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Okechi Ogbuokiri JUNIOR, 2005 BIG EAST CHAMPION

Kurt Benninger JUNIOR, TWO-TIME ALL-AMERICAN

Maryann Erigha JUNIOR, 2005 BIG EAST CHAMPION

Molly Huddle Stephanie Madia SENIOR, SEVEN-TIME ALL-AMERICAN SENIOR, TWO-TIME ALL-AMERICAN Introduction Table of Contents Cross Country/ Table of Contents/Quick Facts ...... 1 Track & Field Media List...... 3 Quick Facts Notre Dame Glossary ...... 5-8 Media Information Track & Field Legends ...... 9 Notre Dame Quick Facts Recent Track & Field Legends ...... 10 The Notre Dame Sports Information Location...... Notre Dame, IN 46556 Office always is interested in assisting 2005-06 Season Preview Founded...... 1842 members of the media in their coverage of Enrollment ...... 8,380 (undergraduate)/11,311 (total) Men’s Track & Field Preview ...... 12 the Irish track and field and cross country Nickname ...... Fighting Irish Men’s Track & Field Roster ...... 13 Colors ...... Gold and Blue programs. Publicity and media information Women’s Track & Field Preview ...... 14 Conference...... BIG EAST for Notre Dame cross country/ track & field Women’s Track & Field Roster ...... 15 Facilities ...... Meyo Track (indoors) are handled by assistant sports informa- Men’s Cross Country Preview ...... 16 Monogram Track (outdoors) tion director Chris Masters. Men’s Cross Country Roster ...... 17 President...... Rev. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C. Photographs, feature ideas and results Women’s Cross Country Preview ...... 18 Provost...... Thomas Burish Women’s Cross Country Roster ...... 19 are always available from the Notre Dame Director of Athletics ...... Kevin White sports information office. All interviews Coaches Athletic Department Web Page ...... www.und.com with coaches and student-athletes should Athletic Department Hotline ...... 574-631-3000 Head Coach Joe Piane ...... 22-23 be arranged through the Notre Dame Assistant Coach Tim Connelly ...... 24 Coaching Staff Sports Information and Masters at (574) 631- Assistant Coach John Millar ...... 25 7516. Track and Field Head Coach Assistant Coach Scott Winsor ...... 26 Men’s Cross Country Head Coach Assistant Coach B.J. Linnenbrink ...... 27 ...... Joe Piane (Loras ’69) Support Staff ...... 28 BIG EAST Outlets Piane’s Office Phone...... (574) 631-6135 The BIG EAST Conference maintains its Players Women’s Cross Country Head Coach Track and Field Women’s Distance Coach presence on the web at www.bigeast.org Women’s Biographies ...... 30-52 ...... Tim Connelly (Notre Dame ’83) which contains current information on all Men’s Biographies ...... 54-76 Connelly’s Office Phone ...... (574) 631-6989 facets of the BIG EAST. Media requests Track and Field Sprint/Hurdle Coach 2004-05 Season In Review should be directed to Ben Fairclough in the ...... John Millar (Western Ontario ’78) BIG EAST office. 2004 Men’s/Women’s Cross Country Results...... 78-79 Millar’s Office Phone ...... (574) 631-4871 2005 Men’s/Women’s Track & Field Results ...... 80-90 Track and Field Jumps Coach ...... Scott Winsor (Loras ’87) Credits History & Records Winsor’s Office Phone ...... (574) 631-8491 NCAA Track & Field All-Americans...... 92 Track and Field Throws Coach The 2005-06 Notre Dame Cross Country/ NCAA Track & Field Results ...... 93 ...... B.J. Linnenbrink (Florida State ’02) Track & Field Guide was written and Cross Country Home Meet History ...... 94-95 Linnenbrink’s Office Phone ...... (574) 631-9982 edited by Chris Masters, student assis- Men’s Track & Field All-Americans ...... 96-97 Coaches' Fax...... (574) 631-9690 tants Joe Meginnes and Ryan Kiefer. All-America Analysis ...... 98 Graphic design and page layout by Men’s NCAA Results ...... 99-100 Sports Information Cindy Lemcke of Ave Maria Press, Inc. This Men’s Indoor/Outdoor Records...... 101-102 Sports Information Phone ...... (574) 631-7516 publication was produced entirely by Women’s Indoor/Putdoor Records ...... 103-104 Sports Information Fax ...... (574) 631-7941 using Quark Xpress desktop publishing Men’s Meet Records...... 105 Address ...... Sports Information and Microsoft Word software on an Apple Women’s Meet Records ...... 106 112 Joyce Center Macintosh computer system. Inside and Men’s BIG EAST Results...... 107-108 Notre Dame, IN 46556-5678 Women’s BIG EAST Results...... 109-110 Senior Associate AD/ outside cover design by Dave Scholtes of Men’s Indoor/Outdoor Bests ...... 106-107 Media Relations ...... John Heisler Ave Maria Press, Inc., Notre Dame, Ind. Women’s Indoor/Outdoor Bests ...... 108-109 Sports Information Director ...... Bernadette Cafarelli Interior photography by Mike Bennett of Track & Field BIG EAST Honors ...... 111 Assistant SID/ Lighthouse Imaging, Kevin Burke, Matt Men’s Indoor/Outdoor Bests ...... 112-113 Track & Cross Country Contact...... Chris Masters Cashore, Linda Dunn, Heather Gollatz of HG Women’s Indoor/Outdoor Bests ...... 114-115 Masters’ Direct Line...... (574) 631-8032 Photography, Pete LaFleur, C.W. Pack, Derrick Men’s Cross Country Monogram Winners...... 116 Masters’ Cell Phone ...... (574) 532-4166 Peyando, Sam Roberts, Eric Ruethling, David Women’s Cross Country Monogram Winners...... 117 Masters’ E-mail...... [email protected] Silverman, S.R. Smith, Bob Stowell, Martin Men’s Track & Field Monogram Winners ...... 118-123 Women’s Track & Field Monogram Winners...... 124 BIG EAST Conference Vloet, Alison Wade of , Alan Wasielewski and Jerry Four-Year Monogram Winners...... 125-127 BIG EAST Phone...... (401) 272-9108 Wolford. BIG EAST Fax ...... (401) 751-8540 University Address...... 222 Richmond Street Printing by Ave Maria Press in Notre The University ...... 130-131 Providence, RI 02903 Dame, Ind. Kevin White ...... 132 BIG EAST Conference web page...... www.bigeast.org Academic Services ...... 133 Commissioner ...... Michael Tranghese Notre Dame Leaders ...... 134 Assoc. Commissioner ...... John Paquette Student Development...... 135 Track/CC Contact ...... Ben Fairclough Compliance ...... 136 Fairclough’s E-Mail...... [email protected] Alumni Association/Monogram Club ...... 137 Statement of Principles ...... 138-139 Noteworthy Alumni ...... 140 NACDA Directors’ Cup...... 141 Notre Dame Sports Strength and Conditioning...... 142 Hotline: BIG EAST Conference...... 143 Athletic Heritage ...... 144 (574) 631-3000

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Media Information

John Millar (left), Joe Piane (center) and Scott Winsor (right) have helped lead the Notre Dame track and field team to five BIG EAST titles in the last four years.

