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student welfare and development
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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
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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
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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
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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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in thenews
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
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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)
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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”
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sportsperformance
performance.nd.edu
facebook.com/NDPerformance
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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(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 All-BIG EAST
· 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
· BIG EAST Weekly Honor Roll (Feb. 18)
AdAm NortoN // SR., RHP
· First Team All-BIG EAST
· 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).
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[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
· First Team All-BIG EAST
· Associated Press Honorable Mention All-
American
· Notre Dame Monogram Club MVP Award
· 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
· Notre Dame Club of St. Joseph Valley Rockne
Student-Athlete Award
JeriAN GrANt // JR., GuaRd
· Second Team All-BIG EAST
· 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)
H O N O R S AWA R D S
men’s basketball
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(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.
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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
· BIG EAST Player of the Year
· Notre Dame Monogram Club MVP Award
· 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
· BIG EAST Championship All-Tournament Team
· 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)
H O N O R S AWA R D S
WhitNey hoLLoWAy // SO., GuaRd
· Notre Dame Club of St. Joseph Valley Rockne
Student-Athlete Award
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
· All-BIG EAST First 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
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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.
· NCAA Championship Participant
pAtricK LeSieWicZ // JR.
· NCAA Championship Participant
· National Catholic Invitational JV Race Champion
J.p. mALette // SR.
· NCAA Championship Participant
· All-Great Lakes Region
· All-BIG EAST
Jeremy rAe // SR.
· All-BIG EAST
· Notre Dame Monogram Club MVP Award
· BIG EAST Men’s Runner of the Week (Sept. 18,
Oct. 16)
· National Catholic Invitational Champion
WALter SchAfer // JR.
· NCAA Championship Participant
· All-Great Lakes Region
dJ thorNtoN // JR.
· NCAA Championship Participant
HEAD COACH
Joe Piane
CAPTAINS
Jeremy RaeJ.P. Malette
H O N O R S AWA R D S
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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.
H O N O R S AWA R D S
ALexA ArAGoN // JR.
· NCAA Championship Participant
· All-Great Lakes Region
KeLLy currAN // JR.
· NCAA Championship Participant
· All-Great Lakes Region
· All-BIG EAST
· USTFCCCA All-Academic Team
· Notre Dame Club of St. Joseph Valley Rockne
Student-Athlete Award
hANNAh ecKSteiN // SO.
· All-Great Lakes Region
· USTFCCCA All-Academic Team
emiLy frydrych // SO.
· National Catholic Invitational JV Race Champion
GABBy GoNZALeS // SO.
· NCAA Championship Participant
meG ryAN // JR.
· NCAA Championship Participant
JeSSicA rydBerG // SR.
· NCAA Championship Participant
moLLy SeideL // FR.
· NCAA Championship Participant
· All-Great Lakes Region
· USTFCCCA All-Academic Team
reBeccA trAcy // SR.
· NCAA Championship Participant
· All-Great Lakes Region
· All-BIG EAST
· USTFCCCA All-Academic Team
· 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
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(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
· NCAA Midwest Regional 2nd-Place Finisher
· Midwest Fencing Conference Champion
· First Team All-Midwest Fencing Conference
JohN hALLSteN // FR., SaBRe
· NCAA Championship 18th-Place Finisher
· NCAA Midwest Regional 1st-Place Finisher
· Midwest Fencing Conference 2nd-Place Finisher
· First Team All-Midwest Fencing Conference
KeViN hASSett // JR., SaBRe
· Men’s Sabre Most Valuable Player
· NCAA Championship 9th-Place Finisher
· Third Team All-American
· NCAA Midwest Regional 3rd-Place Finisher
· Second Team All-Midwest Fencing Conference
H O N O R S AWA R D S
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
· Second Team All-Midwest Fencing Conference
JAmeS KAuLL // SR., ePee
· DeCicco-Langford Team Award
· NCAA Midwest Regional 6th-Place Finisher
NicK KuBiK // JR., FOil
· NCAA Midwest Regional 9th-Place Finisher
WiLLiAm mcGouGh // SR., SaBRe
· Dan Mulligan Award
· NCAA Midwest Regional 4th-Place Finisher
GArrett mcGrAth // FR., ePee
· Men’s Epee Most Valuable Player
· NCAA Championship 13th-Place Finisher
· NCAA Midwest Regional 5th-Place Finisher
GereK meiNhArdt // SR., FOil
· Notre Dame Monogram Club MVP Award
· Walter Langford Award
· NCAA Championship T3rd-Place Finisher
· First Team All-American
· NCAA Midwest Regional 1st-Place Finisher
· Men’s Foil Most Valuable Player
JAcK piASio // SR., ePee
· Steve Donlon Award
· NCAA Midwest Regional 8th-Place Finisher
