of the BIG EAST-sponsored sports based

on academic credentials, athletic accolades

or performances and volunteer service to

the community. Student-athletes that had

attained a junior academic standing and a

minimum cumulative grade-point average

of 3.0 were eligible for nomination. The

BIG EAST Faculty Athletics Representative

Council chose the winners.

The five honorees equaled the most ever for

Notre Dame and marked the third time that

five student-athletes were honored in the

same year and were the most of any other

conference institution last year.

Alexa AragonAlexa Aragon earned first-team All-America

honors in the 3,000m steeplechase after

finishing eighth at the 2013 NCAA Outdoor

Championships. Aragon booked her place at

the NCAAs by taking fifth at the NCAA East

Preliminary Round. At the 2013 BIG EAST

Outdoor Championships, the Billings, Mont.,

native earned a pair of all-BIG EAST honors

after winning the 3,000m steeplechase and

taking second in the 4x800m relay.

During the indoor season Aragon earned

first-team All-America accolades after

helping the distance medley relay team to

a seventh-place finish at the NCAA Indoor

Championships. At the BIG EAST Indoor

Championships, she placed third in the

distance medley relay and eighth in the

3,000m run.

During the cross country season, Aragon ran

for the Irish at the NCAA Championships

after earning all-region accolades with a

23rd-place finish at the NCAA Great Lakes

Regional. She boasts a 3.221 GPA in the

classroom as a pre-professional studies major

in the College of Arts and Letters. She traveled

to Mexico last spring and volunteered with the

Smile Network, an organization that works to

repair children’s cleft lips and palates.


Kim Holden Kim Holden proved to be a standout in

the classroom and in the pool during her

Irish career and was the recipient of an

NCAA postgraduate scholarship for her

accomplishments in those two venues.

She finished up a sensational career with

a pair of honorable mention All-America

citations (200 back, 400 medley relay) at the

2013 NCAA Championships. For her career

Holden raked in 11 BIG EAST titles (tied for

fourth in school history) and 22 all-BIG EAST

scrolls (fourth in school history). The Mount

Kisco, N.Y., native appeared in two NCAA

Championship meets, and overcame double

shoulder surgery before her junior season to

have an outstanding senior campaign.

In the classroom, Holden finished with a

3.829 GPA and graduated with a degree in

psychology and a supplementary degree in

Spanish from the College of Arts and Letters.

She appeared on the sean’s sist in six of her

eight semesters at Notre Dame.

Jennifer KellnerJennifer Kellner earned her second career

selection to the all-BIG EAST team after

posting an 18-13 (16-10 in dual matches)

singles record and a 22-10 (16-9 dual) mark

in doubles play as a junior in 2012–13.

Kellner won six of her final nine singles

contests during the season to lead Notre

Dame to its sixth consecutive BIG EAST

Championship title. She received BIG EAST

Player of the Week accolades for the third

time in her career during the week of Jan. 22.

The Smithtown, N.Y., native will enter

her senior season as the active Notre

Dame leader in singles (69) and doubles

(67) victories. A three-time BIG EAST

Academic All-Star selection, Kellner also

was tabbed as the women’s tennis recipient

of the 2013 Notre Dame Club of St. Joseph

Valley Rockne Student-Athlete award, and

is pursuing a degree in accounting from

the Mendoza College of Business. She has

a 3.909 GPA and has been named to the

dean’s list on five occasions.

Off the court, Kellner has participated in a

number of community service initiatives

as a member of the Irish women’s tennis

team. She has assisted with the Notre Dame

Pediatric Christmas Party for the past three

years and has also been involved with the

Fighting Irish Fight for Life, the Aidan

Project, the Bald & Beautiful, the JDRF Walk

and Adopt a Family.

Abby MeyersAbby Meyers served as the coxswain of the

Notre Dame varsity eight boat during her

sophomore, junior and senior seasons, leading

the crew to a repeat victory in the grand final

of the first varsity eight at the 2013 BIG EAST

Championship. The Irish launch logged a

time of 6:49.656 to help Notre Dame score

a race-record 151 team points and clinch

the program’s 10th consecutive BIG EAST

Championship. The Irish eight boat went

on to win the third final at the 2013 NCAA

Championship, aiding Notre Dame to a

13th-place overall finish.

Meyers was named to the 2013 Collegiate

Rowing Coaches Association (CRCA) Central

All-Region team, and was a three-time CRCA

National Scholar-Athlete (2011–13). A four-

time BIG EAST Academic All-Star selection,

Meyers graduated from the College of Arts and

Letters with a double major in economics and

mathematics and finished with a 3.704 GPA

while earning dean’s list recognition five times.


CONSENSUS NATIONAL COACHES OF THE YEAR

Irish football coach Brian Kelly and

women’s basketball coach Muffet McGraw

swept national coach-of-the-year honors in

their respective sports after leading their

teams to memorable seasons.

Kelly won the Home Depot College Football

Award for the second time in his career to

become the first-ever two-time recipient

of that honor. He also was awarded the

honor in 2009 when he led Cincinnati to an

undefeated regular season. Kelly picked up

six other national coaching accolades as he

was honored as the Associated Press Coach

of the Year, the Walter Camp Coach of the

Year, Sporting News Coach of the Year and

the Liberty Mutual Coach of the Year. In

addition, he received top-coaching honors

from the American Football Coaches

Association (AFCA) and the Football

Writers Association of America (FWAA).

McGraw was the consensus national coach

of the year for the second time in her career

(also in 2001) as she made a clean sweep

of the nation’s top major coaching awards

that included the Naismith Women’s

College Coach of the Year (as chosen by

the Atlanta Tipoff Club), the United States

Basketball Writers Association (USBWA)

National Coach of the Year, the Associated

Press Division I Women’s National Coach

of the Year and the Women’s Basketball

Coaches Association (WBCA) Division I

Coach

of the Year.

McGraw became the second Division I

coach ever to sweep the four major national

coaching honors twice in a career. She also

was named Sports Illustrated’s National

Coach of the Year and the BIG EAST

Conference Coach of the Year.

Fighting Irish Digital Media Garners National Recognition

The Sports Video Group (SVG) and

the National Association of Collegiate

Directors of Athletics (NACDA) presented

Notre Dame’s Fighting Irish Digital Media

(FIDM) with the inaugural SVG/NACDA

Technology Leadership Award. FIDM was

presented the award formally at the SVG

College Sports Summit in Atlanta in

May 2013.

The Technology Leadership Award is

presented to the university athletic

department that meets the outlined

criteria of commitment to the investment

in and execution of broadcast and

video infrastructure and technologies.

The recipient will have established a

comprehensive workflow that enhances the

fan experience through broadcast, digital,

and in-venue technology and puts video

production at the center of distributing the

university or conference’s message.

Since its inception more than two years

ago, FIDM has established a strong

presence in digital media and video

production thanks to its state-of-the-art

broadcast facility and University-wide

media infrastructure.// From left: Fighting Irish Digital Media’s Dan Skendzel, SVG’s Paul Gallo, Jack Swarbrick, NACDA’s Julie Work, and FIDM’s Alan Wasielewski and Scott Rinehart


KIM HOLDEN RECEIVES NCAA POSTGRADUATE SCHOLARSHIP

Senior Kim Holden, a member of the

women’s swimming and diving team, was the

recipient of a prestigious NCAA postgraduate

scholarship. She became the 50th Notre

Dame student-athlete to be recognized with

the illustrious honor and was awarded $7,500

for postgraduate studies.

Holden concluded a sensational career

in 2013 with a pair of honorable mention

All-America citations in the 200 back

and 400 medley relay at the NCAA

Championships. The Mount Kisco, N.Y.,

native also won 11 BIG EAST titles (tied for

fourth in school history) during her career

and earned all-BIG EAST recognition on

22 occasions.

She also earned $2,000 in postgraduate

scholarship money from the BIG EAST as

Notre Dame’s female recipient of the BIG

EAST Scholar-Athlete Scholarship.

In the classroom, Holden finished with

a 3.829 grade-point average and earned

a bachelor’s degree in psychology and a

supplementary degree in Spanish from

the College of Arts and Letters. She

earned dean’s list in six out of her eight

semesters. Holden will pursue doctoral

studies in audiology at the University of

North Carolina.

MICHAEL MOORE HONORED WITH MICHAEL TRANGHESE POSTGRADUATE LEADERSHIP AWARD

Men’s tennis player Michael Moore

was honored with the American Eagle

Outfitters Michael Tranghese Postgraduate

Leadership Award, the third such Notre

Dame student-athlete to earn the award.

Moore received a $5,000 scholarship

toward postgraduate studies.

Moore graduated from Notre Dame with

a degree from the College of Science in

science-business. The Glenview, Ill., native

finished his academic career with a 3.833

grade-point average and was named to the

dean’s list six times.

Moore went 47-27 in singles and 17-13 in

doubles during his four-year career. As a

senior, he finished with a 19-9 record in

singles play.

Off the court, Moore did extensive work

in the community. One of his biggest

involvements was serving as a volunteer

fitness instructor at Miericordia Heart

of Mercy, a home for adults with mental

and physical handicaps. While there,

Moore helped motivate and encourage the

residents to complete workouts and come

back to the fitness center regularly to help

promote good health among the residents.

Other volunteer work done by Moore while

at Notre Dame included being a tutor at

the South Bend Juvenile Correctional

Facility, a speaker at the South Bend Work-

Release Center, a regular at local tennis

clinics, a tutor for fellow Notre Dame

student-athletes and a participant at the

Student-Athlete Advisory Committee

(SAAC) Pediatric Christmas Party.

Moore also did undergraduate research

while at Notre Dame. During the early

parts of a research project, he would work

in the lab for up to eight hours a week. In

the spring of 2012, he received funding

from the College of Science to conduct

an independent project. This research

required a commitment of 40 hours per

week for 10 weeks.


Notre Dame 104, Louisville 101 (5 OT)Feb. 9, 2013Purcell Pavilion at the Joyce Center

The longest game in Notre Dame and BIG EAST regular-season history

Oh what a night(and morning)


Notre dame’s 104-101 five-overtime victory over Louisville in february 2013 will go down as one of the most memorable in the history of the men’s basketball program. the game spanned nearly three and a half hours with junior guard eric Atkins matching an irish school record by playing 60 of a possible 65 minutes of the contest.

Atkins’ backcourt mate, Jerian Grant, was 0-6 from the field before scoring 12 points in the final 45 seconds of regulation that spanned a total of 29 seconds and helped send the game into overtime. Grant was four for four from the field, including hitting all three of his three-point attempts. his three-point play with 16 seconds left tied the game.

Senior center Garrick Sherman, who did not enter the game until there was 1:57 remaining in the first overtime, scored 22 points in 22 minutes. he was seven for 10 from the field and grabbed six rebounds.


Bobby Bayliss … An Enduring Tennis Legacy

After 765 career wins (fifth on the

all-time career wins list), 12 coach-of-

the-year honors, 22 NCAA Championship

appearances, 16 conference titles and an

induction into the Intercollegiate Tennis

Hall of Fame (in May 2013), legendary Irish

men’s tennis coach Bobby Bayliss retired

following the 2012–13 season.

Bayliss’ career spanned 46 years that

included a 26-year stop at Notre Dame,

along with coaching stints at both the

Naval Academy and MIT. A native of

Richmond, Va., the five-time Intercollegiate

Tennis Association (ITA) Midwest Region

Coach of the Year was honored in 1992 as

the Wilson/ITA National Coach of the Year

after helping the Irish to the NCAA Finals

that season.

From 1991, he led Notre Dame to the NCAA

Championship in 22 of 23 seasons and

along the way mentored 11 All-Americans

in singles, including the man who

succeeded Bayliss and will now head up

the Irish program, Ryan Sachire, as well as

eight All-Americans in doubles.

Under Bayliss, the Irish often dominated

the BIG EAST. Notre Dame reached the

final of the conference championship in

16 of the 18 seasons it was a member of the

league and won eight titles, including the

’13 crown.

Respected internationally by his coaching

peers and the entire tennis community,

Bayliss helped the United States win a gold

medal at the World University Games in

Sheffield, England, in 1991.

Ryan Sachire Set to Take Over Head-Coaching Reins

Former Irish All-American Ryan Sachire

was tabbed as the successor to head coach

Bobby Bayliss when it was announced in

December 2012 that his former mentor was

retiring from the post. Sachire spent seven

years as Bayliss’ assistant before taking

over as head coach.

A 2000 Notre Dame graduate with a degree

in economics, the Canfield, Ohio, native is

the only Irish player ever to win 30 or more

singles matches in all four of his seasons. A

three-time All-American (only three Irish

players have accomplished that feat), he

is one of only two Notre Dame players to

merit four straight NCAA Championships

singles invitations. He ranked as high as

No. 2 nationally in singles and finished

up with a 138-43 singles mark and 73-32

doubles total.

The Intercollegiate Tennis Association

(ITA) National Senior Player of the Year

in 2000, he also received the John Van

Nostrand Memorial Award, a stipend given

to an outstanding men’s tennis player who

plans to pursue a career in professional

tennis after graduation.

Sachire finished in the national top 40 in

terms of singles rankings all four of his

years at Notre Dame, helping the Irish to a

combined 67-33 record, the 1999 BIG EAST

title and four straight NCAA appearances.

He twice was named the BIG EAST

Championships MVP.

As a pro, Sachire won 16 tournament titles,

14 on the futures circuit.

During his seven seasons as an assistant

at Notre Dame, Sachire helped the Irish to

seven straight NCAA appearances, three

BIG EAST crowns and a No. 6 national

ranking in 2007.


Tricia Bellia Receives National Girls and Women in Sports Day Award

Notre Dame professor of law and Notre

Dame Presidential Fellow and chair of the

University’s Faculty Board on Athletics,

Patricia (Tricia) Bellia received an award

in honor of National Girls and Women

in Sports Day that was presented on

behalf of the University and the BIG EAST

Conference.

She was presented the award on March 4

during the Notre Dame-Connecticut

women’s basketball game at Purcell Pavilion.

Previous Notre Dame recipients of the

award include former University president

Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh C.S.C., former

athletics director Dick Rosenthal, former

athletics administrator Tony Yelovich,

current women’s basketball coach Muffet

McGraw and current senior deputy

athletics director Missy Conboy.

A member of the Notre Dame faculty since

2000, Bellia was appointed chair of the

University’s Faculty Board on Athletics

in 2009. Notre Dame’s Faculty Board on

Athletics serves as the principal advisory

group to the president on educational

issues related to intercollegiate athletics

and also functions as a formal liaison

between the faculty and the athletics

department. The committee monitors data

on the admission of student-athletes and

their academic performance, progress

toward degrees and graduation rates.

It also assesses the effectiveness of

institutional support for student-athletes.

Bellia also serves as the University’s

NCAA faculty athletics representative and

as the Faculty Board on Athletics’ liaison

for the football, volleyball and women’s

tennis programs.

A true advocate for student-athletes at

Notre Dame, she works tirelessly to help

enhance their overall experience at the

University—both in the classroom and

on the playing field. Thanks to her efforts,

Notre Dame has ranked at or near the

top annually in the NCAA’s Graduation

Success Rate (GSR) and Academic

Progress Rate (APR) figures as well as the

Department of Education’s federal reports.

A valuable resource and friend to coaches,

administrators and student-athletes at

Notre Dame, Bellia is seen throughout the

school year at many athletic events with

her family.

Bellia teaches and researches in the areas

of constitutional law, administrative

law, cyberlaw, electronic surveillance

law, and copyright law. She is co-author

of a leading cyberlaw casebook and has

published several articles on Internet law

(particularly surveillance and privacy

issues) and separation of powers. She has

also served as a visiting professor at the

University of Virginia Law School (2007).

Bellia earned her A.B. summa cum laude

from Harvard University in 1991, where

she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and

also competed on the Harvard varsity

tennis squad. Before attending the Yale

Law School, she worked at the Carnegie

Endowment for International Peace,

serving as an editor for Foreign Policy

magazine and co-authoring a book on

self-determination movements. At Yale,

she served as editor-in-chief of the Yale

Law Journal, executive editor of the Yale

Journal of International Law, and student

director of the Immigration Legal Services

clinic. Upon graduation in 1995, she clerked

for Judge José A. Cabranes of the United

States Court of Appeals for the Second

Circuit and Associate Justice Sandra Day

O’Connor of the Supreme Court of the

United States. Following her clerkships,

she worked for three years as an attorney-

advisor in the Office of Legal Counsel of the

United States Department of Justice.

NATIONAL FRESHMAN OF THE YEAR

Freshman Jewell Loyd was instrumental

to the success of the Notre Dame women’s

basketball team during the 2012–13

campaign. The rookie from Lincolnwood,

Ill., earned the United States Basketball

Writers Association (USBWA) National

Freshman of the Year honor recognizing

her as the nation’s top first-year player. She

also was selected as the BIG EAST Rookie

of the Year.

Loyd proved to be prolific at both the

offensive and defensive ends of the floor.

A dynamic scorer, she netted double

figures in 24 contests and averaged 12.5

points, 5.2 rebounds, 2.1 assists and 1.0

steals per game.


Student-athletes at the University of Notre Dame embody the best traits of what collegiate athletics represent. On the field and in the classroom, they exhibit the tenacity to overcome personal and team challenges, the leadership to motivate and inspire and the stewardship to share their talents and skills with others. Notre Dame’s commitment to integrity and national excellence requires the University’s student-athletes to welcome the demanding responsibilities that come with being Irish student-athletes, and they continue to be the national standard-bearers on a variety of levels.

academics

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Fifteen Irish Teams Receive 2013 Academic Progress Rate Awards from the NCAA

Notre Dame ranked number one again

among all Football Bowl Subdivision

institutions with 15 of its athletics

programs receiving 2013 NCAA Academic

Progress Rate public recognition awards,

honoring Division I teams for their latest

multi-year APR scores. These teams posted

multi-year APR scores in the top 10 percent

of all squads in their respective sports.

The public recognition is part of the broad

Division I academic reform effort, and

based on APR numbers that represent

the combination of scores from 2008–09,

2010–11 and 2011–12.

The 15 Notre Dame programs honored in

2012–13 for multi-year achievement were:

meN’S SportS (11): baseball, basketball,

cross country, fencing, golf, lacrosse,

soccer, swimming and diving, tennis,

indoor track and field, and outdoor track

and field

WomeN’S SportS (4): cross county, golf,

softball, and swimming and diving

Notre Dame’s 15 recognized sports this

year follows two consecutive years (2012

and 2011) that a program-best 17 teams

were honored. The NCAA recognized 15

Fighting Irish teams in 2010; 14 programs

were honored in 2009. Eleven teams

earned recognition in 2007 and 2008.

These FBS institutions ranked in the top

10 this year, with the number of programs

honored:

1. (tie) Notre Dame, Duke –15

3. Northwestern – 14

4. (tie) Boston College, Stanford – 13

6. (tie) Penn State, Vanderbilt – 8

8. Rice – 7

9. (tie) Texas, Illinois, Ohio State – 6

The APR provides a real-time look at a

team’s academic success each semester

by tracking the academic progress of

each student-athlete. The APR includes

both retention at an institution and

academic eligibility in its calculation

and gives a clear picture of the academic

culture in each sport. The effort is part

of a public recognition program the

NCAA Division I Board of Directors

approved in January 2006.

Notre Dame Athletics Again at Top of NCAA APR Four-Year Average Chart

Twelve Fighting Irish athletic teams earned

perfect 1,000 scores—more perfect scores

than any other Football Bowl Subdivision

school registered—in the ninth annual set

of APR statistics issued by the NCAA. All

26 Irish athletics programs exceeded the

NCAA’s APR minimum standards.

Notre Dame’s scores led all FBS programs

for the second straight year. Stanford

ranked second with 11, while Duke had

10. Boston College and Northwestern tied

for fourth with nine each, followed by

Vanderbilt (seven) and Rice (six). Notre

Dame also led the FBS schools in 1,000

scores in 2012 (also with 12) and in 2009

(with nine).

The 2013 report by the NCAA featured a

four-year compilation of APR data from the

2008–09, 2009–10, 2010–11 and 2011–12

academic years. The APR uses a series

of formulas related to student-athlete

retention and eligibility to measure the

academic performances of all participants

who receive grants-in-aid on every team

at every NCAA Division I college and

university.

Eight Notre Dame’s men’s teams—

basketball, cross country, fencing, golf,

lacrosse, tennis, indoor track and field, and

outdoor track and field—registered perfect

1,000 scores. Four Irish women’s teams—

cross country, golf, softball, and swimming

and diving—also earned perfect scores.

Ten other Notre Dame teams produced

scores of 991 or better: women’s rowing

(998), men’s swimming and diving

(997), women’s lacrosse (997), women’s

volleyball (995), men’s soccer (994),

women’s indoor track and field (994),

women’s outdoor track and field (994),

baseball (992), women’s tennis (991) and

men’s ice hockey (991).

Irish Athletes First in NCAA Graduation Ratings

For the fourth year in a row Notre Dame

leads the nation in four GSR categories—

for all student-athletes (at 99), male

student-athletes (98), female student-

athletes (100) and football student-athletes

(97). The University also ranks number one

in the federal numbers for male student-

athletes (89).

In calculations that include all student-

athletes in all sports, Notre Dame ranks

first among the FBS schools in the GSR

figures, which were initiated in 2005 by the

NCAA. The University’s 99 percent GSR for

all its student-athletes ranks just ahead of

the 98 figure for Duke. Using the federal

formula, Notre Dame graduated a four-year

average of 91 percent of its student-

athletes, just behind Stanford at 92.

In the GSR standings, the Irish led the way

in four categories. In addition to its No. 1

ranking for all student-athletes (99), Notre

Dame finished first among female student

athletes at 100 (tied with Wake Forest), first

among male student-athletes at 98 percent

(ahead of Duke and Northwestern at 96),

first among football players at 97 percent

(tied with Northwestern), and second

among black student-athletes at 98 percent

(behind only Rice at 100).

Notre Dame graduated 94 percent of all


women competing in varsity athletics, to

rank second among its peer institutions

based on the federal calculations (behind

Stanford at 96). Among men, Notre Dame’s

89 percent federal rate also was first, tied

with Stanford. Notre Dame graduated

82 percent of its black student-athletes,

ranking third based on the federal rate, and

Irish football players graduated at an 83

percent rate, to rank sixth.

Since the NCAA first published GSR

numbers in 2005, here are the trends for

Notre Dame in all 10 categories over the

eight years of graduation rates (includes

ranking and raw graduation percentage; SA

stands for student-athletes):

Category 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012All SAs Fed. 1st at 90 2nd at 89 3rd at 89 2nd at 89 2nd at 90 1st at 91 1st at 91 2nd at 91

GSR 2nd at 98 2nd at 98 1st at 98 1st at 98 1st at 99 1st at 99 1st at 99 1st at 99

Male SAs Fed. 1st at 87 1st at 87 3rd at 85 2nd at 87 1st at 88 1st at 87 1st at 87 1st at 89

GSR 2nd at 98 2nd at 97 2nd at 97 2nd at 97 1st at 98 1st at 98 1st at 98 1st at 98

Female SAs Fed. 1st at 96 2nd at 94 1st at 94 1st at 93 1st at 94 1st at 97 1st at 96 2nd at 94

GSR 5th at 99 2nd at 99 1st at 100 1st at 100 1st at 100 1st at 100 1st at 100 1st at 100

Black SAs Fed. 6th at 78 6th at 84 8th at 75 1st at 84 1st at 85 2nd at 86 2nd at 85 3rd at 82

GSR 6th at 93 3rd at 95 4th at 91 2nd at 96 1st at 97 1st at 98 1st at 98 2nd at 98

Football SAs Fed. 4th at 85 6th at 84 6th at 79 4th at 85 3rd at 85 4th at 85 5th at 83 6th at 83

GSR 2nd at 96 3rd at 95 3rd at 93 2nd at 94 1st at 96 1st at 96 1st at 97 1st at 97

Notre Dame Football Ranked No. 1 in BCS and NCAA GSR Standings

Notre Dame ranked first in both the Bowl

Championship Series standings and the

NCAA Graduate Success Rate figures for

football during the 2012 season. It marked

the first time in the history of the BCS and

the GSR that any team ranked atop both

sets of standings.

The season’s double was similar to the 1988

season when Notre Dame finished 12-0 and

won the national championship in football

on a unanimous basis—and the Irish also

won the Academic Achievement Award that

year from the College Football Association

with a perfect 100 percent graduation rate

for the Irish football squad. Notre Dame

also won the CFA award in 1982, 1983,

1984, 1991 and 2001 (it was first presented

in 1981). The American Football Coaches

Association took over presentation of the

award beginning in 1997.

The NCAA first announced graduation

rates in 1992 based on federal graduation

figure—with Notre Dame ranking number

one in football for the three combined

entering classes for 1983-84-85.

The NCAA began issuing GSR numbers

in 2005 based on a combined four years

of entering classes for student-athletes.

Notre Dame football ranked number one

each of the last four years—in 2012 (97

rate for classes 2002 through 2005), 2011

(97 for 2001 through 2004), 2010 (96 for

2000 through 2003) and 2009 (96 for 1999

through 2002).

The University has football student-athlete

records back to the 1962 entering class—

and since then 98 percent of Notre Dame

football players who entered on scholarship

and remained enrolled for at least four

years have received their degrees.

Notre Dame has produced 34 first-team

Academic All-Americans, including

two-time selections Tom Gatewood, Greg

Marx, Joe Restic, Greg Dingens and Tim

Ruddy and three-time honoree Joe Heap. In

addition, Irish players have been second-

team selections on 14 other occasions.

Only Nebraska has produced more football

Academic All-Americans among Football

Bowl Subdivision institutions.

Notre Dame football also has produced

17 recipients of the National Football

Foundation National Scholar-Athlete

Award, including Manti Te’o in 2012. Notre

Dame football has also had 17 recipients

of NCAA Postgraduate Scholarships, most

recently tight end John Carlson in 2007.

From the football rating standpoint, this

was the first time Notre Dame was ranked

atop the BCS standings and the first time

since Nov. 14, 1993, that the Irish have

been number one in the Associated Press

poll. Notre Dame has won 11 consensus

national titles, including eight (1943, 1946,

1947, 1949, 1966, 1973, 1977, 1988) since the

AP poll began in 1936 (Alabama also has

won eight).

This announcement marked the 90th time

in the history of the AP poll that Notre

Dame was ranked number one (preseason

polls not included). Only Oklahoma with 91

has been number one more often.

Gr aduat ion suCCess r at inGs: 2005–2012


Individual Notre Dame Sports Best in 2012 Graduation Rates

Nineteen of 22 Irish athletics programs

compiled graduation rates of 100 percent,

and none were below 91 percent, according

to the eighth year of GSR measurements

developed by the NCAA. None of the 120

Football Bowl Subdivision programs in the

country had a higher percentage of 100 GSR

scores than did Notre Dame with its .863

number. In addition, the University ranked

second among all FBS institutions with

nine perfect scores among 22 sports (.409)

in the federal graduation rate analysis.

All 11 Irish women’s programs posted a GSR

of 100 percent: basketball, cross country/

track, fencing, golf, lacrosse, rowing,

soccer, softball, swimming/diving, tennis

and volleyball. Among Notre Dame’s men’s

sports, baseball, basketball, cross country/

track, fencing, golf, hockey, soccer, and

swimming/diving achieved 100 percent

GSR scores.

Overall, that’s one more than the number

of perfect GSR scores (18) from 2011—and

it equals figures from 2010, 2009 and 2008

(all three of those years also with 19 of 22

sports at 100) for the Irish programs. Notre

Dame also recorded eighteen 100 percent

GSR scores (of 22) in 2007.