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UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME 4 Academic All-Americans – Todd petitor earning All-America honors (the Mobley became the first Irish track and Irish have amassed 155 All-America honors Glossary field/cross country student-athlete to earn since 1921). The women’s track and field first-team Academic All-America honors in team has enjoyed an All-American perform- two consecutive seasons with his second ance each season since 1997 (eight-year straight selection in 2004-05. Mobley, also streak) and 32 overall since 1994. the third Notre Dame track standout to earn any Academic All-America honors in con- All-American (Two Sports) – Former secutive years, landed on the ESPN The Irish great Raghib “Rocket” Ismail is part Magazine/CoSIDA Academic All-America of an exclusive group of four student-ath- First Team after earning two cross country letes who have combined All-America All-America honors in 2002 and 2003 and honors in football and another sport dur- posting a 3.84 GPA while working toward ing in their Notre Dame careers. Ismail his MBA degree in the Mendoza College of was a two-time consensus first-team All- Business. Mobley graduated from Notre American in football (1989, 1990) and also Dame in May of 2003 with a degree in earned All-America honors on the track as mathematics from the College of Science, a sprinter in 1991. logging a 3.67 undergraduate GPA. The other members of this elite club are: Edward “Moose” Krause (football 1932; bas- Notre Dame Track and Field/Cross ketball 1932-34), Dick Arrington (football Country Academic All-Americans 1965; wrestling 1966) and Bob Golic (football Tom Mick - 1988 1977-78; wrestling 1978-79). Mike McWilliams - 1995 Jeff Hojnacki - 1997 Aragon – Former Irish track and cross Jason Rexing - 1997, 1998 country standout Dr. Chuck Aragon was Errol Williams - 1998 presented with the Spirit of Notre Dame Irish football flanker Tim Brown (above) held the Notre Dame 55-meter record until Michael Brown - 1999 Award during the Notre Dame-Michigan fellow gridiron star Raghib Ismail broke the Alison Klemmer - 2000 game in the fall of 1992. The award, spon- record in 1991. Brown won the Heisman Ryan Shay - 2002 sored by Maxwell House and General Trophy for his football exploits in 1987. Luke Watson - 2002, 2003 Foods, recognized Notre Dame athletes, Todd Mobley - 2004, 2005 past and present, who distinguished them- this, as he enters his 31st year at the helm of Stacey Cowan - 2005 (active) selves in competition, demonstrated the the Irish. Piane is the longest-tenured coach Sean O’Donnell - 2005 (active) “Spirit of Notre Dame” and exhibited the among active mentors at Notre Dame, with ideals of the University. Aragon captained women’s basketball skipper Muffet All-America Streak – Irish runners both the Notre Dame cross country and McGraw next in line with her 19th season have a proven record in national champi- track teams during his career (1977-81) and on tap in 2005-06. onship meets as evidenced by their current was the first Irish sub-four-minute miler. line of All-American honorees. An All-American and bronze medalist in Notre Dame Track and Field Coaches The Irish men’s track and field team is on the 1,500 meters at the Pan Am Games, he Through The Years (1890-present) a streak of 15 years with at least one com- placed fourth in the 1984 Olympic Trials. No coach - 1890-1916 Aragon, who completed his residency in Knute Rockne - 1916-1927 anesthesiology, donated many hours to the John P. Nicholson - 1927-1940 Logan Center while at Notre Dame. William P. Mahoney - 1940-1942 E.R. “Doc” Handy - 1942-1950 Back to the Bend – Although the Irish Alex Wilson - 1950-1972 won their only cross country national Don Faley - 1972-1974 championship in 1957, the bus ride home Joe Piane - 1974-present from East Lansing, Mich., was anything but a celebration. In 26-degree weather, Deeter – JoAnna Deeter ended her career the Irish upset heavily-favored Michigan as one of the best women’s cross country State, but when coach Alex Wilson added and track and field runners in Irish history. up the team’s score of 121 points, he felt the A native of Glen Ellyn, Ill., Deeter earned score was extremely high to contend for All-America status twice for cross country the title. As a result, he and his team in 1996 and 1998 and three times in track packed up and took the bus back to South and field, all in 1999. Included in her Bend. About halfway home the stunning accomplishments are two school records - news came over the bus radio, Notre Dame the indoor and outdoor 3,000 and 10,000. had defeated Michigan State by six points. Fifth – One-fifth of a mile is the length of Coaching Tree – Although one of Notre the Meyo Track, the largest collegiate Dame’s oldest varsity programs (dating indoor surface in the country and the home back to 1890), the Irish track and field team track for the Irish indoor teams. First didn’t bring on its first coach until 1916, opened in 1988, the track was named for when Knute Rockne took the job. He held Ray and Marie Meyo of Brecksville, Ohio, that position until 1927, starting a trend of Knute Rockne (left), founder of the Irish track and field stability among Irish track coaches. program, poses with John Plant and Edwin Richardson Current Notre Dame track and field coach in 1913. Joe Piane is perhaps the best example of

2005-06 CROSS COUNTRY/TRACK & FIELD 5 Glossary and is made of the Mondo track surface featuring six 42-inch lanes. The Meyo Track has established itself as one of the fastest surfaces in the nation and welcomes a number of high-class athletes in a “last chance” meet (the Alex Wilson Invitational) who are attempting to qualify for the NCAA Indoor Championship. The Meyo Invitational, which features the “Meyo Mile” (a special race that features many of the top milers in the nation) and the Alex Wilson Invitational are fixtures on the Notre Dame indoor track and field schedule each season.