michAeL roSSi // JR., ePee
· NCAA Championship 20th-Place Finisher
· NCAA Midwest Regional 3rd-Place Finisher
· First Team All-Midwest Fencing Conference
HEAD COACH
Janusz Bednarski
ASSOCIATE HEAD COACH
Gia Kvaratskhelia
ASSISTANT COACHES
Ian FarrCedric Loiseau
CAPTAINS
Jason Choy James KaullGerek Meinhardt
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(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
· Second Team All-Midwest Fencing Conference
AdriANA cAmAcho // JR., FOil
· Alice “Dit” Langford Award
· NCAA Midwest Regional 6th-Place Finisher
· Second Team All-Midwest Fencing Conference
GrAce hArtmAN // SR., FOil
· Notre Dame Club of St. Joseph Valley Knute
Rockne Student-Athlete Award
· NCAA Midwest Regional 10th-Place Finisher
courtNey hurLey // SR., ePee
· Walter Langford Award
· NCAA Champion
· First Team All-American
· NCAA Midwest Regional 1st-Place Finisher
Lee Kiefer // FR., FOil
· Notre Dame Monogram Club MVP Award
· NCAA Champion
· First Team All-American
· NCAA Midwest Regional 1st-Place Finisher
NicoLe mcKee // FR., FOil
· NCAA Midwest Regional 9th -Place Finisher
· Midwest Fencing Conference 2nd-Place
Finisher
· First Team All-Midwest Fencing Conference
pheNix meSSerSmith // SR., FOil
· DeCicco-Langford Award
eWA NeLip // SR., ePee
· Women’s Epee Team Most Valuable Player
· NCAA Championship 8th-Place Finisher
· Second Team All-American
· NCAA Midwest Regional 4th-Place Finisher
· Midwest Conference Champion
· First Team All-Midwest Fencing Conference
ABiGAiL NichoLS // SR., SaBRe
· Women’s Sabre Most Valuable Player
· NCAA Midwest Regional 8th-Place Finisher
H O N O R S AWA R D S
LiAN oSier // SR., SaBRe
· Notre Dame Club of St. Joseph Valley Knute
Rockne Student-Athlete Award
· Janusz Bednarski Award
· NCAA Championship 8th-Place Finisher
· Second Team All-American
· NCAA Midwest Regional 2nd-Place Finisher
· Midwest Fencing Conference Runner-up
· First Team All-Midwest Fencing Conference
KAthryN pALAZZoto // SR., SaBRe
· NCAA Midwest Regional 10th-Place Finisher
AShLey SeVerSoN // SO., ePee
· NCAA Midwest Regional 5th-Place Finisher
· DeCicco-Auriol Award
mArtA StepieN // SR., SaBRe
· Second Team All-Midwest Fencing Conference
JohANNA thiLL // FR., SaBRe
· NCAA Championship 11th-Place Finisher
· Third Team All-American
· NCAA Midwest Regional 5th-Place Finisher
· Midwest Fencing Conference Champion
· First Team All-Midwest Fencing Conference
mAdiSoN ZeiSS // SO., FOil
· NCAA Championship T3rd- Place Finisher
· First Team All-American
· NCAA Midwest Regional 2nd-Place Finisher
· Second Team All-Midwest Fencing Conference
HEAD COACH
Janusz Bednarski
ASSOCIATE HEAD COACH
Gia Kvaratskhelia
ASSISTANT COACHES
Ian Farr Cedric Loiseau
CAPTAINS
Grace HartmanCourtney HurleyEwa NelipLian Osier
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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)
· FBS Independent Special Teams Player of the
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
· College Football Performance Awards Honorable
Mention Tight End (Sept. 9, Oct. 14, Oct. 22,
Nov. 11, Nov. 18, Nov. 25)
H O N O R S AWA R D S
(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
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football
mAtthiAS fArLey // SO., SaFeTy
· College Football Performance Awards Honorable
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
· Walter Camp Second Team All-American
· 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
· NFL Draft – Sixth round (199th overall) by
Detroit Lions
· Notre Dame Count On Me Award
· Hornung Award Watch List
· FBS Independent Offensive Player of the Week
(Oct. 22, Dec. 10)
· College Football Performance Awards
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
· College Football Performance Awards
· National Defensive Performer of the Week
(Nov. 11)
· College Football Performance Awards
· National Defensive Lineman of the Week
(Nov. 11)
· FBS Independent Defensive Player of the Week
(Nov. 11)
JAmoriS SLAuGhter // SR., S
· NFL Draft – Sixth round (175th overall) by
Cleveland Browns
dANNy SpoNd // JR., lB
· Notre Dame Club of St. Joseph Valley Rockne
Student-Athlete Award
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
· Byron V. Kanaley Award
· 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)
· College Football Performance Awards
Honorable Mention Linebacker (Sept. 16,
Oct. 22 , Oct. 28)
· FBS Independent Defensive Player of the Week
(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
· Walter Camp 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
· FBS Independent Special Teams Player of the
Week (Sept. 17)
cierre Wood // SR., RB
· Maxwell Award Watch List
· Doak Walker Award Watch List
· College Football Performance Awards
Honorable Mention Running Back (Nov. 18)
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[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.
· Notre Dame Club of St. Joseph Valley Knute
Rockne Student-Athlete Award
· 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)
· Georgetown Intercollegiate (T-6th of 66)
NiALL pLAtt // JR.
· Notre Dame Monogram Club MVP Award
· Macdonald Cup (1st of 75)
· Georgetown Intercollegiate (T-15th of 66)
· 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)
· Georgetown Intercollegiate (T-11th of 66)
H O N O R S AWA R D S
HEAD COACH
Jim Kubinski
ASSISTANT COACH
Scott Gump
CAPTAINS
Andrew CarreonPaul McNamaraNiall Platt
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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
· Notre Dame Club of St. Joseph Valley Rockne
Student-Athlete Award
· 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
· BIG EAST Coach of the Year
KriStiNA Nhim // JR.