In the federal calculations, the nine

programs with 100 scores were men’s cross

country/track, men’s fencing, men’s golf,

men’s hockey, women’s rowing, women’s

golf, women’s lacrosse, women’s tennis

and women’s volleyball. Other top Irish

programs in the federal analysis included

women’s swimming at 96, men’s swimming

at 95, women’s cross country/track and

field at 95, men’s lacrosse at 93 and men’s

tennis at 91.

In football, among

the FBS programs,

Notre Dame in

2012 finished with

the top GSR score

at 97 (tied with

Northwestern)—

followed by Boston

College and Miami

(Fla.) at 94; Rice at

93; Duke at 92; Penn

State and Rutgers at

91, and Stanford

at 90.

The 2012 GSR numbers are based on

entering classes from 2002 to 2005. The

2011 GSR numbers are based on entering

classes from 2001 to 2004. The 2010 GSR

numbers are based on entering classes

from 2000 to 2003. The 2009 GSR numbers

are based on entering classes from 1999 to

2002. The 2008 GSR numbers are based on

entering classes from 1998 to 2001, the ‘07

data on classes from 1997 to 2000, the ‘06

data on classes from 1996 to 1999—and the

‘05 first-year GSR data was based upon the

classes entering from 1995 to 1998.

2012–13 BIG EAST Academic All-Stars

The BIG EAST Conference recognizes

annually student-athletes who achieve

an annual grade-point average of 3.0 or

higher as conference academic all-stars.

During 2012–13, 337 Irish student-athletes

who competed in the BIG EAST garnered

this honor.

2012–13 BIG EAST Team Academic Excellence Award Winners

The BIG EAST Conference annually recognizes

the 25 teams that have the highest grade-point

average in each conference sport. The winners

were chosen based on the 2012–13 grade-

point average of each student-athlete who

appears on an institution’s squad as of the last

contest of the championship segment in each

conference-sponsored sport. Notre Dame had

two teams honored: men’s indoor and outdoor

track and field.


studentwelfare anddevelopment

Student Welfare & Development (SWD) provides opportunities for Notre Dame student-athletes to develop the skills to transition into the University, their sport or program, and the community. Through educational programming and a host of other additional resources, SWD helps participants make positive decisions to reach their full potential as students, athletes and citizens.

Student Welfare & Development Links facebook.com/Ndswd

twitter.com/NotreDameSWD

youtube.com/user/FightingIrishSWD

Student Athlete Blog Links ndirisheyes.com/

twitter.com/NDIrishEyes

youtube.com/user/NDIrishEyes


Student-Athlete Advisory Council

The 2012–13 Notre Dame Student-Athlete

Advisory Council was comprised of 50

student-athlete leaders, representing all

26 sports. The group met once a month

with three additional forums a semester,

which are open to all Notre Dame

student-athletes.

Highlights from the year included:

• SAAC Fencing Duals/ SAAC Ping-Pong

Tournament

• Olympian panel

• Monogram Club luncheon

• Student Body Presidential Elections

• Signature Series

• Through Irish Eyes student-athlete blog

(www.ndirisheyes.com)

Rosenthal Leadership Academy

This program, named after former director

of athletics Dick Rosenthal, is designed to

develop and enhance strong leadership on

Notre Dame athletic teams by providing

targeted emerging and existing leaders

with progressive annual programming.

Selected areas include: self-awareness,

commitment to institutional and team

goals, empathy and perspective-taking,

and skill-building. Participants are peer

nominated and selected by coaches.

The group met monthly, with optional

overnight retreats as schedules allowed.

There were 79 academy graduates from

2012–13, and 35 retreat participants.

Notre Dame Christian Athletes

Notre Dame Christian Athletes (NDCA)

offers Notre Dame student-athletes a place

of refuge to encourage spiritual growth

and community through a relationship

with Jesus Christ. Members, who come

from various church backgrounds and

experiences, form an interdenominational

group that acknowledges multiple

perspectives while being committed to

the central truth of the Gospel of Jesus

Christ as found in scripture. NDCA met

weekly throughout the year to discuss the

Christian faith as it affects members’ lives

and to learn from guest speakers.

Career Services

Through several programming initiatives

and individual effort, the career

development of Notre Dame student-

athletes is a high priority for the Office

of Student Welfare and Development.

Programs pertaining to this area include:

Boot cAmp

• Panel discussion and instruction

• Networking luncheon with more than 25

companies attending

• Follow-Up résumé critiques and career

counseling sessions

piLoted cAreer prep SerieS

• Participation from 70+ football student-

athletes

• Three-Phase Program (panel discussions,

one-on-one consultations, networking

reception)

• Follow-Up job shadow, internship and

informational Interview opportunities

cASe-By-cASe effortS

• Individual opportunities to give career

guidance, networking contacts and

resourceful tools to student-athletes

seeking advice


O.S.C.A.R.S. (Outstanding Student-Athletes Celebrating Achievements and Recognition Showcase)

In its 12th year, the O.S.C.A.R.S. is

the awards gala for the department of

athletics. Created by the Student-Athlete

Advisory Council and Student Welfare

and Development, the O.S.C.A.R.S. has

become the premier social event of

department of athletics. Highlighting the

achievements of Notre Dame student-

athletes, the event brings all the Notre

Dame community to acknowledge and

support the Fighting Irish.

ByroN V. KANALey AWArd recipieNtS—

senior monogram athletes who have been

most exemplary as students and leaders—

are selected by the Faculty Board on

Athletics.

• Skylar Diggins, women’s basketball

• Kim Holden, women’s swimming

• Mike Johnson, hockey

• Dillon Powers, men’s soccer

• Manti Te’o, football

• Rebecca Tracy, women’s track/

cross country

frANciS pAtricK o’coNNor AWArd

recognizes the contributions of one male

and one female Notre Dame student-

athlete who display the true spirit of Notre

Dame as exemplified by their contributions

and inspirations to their respective teams.

• Kapron Lewis-Moore, football

• Chrissie McGaffigan, women’s tennis

rocKNe SchoLAr-AthLete AWArd was

established to recognize student-athletes

who value fair play, respect for others,

and cooperation, and who are committed

to success in the classroom and on the

playing surface.

chriStopher Zorich AWArd recognizes

the contributions of a Notre Dame student-

athlete to the University community and

the community at large, and recognizes

student-athletes who study for the sake of

learning, give for the sake of giving, and

understand that personal accomplishment

is never achieved alone.

• Blas Moros, men’s tennis

• Molly Shawhan, women’s lacrosse

chucK LiNSter AWArd is given to a senior

member of the cheerleaders, manager,

or athletic trainers program who has the

highest grade-point average.

• Olivia Lee, cheerleading

the trophy AWArd is sponsored by

the Monogram Club and the Alumni

Association. It recognizes the team that

has demonstrated a commitment to

community through unparalleled service

to Notre Dame and South Bend.

• Softball and cheerleading

top GuN AWArd is given annually to

a graduating senior with the highest

cumulative GPA and who has competed on

an intercollegiate team for at least three

years.

• Patrick Veerkamp, baseball


First-Year Orientation

At the start of fall semester, Student

Welfare and Development offers the First

Year Orientation, designed to welcome

first-year student-athletes and their

parents to the Notre Dame athletics

family. The orientation is designed to

give incoming student-athletes and their

parents an overview of what it means to be

a student-athlete at Notre Dame and gives

more information about SWD’s initiatives.

More than 300 parents/family members

and first-year student-athletes attended

this year’s orientation.

Positive Transition Seminars

SWD produced three different seminars

created specifically for sophomores, juniors

and seniors to address the aspects of career

development.

• Seniors - Champion Leadership: Elevate

your Game to Win at Life

• Juniors – What’s Your Definition of

Success?

• Sophomores – If I Knew Then What I

Know Now, a real-world conversation about

life after Notre Dame and athletics with a

panel of student-athlete alumni

Safety and Awareness Training

SWD provides programs deemed

mandatory by the Office of the President,

student affairs and the director of athletics

to ensure that Notre Dame’s student-

athletes develop into strong, mature,

balanced and caring individuals. The focus

of the programming is on personal safety

education and overall harm reduction.

Community Service

During the 2012–13 academic year, Notre

Dame student-athletes reported more than

7,500 hours of community service.

The following is a list of projects

the office of Student Welfare and

Development helped implement:

• SportsReplay

• Irish Experience

• Fighting Irish Fight for Life

• Mentoring at Monroe Primary

• Pediatric Christmas Party

• Perley Primary Mural Project

Life of a Student-Athlete Panel

The Life of a Student-Athlete panel was

implemented to positively influence how

Notre Dame student-athletes are perceived

and understood by University personnel.

Partnering with the Office of Student

Affairs, an open forum panel discussion

was created to help educate rectors,

professors and University administrators

about the nuances of student-athlete life.

Student-athletes from football, volleyball,

women’s soccer and softball participated

in the event held at the Guglielmino

Athletics Complex.


facilities

Joyce ceNter

• The men’s and women’s fencing teams

moved into the space previously used

by the hockey team at the completion of

the Compton Family Ice Arena. The new

Castellan Family Fencing Center includes

a practice and competition area, coaches’

offices, conference room, locker rooms and

storage and equipment work areas.

• The athletics compliance office, located in

the Joyce Center, was remodeled during the

summer months to accommodate its staff.

• The Joyce Center’s generator was replaced

and the twin domes were re-roofed.

roLfS recreAtioN SportS ceNter

• The laundry room was gutted and the old

floor tiles removed. The existing concrete

floor was prepped and finished, the walls

were painted and some minor structural

changes were made to freshen the laundry

area. Two new large appliances were

purchased and installed resolving the

problem of frequent breakdowns of the older

appliances.

• Court floors were sanded to the bare wood,

lines repainted, new center court logos

installed and then sealed

Renovations, Improvements and UpgradespurceLL pAViLioN

• A new portable basketball f loor was

installed in Purcell Pavilion for the

2012–13 season. The floor is used for

practice and competition by both

the Notre Dame men’s and women’s

varsity basketball teams. Atlantic Coast

Conference logos were painted on the

court for the upcoming season.

• The volleyball team has a new court in

Purcell Pavilion, as well as a new practice

venue in the north dome fieldhouse in the

Joyce Center.

Notre Dame’s athletic venues are among the finest collegiate facilities in the nation, providing student-athletes state-of-the-art spaces for training and competition, and at the same time offering Irish fans affordable, family-friendly events.


facilities

rocKNe memoriAL

• The racquetball court walls were repaired.

• A TRX Training System in Room 109 and Personal

Training studio was installed.

• The therapy pool backwash valves were replaced.

• Classrooms 110 and B020 were renovated.

• A slick solution application was made to steps.

• A deep cleaning was done during one-week closure.

• New matting was added to basketball court walls.

• Repairs were made to several pipes and pumps.

• Service/ preventive maintenance was done on

basketball equipment.

• Annual refinishing of wooden floors took place.

ecK BASeBALL

• The batting cages in the batting/pitching building at

Eck Baseball were replaced. This practice space is used

by the Notre Dame baseball and softball varsity teams.

Stadium Tours

• The department of athletics offered Notre

Dame Stadium tours in 2012–13. Tickets

were available for purchase on the day of

the tour at Murnane Family Ticket Office in

the Purcell Pavilion, or for Saturday tours,

tickets were sold at the stadium. Fighting

Irish fans were allowed an insider’s view

of this legendary venue during an hour-

long tour, visiting the locker rooms, press

box and concourses. More than 2,500

people participated in the program offered

October until May.

hiGhLiGhtS iNcLuded:

• A behind-the-scenes look at one of the

most historic, tradition-laden venues in

sports

• An oral history of Notre Dame Stadium as

told by storyteller-ushers

• A panoramic view of campus, as seen

from the press box

• A visit to the Notre Dame locker room, the

famous “Play Like a Champion Today” sign,

and playing field

• A discount for purchases at the Leep

Varsity Shop in Purcell Pavilion


mediarelations

The Notre Dame media relations office’s primary responsibility is to publicize and publish information relative to all 26 varsity teams and more than 700 student-athletes. The department serves as a liaison between the University’s entire athletic administration, and in particular, for its coaches and student-athletes to the local, state and national media.


The success and notoriety Irish athletic

teams experience on and off the field

builds great interest from media outlets

and fans both nationally and worldwide.

The dynamic and growing world of social

and digital media has created a heightened

awareness and demand for content relative

to Notre Dame sports programs.

The media relations department provides

an extensive range of services to meet

the ever-growing and changing needs of

media covering Notre Dame and is the

chief public relations vehicle in promoting

the University’s athletic brand. The office

works in concert with the Notre Dame

marketing and events division and Fighting

Irish Digital Media (FIDM) to ensure that

athletic events are seen and/or heard by

fans both nationally and internationally.

• Throughout the school year, the office

assists with the nomination of student-

athletes for national, regional and

conference awards both athletic and

academic in nature. In 2012–13, eight

student-athletes earned Capital One

Academic All-America® honors, while one

student-athlete (swimmer Kim Holden)

became the 50th Notre Dame recipient of a

prestigious NCAA postgraduate scholarship.

• The office assisted with the production

of several special documentaries that were

seen on the NBC Sports Network: Onward

Notre Dame: South Bend to Soldier Field;

Reinvention: Notre Dame Men’s Basketball

Blueprint for Success; Strong and True:

Notre Dame Spring Football; A Tradition

of Excellence: Notre Dame Women’s

Basketball, Notre Dame Hockey: Sweet

Home Chicago and Irish United: The Story

of Notre Dame Women’s Soccer.

• In addition, CBS Sports Network aired

a 30-minute behind-the-scenes look into

the Irish men’s basketball program. The

all-access show, College Hoops Confidential:

Notre Dame, featured interviews with head

coach Mike Brey and players.

• The media relations staff and the

Notre Dame campus served as host to

ESPN College GameDay twice during the

2012–13 school year. The football crew

visited South Bend in October when

the Irish played host to Stanford and in

February when the men’s basketball team

entertained Louisville.

• The department facilitated nearly

120 television broadcasts and provided

comprehensive statistical data and game

notes as well as historical information to

aid in the coverage of those contests.

• The office conducts comprehensive

communications and social media training

and instructional sessions through several

specialized and professional companies on

how to handle interviews with traditional

media as well as creating a keen awareness

as to the ramifications and misuse of such

social Web sites as Facebook and Twitter.

• Media relations staffers are on site for

every home sporting event as well as NCAA

and conference championship contests.

Notre Dame served as the host for the 2013

BIG EAST Men’s Tennis Championship and,

along with the Indiana Sports Corporation,

co-hosted in Indianapolis the quarterfinals

of the ’13 NCAA Men’s Lacrosse

Championship at Lucas Oil Stadium and

the NCAA Rowing Championships at Eagle

Creek Park.

• Staff members coordinated Notre

Dame coaches’ shows, Inside Notre

Dame Football with Brian Kelly and

Inside Notre Dame Basketball with Mike

Brey. The two shows once again reached

more homes nationwide than any other

coaches’ television network shows in the

country. The shows aired on more than

25 affiliate networks reaching nearly 70

million households.

• Notre Dame fans once again could listen

to Irish football, men’s basketball, women’s

basketball, hockey and baseball games in

several radio markets as well as on UND.

com throughout their respective seasons.

• On the radio, The Brian Kelly Show

once again was broadcast live from

Legends on the Notre Dame campus

on Thursday nights during the football

season and aired live in both South Bend

and Indianapolis. UND.com also televised

the show live. The Mike Brey Show took

place at O’Rourke’s Public House, located

on Eddy Street Commons, across from

campus. The show aired live on UND.com

as well and was broadcast in South Bend.

The Jack Swarbrick Radio Show aired in

Chicago, Indianapolis and South Bend

and was co-hosted with Chicago ESPN

1000 veteran anchor Dave Juday. The duo

interviewed a variety of Irish coaches

and student-athletes as well as other

high-profile sports guests. Several of the

interviews with coaches and athletes were

aired on UND.com.

• The media relations office received

several accolades from the College

Sports Information Directors of America

(CoSIDA) during the past school year.

The men’s soccer guide, edited by Sean

Carroll, earned Best in the Nation honors,

while the football media guide, edited

by Brian Hardin and Michael Bertsch,

received a second-place citation in that

category. The women’s soccer media

guide, produced by Chris Masters,

garnered second-place honors.


fighting irish digital media

Fighting Irish Digital Media’s (FIDM) objective is to tell Notre Dame’s story through the lens of athletics; its goal is to become the most distributed and strategically valued collegiate media network in the world, reflecting Notre Dame’s mission of educating the mind and heart. Distributed through a variety of platforms including broadcast and cable television, digital and social media, FIDM’s live and on-demand programs depict Notre Dame athletics’ emphasis on excellence, education, community, faith and tradition. A talented staff of 13 members produces video features, live game webcasts, highlights, coaches’ shows and documentary-style entertainment.


Production Facility

In September 2012, FIDM moved into a new

3,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art facility

located in the Joyce Center fieldhouse. The

FIDM center includes a green screen studio,

control room, edit suites, voice-over booth

and production workspace, enabling new

capabilities and streamlined workflows. The

Compton Family Ice Arena in-game video

board shows are now operated from the FIDM

center. Game broadcasts and Web streams

are routed to servers in the center, creating

a central repository and allowing editors

to create and distribute highlight packages

within minutes of a game’s final whistle.

FIDM’s innovative approach has been

featured in several national publications

including Streaming Media and Broadcast

Technology magazines.

Content Worth Watching

To complement established shows

produced by FIDM’s video production

team, FIDM launched the video version of

the athletic department’s popular Strong

of Heart stories. Eight stories, paired into

four half-hour episodes, aired on the

NBC Sports Network throughout the past

year. Additionally, FIDM partnered on

six “all-access” shows featuring behind-

the-scenes action of Notre Dame’s

women’s soccer, women’s basketball,

men’s basketball, hockey and football

teams. Onward Notre Dame: South Bend

to Soldier Field, chronicling the football

team’s preparation for and game against

the Miami Hurricanes was produced by

NFL Films and aired on NBC. The other five

programs aired on the NBC Sports Network

and are available online.

Notre Dame athletics’ presence on cable

television and nation radio networks

continued to grow by adding Comcast

regional sports network affiliates. Shows

hosted by FIDM’s Jack Nolan, such as

Inside Notre Dame Football and Inside

Notre Dame Basketball, provide exclusive

one-on-one access to head coaches Brian

Kelly and Mike Brey.

Student Involvement

FIDM is committed to being a source of

video production education and hands-on

experience for students. Through a

partnership with the film, television and

theatre department, an Internet video

production course was taught in the FIDM

center. Students were taught production

techniques and created Web videos, such as

the weekly student-produced highlight show

Fighting Irish Xtra or worked with the live

streaming and in-game video board teams.

Social Media

FIDM made great strides to increase Notre

Dame athletics’ presence on social media.

All athletic teams have twitter accounts,

as do most coaches. In addition, every

twitter account at least doubled. The team

also oversees departmental direction

on Facebook, Instagram, Google + and

launched a first-of-its-kind partnership with

the social music platform Spotify. The FIDM

social media team has been recognized

in the national media by columnists from

Mashable and ESPN.com.

fidm – by the numbers

Social Media Followers(aggregation of all accounts) Facebook: 671,324 +38% Twitter: 381,026 +145% Pinterest: 15,645 +2760%Google+: 69,478 +32% Instagram: 15,000 N/ASpotify: 12,150 N/ATotal: 1,164,623 +67% uND.com Total page views: 50,872,362 +21%Unique monthly visitors: 753,431 +27%Irish Underground blog views: 109,000

Video StatisticsLive game streams: 91 -14%Live streams (other): 48 N/ATotal live video streams: 139 -10%Total viewers: 165,597 -23%Total hours viewed: 85,503 Video On Demand viewers: 8,964,085 +109%

FIDM Content Produced for NBC SportsOnward Notre Dame: South Bend to Soldier

Field Viewers: 2,233,000 Strong of Heart (3 episodes/6 stories)

Viewers: 514,000Reinvention: Notre Dame Men’s Basketball

Blueprint for Success Viewers: 190,000Strong and True: Notre Dame Spring

Football Viewers: 135,000A Tradition of Excellence: Notre Dame

Women’s Basketball Viewers: 111,000Notre Dame Hockey: Sweet Home Chicago

Viewers: 95,000Irish United: The Story of Notre Dame

Women’s Soccer Viewers: 39,000

2012-13 fidm Web v ideo top fi ve Top Live Games

3,819 – M. Lacrosse vs. North Carolina, 3/2/13

2,544 – Hockey vs. Bowling Green, 3/1/13

2,506 – Hockey vs. Bowling Green, 3/2/13

2,141 – Hockey vs. Minn-Duluth, 10/19/12

2,132 – M. Basketball vs. Quincy, 10/29/12

Top On-Demand Videos

417,313 - Louis Nix Blue-Gold Two Point Conversion

322,928 – Manti Te’o Music Video

190,723 – The Manti Te’o Interview with

Kate Sullivan

151,915 – Irish Connection – SC Game Day

137,280 – Notre Dame – Stanford Game Highlights

Top Live Events32,945 – Jack Swarbrick Press Conference, 1/16/13

23,317 – UND.com Signing Day, 2/6/13

6,477 – Official Notre Dame Football Post Game

Show, Purdue 9/8/12

6,172 – 2013 Notre Dame Football Media Day, 8/16/12

6,061 – 2013 Awards Show (The Echoes), 12/7/12


monogramclub

More than 4,500 dues-paying members of the Notre Dame Monogram Club remain connected to the University through the organization’s mission of promoting spirit, unity, leadership and sportsmanship.

Founded in 1916 by former Irish athletics director and head football coach Jesse Harper, the Monogram Club is comprised of individuals who have earned the Notre Dame varsity athletic insignia for their athletic endeavors, team support contributions or as honorary recipients. Members cross gender, age, race, geographical and sport lines, but share a commitment to the University’s rich heritage of athletic and intellectual achievements.

// The Monogram Club funded the volleyball team’s gondola ride in Venice in 2013, as part of the team hosting program, which affords Notre Dame athletic teams the opportunity to enjoy unique experiences while traveling.


Contributions and Gift Giving The club makes significant financial

contributions to enhance opportunities

and programs for both past and current

student-athletes. The 2012–13 academic

year featured these initiatives:

• The Monogram Club provided $70,000

for postseason gifts and awards to

deserving teams, including conference

championship rings

• It contributed $41,000 for Monogram

awards (jackets, rings, stadium blankets

or watches)

• Through the team hosting program,

the club funded several fun team outings

including a gondola ride for the volleyball

team in Europe and tickets to the football

game in Dublin while the men’s tennis

team was in Ireland.

Scholarships

• The Brennan-Boland-Riehle Scholarship

Fund (BBRSF) covers a minimum award

of 75 percent of a student’s normal work

and loan component of the financial aid

package. Forty students received $374,000

in 2012–13. More than $4.18 million in

scholarships have been given to nearly

300 undergraduates who are children

of dues-paying members since the fund

began in 1980.

• The 2013 Monogram Club postgraduate

scholarships were awarded to Dean

Odegard (track and field) and Meghan

Salomon (rowing). Awarded in recognition

of outstanding academic achievement,

service and leadership, the program

provides two senior student-athletes a

one-time, non-renewable $5,000 grant for

postgraduate studies.

• Funded by the Dave Bossy Scholarship,

four student-athletes volunteered for

summer service programs through the

Center for Social Concerns.

Outreach, Fellowship and Mentoring

The club continues to expand its efforts

to engage former and current student-

athletes in service, scholarship, support,

recognition and camaraderie.

Here is a list of 2012–13 activities:

• Receptions for football Monogram

winners on home football weekends and

pre-game events for dues-paying members

on home football Saturdays. Postgame

Masses for members and their families

following the games also were held.

• Football Monogram winners were invited

to form a tunnel on the field prior to

the 2012 Michigan game; all Monogram

winners were invited to do so at the 2012

BYU game.

• The club hosted receptions and a dinner

for Monogram winners and guests during

the Blue-Gold weekend.

• The club funded the 35th reunion of the

1977 national championship football team

as well as supporting other varsity athletics

programs during reunion.

• More than 70 Monogram winners and their

guests attended the Riehle Open; over 150

attended the summer Mass and cookout.

• Monogram winners and their guests were

invited to club receptions associated with

away games in 2012–13, including the Notre

Dame-Miami game at Soldier Field, the

men’s basketball NCAA tournament game

in Dayton, and the women’s basketball

Final Four game in New Orleans.

Monogram Club LeaderhshipPresident: Haley Scott DeMaria (’95, swimming)

First Vice President: Kevin O’Connor (’89, lacrosse)

Second Vice President: Terri Vitale (’94 and ’95, tennis)

Treasurer: Pat Garrity (’98, basketball)

Secretary/Legal Counsel: Mike Frantz (’73, football)

Past President: Dick Nussbaum (’74 and ’77, baseball)

Executive Director: Beth Hunter (honorary member)

// More than 50 first-time Monogram winners were presented with letter jackets at the club’s spring ceremony in April.


externalaffairs

The Rev. Edmund P. Joyce Athletics Grants-in-Aid Program the Gift thAt cAN ShApe A Life Each member of the Joyce Grants-in-Aid

Program provides an annual, expendable

$40,000 gift to Notre Dame to help fund a

student-athlete’s tuition, room and board

and books for one year. Named for the late

Rev. Edmund P. Joyce, C.S.C., who served 35

years as executive vice president at Notre

Dame, this elite group of athletic benefac-

tors continues Father Joyce’s vision and

legacy through the support of athletic

scholarships for student-athletes. A strong

supporter of integrity in intercollegiate

athletics, Father Joyce was determined

that Notre Dame student-athletes receive a

world-class education, in the classroom and

on the fields of competition—a philosophy

that continues today with alumni, parents,

family and friends through the Joyce Grants-

in-Aid Program.

The program allows Irish student-athletes to

experience a rigorous academic curriculum,

mature spiritually, engage with the local

community and compete in premier athletic

events. With this generous funding, Notre

Dame athletics is a model intercollegiate

program based on integrity and excellence

both on and off the field.

JoyCe Gr ants-in-a id members Ken and Joyce Adamson Ed and Becky Delahanty Peter and Carol Derrico Jim and Connie Fischer Tim Hasara and Amy DeWein Jack Hickey John and Eileen Huarte Mike and Karen Leep Ted and Tracy McCourtney Doug and Karen Mick Jim and Laura Mooney Mike and Margaret Mountford Peter and Marcella Murphy Vince and Lenda Naimoli Barbara O’Toole Hunter Perret and Candyce Gagnard Perret Jim and Katy Quinn Peter Schivarelli Bill and Peg Stoutenburgh Jim and Darla Wainscott

Excellent coaches, facilities, scholarships and operational dollars are all needed to win national championships.

Generous benefactors who contribute to an environment that allows our student-athletes to flourish spiritually, academically and athletically while making a meaningful contribution to the community, embody the foundation upon which our athletics department is built.

These individuals underwrite the opportunity of a lifetime—a Notre Dame education and athletics experience that is second to none.

// Ed and Becky Delahanty, and Karen and Doug Mick on the sidelines prior to the Michigan game kickoff


The Rockne Heritage Fund

The Rockne Heritage Fund honors the

legacy of former Irish football coach Knute

Rockne. Although he coached his last game

in 1930, Rockne is still recognized as one

of the most successful college football

coaches of all-time. His innovative cross-

country train trips made Notre Dame a

household name.

Established in October 2002, the Rockne

Heritage Fund grows larger every year.

With more than $1.65 million raised in

2012–13—a 35 percent increase over the

previous year—the fund continues to

provide scholarship and operational dollars

to all of Notre Dame’s 26 varsity sports.

Every gift matters, as no minimum amount

is required to participate. More than half of

the group’s members are recognized during

a home football game for their gifts at the

Director’s Circle Traditional level ($1,500

minimum), or Irish Legends level ($5,000,

$10,000 and $25,000).