Football Players – The Notre Dame foot- Track coach from 1927-1940, John P. Nicholson became an innovator in coaching technique purely by accident. ball and track and field programs are two of the oldest varsity sports on the Irish campus. There have been a number of football stars school-record holder in the javelin), races. The invitational was started by former who have crossed over to the track, or the Creighton Miller and Knute Rockne. Irish head coach Alex Wilson in 1956 as a field, and left an impression on the track and Current Irish assistant track and field four-mile race, extended to five miles in 1968, field program. Just a glance at the Notre coach John Millar and his sprint corps could and a women’s competition added in 1987. Dame track and field record book shows the get a boost this season from Terrail Lambert Notre Dame has won the men’s event 15 times effect that football players have had on it. (who earned a letter in track and field during (most recently in 2003) and the women’s race Raghib “Rocket” Ismail, who finished second the 2005 season after earning all-BIG EAST on six occasions (also last doing so in 2003). in the Heisman Trophy balloting in 1990, Conference honors in the indoor 60 meters). The golden anniversary running of the holds the school record for the indoor 55 Notre Dame Invitational will take place Sept. meters and finished as an All-American in Ghana – The impact of Notre Dame track can 30, 2005 at the Notre Dame Golf Course on the 1991. be felt around the world as evidenced by Notre Dame campus. Former Irish defensive back Allen Rossum William P. Mahoney, an Irish alumnus who (now a standout return specialist with the served as the U.S. ambassador to Ghana Heisman – Achieving success on both the NFL’s Atlanta Falcons) currently holds the under the Kennedy Administration. A sprinter track and the football field was the trade- school record in the indoor 60 meters (6.68), for coach John Nicholson, Mahoney took over mark of former Irish runners Tim Brown and former running back Randy Kinder set the the coaching duties when Nicholson died in Raghib “Rocket” Ismail. Brown won the 1987 indoor 200-meter record in 21.11 and former 1940. Mahoney guided the team to an unoffi- Heisman Trophy in addition to running with receiver Ryan Postel owns the indoor 400- cial victory in the before he the track team during the offseason. Brown meter record (47.01). entered the Navy in 1942. owned the school record in the 55 meters Some football players who also earned until 1990 when ‘90 Heisman runner-up monograms on the track include 1987 Golden Anniversary – The 2005 season Ismail ran 6.07 in the event, and eventually Heisman Trophy winner Tim Brown, Jack will mark the 50th running of the Notre Dame went on to earn track All-America honors by Elder, Edward “Moose” Krause, Elmer Invitational cross country meet, one of the finishing second in the 1991 NCAA indoor 55 Layden, Dean Lytle, Ryan Mihalko (the nation’s oldest and largest intercollegiate meters.

Hurd – Dr. Bill Hurd was honored in 2002 at the annual Notre Dame Monogram Club din- ner with the Moose Krause Distinguished Service Award, the highest honor presented by the Monogram Club. A world-class sprinter and 1969 Notre Dame graduate with a degree in electrical engineering, Hurd now is a noted eye surgeon – with an ophthalmol- ogy practice in Memphis that specializes in cataract, glaucoma and diabetic treatment and keratorefractive surgery. Hurd annually spends 2-3 weeks providing voluntary eye surgery to the poor in Africa, Mexico and Brazil. On the most recent trip to Madagascar, he and two other doctors saw 1,100 patients in 10 days and he performed 35 eye surgeries – with Hurd and his colleagues increasingly in demand as their reputation grows. Hurd’s days of distinction as a collegian Two-time NCAA shot put champion (’23 and ’24) Tom Lieb introduced the spinning throw delivery in the discus, which is still in use today. included being named Notre Dame’s “athlete of the year” for 1967-68 and establishing the 6 Glossary

Complex, features the Haggar Fitness Center, a 25,000-square foot weightlifting area, and Meyo Field. It also houses a 154-seat audito- rium and nine conference rooms. The build- ing, dedicated in April 1988 after construction began in March 1987, is available for a variety of other uses – including practice by Irish field sport teams. The Loftus Center took on a revitalized look in the summer of 2003, as a new Prestige Turf surface and Mondo track were installed.

Meyo Invitational – Four minutes, one mile. For years it was the unbreakable bar- rier, and it remains among the most cele- brated feats in all of sport. Folks that know the sport of track and field will tell you that 3:40 in the 1,500 or 7:55 in the 3,000 are just as impressive, but to the casual fan there is something about the simplicity of it; four laps, four minutes, one mile. On Feb. 3-4, 2006, the 19th annual Meyo Invitational will return to the Loftus Sports Center on Notre Dame’s campus with the John P. Nicholson was one of track and field’s greatest innovators in the late 20’s and early 30’s. marquee event at the meet being the Meyo Here he is pictured with Irish distance great Greg Rice, plotting out the All-American’s next race. Mile. In the past three seasons, 13 runners have broken through the magical four- minute mark in three of the most exiting American indoor record in the 300-yard dash runners of all time, his coach only saw him races at Notre Dame in recent memory. (29.8). He set eight Notre Dame records and race once during his Notre Dame career. In 2003, Notre Dame senior Luke Watson totaled five All-America finishes at the 1968 Coach John Nicholson felt he superstitiously won the race in school record time (3:57.83), and ‘69 NCAA meets (only two Notre Dame stu- jinxed Rice during races and therefore stayed moving into the lead a mere 30 meters from dent-athletes ever have totaled more All- in South Bend while Rice traveled to meets. the finish line. After the dust had settled, the America honors). The only race Nicholson saw was perhaps He also was a finalist (top eight) at the one of Rice’s finest as he outdueled Taisto Olympic Trials in the 100 and 200 meters, fin- Maki and Don Lash to win a three-mile race ishing fifth in the 100 to just miss a spot on the in 13:52.2. Unfortunately, the race would also Olympic squad (his competitors included the be Nicholson’s last as the coach died two likes of Jim Hines, John Carlos, Tommy Smith days later from complications of a heart and Mel Gray). attack that he suffered just hours before the Hurd – who added graduate degrees from competition. Massachesetts Institute of Technology (mas- ter’s in management science) and Meaharry Krause Stadium – The outdoor home of Medical School in Nashville – was a Rhodes the Irish track team, the 5,000-seat Krause Scholarship regional finalist and received Stadium is located behind the Joyce Center. Notre Dame’s Harvey Foster Award in 1992 The Monogram Track features eight 48-inch (recognizing alumni for distinguished civic lanes on the curves and nine lanes on the activity) and the NCAA’s prestigious Silver front stretch. Consisting of Mondo track Anniversary Award in 1994 (recognizing material, the Monogram Track features the career success and community service). He same surface used in the 1992 Barcelona holds two U.S./foreign patents for optical . devices, including a slit-lamp, mountable intraocular biometer. Lieb – Tom Lieb, an Irish shot put thrower in Also an accomplished jazz musician, Hurd the early 20’s, is credited with introducing the recently completed work on his fourth CD, in spin-style delivery to the sport, a style which which he plays the saxophone and flute. is still used today. Lieb won the NCAA cham- Hurd and his wife Rhynette, an attorney, pionship in the event during have sent both of their sons to Notre Dame. the 1923 and 1924 seasons. One of his sons, Ryan, was a four-year mono- gram winner on the Irish track and field team Loftus Center – Notre Dame first utilized Notre Dame senior Luke Watson pulled ahead in the final from 2001-04. the Loftus Center in October of 1987 and is 30 meters and won a heartstopping Meyo Mile in 2003, enjoying its 19th full season of use in 2005-06. hitting the tape in a school-record time of 3:57.83. Jinx – Although Irish great Greg Rice is The indoor facility, which is connnected to the widely regarded as one of the best distance recently-completed Guglielmino Athletic