· Dallas Athletic Club Invitational (T-26th of 78)
· BIG EAST Championship (T-8th of 40)
KeLLi oride // SO.
· Mary Fossum Invitational (T-9th of 92)
· The Landfall Tradition (T-11th of 90)
· BIG EAST Championship (T-14th of 40)
LiNdSey WeAVer // FR.
· National Golf Coaches Association (NGCA) All-
American Honorable Mention
· BIG EAST Women’s Golf Player of the Year
· BIG EAST Freshman 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)
· Notre Dame Monogram Club MVP Award
· Susie Maxwell Berning Classic (T-2nd of 95)
· Windy City Collegiate Classic (T-2nd of 81)
· The Landfall Tradition (T-3rd of 90)
H O N O R S AWA R D S
HEAD COACH
Susan Holt
ASSISTANT COACH
Kyle Lynne Veltri
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[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.
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H O N O R S AWA R D S
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 Monogram Club MVP Award
· 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)
· CCHA Postgame Offensive Player of the Week
(Nov. 5, Nov. 26)
mArio LuciA // FR., leFT WiNG
· Notre Dame Rookie of the Year
· CCHA All-Rookie Team
· CCHA Postgame Offensive Player of the Week
(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
· Ice Breaker Tournament All-Tournament Team
peter SchNeider // SO., RiGHT WiNG
· Notre Dame Club of St. Joseph Valley Rockne
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)
· Ice Breaker Tournament All-Tournament Team
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
· Ice Breaker Tournament All-Tournament Team
AuStiN Wuthrich // SO., RiGHT WiNG
· CCHA Championship All-Tournament Team
HEAD COACH
Jeff Jackson
ASSOCIATE HEAD COACH
Paul Pooley
ASSOCIATE COACH
Andy Slaggert
CAPTAIN
Anders Lee
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[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
H O N O R S AWA R D S
QuiNN cuLLy // SR., MidFieldeR
· Major League Lacrosse Draft Pick – Boston
Cannons
coNor doyLe // SO., aTTaCK
· BIG EAST Weekly Honor Roll (Feb. 25)
mAtt KAVANAGh // FR., aTTaCK
· USILA Honorable Mention All-American
· First Team All-BIG EAST
· 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
· First Team All-BIG EAST
· BIG EAST Defensive Player of the Week (Feb. 18)
· Tewaaraton Trophy Nominee
Jim mArLAtt // JR., MidFieldeR
· USILA Third Team All-American
· First Team All-BIG EAST
· BIG EAST Offensive Player of the Week (Feb. 18)
· Tewaaraton Trophy Watch List
mAtt miLLer // SR., deFeNSeMaN
· Major League Lacrosse Draft Pick – Rochester
Rattlers
· USILA Third Team All-American
· First Team All-BIG EAST
· 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
· BIG EAST Championship All-Tournament Team
· BIG EAST Weekly Honor Roll (Apr. 8)
SeAN roGerS // SR., aTTaCK
· BIG EAST Weekly Honor Roll (Mar. 18, Apr. 8,
Apr. 15)
· Tewaaraton Trophy Watch List
JohN ScioSciA // JR., aTTaCKMaN
· BIG EAST Offensive Player of the Week (Apr. 22)
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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.
H O N O R S AWA R D S
JeNNy GrANGer // SR., aTTaCK
· Second Team IWLCA West/Midwest All-Region
· First Team All-BIG EAST
· 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
· First Team All-BIG EAST
· 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
· Second Team All-BIG EAST
· BIG EAST Weekly Honor Roll (Mar. 4, Mar. 11,
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
· Christopher Zorich Award
· Notre Dame Club of St. Joseph Valley Rockne
Student-Athlete Award
mArGAret Smith // JR., MidFieldeR
· First Team IWLCA West/Midwest All-Region
· First Team All-BIG EAST
· BIG EAST Defensive Player of the Week (Mar. 4)
· BIG EAST Weekly Honor Roll (Apr. 29)
· Tewaaraton Trophy Watch List
BArBArA SuLLiVAN // SO., deFeNSe
· First Team IWLCA All-American
· First Team Synapse Sports All-American
· First Team WomensLax.com All-American
· First Team IWLCA West/Midwest All-Region
· First Team All-BIG EAST
· BIG EAST Weekly Honor Roll (Mar. 11, Mar. 18,
Apr. 8)
· Tewaaraton Trophy Nominee
· Tewaaraton Trophy Watch List
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
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HEAD COACH
Martin Stone
ASSOCIATE HEAD COACH
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
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H O N O R S AWA R D S
pAiGe AieLLo // SR.
· NCAA Petite Finals Participant Second Varsity
Eight
· BIG EAST Champion – Second Varsity Eight
cArLee BecKLer // SO.
· NCAA Petite Finals Participant Second Varsity
Eight
· BIG EAST Champion – Second Varsity Eight
tereSA BLumeNSteiN // SR.
· NCAA Petite Finals Participant Second Varsity Eight
· BIG EAST Champion – 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
· All-BIG EAST First Team
· BIG EAST Boat of the Week – First Varsity Eight
(Mar. 20)
moLLy BruGGemAN // JR.