Joseph T. Mendelson Endowment for Athletics Excellence

Established in 2006, the Joseph T.

Mendelson Endowment for Athletics

Excellence provides incremental and

non-budgeted funding for Notre Dame’s

Olympic sport programs.

The fund, whose market value stands at

approximately $2.4 million, generates

annual income that can assist Irish

Olympic sport coaches in taking advantage

of opportunities to help grow their sport

and support their student-athletes in a

variety of ways.

Total Cash Receipts $1,952,998 $75,000 $88,700 $27,500 $60,750 $83,750 $15,425 $25,000

$2,329,123

loCker room fund totals

Sport Number of Lockers Pledged Cash Receipts ’12/’13Football 91 $41,522Hockey 10 $20,000Soccer 7 $6,500Men’s Lacrosse 6 $7,500Golf 5 $10,000Softball 4 $7,700Baseball 3 $10,300Men’s Basketball 1 -

Totals 126 $103,522

Men’s Soccer, video analysis service $15,592Women’s Soccer, video/editing system $32,549Baseball, computer and smart tv technology $7,745Softball, pitching machines $9,826Men’s Lacrosse, filming, editing technology $34,509Rowing, performance analysis equipment $35,000Men’s and Women’s Golf, golf simulator $50,810Hockey, heart monitor systems $9,856Women’s Lacrosse, computer and software $9,798

Total $205,685

2012–13 mendleson fund prov ided:

Football Experience Weekends

Notre Dame Football Experience Weekends

offer prospective athletics contributors and

leadership benefactors the opportunity

to see what it looks like to “play like a

champion” during their campus visit.

The athletics external affairs staff hosts the

group for a personal, up-close experience of

Notre Dame athletics.

Some of the ActiVitieS iNcLude:

• Visit the stadium locker room

• Attend a private reception with Jack

Swarbrick and his senior staff

• Hear presentations by Irish head coaches

and student-athletes

• Watch pre-game festivities from the

sidelines

• Tour facilities

• Watch the game from the press box

The Locker Room Fund

The Locker Room Fund program offers

former student-athletes, coaches and

student managers a naming opportunity

in their former sport’s locker room. To

date, more than $3 million, with cash

receipts in excess of $2.3 million, has been

received for the program. The lockers

of 127 Notre Dame student-athletes now

display an engraved plaque to identify the

donor in acknowledgment of the $25,000

gift to participate.

The Locker Room Fund began in 2004, to

support construction of the Guglielmino

Athletics Complex by providing this naming

right to football alumni, coaches and

student personnel from that sport. With

the tremendous support of the program

realized, it was decided in 2008 to broaden it

to include those athletic teams who recently

had upgraded facilities including their

locker rooms. In addition to football, Locker

Room Funds now exist for softball, golf,

men’s and women’s soccer, lacrosse, hockey

and baseball, established in that order.


recsports

RecSports offers a wide range of opportunities for the Notre Dame community to pursue or maintain a healthy lifestyle. Whether the goal is to learn a new skill or increase the intensity of a current routine, RecSports provides an abundance of ways to participate in team or individual activities: aquatics, club sports, family programs, fitness, intramurals, outdoor adventures and special events.

Aquatics

The aquatics program hosted 31 dates of

competition in 2012–13, 12 more than the

previous year. The swim lesson program

began offering public group swim lessons

to the community in 2012–13. Notre Dame

community members were allowed to

register first and any remaining slots were

made available to the general public. St.

Joseph Beach’s use has expanded in that it

is now available for events such as youth

birthday parties, and it provides stand-up

paddleboards and programs for open-

water swimming and dog recreational

hours. For a second year, RecSports

partnered with South Bend Community

School Corporation to host four interns

with special needs. The students assisted

front desk staff at Rolfs Sports Recreation

Center, Rockne Memorial and Rolfs

Aquatics Center.

Club Sports

The men’s rowing club christened its

newest shell, the Rich O’Leary, honoring

the 38-year legacy of the former RecSports

director’s years of service to RecSports

and club sports. The cycling club won

its third consecutive MWCCC DII Team

Championship and its second straight

MWCCC/NECCC DII Team Championship.

The figure skating club won the

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Midwestern Sectional Synchronized

Skating Championship for the third

consecutive year, and won a gold medal at

the Mid-America Synchronized Skating

Championship. The men’s boxing club has

donated half a million dollars in the past

four years, and the Bengal Bout finals were

broadcast live on ESPN3. The women’s

boxing club held its first-ever two-round

Baraka Bouts and donated $20,000 to the

Holy Cross Missions in East Africa.

Family Programming

Even Fridays, the main family program,

was offered twice a month and included

bowling, swimming, game nights and

bicycle rides. Family FIRST classes were

planned for parents to participate with

their children in activities such as yoga and

rock climbing.

Fitness

The “Try It, You’ll Like It” week attracted

2,100 participants to try any group fitness

class free of charge. The “donation drop-

in” classes, held during finals week,

allowed participants to attend for free in

exchange for a donation to a local charity

such as the Humane Society and Northern

Indiana Food Bank. A “Freebie” series—

yoga, boot camp, and tai chi—was offered

during summer 2012. The martial arts

series added a new women’s defense class

in spring 2013.

In partnership with human resources,

Walk ND added 191 members, bringing the

total to 366. Several creative challenges

were available to keep participants

interested, and the group formed a

community outreach program, Walk-

a-Dog, to support the Humane Society of

St. Joseph County.

Intramural Sports

Intramural events attracted some 10,000

participants in numerous team and

individual sports, competing in various

divisions such as interhall, co-rec and

campus. With the opening of Compton

Family Ice Arena, curling was added to the

intramural offerings and attracted 16 teams.

Outdoor Adventures

In its first year as a program, Outdoor

Adventures took students off campus for

whitewater rafting and a rock climbing

trip to New River Gorge in West Virginia; a

skiing and snowboarding day trip to Swiss

Valley Ski Park in Jones, Mich.; a ski and

snowboard weekend in northern Michigan;

and a spring break backpacking trip in the

Smoky Mountains.

Special Events

The 2012 Biathlon had 180 participants.

In its 28th year, the Domer Run raised

$5,550 for gynecological cancer awareness

education. The second annual Zumbathon

drew more than 100 participants and raised

$645 for RecSports’ Relay for Life team. The

24-hour Spin-a-thon supported the women’s

basketball team’s Pink Zone initiative. The

event raised $2,600 with 275 riders.

reCsports – by the numbers

Programs: 375 Participants: 31,228 Contests/Games: 3,773Classes: 224 Facility Uses: 459,923Raised for Charity: $180,153

Aquatics Programs: 13Participants: 4,749Group Swim Lessons: 84Private Swim Lessons: 465Swim Assessments: 5CPR Staff Trainings: 5Competitive Events: 31

Club SportsClubs: 41Members: 1,579 +224%Practices: 2,353Competitions: 498Miles Traveled: 91,338

Family Programming Programs: 27Even Fridays: 20Family FIRST offerings: 6Participants: 1,895

FitnessPrograms: 244Group Fitness Participants: 11,188Personal Training Participants: 142Classes: 218Four Blood Drive Donors: 342

Intramural Sports Programs: 35Leagues: 62Participants: 10,429 +3.3%Games: 2,585Teams: 1,178

Outdoor Adventures Programs: 7Trips: 5Equipment Rentals: 108Participants: 117

Special Events Programs: 8Participants: 1,155Raised for Local Charities: $9,245

faCili t ies – by the numbers

Rolfs Sports Recreation Center Recreational Users: 266,647 +19.2%Students: 186,190 +70%Faculty & Staff: 52,411 +20%Other: 28,997 +10%Special User Groups: 76

Rockne Memorial Recreational Users: 175,924 +23%Students: 157,022 +88%Faculty & Staff: 12,679 +7%Other: 8,015 +5%Special User Groups: 54

Rolfs Aquatic Center Recreational Users: 17,352 +73.1%Students: 9,030 +57%Faculty & Staff: 4,611 +29%Other: 2,220 +14%Special User Groups: 43


compliance

Notre Dame athletics’ unwavering commitment to playing by the rules has made it a role model among its peers. The University’s compliance office works with coaches, current and prospective student-athletes and their parents, administrators, faculty, staff, fans, benefactors and others to ensure adherence to conference and NCAA rules and, in doing so, promotes Notre Dame’s exemplary reputation on and off the field of play.

ncaacompliance.nd.edu574-631-9647

@IrishCompliance


By focusing on the

University’s core values:

accountability, integrity,

leadership in excellence,

leadership in mission and

teamwork, the compliance

office assists the athletics

department in keeping its

mission to combine athletics

and academics. With these

values as a guide, Notre

Dame student-athletes

compete and experience

success at the highest level

of collegiate sports while

modeling the highest level

of integrity.

The six-member staff

works on behalf of Notre

Dame’s 26 varsity teams

and approximately

750 student-athletes

to coordinate the

University’s NCAA and

conference compliance

efforts through ongoing

educational programs, the

monitoring of activities and practices,

and regular reviews of existing practices

and processes.

The office lends Notre Dame’s voice in the

NCAA’s legislative and reform process by

offering new ideas and critiquing proposed

rules or regulations. This interaction at the

national level holds the potential to benefit

all intercollegiate athletics, not only the

Fighting Irish.

The office administers the Student-

Athlete Opportunity Fund, an NCAA

account received annually by each member

institution to assist student-athletes who

have various financial needs. In 2012–13,

Notre Dame received over $450,000 from

the fund and utilized more than $240,000

for student-athlete academic support,

including the purchase of course supplies

(e.g.,, laptops, calculators and cameras,

summer school grants-in-aid for some

45 student-athletes). Another portion of

the fund, $100,000, met non-academic

personal assistance (e.g., emergency travel,

clothing assistance, medical insurance and

expenses) for 100 student-athletes in need

of such help.

The office also advocates for coaches

and student-athletes in a number of

circumstances. The staff files numerous

waivers during each year to seek some sort

of exception to or relief from an NCAA

rule; 26 of the 30 waivers filed during

2012–13 were approved.

Education is an essential component of the

compliance office’s mission. The staff engages

in two primary forms of education. The staff

presented more than 200 education sessions

regarding NCAA rules and regulations

in 2012–13 to various audiences: student-

athletes, coaches, boosters, development staff

and others. Second, the compliance office

completed its third year of the Intercollegiate

Athletics and the Law externship in

partnership with the Notre Dame Law School.

Through this program, the compliance staff

mentors and educates 10 law students each

academic year, teaching them the basics of

NCAA compliance and legal issues that affect

the athletics department. The law students

are mentored during office hours in the

compliance office and are required to submit

an exploration paper as part of the experience.

// Stills from the latest compliance video, “Leave the Recruiting to Us”


sportsperformance

performance.nd.edu

facebook.com/NDPerformance


The focus of the sports performance

division is to assist coaches and student-

athletes in their quest for optimal

performance by improving results in the

areas of sports medicine, athletic training,

strength and conditioning, nutrition

nal enhancement and athletic apparel/

footwear. Using a collaborative approach

based on sound, scientific research, the

sports performance team is committed

to the design of programs aimed at

maximizing the performance goals of the

individual athlete. Realizing that there are

no shortcuts in the journey to becoming an

elite athlete, the sports performance team

recognizes and supports the hard work and

sacrifices our student-athletes put forth on

a daily basis.

Our performance Website

(performance.nd.edu) contains more

information, but here are some of the tools

we use daily to help our student-athletes:

• Comprehensive medical evaluations/

screenings to assess potential

musculoskeletal issues. This includes

orthopedic evaluations, neurocognitive

baseline testing, blood work, Functional

Movement Screens/Selective Functional

Movement Assessment and ACL Reduction

Testing Program.

• Best practice testing and monitoring

protocols for every student-athlete to

evaluate mobility, flexibility, linear and multi-

directional speed, and strength/power.

• Nutrition evaluation and education.

Through individual and team nutrition

assessments (including body composition

/metabolic/ clinical laboratory testing)

we can develop individualized nutrition

programs to encourage proper fueling

for athletic development, training, and

competitions. The training table and

satellite fueling stations assist dietitians

in educating how high quality foods can

enhance performance: Learning by doing.

• Through our relationship with adidas, we

work to provide our student-athletes with

uniforms, footwear and gear designed for

maximum quality, comfort, performance

and style.

• Constant review of new methodology:

The performance team meets regularly

to discuss the latest sports medicine

research, cutting edge training techniques,

and innovative technology that may prove

useful to coaches and student-athletes.


youth andcommunityprograms

The office of Youth and Community Programs uses sports as a vehicle to promote the ideals of Notre Dame athletics. Youth from across the nation are given opportunities to connect with Notre Dame student-athletes in a variety of positive, active settings. Many times these programs influence the goals and dreams of the young participants by introducing healthy habits and establishing new or stronger relationships.

In addition to strengthening personal character, sports often make communities stronger. For instance, Notre Dame has a long history of rallying around its Fighting Irish—from tailgating before a football game to wearing white T-shirts to a basketball game—to display loyalty. These acts of fan unity may be labeled as a sort of hope, and in a bigger sense, an avenue for Notre Dame to serve the common good.


The summer camp experience provides

young athletes a chance to live the life of a

Notre Dame student-athlete. The campers,

ages 10–18, reside in the dormitories, eat

meals in the dining halls, practice in state-

of-the art facilities and interact with some

of the best coaches in the nation. Many

current student-athletes help staff the

camps and in doing so play a major role in

enhancing the overall experience for the

young guests.

The Irish Experience is a multi-sport and

life skill development program intended

to showcase the five pillars of success

of the Notre Dame athletic department:

excellence, education, faith, tradition

and community. Irish Experience events

provide community service opportunities

for Notre Dame athletic teams. For

example, student-athletes visited the

Martin Luther King Jr. Recreation Center

and participated in a Q&A panel with the

center’s students. Those students were also

invited to campus for a men’s basketball

game and pizza party with members of the

volleyball, football, rowing and men’s and

women’s soccer teams, in recognition of

their good grades and behavior.


event marketing & ticket operationsNotre Dame’s ticketing and event marketing staff promoted, sold and worked more than 200 events during the 2012–13 season and helped make attending an Irish game a fun-filled, family experience.


Ticket Operations

For the third consecutive year, more than

one million Notre Dame fans—including

students, alumni, faculty, staff, supporters

and friends—attended games played by

the 11 Irish sports that require a ticket for

admission.

Since the athletics department

implemented a ticketing policy to include

football, men’s and women’s basketball,

men’s and women’s lacrosse, men’s and

women’s soccer, baseball, hockey, softball

and volleyball, attendance has increased

markedly at those events.

Thirty-one events were classified as sellouts

in 2012–13: 15 in hockey, 11 in women’s

basketball, seven in men’s basketball, six in

football and one in men’s lacrosse.

Nationally, the Irish women’s basketball

team ranked fifth overall with a school-

record average crowd of 8,979 and a season

attendance total of 133,925,

Now playing hockey in the Compton Family

Ice Arena (which most observers consider

the best college hockey facility in the nation

and ranked as the third overall venue by

Stadium Journey magazine) the Irish hockey

team averaged 4,885 fans per game and was

in the nation’s top 15 in attendance (13th).

In 2012, the Murnane Family Ticket Office

successfully executed a ticket lottery for

the BCS National Championship Game

against Alabama in Miami, Fla. The game

created a staggering demand, the highest

in Notre Dame history, with more than

100,000 tickets requested. The frenzy,

which began shortly after Notre Dame’s

victory over USC, spanned three weeks.

Tickets were dispersed among the Notre

Dame alumni, monogram winners, donors,

current students, faculty and staff, season

ticket holders and Notre Dame parents.

Approximately $17.6 million was refunded

for unfulfilled ticket requests.

Notre Dame Kids Club

The Notre Dame Kids Club allows young

fans in the eighth grade and under to

be a part of the excitement of Fighting

Irish athletics. Club members received an

official T-shirt, passes to general admission

events, and tickets to select hockey, men’s

basketball, women’s basketball games, plus

other benefits. The club saw a 76 percent

membership increase in 2012–13.

Marketing

The marketing staff coordinated open

practices with our teams in St. Joseph

County, giving area fans a chance to see

the teams in relaxed, accessible venues.

The Fighting Irish hockey team skated at

Merrifield Park in Mishawaka, and the

men’s basketball team practiced at the Kroc

Center in South Bend.

In addition, several Notre Dame teams

raised more than $225,000 to help in the

fight against cancer. The Irish women’s

basketball team led the way by amassing

$204,000 with its Pink Zone event.

Softball and baseball participated in Strike

Out Cancer, while baseball assisted efforts

for ALS. Men’s basketball raised funds for

Hurricane Sandy, while hockey continued

its support for the military by raising funds

for Defending the Blue Line. The Notre

Dame volleyball team generated funds

with its Dig Pink project, while the Irish

women’s lacrosse squad sponsored Lax for

the Cure.

Corporate Partners

As one of the more recognizable and

powerful brands in sports, Notre Dame

offers its official corporate partners a

comprehensive marketing/advertising plan

that connects their vision and reach with

the University’s reputation for excellence,

quality and integrity.

Team Notre Dame

Team Notre Dame provides a few select

national companies several valuable

benefits for their businesses, customers

and clients.

In 2012–13, adidas, Coca-Cola, Gatorade,

McDonald’s, Sprint and Xerox received these

benefits as members of Team Notre Dame:

• Use of “official” designation for national

promotional/advertising purpose

• National advertising during NBC Sports’

seven telecasts of Fighting Irish football

games (six home games, including one

primetime night game, and one off-site

contest in prime time)

• National advertising during IMG College

radio broadcasts of all Notre Dame home

and away football games

• Advertising in Notre Dame athletics

media productions including radio and

television shows, publications, Internet

and on-site venues

• Category exclusivity

• Tickets and corporate hospitality at Notre

Dame athletic events

National and Regional Marketing Partners

Bank of America, Comcast and Sirius/

XM Satellite Radio remained national

marketing partners with Notre Dame

in 2012–13, while Meijer and UPS were

regional marketing partners. CBTS,

O’Rourke’s, Saint Joseph Regional Medical

Center and South Bend Orthopaedics were

promotional partners.

These companies received:

• Limited promotional rights

• Advertising in Notre Dame athletics

media productions, including radio and

television shows, publications and Internet

• Game tickets and VIP hospitality

experiences at football and men’s

basketball games


(34-24, 10-14 BIG EAST)BIG EAST Championship Runner-Upbaseball men’s

ryAN BuLL // SO., OF

· Third Team All-BIG EAST

SeAN fitZGerALd // JR., RHP

· BIG EAST Weekly Honor Roll (Feb. 25)

eric JAGieLo // JR., 3B

· MLB Draft – First round (26th overall) by New York

Yankees

· Baseball America Second Team All-American

· Perfect Game Third Team All-American

· Louisville Slugger Third Team All-American

· BIG EAST Player of the Year

· First Team All-BIG EAST

· First Team ABCA/Rawlings Mideast Region

· Golden Spikes Award Semifinalist

· Golden Spikes Award Midseason Watch List

· Golden Spikes Award Watch List

· BIG EAST Weekly Honor Roll (Feb. 18, Feb. 25,

Mar. 11, Mar. 18)

· BIG EAST Player of the Week (Mar. 11)

trey mANciNi // JR., 1B

· MLB Draft – Eighth round by Baltimore Orioles


· First Team ABCA/Rawlings Mideast Region

· NCBWA National Hitter of the Week (Apr. 30)

· College Sports Madness BIG EAST Player of the

Week (Apr. 29)

· BIG EAST Player of the Week (Apr. 8, Apr. 29)

· BIG EAST Weekly Honor Roll (Mar. 4, May 6)

chArLie mArKSoN // SR., OF

· MLB Draft – 36th round by Milwaukee Brewers

NicK mccArty // FR., RHP


AdAm NortoN // SR., RHP


· Notre Dame Monogram Club MVP Award

· College Baseball Hall of Fame’s 2013 Pitcher of

the Year Watch List

· BIG EAST Weekly Honor Roll (Mar. 18, Apr. 1,

Apr. 22)

· BIG EAST Pitcher of the Week (Mar. 4)

· College Sports Madness National Pitcher of the

Week (Mar. 4)

· Notre Dame Club of St. Joseph Valley Rockne

Student-Athlete Award

dAN SLANiA // JR., RHP

· MLB Draft – Fifth round by San Francisco Giants

· Second Team All-BIG EAST

· 2013 Golden Spikes Award Midseason Watch List

· 2013 NCBWA Stopper of the Year Award Watch

List

· BIG EAST Weekly Honor Roll (Mar. 11, Mar. 25,

Apr. 29)

· CollegeBaseball360.com Primetime Performers

(Mar. 13)

pAtricK VeerKAmp // SR., RHP

· Top Gun Award

H O N O R S AWA R D S

HEAD COACH

Mik Aoki

ASSISTANT COACHES

Chuck RistanoJesse WoodsEddie Smith

CAPTAINS

Frank DeSicoCharlie Markson

B A S E B A L L H I G H L I G H T S

• Notre Dame and USF played the longest game in BIG EAST conference history on May 3 at Frank Eck Stadium. The 19-inning affair, which equaled the longest game ever played in the 120-year history of Fighting Irish baseball, lasted five hours and featured 36 different players and 540 pitches. Notre Dame lost the game 8-2, but it did mark the longest Division I baseball game since March 26, 2011. Pitcher Dan Slania came into the game in relief and pitched nine innings while striking out seven batters.

• Notre Dame played in 19 games (12-7) decided by one run, the second most in single-season school history. The 12 one-run victories set a school record.

• The Irish led the BIG EAST in fewest walks per nine innings (2.59) for the third straight year. Notre Dame is one of four NCAA Division I schools that has ranked in the top 30 nationally in fewest walks per nine innings pitched over the last three seasons.

• Eric Jagielo was selected 26th overall by the New York Yankees in the 2013 MLB First-Year Player Draft. His selection equals the fifth

highest an Irish player has ever been taken in MLB Draft history. Jagielo was the third position player from Notre Dame ever drafted in the first round. Jagielo was named the 2013 BIG EAST Player of the Year. He was the fourth player in school history to earn the conference’s top honor and first since Craig Cooper in 2006.

• Slania was selected by the San Francisco Giants with the 26th pick of the fifth round and No. 162 overall in the 2013 MLB First-Year Player Draft. Slania, who owns the Notre Dame career record for saves with 30, also holds the lowest career ERA in school history (minimum of 60 innings pitched) at 1.71.

• Trey Mancini was selected by the Baltimore Orioles with the 23rd pick of the eighth round and No. 249 overall in the 2013 MLB First-Year Player Draft.

• Adam Norton led the BIG EAST in innings pitched (116.1), tied for the league lead in victories and ranked eighth in ERA. His 10 victories were the most by a Notre Dame hurler since Aaron Heilman had 15 in 2001. Norton collected 12 quality starts and did not allow a single run in 17.0 innings of work against No. 25 Virginia Tech and No. 20 Cal Poly. Norton owns the school record in both fewest career walks per nine innings pitched (1.21) and strikeout-to-walk ratio (4.95).

• Frank DeSico started 214 of his last 216 career games. He set a school fielding record for career assists (683).


[25-10, 11-7 BIG EAST]NCAA Championship Second Round • BIG EAST Championship Semifinalist

Final Associated Press Ranking–24th

M E N ’ S B A S K E T B A L L H I G H L I G H T S

• Notre Dame made its 33rd appearance in the NCAA Championship.

• The Irish qualified for their fourth consecutive NCAA appearance (ninth time in 13 seasons and six times in last seven campaigns) for the first time in head coach Mike Brey’s tenure and the first time since making six consecutive trips from 1985-90.

• Notre Dame has earned a postseason berth in each of the last 14 seasons.

• The 25 wins by the Irish tied for the second most in the Brey era, second only to the 27 wins (27-7) during the 2010–11 campaign.

• The Irish senior class became the all-time winningest class in program history both in overall games and in BIG EAST play. From 2009–13, Notre Dame compiled a 97-41 overall mark (.703) and a 48-24 (.667) record in BIG EAST play.

• Notre Dame registered a record seventh-straight, 20-win season as well as a program-best fourth consecutive 10-win campaign in BIG EAST play. The Irish have reached the 20-win plateau 10 times in 13 seasons under Brey.

• In February 2013, Brey moved past legendary St. John’s coach Lou Carnesecca and into sole possession of fourth place on the all-time career BIG EAST wins list. From 2001–13, Brey guided the Irish to a 146-97 (.601) mark in both BIG EAST regular season and tournament contests.

• Over the last 126 games at Purcell Pavilion at the Joyce Center, Notre Dame has compiled a 117-9 record. That .929 wining percentage over the course of the last seven years ranks second nationally.

• Jack Cooley, a first-team all-BIG EAST selection, became the 53rd player in Notre Dame history to reach the 1,000-point plateau. He finished his career with 1,017 points and 792 rebounds.

• Jerian Grant joined Cooley as an all-conference honoree as he earned second-team all-BIG EAST accolades.

• Notre Dame advanced to the semifinals of the BIG EAST Championship for the fourth consecutive year and was the first team to accomplish that feat since Connecticut from 2002–05.

• Notre Dame’s 104-101 five-overtime victory over Louisville on Feb. 9, 2013, was the longest game in program history as well as the longest BIG EAST regular-season contest. The previous longest for both the Irish and the BIG EAST was a quadruple-overtime win at Georgetown (Notre Dame 116, Georgetown 111), which coincidentally was 11 years to the day (Feb. 9, 2002) from this year’s Notre Dame-Louisville contest.

HEAD COACH

Mike Brey

ASSISTANT COACHES

Anthony SolomonRod BalanisMartin Ingelsby

CAPTAINS

Eric AtkinsJack CooleyScott Martin

eric AtKiNS // JR., GuaRd

· BIG EAST Weekly Honor Roll (Dec. 3, Jan. 21)

· Notre Dame Captains’ Award

cAmeroN BiedScheid // FR., GuaRd

· BIG EAST Rookie of the Week (Feb. 4)

pAt coNNAuGhtoN // SO., GuaRd/FORWaRd

· BIG EAST Championship All-Tournament Team

· Notre Dame Defensive Player of the Year

JAcK cooLey // SR., FORWaRd


· Associated Press Honorable Mention All-

American


· NABC District V First Team

· Basketball Times Mideast All-District Team

· BIG EAST Weekly Honor Roll (Nov. 19, Dec. 24,

Feb. 4)

· Coaches vs. Cancer All-Tournament Team

· Reese’s Division I College Senior All-Star Game

pAtricK croWLey // JR., GuaRd



JeriAN GrANt // JR., GuaRd


· NABC District V Second Team

· Notre Dame Outstanding Playmaker Award

tom KNiGht // SR., FORWaRd

· Notre Dame Most Improved Player Award

Scott mArtiN // GR., GuaRd

· BIG EAST Weekly Honor Roll (Jan. 7)


men’s basketball


(35-2, 16-0 BIG EAST) • NCAA Women’s Final Four Participant • NCAA Norfolk Regional Champion BIG EAST Regular-Season Champion • BIG EAST Tournament Champion • World Vision Classic Champion

Final Associated Press Poll Ranking — 2nd • Final ESPN/USA Today Poll Ranking — 2ndbasketball women’s

W O M E N ’ S B A S K E T B A L L H I G H L I G H T S

• Notre Dame finished with a 35-2 record and advanced to the NCAA Women’s Final Four for the third consecutive season (fifth time overall). The Irish ran off a school-record 30-game winning streak from December-April, including a perfect 16-0 record in BIG EAST Conference play (the program’s first unbeaten run in any conference since 1989–90).

• Notre Dame secured its second-consecutive outright BIG EAST regular-season title (third overall, following a shared championship in 2001) and became the first conference member other than Connecticut to go undefeated in BIG EAST play since 2005–06 (Rutgers).