2005-06 CROSS COUNTRY/TRACK & FIELD 7 Roof Top Running – Injured by a wild dis- Glossary cus throw, John P. Nicholson (Irish track coach from 1927-40) sat on the roof of a car and shouted instructions to his runners top five in the race were each in under four through a megaphone during training. The minutes, each within a half second of the oth- method proved so effective that Nicholson ers, and each owned one of the five fastest made the car a regular part of his training times in the world that year. regimen. The 2005 race turned out to be just as thrilling, with four runners breaking the four- Scholarships – Beginning with the 2004-05 minute barrier, including a pair of Notre season, all 26 varsity programs at the Dame athletes (Watson, running unattached, University of Notre Dame received the full and sophomore Kurt Benninger). All four sub- NCAA complement of scholarships. four minute runners earned automatic quali- “Fully scholarshipping all our programs fication to the NCAA Indoor Championships will help us realize our goals over the next and Benninger’s time of 3:58.75 put him less five or six years of pushing Notre Dame’s ath- than a second off Watson’s school record letic program toward a top finish in the mark of two years earlier. annual NACDA Directors’ Cup standings,” The Invitational, as well as the Meyo Mile, Director of Athletics Kevin White says. are the brainchild of Irish head track and “This eventually will put all of our pro- field coach Joe Piane. When the Loftus Center grams in position to compete for national was built, Notre Dame installed a track that championships.” was oversized and topped with a Mondo sur- Notre Dame finished 16th in the 2004-05 face, which produced a rare and very fast NACDA Directors’ Cup standings. combination. Piane recounted the invention of the Notre Dame’s Greg Rice (second from left) is considered Starting Blocks – John P. Nicholson Invitational, “We put the meet together by many to be the greatest distance runner in U.S. bestowed upon the track world perhaps his because it was a huge track and it was history. The 1940 Sullivan Award winner, Rice went greatest innovation, the starting block. His attractive to just give it a try. The name comes undefeated in 65 major indoor and outdoor races over starting block caught on in the late 1920s and from Ray Meyo, who donated everything, and a three-year span, setting 10 world records in six different events. He also was an All-American in the two-mile race, was well-received by the track community. we decided to highlight the mile because winning the NCAA title in 1937 and 1939 and finishing “You have a device which will materially even the average person knows that a sub- second in 1938. make short distance, hurdle and relay racing four-minute mile is very good, so we put more popular with both the public and ath- together a ‘four minute challenge’ knowing letes,” wrote former Illinois coach Harry Gill that if the race did go under four minutes, tional in Ann Arbor, Mich. The school was in a 1929 letter. “It appears to be a real help everyone was going to say, ‘Wow! This is next represented in 1898, and the Irish have to track athletics.” really something.’” competed in every year since then with the John Griffith, former chairman of the The Meyo Mile, however will not be the exception of 1906. NCAA track and field rules committee and only great event on the weekend. The Meyo commissioner of the Big Ten Conference, Invitational is always packed with outstand- Prices – There is no charge to watch the was equally impressed in a letter written the ing performances from start to finish. In 2005, Notre Dame track and field and cross country same year. the meet saw a staggering 110 automatic or teams in action. The cross country teams will “I have studied the pictures of your new provisional qualifications for the NCAA be on campus two times this season (see starting device with a great deal of interest, Championships, and through the years, schedule on back cover of this media guide), and am of the opinion that you have made a numerous track and school records have while the indoor track and field teams will distinct contribution to track athletics.” been shattered. host the Meyo Invitational and Alex Wilson Invitational, as well as the Spring Opener Varsity – While the men’s track and field National Champions – Fifteen Irish ath- during the outdoor season. and cross country teams are two of the oldest letes have won 16 national track titles during teams at Notre Dame, dating back to the 19th the program’s history, in addition to the two Rockne – The name that has become syn- century, the women’s program is only in its individual and one team championships in onymous with Notre Dame football was also infancy. The women’s cross country team is in cross country. The most recent track cham- involved in the Irish track scene. After a dif- its 19th year and owns five conference titles pion was Ryan Shay, who ran away with the ficult freshman year as a reserve on the var- in that time, including the 2002 BIG EAST 10,000 meters at the 2001 NCAA sity football team, Knute Rockne turned his Championship. The women’s cross country Championships in Eugene, Ore. attention to track where he earned a mono- team also finished third at the NCAA Before Shay’s triumphant victory, Notre gram and, as legend has it, once broke the Championship in 2002 and fourth in 2004. Dame’s last track and field champion was world record in the indoor pole vault with his The women’s track and field squad enters Tom McMannon who won the 55-meter high best effort of 12-4, but held it for such a brief its 15th season of varsity competition this hurdles in 1972. Greg Rice (1938) and Oliver period that he never received official recog- year and has won four league champi- Hunter (1942) were individual cross country nition for it. Rockne became the University’s onships in that time and advanced at least champions, while coach Alex Wilson’s 1957 first track coach in 1916 and the first cross one runner to the NCAA Championships for squad won the team national championship. country mentor in 1920. During his tenure, the 11th consecutive year in 2004-05. The Rockne guided five Olympians and two women’s team also broke through for its Pioneer – Harry M. Jewett was the first rec- Olympic medalists. The coach resigned his first BIG EAST Championship team title at ognized Notre Dame track and field athlete, track responsibilities in 1928 to devote his the 2002 indoor meet. making his debut in 1890 at a relay invita- energy to football until his death in 1931.

UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME 8 Track & Field Legends

J. Gregory Nicholas Alex Rick Rice Sparks Wilson Wohlhuter All-American Monogram Winner All-American 1930-32 All-American 1969-70 1937-39 1987-88 Irish Track Coach 1950-72 U.S. Olympian Sullivan Award Winner Sullivan Award Winner Best-selling author Nicholas A middle-distance track star at Gregory Rice, billed as the Sparks graduated in 1988 and Notre Dame, Alex Wilson is a per- Rick Wohlhuter, a two-time greatest distance runner the was a two-time monogram win- fect example of an outstanding Olympian and 1971 Notre Dame has ever pro- ner in track and field. At Notre athlete and legendary coach. graduate, was selected to the duced, was presented with the Dame, Sparks was a member of While at Notre Dame, Wilson Track and Field Hall of Fame in 1940 Sullivan Trophy as the the 4x800-meter relay team, was undefeated in the quarter- 1991. Winner of an Olympic nation’s top amateur athlete which still holds the outdoor and half-mile events and set a bronze medal in the 800 meters after he set a world three-mile school record. national indoor record of 49.3 for in 1976, he holds the distinction record at the national champi- After pursuing a variety of jobs the 440 in 1932. He set records in of being the last man to qualify onships. Named “the Little Man after graduation, he wrote his both the 440 and 880 races. Wilson for the Games in both the 800- with a Big Finish,” Rice first novel entitled “The also won the Amateur Athletic and 1,500-meter events. smashed the world three-mile Notebook,” which was released in Union 600 and twice captured the Wohlhuter won the IC4A 880- record with a time of 13:51. He 1996. That novel became one of Milrose 600. yard title in 1971 and qualified earned All-America honors in only five novels published in the In 1928 and 1932, he competed for the Olympics in 1972. the mile in 1937, and also past 30 years that spent more in the Olympics for his native In addition to his appearance received those honors in the than a year on the New York Canada and won a silver in the in the Games, Wohlhuter broke two-mile as he won the event in Times hardcover best seller list, 800-meter race and a bronze in the U.S. 800-meter record twice 1937 and ’39 and placed second and was eventually made into a the 400-meter run in 1932. and twice set world records for in 1938. movie in 2004 starring Ryan In 1950, after 18 years as a suc- the 880-yard race. He also set Rice was undefeated in 65 Gosling and Rachel McAdams. cessful track and swimming coach the world record for the 1,000 major indoor and outdoor races His second novel, “Message in at Loyola (Ill.) he returned to coach meters in 1974 and won the in just over three years with 10 a Bottle,” was published in 1998 at Notre Dame. During his 23 years event the next three indoor sea- world records in six different and remained a bestseller for 43 with the Irish, his teams finished sons. Wohlhuter also won events. Rice became the first- weeks. The film version, starring in the national top 10 11 times. national outdoor titles in 1973 ever cross country national Kevin Costner, Paul Newman and Wilson guided three track and ’74. In 1974 he earned the champion in 1938 when he ran Robin Wright Penn, opened at national champions, 28 track and Sullivan Award as the nation’s the four-mile course in 20:12.9 number one at the box office and eight cross country All-Americans top amateur athlete. to lead the Irish to a second- grossed more than $100 million. and led the Irish to the cross coun- A 1970 NCAA champion in place team finish. His third novel, “A Walk to try national championship in 1957. the 600-yard event, the two- Born in 1916, Rice died in Remember,” was published in His teams appeared in the meet a time All-American was also a May of 1991. October 1999 and turned into a total of 18 times. member of Notre Dame’s two- movie in 2002 starring Mandy He was voted into the Canadian mile relay team which placed Moore. Track Hall of Fame in 1954 and in second in the nation in 1969. In 2004, he was honored by 1967 he was elected to the Helms Wohlhuter joined John Beatty, Notre Dame with the first-ever Athletic Foundation Hall of Fame the first man to break the four- Rev. Robert F. Griffin, C.S.C., for his contributions as a track minute mile indoors, high Award, for establishing an initia- coach in the United States. jumper Charles Dumas, a 1956 tive in the University’s Creative Wilson was also honored as gold medalist and first jumper Writing Program that includes national coach of the year by the to clear seven feet, and Doris fellowships, internships and an NCAA Cross Country Coaches Brown-Heritage, winner of 14 annual Sparks Prize to support a Association in 1972, and an U.S. distance titles and five student writer-in-residence. indoor track and field meet is world cross country champi- Nicholas Sparks has been mar- held in his honor each year at onships, as the 1991 Track and ried for 15 years and has five chil- Notre Dame. Field Hall of Fame inductees. dren. He lives in New Bern, N.C., Wilson died on Dec. 10, 1994, at and still runs nine miles a day. the age of 87.

2005-06 CROSS COUNTRY/TRACK & FIELD 9 Recent Track & Field Legends

Ryan Liz Luke Tameisha Shay Grow Watson King Nine-time All-American Four-time All-American Eight-time All-American Four-time All-American 2001 NCAA Champion Five-time BIG EAST Six-time BIG EAST Four-time BIG EAST 2003 USA Champion Champion Champion Champion Sub-Four Minute Mile

A 2001 graduate, Ryan Shay Liz Grow, a 2002 graduate, Enjoying one of the best careers in Tameisha King graduated became the USA Marathon asserted herself as one of the the history of Notre Dame track and from Notre Dame in 2003, and Champion in 2003, continuing best sprinter's in Notre Dame field, Luke Watson competed in one left the Univeristy as its top the championship ways of his history during her career. Grow of the most exciting moments in the female long jumper. collegiate years. Shay is the was a four-time All-American, history of the track and field pro- King owns both the indoor most decorated athlete in the earning the honor twice in the gram. and outdoor school records for history of Notre Dame track and indoor 400-meter dash, and In January of 2003, Watson broke the long jump, in addition to field. A 2001 NCAA champion in twice with the 4x400-meter one of the great barriers in sports, running in the school record the 10,000 meters, Shay was a relay team, once indoors and the four-minute mile, in front of one 4x100-meter relay. nine-time All-American includ- once outdoors. of the largest crowds to ever see a She was a four-time All- ing two honors for cross coun- Grow was a five-time BIG track meet at Notre Dame. Watson’s American, with three of those try, two for indoor track and six EAST champion, and helped mile of 3:57.83 was the fastest colle- honors coming during the out- for outdoor track. His 10 honors lead the 2002 women’s track giate indoor mile in the country in door season, and one during are the most in school history. and field team to a BIG EAST ’03 and was only the second sub- the indoor season. Each of her In 2002, a fifth year of eligi- championship. four-minute mile in school history. All-American honors came in bility, Shay was named an Grow's top individual finish In the ’03 season, Watson’s last the long jump. Academic All-American, and in the NCAA Championships with the Irish, he was honored as King has five top-10 finishes had a second-place finish in was fourth place in 2002 at the an All-American for the eighth in the NCAA Championships the 10,000 meters at the NCAA indoor championships in the time, including two for cross coun- as well as four BIG EAST Championships. 400-meter dash, and her best try, four for indoor track and two for Championships to her credit. Shay was a nine-time BIG finish in the 4x400 relay was outdoor track. He was also named King also has a very impres- EAST champion in his years at fifth the same year at the out- an Academic All-American in both sive resume outside of the col- Notre Dame, with one of those door meet. She owns the high- the ’02 and ’03 seasons. legiate spectrum. In 2001, as a victories coming in cross coun- est-ever finish for a Notre Upon graduating, Watson had sophomore, she placed second try. He also had seven top-10 Dame women’s sprinter at the five top-10 finishes in the NCAA in the long jump at National finishes at the NCAA NCAA Championship. Track and Field Championships, Junior Track and Field Championships in various dis- Perhaps the most telling sta- and two top-10 finishes at the Championships, and went on tance events including the tistics about the success she NCAA Championships for cross to finish in the top 10 at the 3,000, 5,000 and 10,000 meters. enjoyed at Notre Dame are her country. Additionally, Watson held World Junior Championships in In 2000, he competed for the school records. At the time she six school records – the indoor and Santiago, Chile. right to represent the USA track graduated, Grow was a part of outdoor mile, the 3,000-meter stee- More recently, she won the and field team at the Olympic six different school records, plechase, the indoor 3,000 meters, 2004 USA Track and Field Games, finishing 10th in the and had set a seventh in her outdoor 5,000 meters and the dis- Indoor long jump title after fin- Olympic Trials. junior year, which was subse- tance medley relay. ishing fourth in ’03. King ended Upon graduation, he held quently broken the next sea- Watson was also a force to be up sixth at the U.S. Olympic school records in the indoor son. reckoned with in the BIG EAST. Trials and was the top finisher 5,000 meters, the outdoor 5,000 Grow's school record résumé During his career he was a six-time from the United States at the meters and the 10,000 meters. includes the University's BIG EAST champion. He also led 2003 Pan American Games. Shay's 2001 national champi- fastest times in the indoor and the 2003 Irish to BIG EAST onship was the first outdoor outdoor 400 meters, the indoor Championships in both the indoor championship by a Notre 500 meters, and the outdoor and outdoor seasons, the first time Dame athlete since 1954. 4x100 and 4x400-meter relays. a Notre Dame team accomplished that feat.

UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME 10 2005-06 Preview

Junior Kurt Benninger, a two-time All-American on the track, will play a pivotal role as the top-10 Notre Dame men's cross country team competes for a national title in 2005. Men’s

Track & Field Preview Irish Men’s Track & Field Team Looks to Load Up for Another BIG EAST Title Run Notre Dame has won four conference titles in the past three years, including 2005 indoor crown

There are many constants in the world that minute barrier. Junior Tom Chamney is returning to the best in years,” sprints and hurdles coach John Millar folks can come to rely on. You can depend on the program after spending a year training back home in his said. “There are a number of individuals who will be mail always being delivered six days a week, native Ireland, and he should be one of the conference’s counted on to contribute in this area, and any combina- no matter the weather. You can also count on top 800-meter specialists, along with sophomore Adam tion of them quite possibly will form a 4x400 relay that having to pay your taxes each year. And lately, Currie. can advance to the regionals.” you can be sure that the Notre Dame men’s track “I’ve never had a distance group this deep,” Piane In the hurdles, junior Geoff Bennett and sophomores and field team is going to be in the hunt for the said. “We have about 14-18 kids who all can compete and Jose Genao and Austin Wechter all scored points for the BIG EAST Conference title every single season. do well on the conference and regional levels. Many of Irish at last year’s BIG EAST meet and will be counted on In fact, since becoming members of the BIG these guys have used last year’s success on the track and for bigger things this season. Freshman Patrick EAST in 1995-96, the Irish have finished among are looking to build on that this time around. And with a Needham, a regional champion in the 110-meter hurdles the top three in both the indoor and outdoor con- solid cross country season to lead them onto the track, during his final prep season at Loyola (Ill.) Academy, ference championships every year but one (a they can be a really strong cornerstone of our team this also may be called upon to contribute this year. sixth-place finish in the 2001 outdoor meet). year.” “The graduation of Selim Nurudeen will certainly That’s a sparkling 19 top-three finishes out of 20 In the throws, the Irish will be hurt by the loss to grad- leave a difficult void for us to fill,” Millar added. opportunities, and it’s highlighted by five BIG uation of their longtime leader, Chip Roberts, who won “However, we have a solid group returning with Jose and EAST titles, including the most recent trophy the BIG EAST hammer throw title last year. However, a Geoff, and Patrick will provide us with some additional that was acquired at last year’s BIG EAST formidable crew exists to pick up the slack, led by a pair depth. In the 400-meter hurdles, Austin Wechter made Indoor Championships. of all-BIG EAST honorees — junior Garet Koxlien and considerable improvement last season and we’re look- “We have strong people in every event,” 31st- sophomore Kyle Annen. Koxlien showed great improve- ing for that to continue this year. year head coach Joe Piane said. “We have a ment from his freshman campaign, scoring BIG EAST The Irish jumping group should be one of the team’s broad-based track team and that’s pretty rare. If points in both the indoor and outdoor meets, while earn- most improved areas this season. Junior Christopher you look at a lot of teams, they’re going to find a ing all-conference laurels in the discus. Annen earned Jacques provides a solid foundation in the high jump, niche and that’s the niche they work with. To win the BIG his all-league plaque as a third-place finisher behind while also standing as the defending conference cham- EAST meet, you need to cover all the bases. pion in the indoor long “The two most important meets on our schedule are jump. The high jump the BIG EAST meet and the NCAAs,” Piane added. “Our “I’ve never had a distance group this deep. We have corps also gets a signifi- goals are to be competitive, if not win the BIG EAST cant upgrade with the every year, which is going to become difficult with the about 14-18 kids who all can compete and do well on arrival of freshman Blair new schools, especially Louisville. The other is to score the conference and regional levels. Many of these Majcina, a nationally- at the NCAAs and to get as many All-Americans as we ranked Illinois prep can.” guys have used last year’s success on the track and standout with a per- Perhaps the biggest reason for Notre Dame’s contin- are looking to build on that this time around.“ sonal best of 7-1. ued success in men’s track and field has been its ability “We need a breakout to adapt to change. As with all college teams, the Irish – Joe Piane year in both the long regularly go through turnover on their roster, whether head track & field coach jump and high jump through graduation, injury or other circumstances. from Chris,” jumps However, Notre Dame has had a vital weapon at its dis- coach Scott Winsor said. posal — experience in the coaching ranks. The Irish “He’s worked extremely staff, led by Piane, has a combined total of more than 100 Roberts in the hammer throw and, along with Koxlien, hard over the summer and is in the best physical condi- years of coaching expertise, including 82 seasons at Annen qualified for the NCAA Mideast Regional. tion of his life. Chris himself would tell you his eyes are Notre Dame. Sophomore Mike Schubert will give the Irish a strong set on repeating as the BIG EAST long jump champion, That leadership also permeates through to the upper- presence in both the indoor and outdoor shot puts. along with earning major points in the high jump. classmen on the Notre Dame roster. While the sprints “The 2005 season was a solid year for the men,” “Blair has set very high goals for himself as a fresh- and throws will undergo a change in leadership after the throws coach B.J. Linnenbrink said. “We had numerous man,” Winsor continued. “He has a very competitive graduation of several key seniors, the Irish distance all-BIG EAST honors, a conference champion and multi- nature, he’s looked very good this fall and is very fit. He group looks to build on a successful 2004 season. The ple regional qualifiers. We will try to build on that stan- will be a big key at the conference meet, and with some group returns nearly all of its top contributors while dard for the coming season, returning all but one guy improvements, he will be an NCAA-caliber high jumper.” adding several top talents. from last year. I look for Garet Koxlien to have an out- In the pole vault, juniors Justin Oppel and Dave Viken At the forefront of this contingent, and looking to standing year and make a push to be the BIG EAST will be joined by freshmen Tray Morgan and Trey Mohr. make noise on the national level, will be junior Kurt champion in the discus and take a giant step towards the The added depth to the vault group should help push the Benninger. A year ago, Benninger became only the third NCAAs.” athletes to the 16-foot mark. Notre Dame athlete to run a sub-four minute mile on the The sprint corps is another group that faces a signifi- “Justin has great pole vault potential and the mindset way to earning his first two indoor All-America honors cant loss heading into the 2005-06 season. Selim to go with it,” Winsor said. “He’s been battling injuries (mile, distance medley relay). Also a two-time BIG EAST Nurudeen graduated after a stellar career that saw him his first two years, but if he can get and stay healthy, he indoor champion, he broke the outdoor school record in acquire two All-America honors and 15 all-BIG EAST has the ability to be a BIG EAST champion. Dave is the 5,000 meters with a blazing 13:33. Without question, designations. Easing the post-Nurudeen transition will another vital part to our effort and is someone who has Benninger has the talent and the desire to return to the be the return of senior Ryan Postel. Sidelined by illness been very consistent throughout his first two years. He’s NCAA Championships and improve on last year’s per- last track season, Postel enters the 2005-06 campaign as looking for that breakout vault and he’s been very close formances the school record holder in the indoor 400 meters and a it for quite some time. Dave has had a great fall of train- The distance group will be fortified by fifth-year sen- contender to qualify for the national meet. Other top ing and we look for good things from him. ior Sean O’Donnell, and seniors Tim Moore and Kaleb returning sprinters include junior Jordan Powell, and “Tray Morgan is just a great young man, who working Van Ort. All three runners are capable of excelling at dis- sophomores Michael Webber, Zachary Labrecque and extremely hard this fall,” Winsor added. “If he stays tances from 3,000 meters all the way up to 10,000 meters. Bob Kueny. Freshman Alvin Adjei could also be heard healthy and keeps his attitude right where it’s at, he'll be In particular, Van Ort is coming off a season in which he from, along with sophomores Terrail Lambert (an all-BIG a big help to our team. As for Trey Mohr, he’s looking to qualified for the NCAA Outdoor Championships in the EAST honoree in the 60-meter dash at last year’s confer- break into the pole vault scene this year and has already 10,000 meters and finished 13th. Junior Todd Ptacek and ence indoor meet) and Justin Hoskins, and freshman D.J. had a great fall, coming in fit. He will have to put on a lit- sophomore Jake Watson are the top two BIG EAST Hord. tle size and strength before he’ll see any major results. returnees in the 3,000-meter steeplechase and will be “Having Ryan Postel back provides the foundation for With hard work and commitment, he should improve poised to improve their career bests and break the nine- a 400-meter group that has the potential to be one of the enough to make it to the BIG EAST.”

UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME 12 2005-06 Men’s Track & Field Roster Name Ht. Event Class Hometown High School Brett Adams 5-8 Distance So. Davenport, IA Assumption Alvin Adjei 6-0 Sprints Fr. , TX Langham Creek Jamal Afridi 5-10 Distance So. Perrysburg, OH Maumee Valley Vinny Ambrico 5-11 Distance Sr. Altamonte Springs, FL Choate Rosemary Hall A.J. Andrassy 5-10 Distance Sr. Bay Village, OH St. Ignatius Kyle Annen 5-11 Throws So. Orofino, ID Orofino Robbie Barany 6-0 Distance Fr. Yakima, WA Eisenhower Geoff Bennett 5-11 Hurdles Jr. Houston, TX St. Thomas Kurt Benninger 5-11 Distance Jr. Chepstow, Ontario Walkerton D.S.S. Daniel Bradley 5-11 Distance So. South Bend, IN St. Joseph’s Gonzalo Brenner 6-0 Multi Fr. Santiago, Chile St. George’s College Billy Buzaid 6-1 Distance Fr. Verona, NJ Seton Hall Prep John Cavanaugh 5-10 Distance So. Granger, IN St. Joseph’s Tom Chamney 6-2 Distance Jr. Tipperary, Ireland St. Columba’s Daniel Clark 5-10 Distance Fr. Jackson, MI Lumen Christi Tom Connelly 6-0 Sprints Fr. Malvern, PA Conestoga Dan Curran 5-11 Distance So. Naperville, IL Naperville North Adam Currie 5-11 Distance So. Verdun, Quebec Richelieu Valley John Daly, Jr. 6-1 Distance Fr. Louisville, KY St. Xavier Colin Diamond 5-10 Distance Fr. Wheaton, IL St. Francis Zach Einterz 5-8 Distance So. Zionsville, IN Community Jose Genao 6-0 Sprints So. Port Jefferson Station, NY Comsewogue Benjamin Hess 5-11 Distance Jr. Lititz, PA Warwick Charlie Hilding 6-1 Sprints Fr. Oak Brook, IL Montini Catholic Christopher Jacques 6-0 Jumps Jr. Old Brookville, NY Chaminade Garet Koxlien 6-2 Throws Jr. Galesville, WI Galesville-Ettrick-Trempealeau Bob Kueny 6-3 Sprints So. Lebanon, MO Lebanon Daniel Kuzma 5-7 Distance Fr. McKees Rocks, PA Central Catholic Zachary Labrecque 6-1 Sprints So. Battle Creek, MI Harper Creek Tom Longo 5-9 Distance Sr. Northbrook, IL Glenbrook Brian Mahon 5-9 Pole Vault Fr. Granger, IN Clay Blair Majcina 6-1 Jumps Fr. Mokena, IL Lincoln-Way East Michael McDonald 6-3 Distance Fr. Granger, IN St. Joseph’s Kevin McFadden 6-1 Distance Fr. New Tripoli, PA Allentown Central Catholic Jeff Mensch 6-2 Throws Fr. Del Mar, CA Torrey Pines James Millar 6-3 Distance So. Granger, IN St. Joseph’s Kevin Moffitt 6-3 Throws Jr. Califon, NJ Delbarton Trey Mohr 5-9 Pole Vault Fr. Dallas, TX Cistercian Mark Moore 6-5 Distance Fr. Novi, MI Novi Tim Moore 6-1 Distance Sr. Novi, MI Novi Tray Morgan 6-2 Pole Vault Fr. Daphne, AL McGill-Toolen Catholic Patrick Needham 6-5 Sprints Fr. Chicago, IL Loyola Academy Andy O’Connor 6-0 Distance Jr. Lake Mary, FL Homestead (IN) Sean O’Donnell 6-3 Distance Sr. Kansas City, MO Rockhurst Justin Oppel 5-10 Pole Vault Jr. Amarillo, TX Amarillo Nathan Payne 5-10 Sprints So. South Bend, IN St. Joseph’s Mike Popejoy 5-11 Distance So. Wheaton, IL Warrenville South Ryan Postel 6-3 Sprints Sr. Lexington, KY Catholic Jordan Powell 6-3 Sprints Jr. Springfield, IL Calvary Academy Todd Ptacek 6-1 Distance Jr. Benton Harbor, MI Lake Michigan Catholic Adam Record 6-0 Jumps Jr. Batesville, IN Batesville Ryan Regula 5-10 Sprints Sr. Johnstown, PA Bishop McCort Chris Rodriguez 5-10 Distance Fr. Kelso, WA Kelso Mike Schubert 6-5 Throws So. Naperville, IL Benet Academy Andy Scott 5-10 Distance Fr. Portland, OR Jesuit Patrick Smyth 5-9 Distance Fr. Salt Lake City, UT Judge Memorial Matt Van Antwerp 6-2 Distance Sr. Oak Ridge, NJ Jefferson Township Kaleb Van Ort 6-1 Distance Sr. Waterloo, IN DeKalb Kevin Veselik 6-2 Distance Fr. Clarendon Hills, IL Benet Academy Dave Viken 5-9 Pole Vault Jr. Arlington Heights, IL Rolling Meadows Jake Watson 6-0 Distance So. Stillwater, MN Stillwater Area Austin Weaver 5-8 Distance Sr. Brentwood, TN Franklin Road Academy Michael Webber 5-9 Sprints So. Salt Lake City, UT Judge Memorial Austin Wechter 5-10 Sprints So. Shelby, OH Shelby Phillip Whelan 6-1 Throws Fr. Louisville, KY St. Xavier Trey Williams 6-3 Sprints Sr. Charlotte, NC Crown Point (IN)