· Collegiate Rowing Coaches Association (CRCA)
Pocock All-America First Team
· CRCA Central All-Region Team
· NCAA Third Finals Participant First Varsity
Eight
· BIG EAST Champion – First Varsity Eight
· All-BIG EAST First Team
· BIG EAST Boat of the Week – First Varsity 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.
· Collegiate Rowing Coaches Association (CRCA)
National Scholar-Athlete
· NCAA Petite Finals Participant Second Varsity
Eight
· BIG EAST Champion – Second Varsity Eight
roSe doerfLer // SO.
· Collegiate Rowing Coaches Association (CRCA)
National Scholar-Athlete
· NCAA Petite Finals Participant Second Varsity
Eight
· BIG EAST Champion – Second Varsity Eight
courtNey GABeriNo // JR.
· Collegiate Rowing Coaches Association (CRCA)
National Scholar-Athlete
· NCAA Third Finals Participant First Varsity
Eight
· BIG EAST Champion – First Varsity Eight
· All-BIG EAST Second Team
· BIG EAST Boat of the Week – First Varsity Eight
(Mar. 20)
eLLeN GLeAdoW // FR.
· NCAA Petite Finals Participant First Varsity Four
· BIG EAST Champion – First Varsity Four
KeLSey hAddAd // SR.
· Collegiate Rowing Coaches Association (CRCA)
National Scholar-Athlete
· NCAA Petite Finals Participant Second Varsity Eight
· BIG EAST Champion – Second Varsity Eight
eLiZABeth KeLLey // FR.
· BIG EAST Boat of the Week – First Varsity Four
(Apr. 3)
ANNA KottKAmp // SO.
· Collegiate Rowing Coaches Association (CRCA)
National Scholar-Athlete
· NCAA Third Finals Participant First Varsity Eight
· BIG EAST Champion – First Varsity Eight
· All-BIG EAST Second Team
· BIG EAST Boat of the Week – First Varsity Eight
(Mar. 20)
ABBy meyerS // SR.
· Collegiate Rowing Coaches Association (CRCA)
Central All-Region Team
· CRCA National Scholar-Athlete
· NCAA Third Finals Participant First Varsity
Eight
· BIG EAST Scholar-Athlete Sport Excellence
Award
· BIG EAST Champion – First Varsity Eight
· BIG EAST Boat of the Week – First Varsity Eight
(Mar. 20)
· Notre Dame Club of St. Joseph Valley Rockne
Student-Athlete Award
JoANNA muLVey // FR.
· NCAA Third Finals Participant First Varsity
Eight
· BIG EAST Champion – First Varsity Eight
· All-BIG EAST Second Team
· BIG EAST Boat of the Week – First Varsity Eight
(Mar. 20)
KeLSey murphy // SR.
· Notre Dame Club of St. Joseph Valley Knute
Rockne Student-Athlete Award
· Collegiate Rowing Coaches Association (CRCA)
National Scholar-Athlete
· NCAA Petite Finals Participant First Varsity
Four
· BIG EAST Champion – First Varsity Four
· BIG EAST Boat of the Week – First Varsity Four
(Apr. 3)
StephANie o’NeiLL // SR.
· Collegiate Rowing Coaches Association (CRCA)
Central All-Region Team
· NCAA Third Finals Participant First Varsity Eight
· BIG EAST Champion – First Varsity Eight
· All-BIG EAST First Team
· BIG EAST Boat of the Week – First Varsity Eight
(Mar. 20)
rowing
JoANNA poiNSAtte // SR.
· Collegiate Rowing Coaches Association (CRCA)
National Scholar-Athlete
· NCAA Third Finals Participant First Varsity
Eight
· BIG EAST Champion – First Varsity Eight
· BIG EAST Boat of the Week – First Varsity Eight
(Mar. 20)
tereSA ruBiNGer // JR.
· Collegiate Rowing Coaches Association (CRCA)
National Scholar-Athlete
· NCAA Petite Finals Participant Second Varsity
Eight
· BIG EAST Champion – Second Varsity Eight
meGhAN SALomoN // SR.
· Notre Dame Monogram Club Postgraduate
Scholarship
dANNi SchNeider // SR.
· Collegiate Rowing Coaches Association (CRCA)
National Scholar-Athlete
· NCAA Petite Finals Participant First Varsity Four
· BIG EAST Champion – First Varsity Four
· BIG EAST Boat of the Week – First Varsity Four
(Apr. 3)
KeLSey SeKANicK // JR.
· NCAA Petite Finals Participant Second Varsity
Eight
· BIG EAST Champion – Second Varsity Eight
AiLiSh SheehAN // SO.
· Collegiate Rowing Coaches Association (CRCA)
Central All-Region Team
· NCAA Third Finals Participant First Varsity
Eight
· BIG EAST Champion – First Varsity Eight
· All-BIG EAST First Team
· BIG EAST Boat of the Week – First Varsity Eight
(Mar. 20)
mArtiN StoNe // Head COaCH
· BIG EAST Coaching Staff of the Year
SteLLA WiLLouGhBy // SO.
· NCAA Petite Finals Participant First Varsity Four
· BIG EAST Champion – First Varsity Four
· BIG EAST Boat of the Week – First Varsity Four
(Apr. 3)
iNGrid WoeLfeL // SR.