• Notre Dame became the first program in NCAA Division I history to defeat both Connecticut and Tennessee on the road in the same season, and both wins had special significance. The Jan. 5 conquest of Connecticut (73-72) was Notre Dame’s fourth all-time win over a No. 1-ranked team, while the Jan. 28 victory over UT (77-67) marked the first time the Fighting Irish defeated the Lady Vols in nine trips to Knoxville.

• Notre Dame set or tied 15 single-season school records, including marks for wins (35), winning percentage (.946) and scoring average (81.2 ppg).

• For the second consecutive season, senior guard Skylar Diggins was a consensus first-team All-America selection and earned the Nancy Lieberman Award (nation’s top point guard). Meanwhile, junior guard Kayla McBride was an Associated Press third-team All-America pick and joined Diggins on the WBCA Coaches’ All-America Team, while Natalie Achonwa was an AP and WBCA Coaches’ honorable mention pick. All-America selection and freshman guard Jewell Loyd was chosen as the United States Basketball Writers Association (USBWA) National Freshman of the Year (Notre Dame’s first since 2002 when Jacqueline Batteast earned the honor).

• Head coach Muffet McGraw was the 2012–13 consensus national coach of the year, sweeping the four major national coaching honors (Associated Press, WBCA, Naismith Trophy and USBWA) for the second time in her career. She also became the 12th NCAA Division I coach to reach the 700-win mark with her milestone victory on Feb. 5, 2013, at Villanova.

• Notre Dame swept the three major BIG EAST individual awards with Diggins being named player of the year for the second consecutive season, McGraw garnering her second coach of the year trophy (also in

2001) and Loyd was tabbed as the freshman of the year. It was the first time since the conference’s inaugural season (1982–83, St. John’s) that a school other than Connecticut claimed all three honors in the same season.

• Diggins graduated as the holder or co-holder of 32 school records and ranked among the top five in an astounding 105 of the program’s game, season or career records lists. She departed as the school’s all-time leading scorer (2,357 points) and steals producer (381), and is the only Notre Dame player (male or female) ever to amass 2,000 points, 500 rebounds, 500 assists and 300 steals in her career, a feat only six NCAA Division I women’s basketball players have managed to achieve since 1999–2000.

• Diggins tied as the highest WNBA Draft pick in school history, going third overall to the Tulsa Shock in the 2013 WNBA Draft to match the position of Devereaux Peters by the Minnesota Lynx in 2012. Notre Dame becomes just the second school ever to produce lottery (top-four) draft picks in consecutive seasons during the 17-year history of the WNBA Draft.


basketball

NAtALie AchoNWA // JR., FORWaRd

· Associated Press Honorable Mention All-

American

· WBCA Coaches’ Honorable Mention All-

American

· WBCA Coaches’ All Region I Team

· All-BIG EAST First Team

· NCAA Norfolk Regional All-Tournament Team

· World Vision Classic All-Tournament Team

· Team Raleigh Regional All-Tournament Team

· BIG EAST Weekly Honor Roll (Dec. 10, Jan. 14,

Feb. 11)

ArieL BrAKer // JR., FORWaRd

· Notre Dame Most Improved Player Award

SKyLAr diGGiNS // SR., GuaRd

· WNBA Draft – Third overall pick by Tulsa Shock

· Associated Press All-America First Team

(unanimous)

· WBCA Coaches’ All-America Team

· John R. Wooden Award All-America Team

· USBWA All-America Team

· Wooden Award All-America Team

· Sports Illustrated All-America First Team

· Senior CLASS Award All-America First Team

· Nancy Lieberman Award Recipient

· Dawn Staley Award Recipient



· WBCA/State Farm Wade Trophy Finalist

· Naismith Trophy Finalist

· Wooden Award Finalist

· USBWA/Ann Meyers Drysdale Award Finalist

· WBCA Coaches’ All-Region I Team

· All-BIG EAST First Team (unanimous)

· NCAA Norfolk Regional Most Outstanding Player


· World Vision Classic All-Tournament Team

· BIG EAST Player of the Week (Dec. 23, Feb. 18,

March 5)

· BIG EAST Weekly Honor Roll (Dec. 3, Jan. 21,

Jan. 28, Feb. 4, Feb. 25)

· Notre Dame Woody Miller Player of the Year

Award (as selected by the media)


WhitNey hoLLoWAy // SO., GuaRd



JeWeLL Loyd // FR., GuaRd

· USBWA National Freshman of the Year

· BIG EAST Freshman of the Year

· All-BIG EAST Honorable Mention

· BIG EAST All-Freshman Team

· BIG EAST Championship All-Tournament

Team

· BIG EAST Freshman of the Week (Nov. 26,

Dec. 10, Jan. 14, Feb. 25)

· Notre Dame Defensive Player of the Year Award

KAyLA mcBride // JR., GuaRd

· WBCA Coaches’ All-America Team

· Associated Press All-America Third Team

· WBCA Coaches’ All-Region I Team


· BIG EAST Championship Most Outstanding

Player

· NCAA Norfolk Regional All-Tournament Team

· BIG EAST Championship All-Tournament

Team

· Wooden Award Midseason Top 20 List

· Naismith Trophy Midseason Candidate List

· USBWA/Ann Meyers Drysdale National Player

of the Week (Jan. 7)

· ESPNW National Player of the Week (Jan. 7)

· BIG EAST Player of the Week (Jan. 7)

· BIG EAST Weekly Honor Roll (Nov. 19, Dec. 31)

muffet mcGrAW // Head COaCH

· Associated Press Division I National Coach of

the Year

· WBCA Division I National Coach of the Year

· Naismith Women’s National Coach of the Year

· USBWA National Coach of the Year

· Sports Illustrated National Coach of the Year

· WBCA Region I Coach of the Year

· BIG EAST Coach of the Year

KAiLA turNer // SR., GuaRd

· Notre Dame Spirit Award

HEAD COACH

Muffet McGraw

ASSOCIATE HEAD COACH

Carol Owens

ASSOCIATE COACH

Beth Cunningham

ASSISTANT COACH

Niele Ivey

COOrDINATOr Of BASkETBAll OPErATIONS

Matt Chupp

ASSOCIATE DIrECTOr Of OPErATIONS & TECHNOlOgy

Angie Potthoff

CAPTAINS

Skylar DigginsKaila Turner

women’s


NCAA Championship – 28thNCAA Great Lakes Regional – 5th • BIG EAST Championship – 3rd

National Catholic Invitational Champions • Final USTFCCCA Ranking – 29thcross country men’s

M E N ’ S C R O S S C O U N T R Y H I G H L I G H T S

• The Irish advanced to the NCAA Championship for the 23rd time in 29 seasons under head coach Joe Piane. Notre Dame earned an at-large spot after placing fifth at the NCAA Great Lakes Regional. It marked the 23rd consecutive season either a Notre Dame individual or team competed at the NCAA Championship. Notre Dame finished 28th in the 31-team field without the services of standout senior Jeremy Rae and earned a No. 29 ranking in the final USTFCCCA poll.

• Notre Dame was a mainstay in the USTFCCCA poll, beginning the year ranked 25th in the preseason poll, reaching a high point of 13th on Oct. 2, and staying in the top 30 every week but one throughout the course of the year.

• Three student-athletes earned all-region honors at the NCAA Great Lakes Regional. Martin Grady (9th), Walter Schafer (18th) and J.P. Malette (23rd) all finished in the top 25 for the Irish. In all, the Irish had five runners in the top 45 to place fifth at the meet with 122 points and earn an at-large spot in the NCAA Championship.

• Rae (3rd), Grady (8th) and Malette (14th) all earned all-BIG EAST scrolls after helping the Irish finish third at the BIG EAST Championship. The finish was the best for the Irish since 2008. Going against several nationally-ranked squads, Notre Dame had five runners finish in the top 25 to help the Irish score 70 points, just three points out of second place.

• Notre Dame opened the year with a second-place finish at the Crusader Open, a victory at the National Catholic Championship and a third-place showing at the Notre Dame Invitational. The Irish also placed 26th at the elite Wisconsin Invitational.

• Rae, who missed the NCAA regional and championship races because of an injury, turned in a spectacular season. He won the National Catholic Championship, took sixth at the Notre Dame Invitational, 14th at the Wisconsin Invitational and third at the BIG EAST Championship.

• As a team, the Irish earned United States Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) Division I All-Academic Cross Country Team honors and also received the NCAA Public Recognition Award.

• Grady earned a spot on the USTFCCCA All-Academic Team after tallying a cumulative 3.25 GPA and finishing within the top 15 at the NCAA Great Lakes Regional.

mArtiN GrAdy // JR.

· NCAA Championship Participant

· All-Great Lakes Region

· All-BIG EAST

· USTFCCCA All-Academic Team

JAKe KiLdoo // SO.


pAtricK LeSieWicZ // JR.


· National Catholic Invitational JV Race Champion

J.p. mALette // SR.



· All-BIG EAST

Jeremy rAe // SR.

· All-BIG EAST


· BIG EAST Men’s Runner of the Week (Sept. 18,

Oct. 16)

· National Catholic Invitational Champion

WALter SchAfer // JR.



dJ thorNtoN // JR.


HEAD COACH

Joe Piane

CAPTAINS

Jeremy RaeJ.P. Malette



W O M E N ’ S C R O S S C O U N T R Y H I G H L I G H T S

• The Irish advanced to the NCAA Championship for the 11th time since 1993 after earning an at-large spot in the field following a third-place finish at the NCAA Great Lakes Regional. It marked the 15th time since 1993 that either a Notre Dame individual or team competed at the NCAA Championship. Notre Dame finished 15th in the 31-team field, which marked its best finish since 2005. The Irish earned a No. 18 ranking in the final USTFCCCA poll.

• Notre Dame was a mainstay in the USTFCCCA poll, beginning the year ranked 22nd in the preseason poll, reaching a high point of 16th on Oct. 2, and staying in the top 30 every week throughout the course of the year.

• Five student-athletes earned all-region honors at the NCAA Great Lakes Regional. Kelly Curran (10th), Rebecca Tracy (15th), Molly Seidel (19th), Hannah Eckstein (22nd) and Alexa Aragon (23rd) all finished in the top 25 for the Irish. In all, Notre Dame had seven runners in the top 40 to place third at the meet with 89 points and earn an at-large spot in the NCAA Championship.

• Curran (12th) and Tracy (15th) both earned all-BIG EAST scrolls after helping the Irish finish fifth at the BIG EAST Championship. Going against several nationally-ranked squads, Notre Dame had six runners finish in the top 25 to help the Irish score 90 points, just 10 points from third place.

• Notre Dame opened the year with a second-place finish at the Crusader Open, a victory at the National Catholic Championship and a second-place showing at the Notre Dame Invitational. The Irish also placed 12th at the elite Wisconsin Invitational.

• Tracy turned in an impressive senior year for the Irish as she won the National Catholic Championship to earn BIG EAST Runner of the Week honors, earn all-BIG EAST and all-region honors, and lead her team at three meets, including the NCAA Championship.

• As a team, the Irish earned United States Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) Division I All-Academic Cross Country Team honors and also received the NCAA Public Recognition Award. Curran, Eckstein, Seidel and Tracy all earned spots on the USTFCCCA All-Academic Team after tallying a cumulative 3.25 GPA and finishing in the top 10 percent at the NCAA Great Lakes Regional.


ALexA ArAGoN // JR.



KeLLy currAN // JR.



· All-BIG EAST




hANNAh ecKSteiN // SO.



emiLy frydrych // SO.

· National Catholic Invitational JV Race Champion

GABBy GoNZALeS // SO.


meG ryAN // JR.


JeSSicA rydBerG // SR.


moLLy SeideL // FR.




reBeccA trAcy // SR.



· All-BIG EAST


· Byron V. Kanaley Award

· BIG EAST Women’s Runner of the Week (Sept. 18)

· National Catholic Invitational Champion

· Capital One Academic All-America® Track and

Field/Cross Country Second Team

· Capital One Academic All-District V Track and

Field/Cross Country First Team

HEAD COACH

Tim Connelly

CAPTAINS

Jessica Rydberg Rebecca Tracy

NCAA Championship – 15th • NCAA Great Lakes Regional – 3rdBIG EAST Championship – 5th • Notre Dame Invitational Runner-Up

Final USTFCCCA Ranking – 18thwomen’s cross country


(19-7)NCAA Championship Runner-up • Midwest Fencing Conference Champion

Final National Ranking – 2ndfencing men’s

M E N ’ S F E N C I N G H I G H L I G H T S

• With the return of two fencers (Gerek Meinhardt and Ariel DeSmet) who missed 2011–12 while attempting to qualify for the Olympic Games in London, Notre Dame finished the season with a 19-7 overall record and qualified the maximum six fencers for the NCAA Championship, held in San Antonio, Texas. The Irish finished second in the combined men’s and women’s team competition.

• Before welcoming the NCAA Midwest Regional Competition into the newly-renovated Castellan Family Fencing Center, Notre Dame played host to the annual Notre Dame Duals and Midwest Fencing Conference Championships. After traveling around the East Coast during the early portion of the season, the Irish had the opportunity to show off the state-of-the-art facility, built in the same location as the former hockey rink in the north dome of the Joyce Center.

• At the Midwest Fencing Championships, Irish fencers laid claim to four individual titles, three second-place individual finishes, four team weapon titles and the overall team crown, besting defending team conference champion Ohio State in all but two individual events and two weapon classes.

• At the NCAA Regional Championships held at Notre Dame—the final competition before the NCAA

Championship—the Irish successfully qualified the maximum 12 fencers for the 10th time in program history at the meet.

• In the men’s competition at the NCAAs, Meinhardt (foil), DeSmet (foil), Michael Rossi (epee) and Kevin Hassett (sabre) provided a veteran presence for the Irish, while Garrett McGrath (epee) and John Hallsten (sabre) made their NCAA debuts in the Lone Star State.

• On the first day of NCAA competition, Meinhardt paced the Irish combatants with a perfect 15-0 mark. His 22-1 bout record during the two days of men’s competition matched the second-best NCAA record in Notre Dame history. Meinhardt shared a third-place finish with Penn State’s Miles Chamley-Watson at the NCAA Championships to earn All-America first team honors. DeSmet and Hassett each earned third-team All-America accolades.

JASoN choy // SR., SaBRe

· NCAA Midwest Regional 2nd-Place Finisher

· Second Team All-Midwest Fencing Conference

ArieL deSmet // JR., FOil

· NCAA Championship 10th-Place Finisher

· Third Team All-American


· Midwest Fencing Conference Champion

· First Team All-Midwest Fencing Conference

JohN hALLSteN // FR., SaBRe


· NCAA Midwest Regional 1st-Place Finisher

· Midwest Fencing Conference 2nd-Place Finisher


KeViN hASSett // JR., SaBRe

· Men’s Sabre Most Valuable Player



· NCAA Midwest Regional 3rd-Place Finisher



GrANt hodGeS // SR., FOil

· Notre Dame Club of St. Joseph Valley Knute

Rockne Student-Athlete Award

· John Crikelair Award

· NCAA Midwest Regional 7th-Place Finisher


JAmeS KAuLL // SR., ePee

· DeCicco-Langford Team Award


NicK KuBiK // JR., FOil


WiLLiAm mcGouGh // SR., SaBRe

· Dan Mulligan Award


GArrett mcGrAth // FR., ePee

· Men’s Epee Most Valuable Player



GereK meiNhArdt // SR., FOil


· Walter Langford Award

· NCAA Championship T3rd-Place Finisher

· First Team All-American


· Men’s Foil Most Valuable Player

JAcK piASio // SR., ePee

· Steve Donlon Award


michAeL roSSi // JR., ePee


· NCAA Midwest Regional 3rd-Place Finisher


HEAD COACH

Janusz Bednarski


Gia Kvaratskhelia

ASSISTANT COACHES

Ian FarrCedric Loiseau

CAPTAINS

Jason Choy James KaullGerek Meinhardt


(26-1)NCAA Championship Runner-up • Midwest Fencing Conference Champion

Final National Ranking – 1stwomen’s fencing

W O M E N ’ S F E N C I N G H I G H L I G H T S

• With the return of two fencers (Courtney Hurley and Ewa Nelip) who missed the 2011–12 campaign training for the Olympics, Notre Dame finished the season with a 26-1 overall record, was the top-ranked team in the final CollegeFencing360.com Coaches Poll, and qualified the maximum six fencers for the NCAA Championship held in San Antonio, Texas. The Irish finished second in the combined men’s and women’s team competition.

• Before welcoming the NCAA Midwest Regional Competition into the newly-renovated Castellan Family Fencing Center, Notre Dame played host to the annual Notre Dame Duals and Midwest Fencing Conference Championships. After traveling around the East Coast during the early portion of the season, the Irish had the opportunity to show off the state-of-the-art facility, built in the same location as the former hockey rink in the north dome of the Joyce Center.

• At the Midwest Fencing Championships, Irish fencers laid claim to four individual titles, three second-place individual finishes, four team weapon titles, and the overall team crown. Notre Dame defeated defending MFC team conference champion Ohio State in all but two individual events and two weapon classes.

• A pair of Notre Dame fencers, Hurley (epee) and Lee Kiefer (foil), claimed individual gold medals at the 2013 NCAA Championship. It was the third time in six seasons that two Irish fencers won NCAA gold in the same season.

• Hurley, a United States Team Epee bronze medalist at the 2012 Olympics, won her second career individual NCAA Championship title, defeating Olympic teammate Susannah Scanlan (Princeton) 15-6 in the gold medal bout. Hurley capped off her Notre Dame career as the fourth four-time first-team All-American in Irish fencing history.

• Kiefer became the eighth Notre Dame freshman fencer to win an individual NCAA Championship, downing Columbia/Barnard’s Jackie Dubrovich 15-8 in the direct-elimination final in the foil competition.

• All six Notre Dame women’s fencers who competed at the NCAA Championship earned All-America status. Madison Zeiss (foil) joined Hurley and Kiefer on the first team, while Nelip (epee) and Lian Osier (sabre) claimed second-team honors. Johanna Thill (sabre) concluded her first career appearance at the NCAA Championship as a third-team All-American.

NicoLe AmeLi // SO., ePee

· Yves Auriol Award


AdriANA cAmAcho // JR., FOil

· Alice “Dit” Langford Award



GrAce hArtmAN // SR., FOil




courtNey hurLey // SR., ePee

· Walter Langford Award

· NCAA Champion



Lee Kiefer // FR., FOil


· NCAA Champion



NicoLe mcKee // FR., FOil

· NCAA Midwest Regional 9th -Place Finisher

· Midwest Fencing Conference 2nd-Place

Finisher


pheNix meSSerSmith // SR., FOil

· DeCicco-Langford Award

eWA NeLip // SR., ePee

· Women’s Epee Team Most Valuable Player


· Second Team All-American


· Midwest Conference Champion


ABiGAiL NichoLS // SR., SaBRe

· Women’s Sabre Most Valuable Player



LiAN oSier // SR., SaBRe



· Janusz Bednarski Award


· Second Team All-American


· Midwest Fencing Conference Runner-up


KAthryN pALAZZoto // SR., SaBRe


AShLey SeVerSoN // SO., ePee


· DeCicco-Auriol Award

mArtA StepieN // SR., SaBRe


JohANNA thiLL // FR., SaBRe




· Midwest Fencing Conference Champion


mAdiSoN ZeiSS // SO., FOil

· NCAA Championship T3rd- Place Finisher




HEAD COACH

Janusz Bednarski


Gia Kvaratskhelia

ASSISTANT COACHES

Ian Farr Cedric Loiseau

CAPTAINS

Grace HartmanCourtney HurleyEwa NelipLian Osier


F O O T B A L L H I G H L I G H T S

• Notre Dame was the first-ever program to be ranked No. 1 both in the Bowl Championship Series standings and the current NCAA Graduation Success Rate for the 2012 season.

• Notre Dame registered its first undefeated regular season in 24 years (1988) and earned a spot in the BCS title game for the first time in school history. The Irish earned the highest national ranking (No. 4 Associated Press/3 USA Today) to close a season since 1993 (No. 2/2).

• Notre Dame was the first team in the Bowl Championship Series era to play for the national title after starting a season unranked.

• Notre Dame’s defense led the nation in two categories and ranked among the top 10 in 10 others, including total rushing TDs allowed (four, 1st), red-zone rushing TDs allowed (four, T-1st), scoring defense (12.77, 2nd), points allowed per red-zone trip (3.4, 2nd), passing yards/completion (9.95, 2nd), red-zone TDs allowed percentage (34.21%, 3rd), total red-zone TDs allowed (13, T-3rd), red-zone points allowed (130, 4th), total passing TDs (10, T-6th), total defense (305.46, 7th), red-zone defense (68.4%, T-7th) and first downs/allowed (17.00, T-8th).

• Notre Dame allowed just 12.77 points per game in 2012. The Irish allowed only

16 touchdowns (15 offensive)—four fewer touchdowns than any other FBS school.

• Manti Te’o became the 33rd unanimous All-American in Notre Dame history. He was the first Irish defensive player to earn such an honor since cornerback Shane Walton in 2002.

• Te’o was Notre Dame’s first Heisman Trophy finalist since quarterback Brady Quinn in 2006. He finished second with 321 first-place votes and 1,706 points – the most ever by a defensive player in college football history.

• Te’o captured the Lott Trophy, Nagurski Trophy, Butkus Award, Lombardi Award, Bednarik Award, Maxwell Award and Walter Camp Player of the Year. He became the first player in college football history to sweep the seven awards. In fact, no other player in college football history had ever captured more than five major awards in one season.

• Tyler Eifert, the 2012 John Mackey Award winner, capped off his career as the Notre Dame school record holder for career receptions (140) and career receiving yards (1,840) by an Irish tight end. He also set single-season school records for receptions (63) and receiving yards (803) by a Notre Dame tight end.

football

KyLe BriNdZA // SO., PK

· Notre Dame Special Teams Player of the Year

Award

· FBS Independent Special Teams Player of the

Week (Dec. 10)

· College Football Performance Awards Honorable

Mention Placekicker (Nov. 25)


Week (Oct. 29)

BrAxStoN cAVe // GS, C

· CBSSports.com Second Team All-American

· Athlon Sports Second Team All-American

· Associated Press Third Team All-American

· Phil Steele Third Team All-American

· Sporting News Third Team All-American

· Notre Dame Father Lang Irish Cross Award

· Rimington Trophy Finalist

· Lombardi Award Watch List

· Outland Trophy Watch List

BoB diAco // aSST. Head COaCH, deFeNSiVe COORdiNaTOR

· Frank Broyles Award as top assistant coach

tyLer eifert // SR., Te

· NFL Draft – First round (21st overall) by

Cincinnati Bengals

· Mackey Award Winner

· Pro Football Weekly First Team All-American

· Associated Press Second Team All-American

· Walter Camp Second Team All-American

· Sporting News Second Team All-American

· Sports Illustrated Second Team All-American

· CBSSports.com Second Team All-American

· Notre Dame Offensive Player of the Year

· Lombardi Award Watch List

· Maxwell Award Watch List

· Walter Camp Award Watch List


Mention Tight End (Sept. 9, Oct. 14, Oct. 22,

Nov. 11, Nov. 18, Nov. 25)


(12-1) BCS National Championship GameFinal Associated Press Ranking – 4thFinal USA Today Coaches – 3rd

HEAD COACH

Brian Kelly

ASSISTANT COACHES

CAPTAINS

Bob DiacoPaul LongoChuck MartinTony Alford

Scott BookerKerry CooksMike DenbrockBob Elliott

Mike ElstonHarry Hiestand

Tyler EifertKapron Lewis-Moore

Zack MartinManti Te’o


football

mAtthiAS fArLey // SO., SaFeTy


Mention Defensive Back (Oct. 14)

NicK fitZpAtricK // SR., WR

· Notre Dame Offensive Scout Team Player of

the Year

miKe GoLic, Jr. // GS, OG

· Capital One Academic All-America® Football

First Team

· Capital One Academic All-District V Football

First Team

· Allstate AFCA Good Works Team

· Notre Dame Irish Around the Bend Award

· Christopher Zorich Award

eVerett GoLSoN // SO., QB

· Notre Dame Offense Newcomer of the Year

· FBS Independent Offensive Player of the Week

(Sept. 9, Oct. 29, Nov. 5, Nov. 19)

JohN GoodmAN // SR., WR

· Notre Dame Nick Pietrosante Award

BeNNett JAcKSoN // JR., CB

· College Football Performance Awards

Honorable Mention Defensive Back (Sept. 9)

· FBS Independent Defensive Player of the Week

(Sept. 10)

tJ JoNeS // JR., WR

· Biletnikoff Watch List

BriAN KeLLy // Head COaCH

· Associated Press Coach of the Year

· Walter Camp Coach of the Year

· Home Depot Coach of the Year

· Sporting News Coach of the Year

· Liberty Mutual Coach of the Year

· American Football Coaches Association

(AFCA) Coach of the Year

· FWAA/Eddie Robinson Coach of the Year

KAproN LeWiS-moore // SR., de

· NFL Draft – Sixth round (200th overall) by

Baltimore Ravens

· Notre Dame A-Team Award

· Bronko Nagurski Trophy Watch List

· Francis Patrick O’Connor Award

ZAcK mArtiN // SR., OT


· Phil Steele Fourth Team All-American

· Notre Dame Offensive Lineman of the Year

· Lombardi Watch List

· Outland Trophy Watch List

ZeKe mottA // SR., S

· NFL Draft – Seventh round (244th overall) by

Atlanta Falcons

· Sports Illustrated Honorable Mention All-

American

· Pro Football Weekly Honorable Mention All-

American

· Notre Dame Defensive Player of the Year

· Thorpe Award Semifinalist

LouiS Nix iii // JR., NG

· CBSSports.com Third Team All-American

· Notre Dame Moose Krause Defensive Lineman

of the Year

tommy reeS // JR., QB

· Notre Dame Next Man In Award

theo riddicK // SR., RB


Detroit Lions

· Notre Dame Count On Me Award

· Hornung Award Watch List

· FBS Independent Offensive Player of the Week

(Oct. 22, Dec. 10)


Honorable Mention Running Back (Nov. 25)

KeiVArAe ruSSeLL // FR., CB

· FoxSportsNet.com Freshman Second Team

All-American

· Notre Dame Defense Newcomer of the Year

priNce ShemBo // JR., lB


· National Defensive Performer of the Week

(Nov. 11)


· National Defensive Lineman of the Week

(Nov. 11)


(Nov. 11)

JAmoriS SLAuGhter // SR., S


Cleveland Browns

dANNy SpoNd // JR., lB



tyLer StocKtoN // SR., de

· Notre Dame Defensive Scout Team Player of

the Year

mANti te’o // SR., lB

· NFL Draft – Second round (38th overall) by

San Diego Chargers


· Walter Camp Player of the Year

· Nagurski Award

· Bednarik Award

· Lott Trophy

· Maxwell Award

· Lombardi Award

· Heisman Trophy Runner-Up

· Unanimous First Team All-American

· Associated Press Player of the Year Runner-Up

· Associated Press First Team All-American

· AFCA First Team All-American

· Walter Camp First Team All-American

· Phil Steele First Team All-American

· Sporting News First Team All-American

· CBSSports.com First Team All-American

· ESPN.com First Team All-American

· Sports Illustrated First Team All-American

· Pro Football Weekly First Team All-American

· Athlon Sports First Team All-American

· Notre Dame Monogram Club MVP

· Capital One Academic All-America® Football

First Team

· Capital One Academic All-District V Football

First Team

· National Football Foundation National

Scholar-Athlete

· Lowe’s Senior Class Award

· Lott IMPACT Player of the Week (Sept. 24,

Oct. 15, Oct. 22 , Oct. 29)


Honorable Mention Linebacker (Sept. 16,

Oct. 22 , Oct. 28)


(Sept. 2, Sept. 23, Oct. 22)

· FWAA/Bronko Nagurski National Defensive

Player of the Week (Sept. 25)

· Bednarik Player of the Week (Sept. 25)

· Walter Camp National Defensive Player of the

Week (Sept. 16)

roBBy tomA // SR., WR

· Notre Dame Nick Pietrosante Award

StephoN tuitt // SO., de

· CBSSports.com First Team All-American

· ESPN.com First Team All-American

· Sports Illustrated First Team All-American

· Associated Press Second Team All-American

· Phil Steele Second Team All-American


· Sporting News Second Team All-American

· Athlon Sports Second Team All-American

· Pro Football Weekly Honorable Mention All-

American

· Notre Dame Moose Krause Defensive Lineman

of the Year

· Bednarik Watch List

· Ted Hendricks Award Watch List

BeN turK // SR., P


Week (Sept. 17)

cierre Wood // SR., RB

· Maxwell Award Watch List

· Doak Walker Award Watch List


Honorable Mention Running Back (Nov. 18)


[66-49-1] • BIG EAST Championship – 3rd PlaceGeorgetown Intercollegiate – 2nd PlaceC&F Bank Intercollegiate – tie for 5th Place • Macdonald Cup – 4th Placegolf men’s

M E N ’ S G O L F H I G H L I G H T S

• Notre Dame closed its final appearance at the BIG EAST Championship with a final-round score of eight-under par, 280, to claim third place at the 2013 tournament in Orlando, Fla. The round-three Irish score was the third-lowest team effort at the conference tournament in Notre Dame’s 18 years as a BIG EAST member.

• Notre Dame recorded the fourth-best scoring average in program history during the 2012–13 season, logging a cumulative clip of 293.95 in 24 team rounds played. The Irish have recorded four of the five best team scoring averages since the 2009–10 campaign.

• Cory Sciupider and Niall Platt utilized stellar performances at the BIG EAST Championship to secure positions on the all-BIG EAST team. Sciupider capped a successful freshman season with a third-place finish, navigating the Tom Watson Course at Reunion Resort in five-under par, 211 (72-72-67). Platt copped all-BIG EAST honors for the third straight season after firing a three-day score of 214 (71-74-69, -2) to finish in fifth place.

• Notre Dame posted four top-five team finishes, claiming runner-up honors at the Georgetown Intercollegiate, third place at the BIG EAST Championship, fourth place at the Macdonald Cup and a tie for fifth at the C&F Bank Intercollegiate. The Irish have finished in the top five an impressive 42 times in the nine-year tenure of head coach Jim Kubinski (11 tournament championships).

• Platt earned medalist honors for the first time in his career at the Macdonald Cup on the historic Course at Yale. The Irish junior fired rounds of 68 and 70 (138, -2) to win the tournament by one stroke over five players.

• Sciupider entered the winner’s circle in just his third tournament appearance (second start) for Notre Dame, carding a bogey-free three-under par 67 in the first round of the C&F Bank Intercollegiate in Williamsburg, Va. The event was ultimately shortened to 18 holes due to inclement weather at the Kingsmill Resort River Course. Junior Andrew Lane posted a two-under 68 to tie for third place.

ANdreW cArreoN // JR.

· Fighting Irish Gridiron Golf Classic (T-15th of 71)

pAtricK GrAheK // SO.

· Earl Yestingsmeier Invitational (T-19th of 47)

ANdreW LANe // JR.



· Georgetown Intercollegiate (T-11th of 66)

· C&F Bank Intercollegiate (T-3rd of 66)

· Cleveland Golf/Srixon All-American Scholar by

Golf Coaches Association of America (GCAA)

pAuL mcNAmArA // SR.

· Macdonald Cup (T-7th of 75)

· Fighting Irish Gridiron Classic (T-15th of 71)


NiALL pLAtt // JR.


· Macdonald Cup (1st of 75)


· Hawkeye Invitational (T-11th of 65)

· BIG EAST Championship (5th of 50)

· All-BIG EAST Team

· Cleveland Golf/Srixon All-American Scholar by

Golf Coaches Association of America (GCAA)

cory Sciupider // FR.

· C&F Bank Intercollegiate (T-1st of 66)

· BIG EAST Championship (3rd of 60)

· All-BIG EAST Team

peytoN Vitter // SO.

· Earl Yestingsmeier Invitational (T-13th of 47)

tyLer WiNGo // SO.

· Earl Yestingsmeier Invitational (T-2nd of 47)



HEAD COACH

Jim Kubinski

ASSISTANT COACH

Scott Gump

CAPTAINS

Andrew CarreonPaul McNamaraNiall Platt


golf women’s golf[119-46-1] • NCAA East Regional – 15th • BIG EAST Champion

Briar’s Creek Invitational Champion • Susie Maxwell Berning Classic Runner UpFinal Golfstat Ranking – 26th • Final Golfweek Ranking – 30th

W O M E N ’ S G O L F H I G H L I G H T S

• The Notre Dame women’s golf program extended its streak to six consecutive appearances (eighth overall) in the NCAA Championship with its invitation to the 2013 NCAA East Regional. The Fighting Irish finished 15th among the 24 teams in the field and were led by freshmen Lindsey Weaver (T-39th) and Talia Campbell (T-44th).

• Notre Dame earned its automatic bid into a regional contest after claiming the program’s fifth BIG EAST Championship title, firing a three-under-par 861 (294-285-282). The 54-hole effort was the best score ever recorded by any team in the 11 years the tournament has been offered.

• The Irish were paced by co-medalists Weaver and Campbell at the BIG EAST Championship. The pair each fired a six-under-par 210, marking the lowest individual score ever shot in the history of the tournament. Ashley Armstrong (T-5th), Kristina Nhim (T-8th) and Kelli Oride (T-14th) each attained a top-15 finish in the field of 40 competitors.

• Armstrong, Weaver and Campbell each earned all-BIG EAST honors. Weaver was tabbed as the BIG EAST Player of the Year and the BIG East Freshman of the Year. Susan Holt attained her third BIG EAST Coach of the Year accolade.

• During the spring season, Armstrong won back-to-back tournament titles at the Briar’s Creek Invitational and the Insperity Lady Jaguar Intercollegiate. Armstrong’s one-over-par 217 helped guide the Irish to their first regular-season title since the fall of 2011. Notre Dame additionally placed second out of 18 teams in the Susie Maxwell Berning Classic during the fall slate.

• The Irish finished No. 14 in the national polls at the conclusion the fall portion of its season, marking the highest fall ranking ever recorded by a Notre Dame squad.

• In its 11 competitions, Notre Dame etched its name in the record books, claiming the best stroke average through a full season (298.70) in the 25-year history of the program.

AShLey ArmStroNG // SO.

· Capital One Academic All-America® Women’s

At-Large Third Team

· Capital One Academic All-District V Women’s

At-Large First Team



· Golfweek’s Women’s National Player of the

Week (Mar. 31)

· All-BIG EAST

· BIG EAST Women’s Golfer of the Week (Mar. 17,

Mar. 31)

· Insperity Lady Jaguar Intercollegiate Medalist

(1st of 99)

· Briar’s Creek Invitational Medalist (1st of 96)

· BIG EAST Championship (T-5th of 40)

· WGCA All-American Scholar Team

tALiA cAmpBeLL // FR.

· BIG EAST Championship Co-Medalist

· All BIG EAST

· Briar’s Creek Invitational (T-7th of 96)

· Insperity Lady Jaguar Intercollegiate (T-9th

of 99)

· Windy City Collegiate Classic (T-10th of 81)

· Dallas Athletic Club Invitational (T-10th of 78)

SuSAN hoLt // Head COaCH


KriStiNA Nhim // JR.

· Dallas Athletic Club Invitational (T-26th of 78)


KeLLi oride // SO.

· Mary Fossum Invitational (T-9th of 92)

· The Landfall Tradition (T-11th of 90)


LiNdSey WeAVer // FR.

· National Golf Coaches Association (NGCA) All-

American Honorable Mention

· BIG EAST Women’s Golf Player of the Year


· BIG EAST Championship Co-Medalist

· All-BIG EAST

· BIG EAST Women’s Golfer of the Month (Oct.)

· BIG EAST Women’s Golfer of the Week (Mar. 10)

· Ranked No. 1 in the nation (Golfstat – Nov. 17)


· Susie Maxwell Berning Classic (T-2nd of 95)

· Windy City Collegiate Classic (T-2nd of 81)

· The Landfall Tradition (T-3rd of 90)


HEAD COACH

Susan Holt

ASSISTANT COACH

Kyle Lynne Veltri


[25-13-3, 17-8-3-2 CCHA]Final USCHO.com Ranking – 8th • Final USA Today Ranking – 9th • Final U.S. Hockey Magazine Ranking – 9th

CCHA Mason Cup Champions • Ice Breaker Tournament Champions • NCAA Championship Participanthockey

H O C K E Y H I G H L I G H T S

• Notre Dame closed out its 22nd and final season in the Central Collegiate Hockey Association (CCHA) by winning the 2013 Mason Cup Championship at Joe Louis Arena, defeating Michigan, 3-1, in the championship game. The Irish were 25-13-3 on the year and 17-8-3-2 in conference play, finishing second in the regular season. Notre Dame returned to the NCAA Championship for the fifth time in the last seven years, falling to St. Cloud State, 5-1, in the opening game of the Midwest Regional. The Irish were ranked eighth in the final USCHO.com poll and ninth in the final USA Today/U.S. Hockey Magazine poll.

• While the Irish captured their third CCHA Mason Cup Championship, they also accomplished something during the 2012–13 season that had not been done before. Notre Dame met Michigan five times during the season and won all five games. The Irish took two wins from the Wolverines at Yost Arena on Nov. 15-16 (3-1 and 4-1) and then won twice at the Compton Family Ice Arena on Feb. 8-9 (7-4, 6-4). Notre Dame then capped the season with a 3-1 win over Michigan at the Joe Louis Arena in the CCHA Championship game on March 24.

• Junior center Anders Lee was named a first team all-CCHA selection and a second-team CCM All-American for his 2012–13 season. Lee led the Irish in scoring with 20 goals and 18 assists for 38 points in 41 games on the season. He became the first Irish player selected All-American since Ian Cole and Erik Condra were chosen at the end of the 2008–09 season. Following the season, Lee signed with the New York Islanders and scored a goal in his first professional game.

• Notre Dame played in its first-ever outdoor game in the modern era of the program on Feb. 17, at Chicago’s Soldier Field versus the Miami RedHawks. The Irish got goals from Mario Lucia and Jeff Costello and goaltender Steven Summerhays made 22 saves as the Irish knocked off Miami, 2-1, in front of 52,051 in an important CCHA league win. The victory started the Irish on a nine-game (7-0-2) unbeaten streak on the way to the CCHA Mason Cup Championship and a trip to the NCAA Championship.


hockey


Jeff coSteLLo // JR., leFT WiNG

· CCHA Postgame Offensive Player of the Week

(Feb. 11)

thomAS dipAuLi // FR., leFT WiNG

· CCHA Gongshow Rookie of the Week (Feb. 11)

SteVeN foGArty // FR., CeNTeR

· CCHA Gongshow Rookie of the Week (Feb. 18)

StepheN JohNS // JR., deFeNSeMaN

· Cameron Compton Leadership in Service Award

· CCHA All-Tournament Team

· Ice Breaker Tournament All-Tournament Team

miKe JohNSoN // SR., GOalTeNdeR

· Charles “Lefty” Smith Coaches Award

· One of 11 finalists for BNY/Mellon Wealth

Management College Hockey Humanitarian

Award

· One of 20 finalists for Senior CLASS Award

NicK LArSoN // SR., leFT WiNG

· Cameron Compton Leadership in Service Award

ANderS Lee // JR., CeNTeR

· CCM Hockey Second Team All-American

· Third Team All-USCHO.com


· Notre Dame Offensive Player of the Year Award

· First Team All-CCHA

· Finalist for CCHA Player of the Year Award

· Finalist for CCHA Top Defensive Forward Award

· CCHA Warrior Offensive Player of the Month

(November)


(Nov. 5, Nov. 26)

mArio LuciA // FR., leFT WiNG

· Notre Dame Rookie of the Year

· CCHA All-Rookie Team


(Mar. 3)

· CCHA Gongshow Rookie of the Month

(December)

· CCHA Gongshow Rookie of the Week (Dec. 2,

Dec. 9)

· Member of gold-medal winning U.S. World

Junior National Team

Joe roGerS // JR., GOalTeNdeR

· Winner of CCHA’s Terry Flanagan Award for

perseverance, dedication and courage

roBBie ruSSo // SO., deFeNSeMaN

· William Donald Nyrop Defensive Player of the

Year

· CCHA Gladiator defensive player of the week

(Nov. 19)

BryAN ruSt // JR., RiGHT WiNG

· Honorable mention All-CCHA


peter SchNeider // SO., RiGHT WiNG


Scholar-Athlete Award

· Notre Dame’s CCHA Student Athlete of the Year

SteVeN SummerhAyS // JR., GOalTeNdeR

· Notre Dame Perani Cup Three Star Award

· CCHA Goaltender of the Week (Oct. 14 , Nov. 19)

· CCHA Gladiator Goaltender of the Month

(October)


ShAyNe tAKer // JR., deFeNSeMaN

· CCHA Gladiator Defenseman of the Week

(Dec. 17)

t.J. tyNAN // JR., CeNTeR

· CCHA Bill Beagan Trophy as CCHA Tournament

Most Valuable Player

· CCHA Championship All-Tournament Team

· CCHA Warrior Offensive Player of the Month

(December)

· Ice Breaker Tournament Most Valuable Player


AuStiN Wuthrich // SO., RiGHT WiNG

· CCHA Championship All-Tournament Team

HEAD COACH

Jeff Jackson


Paul Pooley

ASSOCIATE COACH

Andy Slaggert

CAPTAIN

Anders Lee


[11-5, 4-2 BIG EAST]NCAA Championship Quarterfinalist

Final Nike/Inside Lacrosse Ranking – 6th

M E N ’ S L A C R O S S E H I G H L I G H T S

• Notre Dame made its eighth straight appearance in the NCAA Championship and earned the tournament’s No. 2 seed, which signified the highest seed in program history. Notre Dame and Maryland are the only two schools to earn a spot in the tournament field in each of the last eight seasons. The Fighting Irish topped Detroit, 9-7, in the first round to advance to the quarterfinals for the fourth consecutive season. Notre Dame’s season ended with a 12-11 setback to Duke in the quarterfinals at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis.

• The Fighting Irish were ranked No. 1 twice during the regular season. Notre Dame topped both the United States Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association (USILA) coaches’ poll and the Nike/Inside Lacrosse media poll on March 25. The Irish returned to the top spot in both polls on April 22.

• Notre Dame produced multiple USILA All-America honorees for the ninth consecutive season. Jim Marlatt

and Matt Miller were named to the USILA All-America third team, while Matt Kavanagh and John Kemp were honorable mention selections.

• The Fighting Irish matched a program record with six all-BIG EAST honorees. Kavanagh, Kemp, Marlatt and Miller were named to the all-conference first team, while Stephen O’Hara and Sean Rogers were selected to the second team.

• Notre Dame notched five regular-season wins over USILA top-10 teams. The Irish defeated (in chronological order) No. 6 Duke (13-5), No. 8 Penn State (10-9 OT), No. 9 North Carolina (10-9 3OT), No. 5 Denver (13-12 OT) and No. 8 Ohio State (9-4).

• Kavanagh scored a team-high 32 goals, which were the most ever for a Notre Dame freshman.

• Miller was one of 10 finalists for the Senior CLASS Award and he also was named a USILA Scholar All-American.

• Four Irish players were selected in the 2013 Major League Lacrosse (MLL) Collegiate Draft. The Rochester Rattlers picked Kemp in the fourth round. Rochester later selected Miller in the sixth round. The New York Lizards picked Steve Murphy in the seventh round, while Quinn Cully went to the Boston Cannons in the eighth round.

HEAD COACH

Kevin Corrigan

ASSISTANT COACHES

Gerry ByrneMatt Karweck

CAPTAINS

Quinn CullyRyan FoleyMatt MillerSean Rogers


QuiNN cuLLy // SR., MidFieldeR

· Major League Lacrosse Draft Pick – Boston

Cannons

coNor doyLe // SO., aTTaCK


mAtt KAVANAGh // FR., aTTaCK

· USILA Honorable Mention All-American


· BIG EAST Offensive Player of the Week (Mar. 4)

· Cascade National Rookie of the Week (Feb. 21)

· Tewaaraton Trophy Watch List

JohN Kemp // SR., GOalKeePeR

· Major League Lacrosse Draft Pick – Rochester

Rattlers

· USILA Honorable Mention All-American


· BIG EAST Defensive Player of the Week (Feb. 18)

· Tewaaraton Trophy Nominee

Jim mArLAtt // JR., MidFieldeR

· USILA Third Team All-American


· BIG EAST Offensive Player of the Week (Feb. 18)


mAtt miLLer // SR., deFeNSeMaN

· Major League Lacrosse Draft Pick – Rochester

Rattlers

· USILA Third Team All-American


· Senior CLASS Award Finalist

· NSCAA Scholar All-American

· USILA North-South Senior Game

· BIG EAST Weekly Honor Roll (Apr. 15)

SteVe murphy // SR., MidFieldeR

· Major League Lacrosse Draft Pick – New York

Lizards

NicK oSSeLLo // SO., MidFieldeR/FaCeOFF



SeAN roGerS // SR., aTTaCK

· BIG EAST Weekly Honor Roll (Mar. 18, Apr. 8,

Apr. 15)


JohN ScioSciA // JR., aTTaCKMaN

· BIG EAST Offensive Player of the Week (Apr. 22)

lacrosse men’s


[12-5, 5-3 BIG EAST] Final IWLCA Ranking – 12th • NCAA Championship Participant

Final deBeer Media Poll Ranking – 16th women’s lacrosse

• The Irish finished year two under head coach Christine Halfpenny with a 12-5 record as they qualified for the NCAA Championship for the second year in a row and eighth overall in Irish history. Notre Dame started out 10-0 overall and 4-0 in the BIG EAST for only the second time in program history.

• Five standouts earned all-BIG EAST and IWLCA West/Midwest All-Region honors. Jenny Granger, Ellie Hilling, Margaret Smith and Barbara Sullivan all received first team all-BIG EAST accolades, while Jaimie Morrison earned a spot on the second team. Hilling, Smith and Sullivan went on to receive first-team all-region scrolls, while Granger and Stephanie Peragallo claimed second-team accolades.

• Sullivan concluded arguably the best defensive season in Irish history by earning first-team All-America accolades from the Intercollegiate Women’s Lacrosse Coaches Association (IWLCA), Synapse Sports, and WomensLax.com. She became the youngest player in Irish history, and eighth overall, to earn first-team honors. Sullivan became just the fifth Notre Dame women’s lacrosse sophomore to receive All-America honors. Sullivan earned her All-America status by finishing third in the country in ground balls per game and ninth in caused turnovers.

• Hilling cemented her place in the Irish goal record books as she finished her career as the program

leader in games played, games won, minutes played and saves, while finishing second in goals-against average

and seventh in save percentage. After earning all-conference and all-region honors, she claimed MVP honors at the IWLCA/Under Armour North-South All-Star Game after entering the game at halftime and recording seven saves in helping the North squad to a come-from-behind victory. Hilling was joined on the North team by Granger who scored the game-winning goal with 2:58 left in the contest.

• Notre Dame had a tough 2013 schedule, as it played seven games against teams that ended the season ranked in the IWLCA top 20. The Irish picked up wins over No. 8 Georgetown and No. 14 Stanford during the regular season.

• Junior Molly Shawhan was one of only five finalists for the Yeardley Reynolds Love Unsung Hero Award, which celebrates the selfless acts of initiative and commitment performed by Division I lacrosse players.


JeNNy GrANGer // SR., aTTaCK

· Second Team IWLCA West/Midwest All-Region


· IWLCA/Under Armour North-South All-Star

Game Participant (North)

· BIG EAST Weekly Honor Roll (Mar. 25)

eLLie hiLLiNG // SR., GOalKeePeR

· First Team IWLCA West/Midwest All-Region


· IWLCA/Under Armour North-South All-Star

Game Participant (North)

· MVP - IWLCA/Under Armour North-South

All-Star Game

· BIG EAST Weekly Honor Roll (Mar. 25, Apr. 15)

JAimie morriSoN // SR., aTTaCK



Apr. 8)

StephANie perAGALLo // FR., deFeNSe

· Synapse Sports All-Rookie Team

· Second Team IWLCA West/Midwest All-Region

· BIG EAST Defensive Player of the Week (Feb. 18)

moLLy ShAWhAN // JR., deFeNSe

· Yeardley Reynold Love Unsung Hero Award

Finalist




mArGAret Smith // JR., MidFieldeR



· BIG EAST Defensive Player of the Week (Mar. 4)



BArBArA SuLLiVAN // SO., deFeNSe

· First Team IWLCA All-American

· First Team Synapse Sports All-American

· First Team WomensLax.com All-American




Apr. 8)

· Tewaaraton Trophy Nominee


W O M E N ’ S L A C R O S S E H I G H L I G H T S

HEAD COACH

Christine Halfpenny

ASSISTANT COACHES

Jill ByersJake Marmul

CAPTAINS

Jenny GrangerMargaret Smith


HEAD COACH

Martin Stone


Joe Schlosberg

ASSISTANT COACH

Marnie Stahl

R O W I N G H I G H L I G H T S

• After winning its 10th consecutive BIG EAST Championship in its final year in the conference, Notre Dame was selected to compete at the NCAA Championship for the sixth time in program history. Irish boats won five of six grand final races at the BIG EAST event and tallied a BIG EAST regatta record 151 points, 22 points ahead of second-place finisher Louisville on Mercer Lake in West Windsor, N.J.

• It was the second time in as many seasons the Irish earned a trip to the NCAA Championship under head

coach Martin Stone, and the University co-hosted the three-day event with the Indiana Sports Corporation at Eagle Creek Park outside of Indianapolis.

• Notre Dame finished in 13th place in the 22-team NCAA field, the largest in the regatta’s history. The Irish first varsity four boat placed ninth, and the second varsity eight finished in 12th place during its respective petite finals race. The first varsity eight won the third final heat to claim 13th place overall.

• Seven Notre Dame rowers were selected to the all-BIG EAST team, with Molly Bruggeman, Erin Boxberger, Ailish Sheehan and Stephanie O’Neill earning first-team honors while Anna Kottkamp, Joanna Mulvey and Courtney Gaberino were selected to the second team. Stone and his coaching staff were named the BIG EAST Coaching Staff of the Year for the sixth time since 2006 and the seventh time overall in program history.

• Boxberger, Bruggeman, Abby Meyers (first team) and O’Neill and Sheehan (second team) each received Collegiate Rowing Coaches Association (CRCA) Central all-region recognition. National accolades also rolled in for Bruggeman (first team) and Boxberger (second team), as the pair claimed CRCA Pocock All-America honors. The duo became the first set of Irish teammates to earn All-America scrolls in the same season since 2007, when Amanda Polk (first ream) and Allison Marsh (second team) were each tabbed with the award.

• A school-record 10 rowers were named CRCA National Scholar-Athletes in 2013, with Christina Dines, Rose Doerfler, Kelsey Haddad, Kelsey Murphy, Joanna Poinsatte, Teresa Rubinger and Danni Schneider joining Gaberino, Kottkamp and Meyers as award recipients.

• The Notre Dame first varsity eight launch was named the BIG EAST Boat of the Week on March 20, while the first varsity four followed suit the following week (March 27).

Final CRCA/US Rowing Coaches Poll Ranking – 13thNCAA Championship – 13th

BIG EAST Championrowing



pAiGe AieLLo // SR.

· NCAA Petite Finals Participant Second Varsity

Eight

· BIG EAST Champion – Second Varsity Eight

cArLee BecKLer // SO.


Eight


tereSA BLumeNSteiN // SR.

· NCAA Petite Finals Participant Second Varsity Eight


eriN BoxBerGer // SO.

· Collegiate Rowing Coaches Association (CRCA)

Pocock All-America Second Team

· CRCA Central All-Region Team

· NCAA Third Finals Participant First Varsity

Eight

· BIG EAST Champion – First Varsity Eight


· BIG EAST Boat of the Week – First Varsity Eight

(Mar. 20)

moLLy BruGGemAN // JR.


Pocock All-America First Team

· CRCA Central All-Region Team


Eight




(Mar. 20)

KierSteN dehAVeN // JR.

· NCAA Petite Finals Participant First Varsity Four

· BIG EAST Champion – First Varsity Four

· BIG EAST Boat of the Week – First Varsity Four

(Apr. 3)

chriStiNA diNeS // JR.


National Scholar-Athlete


Eight


roSe doerfLer // SO.




Eight


courtNey GABeriNo // JR.




Eight


· All-BIG EAST Second Team


(Mar. 20)

eLLeN GLeAdoW // FR.



KeLSey hAddAd // SR.



· NCAA Petite Finals Participant Second Varsity Eight


eLiZABeth KeLLey // FR.


(Apr. 3)

ANNA KottKAmp // SO.



· NCAA Third Finals Participant First Varsity Eight




(Mar. 20)

ABBy meyerS // SR.


Central All-Region Team

· CRCA National Scholar-Athlete


Eight

· BIG EAST Scholar-Athlete Sport Excellence

Award



(Mar. 20)



JoANNA muLVey // FR.


Eight




(Mar. 20)

KeLSey murphy // SR.





· NCAA Petite Finals Participant First Varsity

Four



(Apr. 3)

StephANie o’NeiLL // SR.



· NCAA Third Finals Participant First Varsity Eight




(Mar. 20)

rowing

JoANNA poiNSAtte // SR.




Eight



(Mar. 20)

tereSA ruBiNGer // JR.




Eight


meGhAN SALomoN // SR.

· Notre Dame Monogram Club Postgraduate

Scholarship

dANNi SchNeider // SR.






(Apr. 3)

KeLSey SeKANicK // JR.


Eight


AiLiSh SheehAN // SO.




Eight




(Mar. 20)

mArtiN StoNe // Head COaCH

· BIG EAST Coaching Staff of the Year

SteLLA WiLLouGhBy // SO.




(Apr. 3)

iNGrid WoeLfeL // SR.


Eight



[17-4-1, 5-2-1 BIG EAST]NCAA Championship Round of 16 • NCAA Championship No. 1 Seed

BIG EAST Tournament Champion • Final NSCAA Ranking – 8thsoccer men’s

M E N ’ S S O C C E R H I G H L I G H T S

• Notre Dame earned the No. 1 seed for the NCAA Championship for the first time in program history. Following a first-round bye, the Fighting Irish defeated Michigan State, 3-0, in the second round. The season came to an end with a 2-1 double-overtime setback to eventual national champion Indiana in the Round of 16. Notre Dame finished the season with the nation’s top RPI.

• The Fighting Irish won the BIG EAST Championship in dramatic fashion with a 3-2 double-overtime victory over Georgetown. Notre Dame tied the match with 32 seconds left in regulation and then netted the golden goal with just over a minute remaining in the second overtime period. It was the third BIG EAST Championship title in program history.

• Notre Dame’s 17 victories (17-4-1) were the most for the program since 1988. The Irish opened the season with seven straight wins, which signified the third-best start in program history and the best since the 1987 season (9-0).

• Seniors Ryan Finley and Dillon Powers were selected to the National Soccer Coaches

Association of America (NSCAA) All-America first-team. Finley was a finalist for the M.A.C. Hermann Trophy and he concluded the season second nationally in goals (21) and points (46). Powers was a finalist for the Senior CLASS Award.