· NCAA Petite Finals Participant Second Varsity
Eight
· BIG EAST Champion – Second Varsity Eight
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[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
H O N O R S AWA R D S
NicK BeSLer // SO., MidFieldeR/deFeNdeR
· Third Team All-BIG EAST
· 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
· BIG EAST Championship Most Outstanding
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)
· IU Classic All-Tournament Team
pAtricK hodAN // FR., FORWaRd/MidFieldeR
· BIG EAST All-Rookie Team
· College Soccer News National Team of the Week
(Nov. 5)
· Top Drawer Soccer National Team of the Week
(Nov. 5)
· Chicagoland Soccer News Player of the Week
(Nov. 7)
· BIG EAST Rookie of the Week (Oct. 15)
mAx LAchoWecKi // SO., deFeNdeR
· BIG EAST All-Rookie Team
· Soccer America All-Freshman Second Team
· Soccer America National Team of the Week
(Sept. 11)
· BIG EAST Defensive Player of the Week (Sept. 10)
· BIG EAST Weekly Honor Roll (Oct. 22)
· Mike Berticelli All-Tournament Team
AdAm meNA // SR., MidFieldeR
· Major League Soccer Draft Pick – Vancouver
Whitecaps
LuKe miShu // JR., deFeNdeR
· BIG EAST Defensive Player of the Week (Sept. 17)
· Soccer America National Team of the Week
(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-BIG EAST
· First Team All-Great Lakes Region
· NSCAA Scholar First Team All-American
· BIG EAST Championship All-Tournament Team
· College Soccer News National Team of the Week
(Nov. 19)
· Top Drawer Soccer National Team of the Week
(Nov. 19)
· IU Classic All-Tournament Team
· Mike Berticelli All-Tournament Team
michAeL roSe // SR., MidFieldeR/FORWaRd
· Major League Soccer Draft Pick – Vancouver
Whitecaps
hArriSoN Shipp // JR., FORWaRd
· Third Team All-BIG EAST
· 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
· BIG EAST Weekly Honor Roll (Oct. 15)
· Top Drawer Soccer National Team of the Week
(Sept. 4)
· IU Classic All-Tournament Team
GrANt VAN de cASteeLe // SR., deFeNdeR
· Third Team All-BIG EAST
· BIG EAST Male Scholar-Athlete of the Year
· BIG EAST Championship Most Outstanding
Defensive Performer
· BIG EAST Championship All-Tournament Team
· Third Team All-Great Lakes Region
· NSCAA First Team Scholar All-Region Team
· BIG EAST Weekly Honor Roll (Oct. 1)
· College Soccer News National Team of the Week
(Sept. 10)
· Top Drawer Soccer National Team of the Week
(Sept. 10)
· Mike Berticelli Tournament Defensive MVP
· Mike Berticelli All-Tournament Team
· Senior CLASS Award Candidate
pAtricK WALL // JR., GOalKeePeR
· BIG EAST Championship All-Tournament Team
· BIG EAST Weekly Honor Roll (Oct. 8)
· Mike Berticelli Tournament Goalkeeping Co-MVP
WiLL WALSh // SR., GOalKeePeR
· Mike Berticelli Tournament Goalkeeping Co-MVP
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[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.
H O N O R S AWA R D S
LAureN BohABoy // SO., FORWaRd
· BIG EAST Weekly Honor Roll (Oct. 22)
eLySe hiGht // FR., GOalKeePeR
· BIG EAST Goalkeeper of the Week (Aug. 27)
· Notre Dame Adidas Invitational All-Tournament
Team
· Chicagoland Soccer News Player of the Week
(Sept. 3, Nov. 19)
mANdy LAddiSh // JR., MidFieldeR
· United States Under-20 World Cup Team
(champion)
· NSCAA All-Northeast Region Third Team
· All-BIG EAST Second Team
· BIG EAST Championship All-Tournament Team
KAtie NAuGhtoN // FR., deFeNdeR
· Most Valuable Freshman Award
· NSCAA All-Northeast Region Second Team
· All-BIG EAST Third Team
· BIG EAST All-Rookie Team
· Top Drawer Soccer National Team of the Week
(Aug. 27)
· Our Game Magazine Team of the Week (Oct. 1)
· BIG EAST Weekly Honor Roll (Sept. 24)
cAri roccAro // FR., FORWaRd/MidFieldeR/deFeNdeR
· Notre Dame Monogram Club MVP Award
· 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
· All-BIG EAST Third Team
· BIG EAST All-Rookie Team
· BIG EAST Offensive Player of the Week (Sept. 24)
· Chicagoland Soccer News Player of the Week
(Sept. 24)
SAmmy ScofieLd // SO., MidFieldeR/deFeNdeR
· Notre Dame Adidas Invitational All-Tournament
Team
teAm
· NSCAA Team Academic Award
cryStAL thomAS // FR., FORWaRd
· All-BIG EAST Second Team
· BIG EAST All-Rookie Team
· 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
· BIG EAST Championship All-Tournament Team
· Chicagoland Soccer News Player of the Week
(Aug. 27)
· BIG EAST Weekly Honor Roll (Aug. 27)
· Notre Dame Club of St. Joseph Valley Rockne
Student-Athlete Award
SArAh VoiGt // SO., GOalKeePeR
· BIG EAST Goalkeeper of the Week (Oct. 1)
· Chicagoland Soccer News Player of the Week
(Oct. 2)
BrittANy VoN ruedeN // FR., deFeNdeR
· Top Drawer Soccer National Team of the Week
(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
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[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.