• Finley was named the BIG EAST Offensive Player of the Year and was one of seven Irish players that garnered all-league honors. Powers joined Finley on the all-BIG EAST first team, while Nick Besler, Harrison Shipp and Grant Van De Casteele were third-team selections. Patrick Hodan and Max Lachowecki were on the league’s all-rookie squad.

• Notre Dame’s 52 goals were the fourth-most nationally and were the most for the Irish since the 1994 season. The Fighting Irish were not shut out during a season for the first time in program history.

• The 6-1 win at Seton Hall on Oct. 13 was the 300th career victory for Bobby Clark as a college head coach. Clark became the 14th active Division I men’s soccer head coach to reach the 300-win milestone.

HEAD COACH

Bobby Clark

ASSISTANT COACHES

BJ CraigGreg Dalby

CAPTAINS

Dillon PowersMichael Rose


NicK BeSLer // SO., MidFieldeR/deFeNdeR


· BIG EAST All-Tournament Team

· IU Classic All-Tournament Team

LeoN BroWN // JR., FORWaRd

· Mike Berticelli Tournament Offensive MVP

· Mike Berticelli All-Tournament Team

· BIG EAST Weekly Honor Roll (Sept. 10)

ryAN fiNLey // SR., FORWaRd

· Major League Soccer Draft Pick – Columbus

Crew

· NSCAA First Team All-American

· Soccer America First Team MVP

· M.A.C. Hermann Trophy Finalist

· BIG EAST Offensive Player of the Year

· First Team All-BIG EAST (unanimous)

· First Team All-Great Lakes Region


Performer

· BIG EAST All-Tournament Team

· BIG EAST Offensive Player of the Week (Sept. 3,

Oct. 8, Oct. 29)

· NSCAA National Player of the Week (Sept. 5,

Oct. 10)

· Top Drawer Soccer National Player of the Week

(Oct. 8, Oct. 29)

· Soccer News Net National Player of the Week

(Oct. 10, Nov. 13)

· College Soccer News National Player of the Week

(Oct. 29)

· Top Drawer Soccer National Team of the Week

(Oct. 8, Oct. 29, Nov. 12)

· College Soccer News National Team of the Week

(Sept. 3, Oct. 8, Oct. 22, Oct. 29)

· Soccer America National Team of the Week

(Sept. 4, Oct. 11)

· Chicagoland Soccer News Player of the Week

(Sept. 4, Oct. 10, Oct. 24, Oct. 31, Nov. 13)

· BIG EAST Weekly Honor Roll (Oct. 22)


pAtricK hodAN // FR., FORWaRd/MidFieldeR

· BIG EAST All-Rookie Team


(Nov. 5)


(Nov. 5)


(Nov. 7)

· BIG EAST Rookie of the Week (Oct. 15)

mAx LAchoWecKi // SO., deFeNdeR


· Soccer America All-Freshman Second Team


(Sept. 11)

· BIG EAST Defensive Player of the Week (Sept. 10)



AdAm meNA // SR., MidFieldeR

· Major League Soccer Draft Pick – Vancouver

Whitecaps

LuKe miShu // JR., deFeNdeR

· BIG EAST Defensive Player of the Week (Sept. 17)


(Sept. 20)

· NSCAA Scholar All-Region Second Team

ANdreW o’mALLey // JR., deFeNdeR

· BIG EAST Defensive Player of the Week (Aug. 27)

diLLoN poWerS // SR., MidFieldeR

· Major League Soccer Draft Pick – Colorado

Rapids

· NSCAA First Team All-American

· Soccer America Second Team MVP

· M.A.C. Hermann Trophy Semifinalist

· Senior CLASS Award Finalist


· First Team All-Great Lakes Region

· NSCAA Scholar First Team All-American



(Nov. 19)


(Nov. 19)



michAeL roSe // SR., MidFieldeR/FORWaRd

· Major League Soccer Draft Pick – Vancouver

Whitecaps

hArriSoN Shipp // JR., FORWaRd


· Second Team All-Great Lakes

· Capital One Academic All-America® Men’s Soccer

Second Team

· Capital One Academic All-District V Men’s Soccer

First Team

· NSCAA Second Team Scholar All-American

· NSCAA First Team Scholar All-Region Team



(Sept. 4)


GrANt VAN de cASteeLe // SR., deFeNdeR


· BIG EAST Male Scholar-Athlete of the Year


Defensive Performer


· Third Team All-Great Lakes Region

· NSCAA First Team Scholar All-Region Team



(Sept. 10)


(Sept. 10)

· Mike Berticelli Tournament Defensive MVP


· Senior CLASS Award Candidate

pAtricK WALL // JR., GOalKeePeR



· Mike Berticelli Tournament Goalkeeping Co-MVP

WiLL WALSh // SR., GOalKeePeR

· Mike Berticelli Tournament Goalkeeping Co-MVP


[16-6-2, 8-1-1 BIG EAST]NCAA Championship Quarterfinalist

BIG EAST National Division Co-Champion • Final NSCAA Ranking – 12thwomen’s soccer

W O M E N ’ S S O C C E R H I G H L I G H T S

• Nicknamed the “Baby Irish” for having one of the nation’s youngest rosters (12 freshmen, six sophomores), Notre Dame posted a 16-6-2 record and reached the quarterfinals (Elite Eight) of the NCAA Championship for the 15th time in program history as well as the 10th time in head coach Randy Waldrum’s 14-year tenure.

• Notre Dame capped its 18 seasons in the BIG EAST Conference by winning a share of the National Division title on the final day of the regular season with a 1-0 double-overtime victory at DePaul. It was the 14th regular-season conference championship (overall or divisional) for the Fighting Irish since they joined the BIG EAST in 1995.

• Notre Dame’s season could easily be seen in two parts—before and after the arrival of two key players (freshman Cari Roccaro and junior Mandy Laddish), who missed the first seven matches of the season while playing for the victorious United States side at the FIFA Under-20 Women’s World Cup in Japan. Once Roccaro and Laddish returned, the Fighting Irish went unbeaten in 14 of their final 17 matches, outscoring their opponents, 36-11 in that span while posting eight shutouts.

• Despite her truncated season, Roccaro did more than enough to be named the Soccer America National Freshman of the Year, the first Notre Dame player to earn that award since 2006 (Michele Weissenhofer). Roccaro, who also was a third-team All-America choice by the National Soccer

Coaches Association of America (NSCAA), collected six goals and one assist in 16 matches while playing all three field positions.

• Roccaro (first team) also was one of three Fighting Irish players to earn NSCAA All-Northeast Region honors in 2012, joining Laddish (second team) and freshman Katie Naughton (third team).

• Notre Dame had four players honored at the 2012 BIG EAST awards banquet, with Roccaro taking home three awards as the BIG EAST Rookie of the Year, a first-team all-conference pick and a BIG EAST all-rookie team choice. Naughton and fellow freshman Crystal Thomas were double winners as all-league selections (Thomas on the second team, Naughton on the third team) and BIG EAST all-rookie team designees, while Laddish rounded out the Fighting Irish honors quartet by earning second-team all-BIG EAST accolades.

• For the ninth time in 10 seasons, a Notre Dame women’s soccer player garnered Capital One Academic All-America® honors, with junior Elizabeth Tucker copping first-team plaudits with her 4.0 cumulative grade-point average as an accounting major in the University’s top-ranked Mendoza College of Business. Tucker is the 10th different Fighting Irish women’s soccer player to be voted a first-team Academic All-American, and the 14th overall, with those 14 earning a total of 26 selections. Notre Dame leads the nation with 17 women’s soccer Academic All-America citations since 2002.


LAureN BohABoy // SO., FORWaRd


eLySe hiGht // FR., GOalKeePeR

· BIG EAST Goalkeeper of the Week (Aug. 27)

· Notre Dame Adidas Invitational All-Tournament

Team


(Sept. 3, Nov. 19)

mANdy LAddiSh // JR., MidFieldeR

· United States Under-20 World Cup Team

(champion)

· NSCAA All-Northeast Region Third Team



KAtie NAuGhtoN // FR., deFeNdeR

· Most Valuable Freshman Award

· NSCAA All-Northeast Region Second Team

· All-BIG EAST Third Team



(Aug. 27)

· Our Game Magazine Team of the Week (Oct. 1)

· BIG EAST Weekly Honor Roll (Sept. 24)

cAri roccAro // FR., FORWaRd/MidFieldeR/deFeNdeR


· United States Under-20 World Cup Team

(champion)

· Soccer America National Freshman of the Year

· NSCAA All-America Third Team

· Soccer America All-Freshman First Team

· NSCAA All-Northeast Region First Team

· BIG EAST Rookie of the Year



· BIG EAST Offensive Player of the Week (Sept. 24)


(Sept. 24)

SAmmy ScofieLd // SO., MidFieldeR/deFeNdeR

· Notre Dame Adidas Invitational All-Tournament

Team

teAm

· NSCAA Team Academic Award

cryStAL thomAS // FR., FORWaRd



· NCAA.com Co-National Player of the Week

(Sept. 17)

· BIG EAST Weekly Honor Roll (Sept. 17, Oct. 8)

eLiZABeth tucKer // JR., MidFieldeR

· Capital One Academic All-America® Women’s

Soccer First Team

· Capital One Academic All-District V First Team

· NSCAA Scholar All-Region Team Honorable

Mention



(Aug. 27)

· BIG EAST Weekly Honor Roll (Aug. 27)



SArAh VoiGt // SO., GOalKeePeR

· BIG EAST Goalkeeper of the Week (Oct. 1)


(Oct. 2)

BrittANy VoN ruedeN // FR., deFeNdeR


(Oct. 8)

GLory WiLLiAmS // FR., MidFieldeR

· Notre Dame Adidas Invitational

All-Tournament Team

HEAD COACH

Randy Waldrum

ASSISTANT COACHES

Dawn GreathouseKen Nuber

CAPTAINS

Jazmin HallMandy LaddishElizabeth Tucker


[43-15, 19-3 BIG EAST]BIG EAST Regular-Season Champion • BIG EAST Championship Runner-Up

NCAA Regional (Lexington, Ky.) • The Trophy Award (Recognizes Excellence in Community Service)softball

• Notre Dame reached a pair of milestones during the 2013 season. The program picked up win number 1,000 after defeating Georgetown 8-2 in the first game of an April 3 doubleheader in Washington, D.C. Irish head coach Deanna Gumpf, whose staff was ultimately named BIG EAST Coaching Staff of the Year, earned her 500th career win after an 11-1 five-inning triumph over Connecticut (April 23) at Melissa Cook Stadium.

• Notre Dame made its 18th all-time appearance (15th consecutive) in the NCAA Championship after receiving an at-large bid to the Lexington (Ky.) Regional.

• In its final season as a conference member, Notre Dame won the BIG EAST regular-season championship for the 13th time. In 18 seasons as a BIG EAST affiliate, Notre Dame was an impressive 297-53 (.849) against league competition.

• Emilee Koerner became the 22nd All-American in program history after being tabbed to the National Fastpitch Coaches Association (NFCA) All-America second team.

Koerner, who batted a team-high .439 in 58 games, led the BIG EAST with 79 hits, a team-record 21 doubles, a .772 slugging percentage and 139 total bases. Koerner was also the first Notre Dame player ever to be named a top 10 finalist for the USA Softball Collegiate Player of the Year award.

• Laura Winter became just the second Notre Dame pitcher to be named conference player of the year —the only hurler to do so during the BIG EAST era—at the league’s annual awards banquet. Winter, an NFCA Great Lakes all-region first-team selection, was 29-12 with a 1.72 ERA in the circle, striking out a league-high 306 batters in 268.1 innings pitched.

• Winter also batted a career-high .338 at the plate, tying the program’s single-season record of 17 home runs and chipping in a team-high 52 RBI. The 6-1 right-hander also became the first Notre Dame player to be named both the USA

Softball National Collegiate Player of the Week (April 23) and Louisville Slugger/NFCA Division I National Player of the Week (May 7).

• Joining Winter and Koerner on the all-BIG EAST teams were Amy Buntin (second team), Micaela Arizmendi, Jenna Simon, Kelsey Thornton and Cassidy Whidden (third team).

• The softball program was a recipient of the Notre Dame Trophy Award, presented in recognition of excellence in community service, for the second time in three years. The Irish raised more than $40,000 to benefit local children battling cancer during its two-day Strikeout Cancer celebration in April.


cASey AfricANo // FR., CaTCHeR/OuTFieldeR

· BIG EAST Honor Roll (April 15)

micAeLA AriZmeNdi // FR., iNFieldeR


Amy BuNtiN // SR., CaTCHeR/uTiliTy

· Senior CLASS Award Candidate


deANNA Gumpf // Head COaCH

· BIG EAST Coaching Staff of the Year

KAtey hAuS // SO., iNFieldeR


· BIG EAST Honor Roll (Mar. 18)

emiLee KoerNer // SO., OuTFieldeR


· USA Softball Collegiate Player of the Year

Top 10 Finalist

· National Fastpitch Coaches Association (NFCA)

All-America Second Team

· NFCA Great Lakes All-Region First Team



· BIG EAST Player of the Week (Feb. 25, Mar. 25,

May 6)

· BIG EAST Honor Roll (Mar. 4)

BrittANy o’doNNeLL // SR., PiTCHeR



chLoe SAGANoWich // JR., iNFieldeR


JeNNA SimoN // SO., iNFieldeR


· BIG EAST Honor Roll (Feb. 11, Apr. 8)

KeLSey thorNtoN // SR., OuTFieldeR


cASSidy WhiddeN // SO., CaTCHeR


LAurA WiNter // JR., PiTCHeR

· National Fastpitch Coaches Association (NFCA)

Great Lakes All-Region First Team




· Louisville Slugger/NFCA Division I National

Player of the Week (May 7)

· USA Softball National Collegiate Player of the

Week (Apr. 23)

· BIG EAST Player of the Week (Apr. 29)

· BIG EAST Pitcher of the Week (Mar. 11, Apr. 22,

May 6)

· BIG EAST Honor Roll (Mar. 18, Mar. 25)

S O F T B A L L H I G H L I G H T S

HEAD COACH

Deanna Gumpf

ASSISTANT COACHES

Kris GaneffLizzy Lemire

CAPTAINS

Amy BuntinKelsey Thornton


[9-2]NCAA Championship – 36th

BIG EAST Championmen’s swimming & diving

M E N ’ S S W I M M I N G & D I V I N G H I G H L I G H T S

• Notre Dame won its second consecutive and sixth overall BIG EAST Championship at the IUPUI Natatorium in Indianapolis. The Irish set a meet record with 991 points, winning seven events to secure the team victory.

• Notre Dame won its 400th all-time dual meet in the regular-season finale at the Northwestern Invitational at the Norris Aquatic Center in Evanston, Ill. The Irish defeated Missouri State 210-160 and host Northwestern 191-177 to surpass the milestone.

• Fifteen student-athletes earned a combined 41 all-conference citations at the BIG EAST Championship, led by the seven each of swimmers Frank Dyer and Zach Stephens. In 18 years as a conference member, Notre Dame competitors claimed more than 270 all-BIG EAST scrolls.

• Head coach Tim Welsh was named BIG EAST Men’s Swimming Coach of the Year for the second straight season, and the sixth time in 14 years. In 36 seasons as both a men’s and women’s collegiate swimming head coach, Welsh has led his programs to a remarkable 33 conference championships.

• Assistant coach Matt Tallman was tabbed as the CollegeSwimming.com Rising Assistant Coach of the Year. Tallman was an honorable mention finalist for the award in 2012.

• An Irish program-record nine swimmers qualified for the 2013 NCAA Championship, shattering the previous mark of two competitors at a single NCAA meet set in 2012. Dyer, Stephens, Bill Bass, Chris Johnson, John McGinley, Kevin Hughes, Cameron Miller, John Williamson and Bogac Ayhan all represented Notre Dame at the 2013 NCAA meet.

• Dyer set the program standard by becoming the first male Notre Dame swimming and diving athlete to earn multiple All-America honors in his career as a member of the 16th-place 800 freestyle relay squad that copped honorable mention All-America recognition. Dyer was a fourth-place finisher in the 200 freestyle at the 2012 NCAA Championship to claim the first swimming All-America honor in Notre Dame history.

• Williamson (13th place, 200 butterfly) and Stephens (16th place, 200 breaststroke) joined Dyer in the record book as individual All-Americans after honorable mention finishes, while Hughes, McGinley and Bass earned honorable mention honors as members of the 800 free relay team alongside Dyer.


BoGAc AyhAN // FR.

· NCAA Qualifier – 200 medley relay

· BIG EAST Champion – 200 medley relay

· All-BIG EAST – 200 medley relay, 400 medley

relay

coLiN BABcocK // JR.

· Notre Dame Blanchard Award

· All-BIG EAST – 200 individual medley

BiLL BASS // SR.

· College Swimming Coaches Association of

America (CSCAA) Honorable Mention All-

American

· Honorable Mention All-American – 800 free

relay

· BIG EAST Men’s Swimmer of the Week (Jan. 22)

· All-BIG EAST – 200 individual medley, 100 fly,

200 fly, 200 free relay, 800 free relay,400 Medley

Relay, 400 Free Relay

mAttheW deBLASio // SO.

· Notre Dame Weightroom Warrior Award

· All-BIG EAST – 400 individual medley

frANK dyer // JR.



American


· BIG EAST Champion – 50 free

· BIG EAST Champion – 500 free


· All-BIG EAST – 50 free, 200 free, 500 free, 200

medley relay, 200 free relay, 400 free relay, 800

free relay

· BIG EAST Men’s Swimmer of the Week (Nov. 6,

Nov. 13)

michAeL hudSpith // FR.

· Notre Dame Megan Beeler & Colleen Hipp Award

KeViN huGheS // SO.



American


· All-BIG EAST – 500 free, 800 free relay

BreNNAN JAcoBSeN // SO.

· All-BIG EAST – 500 free

chriS JohNSoN // SR.

· NCAA Championship Qualifier

· BIG EAST Champion – 100 breast

· All-BIG EAST – 100 breast, 400 medley relay

michAeL Kreft // SO.

· Notre Dame Weightroom Warrior Award

· BIG EAST Co-Diver of the Meet

JohN mcGiNLey // SR.

· Notre Dame Blanchard Award



American


relay

· All-BIG EAST – 800 free relay, 400 free relay,

200 free relay

cAmeroN miLLer // SO.

· Notre Dame Most Improved Award

· NCAA Championship Qualifier


· All-BIG EAST – 100 breast, 200 breast, 200

medley relay

pAtricK murphy // SO.

· Notre Dame Patrick Reilly McManus Captain’s

Award

JohN NAppi // SO.


· All-BIG EAST – 1,650 free

NicK NemetZ // SO.

· All-BIG EAST – 1-meter dive

ZAch StepheNS // SO.




American

· Honorable Mention All-American – 200 breast

· BIG EAST Champion – 200 breast

· BIG EAST Champion – 200 individual medley

relay


· All-BIG EAST – 100 breast, 200 breast, 200

individual medley, 200 medley relay, 200 free

relay, 400 medley relay, 400 free relay

mAtt tALLmAN // aSSiSTaNT COaCH

· CollegeSwimming.com Assistant Coach of the

Year

ted WAGNer // SO.

· BIG EAST Men’s Swimming Coach of the Year

mASoN WeBer // SR.



tim WeLSh // Head COaCH

· BIG EAST Swimming Coach of the Year

JohN WiLLiAmSoN // SO.




American

· Honorable Mention All-American – 200 fly

· BIG EAST Champion – 200 fly

· All-BIG EAST – 100 fly, 200 fly

HEAD COACH

Tim Welsh

HEAD DIvINg COACH

Caiming Xie


Matt Tallman

vOluNTEEr ASSISTANT COACHES

John LytleJoe Huyler

CAPTAINS

Colin BabcockFrank Dyer

Chris JohnsonJohn McGinley


[5-4]BIG EAST Championship Runner-Up

NCAA Swimming & Diving Championship – 16thswimming & diving women’s

W O M E N ’ S S W I M M I N G & D I V I N G H I G H L I G H T S


SuZANNe BeSSire // SO.

· BIG EAST Champion – 800 free relay

· All-BIG EAST – 800 free relay

ALLiSoN cASAreto // SO.

· BIG EAST Champion – 1-meter diving

· All-BIG EAST – 1-meter diving, 3-meter diving

BridGet cASey // SO.

· NCAA Qualifier – 200 butterfly

· All-BIG EAST – 200 butterfly

JeNNy chiANG // SR.

· NCAA Qualifier – 1-meter diving, 3-meter diving

· Honorable Mention All-American – 3-meter

diving

· BIG EAST Champion – 3-meter diving

· All-BIG EAST – 1-meter diving, 3-meter diving

cAtheriNe GALLetti // FR.

· NCAA Qualifier – 200 medley relay,

400 medley relay, 400 free relay

· Honorable Mention All-American – 400 medley

relay

· BIG EAST Champion – 200 medley relay,

400 medley relay


relay, 200 free relay, 400 free relay

Kim hoLdeN // SR.

· NCAA Qualifier – 100 backstroke, 200

backstroke, 100 butterfly, 200 medley relay,


· Honorable Mention All-American –

200 backstroke, 400 medley relay


400 medley relay, 100 backstroke


relay, 200 free relay, 400 free relay,

100 backstroke, 200 backstroke, 100 butterfly

· NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship Recipient



Award



· BIG EAST Institutional Scholar-Athlete Award

· BIG EAST Women’s Swimming and Diving

Athlete of the Week (Nov. 6)

JAime mALANdrA // SR.

· BIG EAST Champion – 800 free relay

· All-BIG EAST – 800 free relay

chriSteN mcdoNouGh // JR.

· All-BIG EAST – 200 free relay, 100 breast

emmA reANey // SO.

· NCAA Qualifier – 200 individual medley, 100

breast, 200 breast, 200 medley relay,


· All-American – 100 breast, 200 breast

· Honorable Mention All-American –

200 individual medley, 400 medley relay

· BIG EAST Champion – 800 free relay,

200 medley relay, 400 medley relay,

200 individual medley, 100 breast, 200 breast

· All-BIG EAST – 800 free relay, 200 medley relay,

400 medley relay, 400 free relay, 200 individual

medley, 100 breast, 200 breast

· Counsilman Hunsaker CollegeSwimming.com

National Division I Women’s Swimmer of the

Week (Jan. 16)

· BIG EAST Women’s Swimming and Diving

Athlete of the Week (Nov. 13, Dec. 4, Jan. 15)


KeLLy ryAN // JR.

· NCAA Qualifier – 100 back, 200 back,

200 medley relay, 400 medley relay, 400 free

relay

· Honorable Mention All-American – 200 back,

400 medley relay


800 free relay, 200 back

· All-BIG EAST – 400 medley relay, 800 free relay,

200 free relay, 400 free relay, 100 back, 200 back

LAureN Scott // SR.


· All-BIG EAST 200 medley relay

LiNdSey Streepey // SO.

· All-BIG EAST – platform

HEAD COACH

Brian Barnes

ASSISTANT COACHS

Kate KovenockJosh Skube (Volunteer)

CAPTAINS

Kim HoldenKelly RyanLauren Scott

• Notre Dame turned in a historic year with a 16th-place finish at the NCAA Championships. The Irish scored 55 points while earning 10 All-American or honorable mention All-American scrolls. The finish was the highest in team history and the 55 points were second most by an Irish team at an NCAA championship.

• Notre Dame finished second at the BIG EAST Championship for the third consecutive year. In its 18 years in the BIG EAST, the Irish have won 14 titles, finished as runner-up three times and claimed third once.

• Emma Reaney earned All-America citations in both the 100 and 200 breaststroke and garnered honorable mention All-America honors in both the 200 individual medley and 400 medley relay. Joining Reaney as honorable mention All-Americans were Kelly Ryan (200 backstroke, 400 medley relay), Kim Holden (200 backstroke, 400 medley relay), Catherine Galletti (400 medley relay) and Jenny Chiang (3-meter diving).

• The All-America honors at the NCAA Championships capped off

another outstanding year for Reaney. She won six BIG EAST crowns, seven all-BIG EAST medals, earned three BIG EAST Women’s Swimming and Diving Athlete of the Week awards, and was named the Councilman Hunsaker CollegeSwimming.com

National Division I Women’s Swimmer of the Week after breaking a pair of Rolfs Aquatic Center pool records. For her career, Reaney has earned two All-America and five honorable mention All-America certificates, 10 BIG EAST titles, and 14 all-BIG EAST scrolls.

• Holden turned in quite a senior season as a true student-athlete, finding national success in the pool and in the classroom. The 2013 Notre Dame graduate earned two honorable mention All-America citations, three BIG EAST titles, and seven all-BIG EAST medals in the pool. For her work in the classroom, Holden won a prestigious NCAA postgraduate scholarship and was Notre Dame’s female winner of the American Eagle Outfitters BIG EAST Institutional Scholar-Athlete Scholarship, with the two awards totaling $9,500. Holden will use those scholarships as she pursues a doctorate in audiology from the University of North Carolina.

• Chiang closed out an impressive four-year career with the Irish by winning her fourth BIG EAST title on the 3-meter board. Along the way Chiang became the first BIG EAST diver to win four championships in a row in one event and only the second Irish competitor to complete the career sweep, joining Kelly Hecking, who won the 100 backstroke from 1999–2002.


[19-8, 3-0 BIG EAST]NCAA Championship Participant

BIG EAST Champion • Final ITA Ranking – 31stmen’s tennis

W O M E N ’ S S W I M M I N G & D I V I N G H I G H L I G H T S

M E N ’ S T E N N I S H I G H L I G H T S

• For the 22nd time in 23 years, the Notre Dame men’s tennis team advanced to the NCAA Championship, losing to No. 37 Washington, 4-3, in the first round. The Irish concluded the year with a 19-8 record and won their ninth BIG EAST Championship with a 4-0 win over No. 50 Louisville at Eck Tennis Pavilion. Notre Dame ended the year ranked 31st and appeared in the top 32 all year, reaching a high of 22 on March 12. Nine teams that ended the season ranked in the ITA’s top 75 lost to the Irish, including No. 20 Memphis, No. 24 Illinois and No. 26 Michigan. Notre Dame also topped league foe Louisville (No. 47) twice, once to end the regular season and clinch the league’s No. 1 seed in the conference tournament and again to win the conference championship.

• Junior Greg Andrews turned in one of the best seasons in recent Irish men’s tennis history, earning BIG EAST Player of the Year accolades for the second consecutive year. In addition to these honors, Andrews was named the BIG EAST’s Most Outstanding Player at the league championship, earned all-BIG EAST honors, was selected as the league’s player of the week five times and also was named the league’s October Player of the Month. The junior was consistently in the ITA’s top 125, opening September ranked No. 24 in the country before concluding the spring season ranked No. 50. He qualified for the NCAA Singles Championship for the second year in a row, advancing to the Round of 32 for the first time in his career.

• Joining Andrews on the all-BIG EAST team were senior Blas Moros, junior Billy Pecor and freshman Quentin Monaghan, who also was named the conference’s freshman of the year.

• ITA Hall of Fame head coach Bobby Bayliss retired as the head coach of the Notre Dame men’s tennis program following the conclusion of the season. In his final season, Bayliss earned BIG EAST Coach of the Year accolades after leading Notre Dame

to its ninth BIG EAST title. During his time with the Irish, Bayliss led the program to 16 conference championships, including nine in the BIG EAST, appeared in the NCAA Championship 22 times in 23 years with one runner-up finish in 1992 and was named conference coach of the year 12 times. Bayliss retired fifth on the all-time wins list for NCAA Division I men’s tennis (765-339-1) after spending the 2013 season as the active career wins leader. Associate head coach Ryan Sachire will take the reins of the program as the Irish enter the ACC in 2013-14.

• During the fall semester the Irish had several outstanding performances as Andrews, Wyatt McCoy, Monaghan, Nicolas Montoya, Moros, Kenneth Sabacinski and Spencer Talmadge all earned all-tournament accolades. Moros was named MVP of the Tom Fallon Invitational, while Andrews earned MOP (Most Outstanding Player) honors at the OFCC Invitational. Andrews and Talmadge turned in a spectacular performance at the USTA/ITA Midwest Regional, as the duo reached the finals of the doubles tournament.

• Off the court, Andrews was named a Capital One Academic All-America first-team honoree for the men’s at-large program. Michael Moore received the American Eagle Outfitters Michael Tranghese Postgraduate Leadership Award, and Moros earned the ITA’s Arthur Ashe Leadership & Sportsmanship Award for the Midwest Region.

HEAD COACH

Bobby Bayliss


Ryan Sachire

fACulTy ADvISOr

Dr. Hugh Page

CAPTAINS

Greg AndrewsBlas Moros

GreG ANdreWS // JR.

· Capital One Academic All-America® Men’s At-

Large First Team

· Capital One Academic All-District V First Team


Award

· NCAA Singles Championship Qualifier (Round

of 32)


· All-BIG EAST


Player


· BIG EAST Player of the Week (Jan. 22, Feb. 12,

Mar. 5, Apr. 9, Apr. 16)

· BIG EAST October Player of the Month

· USTA/ITA Midwest Regional Doubles Runner-up

· Tribe Invitational All-Tournament Team

(Singles/Doubles)

· Tom Fallon Invitational All-Tournament Team

· OFCC Invitational MOP/All-Tournament Team

BoBBy BAyLiSS // Head COaCH

· ITA Hall of Fame – Class of 2013

WyAtt mccoy // JR.

· Tom Fallon Invitational All-Tournament Team

QueNtiN moNAGhAN // FR.


· All-BIG EAST



(Singles)

NicoLAS moNtoyA // FR.

· Vredevelt Invitational All-Tournament Team

michAeL moore // SR.

· BIG EAST Institutional Scholar-Athlete Award

BLAS moroS // SR.

· ITA Midwest Arthur Ashe Leadership &

Sportsmanship Award


· All-BIG EAST

· BIG EAST Player of the Week (March 19)




(Singles)

· Tom Fallon Invitational MVP/All-Tournament

Team

· OFCC Invitational All-Tournament Team

BiLLy pecor // JR.

· All-BIG EAST

· BIG EAST Player of the Week (Feb. 19, Mar. 12)

KeNNeth SABAciNSKi // FR.

· Vredevelt Invitational All-Tournament Team

SpeNcer tALmAdGe // SR.

· USTA/ITA Midwest Regional Doubles Runner-up


(Doubles)



[18-9, 3-0 BIG EAST]BIG EAST Champion

NCAA Championship, 2nd Round • Final ITA Ranking – 23rdtennis women’s

W O M E N ’ S T E N N I S H I G H L I G H T S

• Notre Dame qualified for its 18th consecutive trip—and 20th total appearance—to the NCAA Championship under head coach Jay Louderback after winning the BIG EAST Championship for the sixth straight season.

• The Irish closed out host South Florida 4-1 at the USF Varsity Tennis Courts to win their 13th BIG EAST Championship in 18 tries.

• Britney Sanders was a unanimous selection as the BIG EAST Player of the Year and was named the most outstanding player at the conference championship after posting a perfect 3-0 mark. She downed a pair of ranked opponents in No. 84 Matea Cutura (DePaul) and No. 103 Katie Vasenina (South Florida) en route to helping the Irish claim the team title.

• Louderback was named BIG EAST Coach of the Year for the fourth straight season, and the 11th time overall. The longtime Irish skipper has led his teams to 19 conference

championships (including six Midwestern Collegiate Conference titles) in 24 seasons at Notre Dame.

• Joining Sanders on the all-BIG EAST team was Jennifer Kellner and Quinn Gleason. Kellner also received the Notre Dame Club of St. Joseph Valley Knute Rockne Student-Athlete Award and was one of five Irish athletes that received a BIG EAST Sport Excellence Award. Gleason was selected as the Notre Dame Monogram Club Most Valuable Player.

• Sanders earned her first career berth in the NCAA Singles Championship at the Atkins Tennis Center in Urbana, Ill. Sanders was the 15th different Notre Dame player to earn an invitation into the NCAA singles draw since 1988.

• Chrissie McGaffigan was the Midwest Region recipient of the Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) Cissie Leary Award for Sportsmanship. The award is named after the

late Pennsylvania women’s tennis coach Cissie Leary and is given annually to a Division I women’s tennis player w ho displays inspiring dedication and commitment to her team that helps enhance her team’s performance and exemplifies the spirit of college tennis.


QuiNN GLeASoN // FR.


· All-BIG EAST

JeNNifer KeLLNer // JR.




Award

· All-BIG EAST


JAy LouderBAcK // Head COaCH


chriSSie mcGAffiGAN // SR.

· Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) Cissie

Leary Award for Sportsmanship (Midwest)

BritNey SANderS // JR.


· All-BIG EAST

· Most Outstanding Player – BIG EAST

Championship

· BIG EAST Player of the Month (October,

November)

· USTA/ITA Midwest Regional Runner-Up

· BIG EAST Player of the Week (Feb. 26)HEAD COACH

Jay Louderback

ASSISTANT COACH

Kelcy Flores

CAPTAINS

Jennifer Kellner Chrissie McGaffigan


• The Irish closed out their tenure in the BIG EAST by taking second at both the indoor and outdoor championships. During the indoor campaign two student-athletes won individual crowns and six student-athletes won 10 all-BIG EAST scrolls. During the outdoor season, the Irish won three individual titles and one relay and nine performers earned 12 all-BIG EAST medals.

• Notre Dame finished 37th at the NCAA Indoor Championships after junior Patrick Feeney (4th) and sophomore Chris Giesting (8th) both placed in the top eight in the 400m dash to earn first-team All-America accolades. At the outdoor championships the Irish claimed 53rd as senior Jeremy Rae (1,500m) earned first-team All-America accolades, while Feeney (400m) and the 4x400m relay team received honorable mention All-America honors.

• Sprinters Feeney and Giesting turned in another impressive season as both earned All-America accolades during the indoor and outdoor seasons. Feeney received first-team All-America honors in the indoor 400m before claiming honorable mention All-America citations in the 400 meters and the 4x400 meter relay during the outdoor season. Giesting meanwhile received first-team All-America accolades in the indoor 400 meter and honorable mention All-America honors in the outdoor 4x400 meter relay after overcoming an injury at the BIG EAST Outdoor Championships to compete at the NCAA East Preliminary Round and the NCAA Outdoor Championships.

• Associate head coach Alan Turner had quite a year coaching the sprint and hurdles groups. After being promoted from assistant to associate head coach in October, Turner helped lead the men’s team to two BIG EAST runner-up finishes. During the indoor season, Turner’s group scored 45 of the team’s 105.5 points, while the outdoor season saw the sprinters and hurdlers total 50 of the team’s 107.50 points. Turner was named the United States Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association’s (USTFCCCA) Men’s Indoor and Outdoor Assistant Coach of the Year after qualifying two individuals for the NCAA Indoor Championships and two individuals and a relay for the NCAA Outdoor Championships.

• In the classroom Logan Renwick earned Capital One Academic All-District V first-team honors for the second year in a row and was a second-team Capital One Academic All-America® honoree.

NCAA Indoor Championship – 32ndNCAA Outdoor Championship – 53rd

BIG EAST Indoor Runner-up • BIG EAST Outdoor Runner-upmen’s track & field


rANdALL BABB // GS.

· BIG EAST Champion – Outdoor 4x800m relay

· All-BIG EAST – Outdoor 4x800m relay

JArrod BuchANoN // JR.

· Honorable Mention All-American – Outdoor

4x400m relay

· NCAA Participant – Outdoor 4x400m relay

· NCAA East Preliminary Round – Outdoor 400m

hurdles and 4x400m relay

· All-BIG EAST – Indoor 4x400m relay

· BIG EAST Champion – Outdoor (400m hurdles

· All-BIG EAST – Outdoor 400m hurdles

BreNdAN douGherty // SR.


4x400m relay


· NCAA East Preliminary Round – Outdoor 400m,

4x400m relay

· All-BIG EAST – Indoor 400m, 4x400m relay

JAcK fAVorite // JR.



pAtricK feeNey // JR.

· First Team All-American – Indoor 400m

· NCAA Participant – Indoor 400m


400m, 4x400m relay

· NCAA Participant – Outdoor 400m, 4x400m relay


4x400m relay

· BIG EAST Champion – Indoor 400m


· All-BIG EAST – Outdoor 200m, 400m

· BIG EAST Men’s Track Athlete of the Week (Feb. 5)

eddy GiBBoNS // JR.



chriS GieStiNG // SO.

· First Team All-American – Indoor 400m

· NCAA Participant – Indoor 400m


4x400m relay


· NCAA East Preliminary Round – Outdoor 4x400m

relay

· All-BIG EAST – Indoor 200m, 500m, 4x400m

relay

· BIG EAST Champion – Outdoor 400m

· All-BIG EAST – Outdoor 200m, 400m

· Co-BIG EAST Most Outstanding Track Performer

– Outdoors

· BIG EAST Men’s Track Athlete of the Week (Jan.

22 and Apr. 2)

ted GLASNoW // SR.

· BIG EAST Champion – Indoor heptathlon

· All-BIG EAST – Indoor heptathlon

· All-BIG EAST – Outdoor decathlon


mArtiN GrAdy // SR.

· NCAA East Preliminary Round – Outdoor

10,000m

JAKe KiLdoo // SO.


10,000m


J.p. mALette // SR.

· NCAA East Preliminary Round – Outdoor 5,000m

Keith meSidor // SO.

· NCAA East Preliminary Round – Outdoor Long

Jump

deAN odeGArd // SR.

· Notre Dame Monogram Club Postgraduate

Scholarship


Jeremy rAe // SR.

· First Team All-American – Outdoor 1,500m

· NCAA Participant – Outdoor 1,500m


· BIG EAST Champion – Outdoor 1,500m, 4x800m

Relay

· All-BIG EAST – Outdoor 1,500m, 4x800m Relay

· BIG EAST Men’s Track Athlete of the Week –

Outdoor (Apr. 23)


LoGAN reNWicK // JR.

· NCAA East Preliminary Round – Outdoor Long Jump,

Triple Jump

· All-BIG EAST – Outdoor Long Jump

· Capital One Academic All-America® Track and Field/

Cross Country Second Team

· Capital One Academic All-District V Track and Field/

Cross Country First Team


teAm

· USTFCAAA All-Academic Team (overall GPA)

dJ thorNtoN // JR.

· All-BIG EAST – Indoor Mile

M E N ’ S T R A C K & F I E L D H I G H L I G H T S

Tim Connelly Adam Beltran

Sean CarlsonJim Garnham

HEAD COACH

Joe Piane


Alan Turner

ASSISTANT COACHES

CAPTAINS

Randall BabbPatrick FeeneyAnthony Thomas


NCAA Indoor Championships – 35th NCAA Outdoor Championships – 41st

BIG EAST Indoor Champion • BIG EAST Outdoor Championtrack & field women’s

ALexA ArAGoN // JR.

· First Team All-American – Indoor distance

medley relay

· NCAA Participant – Indoor distance medley relay


steeplechase


steeplechase


steeplechase

· All-BIG EAST – Indoor distance medley relay

· BIG EAST Champion – Outdoor 3,000m

steeplechase

· All-BIG EAST – Outdoor 3,000m steeplechase,

4x800m relay


Award (Outdoor Track and Field)

dANieLLe ArAGoN // FR.


medley relay




· All-BIG EAST – Outdoor 800m, 4x800m relay


mArGAret BAmGBoSe // FR.

· Second Team All-American – Indoor 4x400m relay

· NCAA Participant – Indoor 4x400m relay



400m, 4x400m relay


4x100m relay, 4x400m relay

· BIG EAST Champion – Indoor 4x400m relay


· BIG EAST Champion – Outdoor 4x100m relay,

4x400m relay

· All-BIG EAST – Outdoor 400m, 4x100m relay,

4x400m relay (Dec. 6)

JAde BArBer // SO.

· First Team All-American – Indoor 60m hurdles

· Second Team All-American – Indoor 4x400m

relay

· NCAA Participant – Indoor 60m hurdles, 4x400m

relay

· Second Team All-American – Outdoor 100m

hurdles


4x400m relay

· NCAA Participant – Outdoor 100m hurdles,

4x400m relay


hurdles, 4x100m relay, 4x400m relay

· Great Lakes Region Women’s Track Athlete of the

Year (Indoor and Outdoor)

· BIG EAST Champion – Indoor 60m hurdles,

4x400m relay

· All-BIG EAST – Indoor 60m hurdles, 200m,

4x400m relay

· BIG EAST Champion – Outdoor 100m hurdles,

4x100m relay

· All-BIG EAST – Outdoor 100m Hurdles, 4x100m

Relay

KAiLA BArBer // SO.

· All-BIG EAST – Indoor 60m hurdles

micheLLe BroWN // JR.


medley relay


relay

· NCAA Participant – Indoor 4x400m relay,

distance medley relay

· Second Team All-American – Outdoor 400m


4x400m relay



4x100m relay

· BIG EAST Champion – Indoor 400m, 4x400m

relay


· BIG EAST Champion – Outdoor 400m, 4x100m

relay, 4x400m relay

· All-BIG EAST – Outdoor 400m, 4x100m relay,

4x400m relay

mAdeLiNe cASANoVA // SR.

· NCAA East Preliminary Round – Outdoor discus

KeLLy currAN // JR.

· First All-American – Indoor distance medley relay



1,500m



· All-BIG EAST – Indoor mile, distance medley

relay, 4x800m relay


· Capital One Academic All-District V Cross

Country/Track and Field First Team


ViVieN deVANey // JR.


hammer throw

AmBer LALLA // SO.

· All-BIG EAST – Indoor distance medley relay




cArLy LoeffeL // SO.

· Second Team All-American – Outdoor heptathlon

· NCAA Participant – Outdoor heptathlon

· All-BIG EAST – Indoor pentathlon

· All-BIG EAST – Outdoor heptathlon

emiLy morriS // SO.

· NCAA East Preliminary Round – Outdoor shot put

· All-BIG EAST – Outdoor shot put


Joe piANe // Head COaCH

· BIG EAST Women’s Coaching Staff of the Year

(Indoor and Outdoor)

ANN poLcAri // GS.

· All-BIG EAST – Indoor pole vault


JeSSicA rydBerG // SR.


Country/Track and Field Second Team

mcKiNZie SchuLZ // JR.

· All-BIG EAST – Indoor 4x800m relay

NeVAdA SoreNSoN // SR.


hurdles

· All-BIG EAST – Indoor 60m hurdles

· All-BIG EAST – Outdoor 100m hurdles

teAm

· USTFCAAA All-Academic Team (overall GPA)

reBeccA trAcy // SR.

· First Team All-American – Indoor mile

· NCAA Participant – Indoor mile




1,500m

· BIG EAST Champion – Indoor mile

· All-BIG EAST – Indoor mile, distance medley

relay, 4x800m relay

· All-BIG EAST – Outdoor 1,500m, 4x800m relay

· BIG EAST Women’s Track Athlete of the Week

(April 16)

· Capital One Academic All-America® Cross



Country/Track and Field First Team




ALAN turNer // aSSiSTaNT COaCH

· Great Lakes Women’s Assistant Coach of the

Year (Indoor and Outdoor)

AiJAh urSSery // JR.



· All-BIG EAST - Outdoor 100m, 4x100m relay

meGAN yANiK // JR.


relay

· NCAA Participant – Indoor 4x400m relay


400m, 4x400m relay

· NCAA Participant – Outdoor 400m hurdles,

4x400m relay


hurdles, 4x400m relay

· BIG EAST Champion – Indoor 4x400m relay



· All-BIG EAST – Outdoor 400m hurdles, 4x400m

relay

· BIG EAST Women’s Track Athlete of the Week

(March 26)






• The Irish closed out their tenure in the BIG EAST in style by winning both the indoor and outdoor championships. During the indoor campaign, three student-athletes won individual crowns and the 4x400m relay team took first. Fourteen student-athletes won 24 all-BIG EAST scrolls. During the outdoor season the Irish won three individual titles and two relays, and 13 performers earned 23 all-BIG EAST medals.

• The BIG EAST indoor title was the third in program history, while the outdoor title was the second. Notre Dame rolled past its foes during both meets, totaling a school-indoor record 141 points to beat second-place Connecticut by 32 points. During the outdoor meet, the Irish totaled a school-outdoor record 153 points to claim the title by 50.25 points over the Huskies. The Irish staff earned BIG EAST Women’s Coaching Staff of the Year honors during both championships.

• Notre Dame finished 37th at the NCAA Indoor Championship with the distance medley relay team finishing seventh, sophomore Jade Barber earning a seventh-place finish in the 60 meter hurdles and senior Rebecca Tracy claiming eighth in the mile.

• During the NCAA Outdoor Championship, the Irish placed 41st after Tracy finished fourth in the 1,500 meters and Alexa Aragon claimed eighth in the 3,000 meter steeplechase.

• Barber turned in a spectacular season for the Irish as she was named the Great Lakes Region’s Women’s Indoor and Outdoor Track Athlete of the Year. Barber earned four All-America scrolls—a first-team (60m hurdles) and a second-team (4x400m relay) citation during the indoor season and second-team (100m hurdles) and honorable mention (4x400m relay) accolades during the outdoor campaign. She also won four BIG EAST titles and earned five all-BIG EAST scrolls during the entire track season.

• Associate head coach Alan Turner had quite a year coaching the sprint and hurdles groups. After being promoted from assistant to associate head coach in October, Turner helped lead the women’s team to two BIG EAST titles. During the outdoor season, Turner’s group scored 77 of the team’s 153 points. The United States Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) named Turner the Women’s Outdoor Assistant Coach of the Year after Notre Dame qualified four individuals and a relay for the NCAA outdoor championship.

• In the classroom four track and field standouts earned Capital One Academic All-District V accolades. Kelly Curran and Tracy received first-team honors, while Megan Yanik and Jessica Rydberg garnered second-team accolades.

• Tracy later went on to earn second-team Capital One Academic All-America® second-team honors in addition to claiming first-team All-America accolades in the indoor mile and the outdoor 1,500m.

W O M E N ’ S T R A C K & F I E L D H I G H L I G H T S

Tim Connelly Adam Beltran

Sean CarlsonJim Garnham

HEAD COACH

Joe Piane


Alan Turner

ASSISTANT COACHES

CAPTAINS

Madeline CasanovaChrissy FinkelRebecca Tracy


[20-10, 13-2 BIG EAST]BIG EAST Championship Participant

NCAA Championship Participant • Shamrock Invitational Championsvolleyball

V O L L E Y B A L L H I G H L I G H T S

• The Irish qualified for the BIG EAST and NCAA Championships in the same year for the first time since 2009. Notre Dame also won 20 matches for the first time since the ’09 season and put together a 22nd consecutive winning season.

• Notre Dame went 13-2 in BIG EAST play during the regular season, including an impressive 11-match winning streak that went from Sept. 30 to Nov. 9. During the streak the Irish won by a combined score of 33-6, with six sweeps.

• Head coach Debbie Brown earned a pair of milestones during the season as she claimed her 500th win at Notre Dame with a 3-2 win over Cincinnati on senior day, just a couple of months after earning her 600th career victory with a win over Buffalo at the Shamrock Invitational. Brown also coached her 700th match with the Irish and 900th overall when Notre Dame played Seton Hall on Nov. 3.

• Sophomores Toni Alugbue and Jeni Houser had outstanding campaigns for the Irish as both earned all-Northeast region honors by the American Volleyball Coaches Association and honorable mention All-America accolades. Alugbue made the transition from the middle to the outside before the season and thrived in her new role, starting all 30 matches and finishing first on the team in kills and kills per set, second in digs and digs per set, third in service aces, and sixth in blocks. Houser meanwhile played in all 30 matches and finished first on the team in attack percentage (minimum 1.0 kills or more per set), second in kills per set and third in blocks per set.

• Three Irish standouts received all-BIG EAST honors with Alugbue and Houser earning first-team honors while junior Maggie Brindock received second-team accolades. Brindock turned in a fine 2013 campaign, as she finished fifth in the BIG EAST in assists and seventh in assists per set. She earned a spot on the BIG EAST Weekly Honor Roll twice and turned in 13 double-doubles and the school’s 22nd triple-double and first since 2004.

• Notre Dame started off the season with a brutal non-conference schedule as it played four teams that were ranked in the top five, including three in the season’s first three weeks. The tough competition helped as the Irish won the Shamrock Invitational before knocking off a talented Kansas squad at the Golden Dome Invitational to end the non-conference schedule.

• The Irish had a wild beginning to the BIG EAST slate as they won a pair of five-setters on the road over BIG EAST powers Cincinnati and Louisville. In the game against the No. 10 Cardinals, Notre Dame fell into a 2-0 hole before rallying all the way back to dominate the fifth set, 15-3, and gain its first win over a top-10 foe since 2009.

• Due to an NBA exhibition game between the Chicago Bulls and the Indiana Pacers on Friday, Oct. 26, the Irish played a rare match in the Joyce Center Fieldhouse, the team’s usual practice facility. The night turned out to be a success however, as a standing-room only crowd of 1,673 watched Notre Dame take down the Pittsburgh Panthers, 3-1, to earn its seventh consecutive victory.


toNi ALuGBue // SO., OuTSide HiTTeR

· AVCA Honorable Mention All-American

· AVCA All-Northeast Region


· BIG EAST Player of the Week (Sept. 24)

· BIG EAST Weekly Honor Roll (Sept. 3, Sept. 10,

Sept. 17, Nov. 12)

· Golden Dome Invitational All-Tournament Team

· USC Classic All-Tournament Team

· Shamrock Invitational MVP/All-Tournament

Team

· Notre Dame Monogram Club Co-MVP Award

mAGGie BriNdocK // JR., SeTTeR


· BIG EAST Weekly Honor Roll (Oct. 22, Nov. 5)

· Shamrock Invitational All-Tournament Team

SAm BroWN // JR., RiGHT Side/deFeNSiVe SPeCialiST



hiLAry eppiNK // SR., Middle BlOCKeR


JeNi houSer // SO., Middle BlOCKeR/RiGHT Side

· AVCA Honorable Mention All-American

· AVCA All-Northeast Region


· BIG EAST Weekly Honor Roll (Aug. 27, Oct. 8)

· Golden Dome Invitational All-Tournament Team

· Shamrock Invitational All-Tournament Team

· Notre Dame Monogram Club Co-MVP Award

tAyLor morey // FR., liBeRO/deFeNSiVe SPeCialiST

· BIG EAST Freshman of the Week (Aug. 27, Nov. 5)

mArie roof // SR., OuTSide HiTTeR



HEAD COACH

Debbie Brown


Robin Davis

ASSISTANT COACH

Christy Pfeffenberger

CAPTAINS

Marie RoofMaggie BrindockAndrea McHugh


appendixBASeBALL

Adam Norton

meN’S BASKetBALL

Jack Cooley

WomeN’S BASKetBALL

Skylar Diggins

meN’S croSS couNtry

Jeremy Rae

meN’S feNciNG

Gerek Meinhardt

WomeN’S feNciNG

Lee Kiefer

footBALL

Manti Te’o

meN’S GoLf

Niall Platt

WomeN’S GoLf

Lindsey Weaver

hocKey

Anders Lee

meN’S Soccer

Dillon Powers

WomeN’S Soccer

Cari Roccaro

SoftBALL

Emilee Koerner

meN’S SWimmiNG & diViNG

Zachary Stephens

WomeN’S SWimmiNG & diViNG

Emma Reaney

meN’S teNNiS

Greg Andrews

WomeN’S teNNiS

Quinn Gleason

meN’S trAcK & fieLd

Jeremy Rae

WomeN’S trAcK & fieLd

Rebecca Tracy

VoLLeyBALL

Toni AlugbueJeni Houser

BASeBALL

Adam Norton

meN’S BASKetBALL

Patrick Crowley


Whitney Holloway

WomeN’S croSS couNtry

Kelly Curran

meN’S feNciNG

Grant Hodges

WomeN’S feNciNG

Grace HartmanLian Osier

footBALL

Danny Spond

meN’S GoLf

Andrew Lane

WomeN’S GoLf

Ashley Armstrong

hocKey

Peter Schneider

WomeN’S LAcroSSe

Molly Shawhan

roWiNG

Kelsey Murphy

meN’S Soccer

Harrison ShippGrant Van De Casteele

WomeN’S Soccer

Elizabeth Tucker

SoftBALL

Brittany O’Donnell


Mason Weber


Kim Holden

meN’S teNNiS

Blas Moros

WomeN’S teNNiS

Jennifer Kellner

VoLLeyBALL

Sam BrownMane Roof

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2012–13 notre dame Club of st. Joseph valley roCkne student-athlete aWard W inners


1926 edgar miller (Football)1927 paul J. harrington (Track)1928 Joseph Griffin (Track)1929 francis crowe (Basketball)1930 Not awarded

1931 frank carideo (Football)1932 thomas Burns (Basketball)1933 charles Jaskwich (Football)1934 Joseph young (Track)1935 dominic Vairo (Football)1936 francis Layden (Track)1937 John Lautar (Football)1938 raymond meyer (Basketball)1939 Joseph rice (Track)1940 herschel ellis (Baseball)1941 ralph pinelli (Baseball)1942 robert hargrave (Football)1943 John hickey (Baseball)1944 Not awarded

1945 Not awarded

1946 Not awarded

1947 robert mcBride (Football)1948 George Sullivan (Football)1949 Louis J. Burns (Fencing)1950 robert Lally (Football)1951 robert o’connell (Football)1952 James Walsh (Fencing)1953 robert o’Neil (Football)1954 James harrington (Track)1955 thomas carey (Football)1956 donald Sniegowski (Baseball)1957 John Smyth (Basketball)1958 John mccarthy (Basketball)1959 Norman odyniec (Football)1960 Kenneth Adamson (Football)1961 donald ralph (Tennis)1962 Albert highducheck (Golf)1963 Gerard Gray Jr. (Football)1964 Joseph Lehmann (Football)1965 William Boyle (Track)1966 edward t. dean (Track) pedro rossello (Tennis)1967 John haynes Jr. (Fencing) 1968 thomas Bourke (Swimming)1969 robert Arnzen (Basketball) William hurd (Track) George Kunz (Football)1970 michael oriard (Football)1971 douglas daher (Fencing) ronald Schmitz (Baseball) Joseph utz (Track)1972 Kevin hoene (Hockey)1973 richard Waugh (Fencing)1974 Gary Novak (Basketball) John hathaway (Fencing) mark Kronholm (Hockey)1975 paul e. Angelo (Fencing) mark Brenneman (Football)1976 robert Strata (Baseball)1977 randy Stehlik (Tennis) dan heffernan (Wrestling) robert ebel (Swimming)1978 david Vinson (Football) mike padden (Wrestling)1979 Joe restic (Football) carol Lally (Basketball)1980 Greg meredith (Hockey) tom michalek (Hockey)