H O N O R S AWA R D S
cASey AfricANo // FR., CaTCHeR/OuTFieldeR
· BIG EAST Honor Roll (April 15)
micAeLA AriZmeNdi // FR., iNFieldeR
· All-BIG EAST Third Team
Amy BuNtiN // SR., CaTCHeR/uTiliTy
· Senior CLASS Award Candidate
· All-BIG EAST Second Team
deANNA Gumpf // Head COaCH
· BIG EAST Coaching Staff of the Year
KAtey hAuS // SO., iNFieldeR
· BIG EAST Championship All-Tournament Team
· BIG EAST Honor Roll (Mar. 18)
emiLee KoerNer // SO., OuTFieldeR
· Notre Dame Monogram Club MVP Award
· 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
· All-BIG EAST First Team
· Notre Dame Monogram Club MVP Award
· BIG EAST Player of the Week (Feb. 25, Mar. 25,
May 6)
· BIG EAST Honor Roll (Mar. 4)
BrittANy o’doNNeLL // SR., PiTCHeR
· Notre Dame Club of St. Joseph Valley Knute
Rockne Student-Athlete Award
chLoe SAGANoWich // JR., iNFieldeR
· BIG EAST Championship All-Tournament Team
JeNNA SimoN // SO., iNFieldeR
· All-BIG EAST Third Team
· BIG EAST Honor Roll (Feb. 11, Apr. 8)
KeLSey thorNtoN // SR., OuTFieldeR
· All-BIG EAST Third Team
cASSidy WhiddeN // SO., CaTCHeR
· All-BIG EAST Third Team
LAurA WiNter // JR., PiTCHeR
· National Fastpitch Coaches Association (NFCA)
Great Lakes All-Region First Team
· BIG EAST Player of the Year
· All-BIG EAST First Team
· BIG EAST Championship All-Tournament 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
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[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.
H O N O R S AWA R D S
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.
· College Swimming Coaches Association of
America (CSCAA) Honorable Mention All-
American
· Honorable Mention All-American – 800 free
· BIG EAST Champion – 50 free
· BIG EAST Champion – 500 free
· BIG EAST Champion – 200 medley relay
· 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.
· College Swimming Coaches Association of
America (CSCAA) Honorable Mention All-
American
· Honorable Mention All-American – 800 free
· 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
· College Swimming Coaches Association of
America (CSCAA) Honorable Mention All-
American
· Honorable Mention All-American – 800 free
relay
· All-BIG EAST – 800 free relay, 400 free relay,
200 free relay
cAmeroN miLLer // SO.
· Notre Dame Most Improved Award
· NCAA Championship Qualifier
· BIG EAST Champion – 200 medley relay
· All-BIG EAST – 100 breast, 200 breast, 200
medley relay
pAtricK murphy // SO.
· Notre Dame Patrick Reilly McManus Captain’s
Award
JohN NAppi // SO.
· Notre Dame Most Improved Award
· All-BIG EAST – 1,650 free
NicK NemetZ // SO.
· All-BIG EAST – 1-meter dive
ZAch StepheNS // SO.
· Notre Dame Monogram Club MVP Award
· College Swimming Coaches Association of
America (CSCAA) Honorable Mention All-
American
· Honorable Mention All-American – 200 breast
· BIG EAST Champion – 200 breast
· BIG EAST Champion – 200 individual medley
relay
· BIG EAST Champion – 200 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.
· Notre Dame Club of St. Joseph Valley Knute
Rockne Student-Athlete Award
tim WeLSh // Head COaCH
· BIG EAST Swimming Coach of the Year
JohN WiLLiAmSoN // SO.
· Notre Dame Most Improved Award
· College Swimming Coaches Association of
America (CSCAA) Honorable Mention All-
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
ASSOCIATE HEAD COACH
Matt Tallman
vOluNTEEr ASSISTANT COACHES
John LytleJoe Huyler
CAPTAINS
Colin BabcockFrank Dyer
Chris JohnsonJohn McGinley
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[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
H O N O R S AWA R D 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
· All-BIG EAST – 200 medley relay, 400 medley
relay, 200 free relay, 400 free relay
Kim hoLdeN // SR.
· NCAA Qualifier – 100 backstroke, 200
backstroke, 100 butterfly, 200 medley relay,
400 medley relay, 400 free relay
· Honorable Mention All-American –
200 backstroke, 400 medley relay
· BIG EAST Champion – 200 medley relay,
400 medley relay, 100 backstroke
· All-BIG EAST – 200 medley relay, 400 medley
relay, 200 free relay, 400 free relay,
100 backstroke, 200 backstroke, 100 butterfly
· NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship Recipient
· Byron V. Kanaley Award
· BIG EAST Scholar-Athlete Sport Excellence
Award
· Notre Dame Club of St. Joseph Valley Rockne
Student-Athlete 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,
400 medley relay, 400 free 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)
· Notre Dame Monogram Club MVP Award
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
· BIG EAST Champion – 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.
· BIG EAST Champion – 200 medley relay
· 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.
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[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
ASSOCIATE HEAD COACH
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
· BIG EAST Scholar-Athlete Sport Excellence
Award
· NCAA Singles Championship Qualifier (Round
of 32)
· BIG EAST Player of the Year
· All-BIG EAST
· BIG EAST Championship Most Outstanding
Player
· Notre Dame Monogram Club MVP Award
· 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.