1981 Bob Burger (Football) maggie Lally (Basketball) Kevin Lovejoy (Soccer)1982 John Krimm (Football) Jeanine Blatt (Swimming)1983 richard chryst (Baseball) Steven dziabis (Track) Katherine ray (Field Hockey)1984 terese henken (Volleyball) James dee (Baseball)1985 Brian casey (Swimming) Bill courtney (Cross Country)1986 Greg dingens (Football) John Krug (Wrestling) mary Struckhoff (Field Hockey)1987 John Loughran (Baseball) david Lennert (Fencing)1988 tom mick (Track) Andrea Bonny (Swimming)1989 terry proksch (Softball) theresa rice (Cross Country) eric madsen (Baseball)1990 Lisa Kuhns (Basketball) pat eilers (Football) Scott paddock (Basketball) Alice Lohrer (Tennis)1991 Krissi davis (Basketball) Kim parella (Tennis) ryan Wenger (Tennis) Kathy Vernetti (Softball)1992 charles hofmann (Soccer) david diLucia (Tennis) heidi piper (Fencing) molly Lennon (Soccer)1993 Alicia turner (Volleyball) robert Williamson (Lacrosse) James Zurcher (Tennis)1994 maura Gallagher (Fencing) Julie harris (Volleyball) Kathryn Leary (Basketball) michael palmer (Soccer) timothy ruddy (Football) Grzegorz Wozniak (Fencing)1995 elizabeth caruso (Fencing) chris dean (Soccer)1996 Wendy crabtree (Tennis) claudette de Bruin (Fencing) marcus thorne (Football)1997 Bill Lester (Fencing) Katie marten (Softball) pete miller (Basketball) Jen renola (Soccer)1998 Linda Gallo (Swimming) pat Garrity (Basketball) Jaimie Lee (Volleyball) Steve Noble (Hockey) errol Williams (Track & Field)1999 mike Brown (Track & Field) Kerry callahan (Lacrosse) Jennifer hall (Tennis) phil murphy (Soccer) Andy Warford (Tennis)2000 elizabeth Barger (Swimming) ray fitzpatrick (Swimming) Jeff perconte (Baseball) Jenny Streiffer (Soccer) Katrina ten eyck (Rowing)2001 mike Naumann (Baseball) matt hedden (Swimming) connor Larose (Soccer) ruth riley (Basketball)

2002 michael Koss (Swimming) Steve ratay (Golf) Nina Vaughan (Tennis) Jarrah myers (Softball)2003 Keara coughlin (Volleyball) Ashley dryer (Soccer) Andreas forstner (Soccer) Alexis madrid (Softball)2004 Vanessa pruzinsky (Soccer) Alicia Salas (Tennis) Kristen Kinder (Volleyball) Shannon Byrne (Golf) Luis haddock (Tennis)2005 emily Loomis (Volleyball) Brent d’Amico (Tennis) Alicja Kryczalo (Fencing)2006 Lauren connelly (Tennis) megan duffy (Basketball) Stephanie madia (Cross Country /Track & Field) Annie Schefter (Soccer) tom thornton (Baseball)2007 ted Brown (Swimming) Greg dalby (Soccer) maryann erigha (Track & Field) Kim Lorenzen (Soccer) meghan murphy (Lacrosse)2008 Brook Buck (Tennis) rachel cota (Fencing) Greg howard (Fencing) Katie Laing (Softball) Adrianna Stasiuk (Volleyball) dan VeNard (Hockey)2009 matt Besler (Soccer) Lauren Buck (Rowing) peter christman (Lacrosse) erik condra (Hockey) Adrienne Nott (Fencing) heidi rocha (Cross Country / Track & Field) Kelcy tefft (Tennis)2010 mike Anello (Football) Kevin deeth (Hockey) Kali Krisik (Tennis) melissa Lechlitner (Basketball) christine Lux (Softball) John Lytle (Swimming)2011 Jeb Brovsky (Soccer) tyler davis (Tennis) Lauren fowlkes (Soccer) cole Johnson (Baseball) erin marrone (Softball) chris Stewart (Football)2012 tim Abromaitis (Men’s Basketball) Kristen dealy (Volleyball) Greg Klazura (Men’s Soccer) Shannon mathews (Women’s Tennis) Kevin randall (Men’s Lacrosse)2013 Skylar diggins (Basketball) Kim holden (Swimming) mike Johnson (Hockey) dillon powers (Soccer) manti te’o (Football) rebecca tracy

(Cross Country/ Track & Field)


byron v. k analey aWard W inners

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1993 coquese Washington (Basketball) edwin hartwell (Baseball)1994 christy faustmann (Tennis) Grzegorz Wozniak (Fencing)1995 Jean Joseph (Soccer) haley Scott (Swimming)1996 holyn Lord (Tennis)1997 Not awarded1998 molly mccarthy (Volleyball) Steve Noble (Hockey)1999 Sheila mcmillen (Basketball) Brian patterson (Tennis)2000 matt Nussbaum (Baseball) Kelly Zalinski (Tennis)2001 michael Brown (Cheerleader) michelle dasso (Tennis) reggie mcKnight (Soccer)2002 Grant irons (Football) carrie Nixon (Swimming)2003 Katie cunha (Tennis) Steve Sollmann (Baseball)2004 Kim carpenter (Soccer) Greg martin (Soccer)2005 Sarah Jane connelly (Tennis) chris thomas (Basketball)2006 megan duffy (Basketball) chris Quinn (Basketball)2007 Amanda cinalli (Soccer) t. J. Jindra (Hockey)2008 Brook Buck (Tennis) caitlin mcKinney (Lacrosse) Sheeva parbhu (Tennis)2009 erik condra (Hockey) Justine Stremick (Volleyball)2010 megan fesl (Volleyball) Avery Zuck (Fencing)2011 ellen Bartindale (Soccer) tom Kopko (Basketball)2012 michael George (Cheerleading) Alyce Kanabrocki (Rowing) frenchy Silva (Volleyball)2013 dean odegard (Track & Field) meghan Salomon (Rowing)

1998 matt Johnson (Soccer) errol Williams (Track & Field)1999 Lindsay treadwell (Volleyball)2000 Jarious Jackson (Football)2001 ruth riley (Basketball)2002 mia Sarkesian (Soccer)2003 Betsy Lazzeri (Track & Field)2004 Neil Komadoski (Hockey)2005 derek curry (Football)2006 tom thornton (Baseball) chris trick (Hockey) meghan murphy (Lacrosse)2007 meghan Boyle (Rowing) ryan cunn (Lacrosse) claire Gallerano (Soccer) maria romano (Rowing)2008 mary Kate mcNamara (Rowing) dan Scolaro (Lacrosse)2009 carrie dew (Soccer) Luke Lucyk (Hockey) heidi rocha (Cross Country / Track & Field)2010 Kevin deeth (Hockey) Kali Krisik (Tennis) Zach Schirtz (Fencing) erica Williamson (Basketball) maggie Zentgraf (Lacrosse)2011 Jeb Brovsky (Soccer) Lindsay Brown (Soccer) Ben ryan (Hockey)2012 tommy chase (Baseball) Alex coccia (Men’s Fencing) Gregory Klazura (Men’s Soccer) Sean Lorenz (Hockey) marta Stepien (Women’s Fencing)2013 mike Golic Jr. (Football) Blas moros (Tennis) molly Shawhan (Lacrosse)

fr anCis patriCk o’Connor aWard W inners

Christopher ZoriCh aWard W inners

Greg Andrews (Men’s Tennis)Ashley Armstrong (Women’s Golf)colin Babcock (Men’s Swimming & Diving) Nick Besler (Men’s Soccer) teresa Blumenstein (Rowing)tyler Brenneman (Men’s Lacrosse) maggie Brindock (Volleyball) Kaitlyn Brosco (Women’s Lacrosse) molly Bruggeman (Rowing) Amy Buntin (Softball) Sam calabrese (Hockey)Adriana camacho (Fencing) madeline casanova (Women’s Track & Field) Jessie christian (Women’s Track & Field) Jeff costello (Hockey) Kelly curran (Women’s Cross Country) Kevin defilippis (Baseball) frank deSico (Baseball) frank dyer (Men’s Swimming & Diving)patrick feeney (Men’s Track & Field) chrissy finkel (Women’s Track & Field) courtney Gaberino (Rowing)chris Giesting (Men’s Track & Field) mike Golic, Jr. (Football) Jarrett Grace (Football) Jenny Granger (Women’s Lacrosse) Katey haus (Softball)ellie hilling (Women’s Lacrosse) Kim holden (Women’s Swimming & Diving) Whitney holloway (Women’s Basketball) Jeni houser (Volleyball)Bennett Jackson (Football)Stephen Johns (Hockey) mike Johnson (Hockey)Jenny Kellner (Women’s Tennis) John Kemp (Men’s Lacrosse) Jake Kildoo (Men’s Cross Country) Anna Kottkamp (Rowing) mandy Laddish (Women’s Soccer) Adam Laplaca (Men’s Soccer) Nick Larson (Hockey) Anders Lee (Hockey)Kapron Lewis-moore (Football) charlie markson (Baseball)Jim marlatt (Men’s Lacrosse)Kayla mcBride (Women’s Basketball)cam mcdaniel (Football) James mceldrew (Men’s Swimming & Diving) chrissie mcGaffigan (Women’s Tennis)Andrea mchugh (Volleyball) Blas moros (Men’s Tennis) patrick murphy (Men’s Swimming & Diving) Katie Naughton (Women’s Soccer) Jack Near (Men’s Lacrosse) Adam Norton (Baseball) Steve o’hara (Men’s Lacrosse)Andrew o’malley (Men’s Soccer) Stephanie o’Neill (Rowing)Billy pecor (Men’s Tennis)Niall platt (Men’s Golf) Shauna pugliese (Women’s Lacrosse)Jeremy rae (Men’s Cross Country) patrick rauh (Cheerleading) emma reaney (Women’s Swimming & Diving) Logan renwick (Men’s Track & Field) cari roccaro (Women’s Soccer)Sean rogers (Men’s Lacrosse) marie roof (Volleyball)

Kelly ryan (Women’s Swimming & Diving) chloe Saganowich (Softball) Lauren Scott (Women’s Swimming & Diving) Ashley Severson (Fencing) margaret Smith (Women’s Lacrosse)Barbara Sullivan (Women’s Lacrosse) Anthony thomas (Men’s Track & Field) Kelsey thornton (Softball)rebecca tracy (Women’s Cross Country) Kaila turner (Women’s Basketball)tJ tynan (Hockey)Grant Van de casteele (Men’s Soccer) chris Watt (Football) Alex Westby (Cheerleading)tyler Wingo (Men’s Golf ) megan yanik (Women’s Track & Field) madison Zeiss (Fencing)


BASeBALL

Frank DeSicoConor HaleDonnie HissaForrest JohnsonCharlie MarksonNicholas McCartyAdam NortonLane RichardsKyle RichardsonDaniel SlaniaPatrick Veerkamp

meN’S BASKetBALL

Pat Connaughton Jack CooleyScott Martin


Natalie AchonwaSkylar DigginsWhitney HollowayHannah Huffman

meN’S croSS couNtry/trAcK & fieLd

Randall BabbTimothy BallSteve Blazer

Andrew BrockJarrod BuchanonMichael ClevengerRobert DevineNick DunnJack FavoritePatrick FeeneyJohnny FullerEric GebekeEddy GibbonsChris GiestingTed GlasnowMartin GradyNicholas HauserJason HoardJake KildooPatrick KrachPeter KristiansenPatrick LesiewiczJeff MacMillanJ.P. MaletteRobert McCurrieKeith MesidorDean OdegardDominick PadovanoChristopher QuinnJeremy RaeLogan RenwickJohn Riely

Walter SchaferDavid SchipperGill StammJordan StumphBrent SwanbergAnthony Thomas

WomeN’S croSS couNtry/ trAcK & fieLd

Kelsey AmarosaAlexa AragonDanielle AragonMargaret BamgboseMichelle BrownMadeline CasanovaAmanda ChambleeJessie ChristianKelly CurranVivien DevaneyHannah EcksteinChrissy FinkelEmily FrydrychGabby GonzalesMary Esther GourdinKaileen HealyMegan HeederKendra JenningsMegan KilbrideAmber Lalla

2012–13 rosenthal leadership aCademy at tendees

2012–13 biG east aCademiC all-stars


Lauren LeniartLena MadisonSydni MeunierKatie MoranEmily MorrisAbbey MurphyAnn PolcariKayla PolcariMeg RyanAngela RyckJessica RydbergLibby SchichtelMcKinzie SchulzMolly SeidelNevada SorensonKatherine StultzAllison SullivanRebecca TracyJaclyn WinkelMegan Yanik

meN’S GoLf

Andrew CarreonPatrick GrahekEdward HjerpeAndrew LaneDavid LowePaul McNamara IIINiall PlattZach TostePeyton VitterTyler Wingo

WomeN’S GoLf

Ashley ArmstrongTalla CampbellKristina NhimKelli Oride

meN’S LAcroSSe

Tyler BrennemanWill CorriganPat CotterQuinn CullyAlex EatonEdwin GlazenerAdam GoinsBobby GrayWesty HopkinsConor KellyTyler KimballMatt LandisAndrew LarrabeeEddy LubowickiJim MarlattConnor McColloughRyan MixSteve MurphyJack NearLiam O’ConnorStephen O’HaraChristopher PrevoznikCole RiccardiKyle RunyonJohn SciosciaMichael ShepardsonJack SheridanRyan SmithAndrew WillHenry Williams

WomeN’S LAcroSSe

Kaitlyn BroscoMcKenzie BrownAdele BruggemanEmily ConnerElizabeth DriscollCaitlin GarganJulia GiorgioJenny GrangerHannah HartmanDanielle LukishBetsy MastropieriJaimie MorrisonAllie MurrayLindsay PowellAustin PruittMolly ShawhanBarbara SullivanLauren Sullivan

roWiNG

Paige AielloCarlee BeckerAnne BliesznerTeresa BlumensteinStephanie BoggsErin BoxbergerElena BrindleyMolly BruggemanCarson CanonieSarah ClaeysMadelynn ConlinGreer CullyKiersten DeHavenChristina DinesRose DoerflerMairead DunneCourtney GaberinoKelly GawneEllen GleadowKelsey HaddadLucy HewittEmily HortonHayley JohnsonAlyce KanabrockiSarah KappersAnna KottkampAnalisa LaMair-OroscoElizabeth LinnemanstonsMadeline LoperKatherine LumettaBecca MacdonaldChristine McGoughMargaret McKeeMegan McKeonColleen McLindenSarah McShaneAbby MeyersM. Kathryn MonahanJoanna MulveyKelsey MurphyAlexis OlsonStephanie O’NeillJoanna PoinsatteMikaela PregoKendra RaskTeresa RubingerKathryn RuffoloSarah RusselVictoria RyanSavannah Ryder

Hannah SaddlerMeghan SalomonDani SchneiderAilish SheehanKathleen SkorczAmanda SosnowskiAlexandra TecharKristina TecharMadelyn TournatAna VanEgmondStella WilloughbyIngrid Woelfel

meN’S Soccer

Vince CicciarelliKyle CraftPatrick HodanConnor KlekotaAdam LaPlacaBrendan LeschDanny LojekConnor MillerLuke MishuBob NovakDanny O’LearyAndrew O’MalleyEvan PankenAlex PriedeKyle RichardHarrison ShippMichael ShippBrian TalcottEric TilleyGrant Van De CasteelePatrick Wall

WomeN’S Soccer

Charlotte AndersonNicole BornerElyse HightMandy LaddishKate NaughtonCari RoccaroNicole RodriguezMary SchwappachSammy ScofieldCrystal ThomasElizabeth TuckerSarah VoigtBrittany Von RuedenNaomi Willett

SoftBALL

Jackie BoweKathryn LuxBrittany O’DonnellCarly PiccinichAllie RhodesChloe SaganowichMegan SorlieLauren StuhrKelsey ThorntonMonica TorresCassidy WhiddenLaura Winter


John AndradeBogac AyhanCollin Babcock

Bill BassJordan BerryMatt BuergerJoe CasinoJoshua ChoiFrank DyerTylor GaugerMichael HudspithAndrew JensenBroderick KelleyRyan KoterMichael KreftJames McKenzieCameron MillerPatrick MurphyBertie NelNick NemetzAlex RobinsonMichael ScheidNicholas SimZach StephensTed WagnerMason Weber


Hannah BowenAllison CasaretoJenny ChiangSarah DotzelErin FoleyGracie FredlakeEmma GabouryCatherine GallettiMolly GeraghtyGenevieve HeidkampKim HoldenKimmie LisiakJaime Malandra

Mikelle MasciantonioEmma ReaneyKelly RyanLauren ScottMelissa Scott

meN’S teNNiS

Greg AndrewsRyan BandyDougie BarnardMatt DooleyQuentin MonaghanNicolas MontoyaMichael MooreBlas MorosKen SabacinskiEric SchnurrenbergerSpencer Talmadge

WomeN’S teNNiS

Quinn GleasonJennifer KellnerJoHanna ManninghamChrissie McGaffiganDarby MountfordMolly O’KoniewskiJulie Sabacinski

VoLLeyBALL

Maggie BrindockHilary EppinkErin KlostermanAndrea McHughTaylor MoreyAndie OlsenKathleen SeverynNicole Smith

Alexa Aragon

Women’s Track & Field (Indoor Distance Medley Relay and 3,000m Outdoor Steeplechase)JuniorBillings, Mont.

danielle Aragon

Women’s Track & Field (Indoor Distance Medley Relay)FreshmanBillings, Mont.

margaret Bamgbose

Women’s Track & Field (Indoor 4x400m Relay)FreshmanEvanston, Ill.

Jade Barber

Women’s Track & Field (60m Indoor Hurdles, 4x400m Relay, & 100m Outdoor Hurdles)SophomoreMiddleburg Heights, Ohio

michelle Brown

Women’s Track & Field (Indoor Distance Medley Relay, 4x400 Relay & 400m Outdoors)JuniorShamong, N.J.

Braxston cave

Football (Center)Graduate StudentMishawaka, Ind.

Kelly curran

Women’s Track & Field (Indoor Distance Medley Relay)JuniorBloomington, Ill.

Skylar diggins

Women’s Basketball (Guard)SeniorSouth Bend, Ind.

tyler eifert

Football (Tight End)SeniorFort Wayne, Ind.

patrick feeney

Men’s Track & Field (Indoor 400m)JuniorIndianapolis, Ind.

ryan finley

Men’s Soccer (Forward)SeniorLumberton, N.J.

chris Giesting

Men’s Track & Field (Indoor Distance Medley Relay)SophomoreBatesville, Ind.

courtney hurley

Women’s Fencing (Epee)SeniorSan Antonio, Texas

Lee Kiefer

Women’s Fencing (Foil)FreshmanVersailles, Ken.

emilee Koerner

Softball (Outfielder)SophomoreTustin, Calif.

Anders Lee

Hockey (Center)JuniorEdina, Minn.

carly Loeffel

Track & Field (Heptathlon)SophomoreCary, Ill.

Jim marlatt

Men’s Lacrosse (Midfield)JuniorClarksville, Md.

Kayla mcBride

Women’s Basketball (Guard)SeniorErie, Pa.

ewa Nellip

Women’ Fencing (Epee)SeniorKatowice, Poland

Lian osier

Women’s Fencing (Sabre)SeniorBattle Ground, Wash.

dillon powers

Men’s Soccer (Midfield)SeniorPlano, Texas

Jeremy rae

Track & Field (Outdoor 1,500m)SeniorFort Erie, Ontario

emma reaney

Women’s Swimming & Diving (100 and 200 Breast)SophomoreLawrence, Kan.

cari roccaro

Women’s Soccer (Forward/Midfield/Defender)SophomoreEast Islip, N.Y.

Barbara Sullivan

Women’s Lacrosse (Defense) SophomoreGarden City, N.Y.

manti te’o

Football (Inside Linebacker)SeniorLaie, Hawaii

rebecca tracy

Women’s Track & Field (1,500m)SeniorPinetop, Ariz.

Stephon tuitt

Football (Defensive End)JuniorMonroe, Ga.

madison Zeiss

Women’s Fencing (Foil)SophomoreLos Angeles, Calif.


notre dame all-ameriCans (30)

2012–13 biG east ConferenCe sChol ar-athlete sport eXCellenCe aWards

Greg Andrews

Men’s Tennis

Alexa Aragon

Women’s Outdoor Track and Field

Kim holden

Women’s Swimming and DivingJennifer Kellner

Women’s Tennis

Abby meyers

Rowing


footBALL (17 Individuals / 18 times; Year refers to fall season)dan Shannon (’54)don Schaefer (’55)Bob Lehmann (’63)Jim Lynch (’66)tom regner (’66)Jim Smithberger (’67)George Kunz (’68)Jim reilly (’69)tom Gatewood (’70, ’71)Joe theismann (’70)Greg marx (’72)dave casper (’73)pete demmerle (’74)Ken macAfee (’77)John Krimm (’81)tim ruddy (’93)manti te’o (’13)

BASeBALL (3)dan peltier (’89)J. p. Gagne (’03)Steve Sollmann (’03)

meN’S BASKetBALL (4/6)Bob Arnzen (’67, ’68)Kelly tripucka (’79)John paxson (’82, ’83)pat Garrity (’98)

SoftBALL (4/6) Katie marten (’95, ’96)Jarrah myers (’01, ’02)Jen Sharron (’01)Stephanie Brown (’06)

meN’S croSS couNtry /

trAcK & fieLd (12 / 14; cross country years refer to fall season)mike mcWilliams (’95 track)Jeff hojnacki (’97 track)Jason rexing (’96 CC / ’97 track)errol Williams (’98 track)mike Brown (’98 track & field)ryan Shay (’01 CC / ’02 track)Luke Watson (’01 CC / ’02 and ’03 track)todd mobley (’03 CC)tim moore (’05 CC)thomas chamney (’06 and ’07 track)todd ptacek (’06 CC / ’07 track)patrick Smyth (’08 CC / ’09 track)

WomeN’S croSS couNtry /

trAcK & fieLd (4)Alison Klemmer (’99 track)Lauren King (’03 CC)Stephanie madia (’05 CC / ’06 track)rebecca tracy (’12 CC/’13 track)

WomeN’S feNciNG (3/4)heidi piper (’91, ’92)claudette deBruin (’96)Adrienne Nott (’08)

WomeN’S Soccer (4/7, years refer to fall season)Jen renola (’95, ’96)monica Gonzalez (’01)Brittany Bock (’07, ’08)Lauren fowlkes (’09, ’10)

meN’S feNciNG (2/3)Bill Lester (’96, ’97)reggie Bentley (’11)

meN’S Soccer (2)ryan miller (’07)matt Besler (’08)

eAch With oNe (5/6)Andy Zurcher (men’s tennis, ’94)Jen hall (women’s tennis, ’99)ruth riley (women’s basketball, ’00, ’01)Lauren Brewster (volleyball, ’05)erik condra (hockey, ’09)

Notes | The above individuals include 13 who pulled the All-America/Academic All-America honors in two different years: Tom Gatewood, Bob Arnzen, John Paxson, Heidi Piper, Katie Marten, Bill Lester, Jen Renola, Ruth Riley, Jarrah Myers, Luke Watson, Thomas Chamney, Brittany Bock and Lauren Fowlkes. Notre Dame has produced at least one student-athlete with the All-America/Academic All-America distinction in 13 of the past 14 years (28 total in that stretch). Six pairs of teammates have earned the double honors in the same season: football’s Jim Lynch and Tom Regner (’66) and Tom Gatewood and Joe Theismann (’70); softball’s Jarrah Myers and Jen Sharron (’01); track’s Ryan Shay and Luke Watson (’02) and Thomas Chamney and Todd Ptacek (’07); and baseball’s J. P. Gagne and Steve Sollmann (’03).

2012–13 Capi tal one aCademiC all-ameriCans (8)

notre dame’s all-ameriCa / aCademiC all-ameriCa double honorees

Notre Dame student-athletes have earned All-America and Academic All-America honors in the same academic year 73 times (by 60 individuals), including football player Manti Te’o and women’s cross country runner Rebecca Tracy in 2012-13. Here is the complete list of this elite group of high achievers:

Greg Andrews

Men’s Tennis3.867, AccountancyJuniorRichland, Mich.

Ashley Armstrong

Women’s Golf3.891, Mechanical EngineeringSophomoreFlossmoor, Ill.

mike Golic Jr.

Football3.428, Film, Television, and TheatreGraduate StudentWest Hartford, Conn.

Logan renwick

Men’s Track and Field3.89, Mechanical EngineeringJuniorButler, Pa.

harrison Shipp

Men’s Soccer 3.846JuniorLake Forest, Ill.

manti te’o

Football 3.324, DesignSeniorLaie, Hawaii

rebecca tracy

Women’s Cross Country/Track and Field3.56, Psychology and Pre-Professional StudiesSeniorBarrington, Ill.

elizabeth tucker

Women’s Soccer4.00, AccountancyJuniorJacksonville, Fla.


Andrew carreon

PresidentMen’s Golf

chrissie mcGaffigan

Vice PresidentWomen’s Tennis

Jaimie morrison

SecretaryWomen’s Lacrosse

randall Babb

Monogram Club LiaisonMen’s Cross Country

Blas moros

Monogram Club LiaisonMen’s Tennis

Kiersten dehaven

BIG EAST LiaisonRowing

Grant Van de casteele

BIG EAST SAAC RepresentativeMen’s Soccer

david Jones

Center for Social Concerns LiaisonCheerleading

marta Stepien

Career Center LiaisonWomen’s Fencing

Greg Andrews

Men’s Tennis

Jordan Berry

Men’s Swimming & Diving

Kyle Brindza

Football

mike Broghammer

Men’s Basketball

Braxston cave

Football

Jessie christian

Women’s Track & Field

Kelly curran

Women’s Cross Country

frank deSico

Baseball

frank dyer

Men’s Swimming & Diving

mike Golic Jr.

Football

Jarrett Grace

Football

Whitney holloway

Women’s Basketball

mike Johnson

Hockey

max Lachowecki

Men’s Soccer

Kapron Lewis-moore

Football

Kimmie Lisiak

Women’s Swimming & Diving

Johanna manningham

Women’s Tennis

charlie markson

Baseball

Kayla mcBride

Women’s Basketball

christen mcdonough

Women’s Swimming & Diving

Katie Naughton

Women’s Soccer

Kristina Nhim

Women’s Golf

dean odegard

Men’s Track & Field

Stephanie o’Neill

Rowing

Logan renwick


Joe rogers

Hockey

marie roof

Volleyball

teresa rubinger

Rowing

Angela ryck


Allison rzepczynski

Cheerleading

danni Schneider

Rowing

Kathleen Severyn

Volleyball

molly Shawhan

Women’s Lacrosse

danny Spond

Football

Jordan Stumph


Kelsey thornton

Softball

monica torres

Softball

elizabeth tucker

Women’s Soccer

Andy Will

Men’s Lacrosse

Jaclyn Winkel

Women’s Track & Field

Kelsey thornton

Softball

rachel Velarde


Kelli Zeese

Manager

Jack Swarbrick

Vice President/ Director of Athletics

missy conboy

Senior Deputy AD

Jim fraleigh

Deputy AD

patricia Bellia

Faculty AthleticRepresentative

Jill Bodensteiner

Senior Associate AD

mike harrity

Senior Associate AD

John heisler

Senior Associate AD

tom Nevala

Senior Associate AD

Jody Sadler

Senior Associate AD

dan Skendzel

Senior Associate AD

michael danch

Associate AD

mike Karwoski

Associate AD

chad Klunder

Associate AD

Bernadette cafarelli

Assistant AD

monica cundiff

Assistant AD

Beth hunter

Assistant AD

rob Kelly

Assistant AD

maureen mcNamara

Assistant AD

Jennifer Vining-Smith

Assistant AD

Athletics ticket office

631-7356

Athletic media relations

631-7516

Summer camps

631-7503

2012–13 student-athlete adv isory CounCil

athlet iC department direCtory ( all numbers are are a Code 574)

Documents

2012-13 University of Notre Dame Athletics Annual Report