· BIG EAST Freshman of the Year
· All-BIG EAST
· BIG EAST Player of the Week (Jan. 29)
· Tribe Invitational All-Tournament Team
(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
· Christopher Zorich Award
· All-BIG EAST
· BIG EAST Player of the Week (March 19)
· Notre Dame Club of St. Joseph Valley Rockne
Student-Athlete Award
· Tribe Invitational All-Tournament Team
(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
· Tribe Invitational All-Tournament Team
(Doubles)
H O N O R S AWA R D S
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[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.
H O N O R S AWA R D S
QuiNN GLeASoN // FR.
· Notre Dame Monogram Club MVP Award
· All-BIG EAST
JeNNifer KeLLNer // JR.
· Notre Dame Club of St. Joseph Valley Knute
Rockne Student-Athlete Award
· BIG EAST Scholar-Athlete Sport Excellence
Award
· All-BIG EAST
· BIG EAST Player of the Week (Jan. 22)
JAy LouderBAcK // Head COaCH
· BIG EAST Coach of the Year
chriSSie mcGAffiGAN // SR.
· Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) Cissie
Leary Award for Sportsmanship (Midwest)
BritNey SANderS // JR.
· BIG EAST Player of the Year
· 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
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• 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
H O N O R S AWA R D S
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.
· Honorable Mention All-American – Outdoor
4x400m relay
· NCAA Participant – Outdoor 4x400m relay
· NCAA East Preliminary Round – Outdoor 400m,
4x400m relay
· All-BIG EAST – Indoor 400m, 4x400m relay
JAcK fAVorite // JR.
· BIG EAST Champion – Outdoor 4x800m relay
· All-BIG EAST – Outdoor 4x800m relay
pAtricK feeNey // JR.
· First Team All-American – Indoor 400m
· NCAA Participant – Indoor 400m
· Honorable Mention All-American – Outdoor
400m, 4x400m relay
· NCAA Participant – Outdoor 400m, 4x400m relay
· NCAA East Preliminary Round – Outdoor 400m,
4x400m relay
· BIG EAST Champion – Indoor 400m
· All-BIG EAST – Indoor 400m, 4x400m relay
· All-BIG EAST – Outdoor 200m, 400m
· BIG EAST Men’s Track Athlete of the Week (Feb. 5)
eddy GiBBoNS // JR.
· BIG EAST Champion – Outdoor 4x800m relay
· All-BIG EAST – Outdoor 4x800m relay
chriS GieStiNG // SO.
· First Team All-American – Indoor 400m
· NCAA Participant – Indoor 400m
· Honorable Mention All-American – Outdoor
4x400m relay
· NCAA Participant – Outdoor 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
· USTFCCCA All-Academic Team
mArtiN GrAdy // SR.
· NCAA East Preliminary Round – Outdoor
10,000m
JAKe KiLdoo // SO.
· NCAA East Preliminary Round – Outdoor
10,000m
· USTFCCCA All-Academic Team
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
· USTFCCCA All-Academic Team
Jeremy rAe // SR.
· First Team All-American – Outdoor 1,500m
· NCAA Participant – Outdoor 1,500m
· NCAA East Preliminary Round – 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)
· Notre Dame Monogram Club MVP Award
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
· USTFCCCA All-Academic 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
ASSOCIATE HEAD COACH
Alan Turner
ASSISTANT COACHES
CAPTAINS
Randall BabbPatrick FeeneyAnthony Thomas
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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
· First Team All-American – Outdoor 3,000m
steeplechase
· NCAA Participant – Outdoor 3,000m
steeplechase
· NCAA East Preliminary Round – Outdoor 3,000m
steeplechase
· All-BIG EAST – Indoor distance medley relay
· BIG EAST Champion – Outdoor 3,000m
steeplechase
· All-BIG EAST – Outdoor 3,000m steeplechase,
4x800m relay
· BIG EAST Scholar-Athlete Sport Excellence
Award (Outdoor Track and Field)
dANieLLe ArAGoN // FR.
· First Team All-American – Indoor distance
medley relay
· NCAA Participant – Indoor distance medley relay
· NCAA East Preliminary Round – Outdoor 800m
· All-BIG EAST – Indoor 800m, 4x800m relay
· All-BIG EAST – Outdoor 800m, 4x800m relay
· USTFCCCA All-Academic Team
mArGAret BAmGBoSe // FR.
· Second Team All-American – Indoor 4x400m relay
· NCAA Participant – Indoor 4x400m relay
· NCAA Participant – Outdoor 400m, 4x400m relay
· Honorable Mention All-American – Outdoor
400m, 4x400m relay
· NCAA East Preliminary Round – Outdoor 400m,
4x100m relay, 4x400m relay
· BIG EAST Champion – Indoor 4x400m relay
· All-BIG EAST – Indoor 400m, 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
· Honorable Mention All-American – Outdoor
4x400m relay
· NCAA Participant – Outdoor 100m hurdles,
4x400m relay
· NCAA East Preliminary Round – Outdoor 100m
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.
· First Team All-American – Indoor distance
medley relay
· Second Team All-American – Indoor 4x400m
relay
· NCAA Participant – Indoor 4x400m relay,
distance medley relay
· Second Team All-American – Outdoor 400m
· Honorable Mention All-American – Outdoor
4x400m relay
· NCAA Participant – Outdoor 400m, 4x400m relay
· NCAA East Preliminary Round – Outdoor 400m,
4x100m relay
· BIG EAST Champion – Indoor 400m, 4x400m
relay
· All-BIG EAST – 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
· NCAA Participant – Indoor distance medley relay
· Honorable Mention All-American – Outdoor
1,500m
· NCAA Participant – Outdoor 1,500m
· NCAA East Preliminary Round – Outdoor 1,500m
· All-BIG EAST – Indoor mile, distance medley
relay, 4x800m relay
· All-BIG EAST – Outdoor 4x800m relay
· Capital One Academic All-District V Cross
Country/Track and Field First Team
· USTFCCCA All-Academic Team
ViVieN deVANey // JR.
· NCAA East Preliminary Round – Outdoor
hammer throw
AmBer LALLA // SO.
· All-BIG EAST – Indoor distance medley relay
· BIG EAST Champion – Outdoor 4x400m relay
· All-BIG EAST – Outdoor 4x400m relay
· USTFCCCA All-Academic Team
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
· USTFCCCA All-Academic Team
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
· USTFCCCA All-Academic Team
JeSSicA rydBerG // SR.
· Capital One Academic All-District V Cross
Country/Track and Field Second Team
mcKiNZie SchuLZ // JR.
· All-BIG EAST – Indoor 4x800m relay
NeVAdA SoreNSoN // SR.
· NCAA East Preliminary Round – Outdoor 100m
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
· First Team All-American – Outdoor 1,500m
· NCAA Participant – Outdoor 1,500m
· NCAA East Preliminary Round – Outdoor
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 Second Team
· Capital One Academic All-District V Cross
Country/Track and Field First Team
· Byron V. Kanaley Award
· Notre Dame Monogram Club MVP Award
· USTFCCCA All-Academic Team
ALAN turNer // aSSiSTaNT COaCH
· Great Lakes Women’s Assistant Coach of the
Year (Indoor and Outdoor)
AiJAh urSSery // JR.
· NCAA East Preliminary Round – Outdoor 100m
· BIG EAST Champion – Outdoor 4x100m relay
· All-BIG EAST - Outdoor 100m, 4x100m relay
meGAN yANiK // JR.
· Second Team All-American – Indoor 4x400m
relay
· NCAA Participant – Indoor 4x400m relay
· Honorable Mention All-American – Outdoor
400m, 4x400m relay
· NCAA Participant – Outdoor 400m hurdles,
4x400m relay
· NCAA East Preliminary Round – Outdoor 400m
hurdles, 4x400m relay
· BIG EAST Champion – Indoor 4x400m relay
· All-BIG EAST – Indoor 500m, 4x400m relay
· BIG EAST Champion – Outdoor 4x400m relay
· All-BIG EAST – Outdoor 400m hurdles, 4x400m
relay
· BIG EAST Women’s Track Athlete of the Week
(March 26)
· Capital One Academic All-District V Cross
Country/Track and Field Second Team
· USTFCCCA All-Academic Team
H O N O R S AWA R D S
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• 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
ASSOCIATE HEAD COACH
Alan Turner
ASSISTANT COACHES
CAPTAINS
Madeline CasanovaChrissy FinkelRebecca Tracy
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[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.
H O N O R S AWA R D S
toNi ALuGBue // SO., OuTSide HiTTeR
· AVCA Honorable Mention All-American
· AVCA All-Northeast Region
· First Team All-BIG EAST
· 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
· First Team All-BIG EAST
· BIG EAST Weekly Honor Roll (Oct. 22, Nov. 5)
· Shamrock Invitational All-Tournament Team
SAm BroWN // JR., RiGHT Side/deFeNSiVe SPeCialiST
· Notre Dame Club of St. Joseph Valley Rockne
Student-Athlete Award
hiLAry eppiNK // SR., Middle BlOCKeR
· BIG EAST Weekly Honor Roll (Oct. 29)
JeNi houSer // SO., Middle BlOCKeR/RiGHT Side
· AVCA Honorable Mention All-American
· AVCA All-Northeast Region
· First Team All-BIG EAST
· 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
· Notre Dame Club of St. Joseph Valley Rockne
Student-Athlete Award
HEAD COACH
Debbie Brown
ASSOCIATE HEAD COACH
Robin Davis
ASSISTANT COACH
Christy Pfeffenberger
CAPTAINS
Marie RoofMaggie BrindockAndrea McHugh
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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)
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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)
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BASeBALL
Frank DeSicoConor HaleDonnie HissaForrest JohnsonCharlie MarksonNicholas McCartyAdam NortonLane RichardsKyle RichardsonDaniel SlaniaPatrick Veerkamp
meN’S BASKetBALL
Pat Connaughton Jack CooleyScott Martin
WomeN’S BASKetBALL
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
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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
meN’S SWimmiNG & diViNG
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
WomeN’S SWimmiNG & diViNG
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.
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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
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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.
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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
Men’s Track & Field
Joe rogers
Hockey
marie roof
Volleyball
teresa rubinger
Rowing
Angela ryck
Women’s Cross Country
Allison rzepczynski
Cheerleading
danni Schneider
Rowing
Kathleen Severyn
Volleyball
molly Shawhan
Women’s Lacrosse
danny Spond
Football
Jordan Stumph
Men’s Track & Field
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
Women’s Cross Country
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)