Head Coach: Joe Piane (Loras ’69 – 32nd season at Notre Dame; 31st season as head coach) Assistant Coach (Sprints/Hurdles): John Millar (Western Ontario ’78) Assistant Coach (Jumps): Scott Winsor (Loras ’87) Assistant Coach (Throws): B.J. Linnenbrink (Florida State ’02)

2004-05 CROSS COUNTRY/TRACK & FIELD 13 Women’s Track & Field Preview Cupboard Well-Stocked for Irish Women’s Track & Field Team Notre Dame is strong in all areas and poised to claim first BIG EAST title since 2002

The NFL’s New England Patriots have won “I’m looking to see if Domenique Manning will be The Irish throwers are capable of thriving on the three of the past four Super Bowls without a able to return to her high school performances where shoulders of Meghan Horn alone. The senior has marks great number of high-priced superstars or she was one of the top-ranked hurdlers in the country,” among the top all-time Notre Dame performances in show-stopping talents. Rather, each member Millar added. “Antonia will also give us some good several events, and has three all-BIG EAST honors to of the team merely shows up and does his job depth in this event and we’re looking forward to seeing her credit. If she continues to show her usual improve- to the best of his ability, contributing to a total what Alyissa brings to the table this year.” ment, Horn could be in for a big year in 2006. Helping team effort that is truly championship-worthy. Notre Dame’s jump group will feature some old and out Horn will be freshman Anna Weber, a highly- The 2005-06 Notre Dame women’s track team new faces. Senior Stacey Cowan and fifth-year senior regarded standout from Indianapolis who will see con- will look to copy this recipe for success and Emily Loomis will be the high jump standouts among siderable action as a rookie. return to the top of the awards podium at the the leapers, with Cowan being a 2004 All-American “Meghan Horn is coming off her best year ever, and BIG EAST Championships for the first time in and the recipient of six all-BIG EAST honors and we want to continue to build on that success and try to four years. Loomis also a former BIG EAST champion (2003, out- get Meghan to the NCAA’s,” throws coach B.J. Among the returning athletes with the door). Senior Laura Huarte, the 2004 BIG EAST outdoor Linnenbrink said. “We also added one freshmen this most potential for individual success are jun- pole vault champion is expected to contribute as well, year, Anna Weber, who was highly recruited coming ior sprinters Maryann Erigha and Okechi while junior Cassie Gullickson is an experienced out of high school. I look for her to make an immediate Ogbuokiri. Erigha set a school record in the jumper with ability in the triple, long, and high jumps. impact in the BIG EAST.” 100 meters and qualified for the NCAA The Notre Dame jumpers also will get a significant The Notre Dame women’s distance group looks to be Outdoor Championships in two events. She boost from several incoming freshmen, in particular a force to be reckoned with, led by seniors Molly will focus on the short sprints and hope to add Mary Saxer, Lauren Biscardi and Kate Mattoon. Saxer Huddle and Stephanie Madia. Huddle saw her 2004-05 to her 100-meter BIG EAST title from a year holds the U.S. high school and junior record, as well as track season spoiled by injury after a second-place fin- ago. At the same time, Ogbuokiri should be the under-17 world record in the pole vault after a 14-3 ish in the indoor 5,000 meters, and should be ready to one of the nation’s top 400-meter runners after a season indoor effort last year (the first women’s high school garner more NCAA honors in 2006. Madia had a junior in which she won the BIG EAST indoor 400-meter title pole vaulter ever to clear 14 feet). She is also an excel- season to remember, qualifying for both the indoor and and qualified for the NCAA outdoor meet. Contributing lent long jumper, with a personal best of more than 18 outdoor NCAA meets and taking All-America honors in to the team’s depth in the feet. Biscardi is a talented the outdoor 5,000 meters. With sophomore Sunni Olding sprints will be sophomores “I’m excited about the high jumper who won two also in the mix, the Irish should be very deep in the Brienne Davis and Crysta national titles in 2004, is a 3,000 and 5,000-meter distances. Swayzer, both of whom will potential of this year’s group. four-time All-American Notre Dame’s distance crew also features a strong see time on the primary I saw big improvement last (twice each in the indoor and 3,000-meter steeplechase runner in Katie DeRusso. The sprint relays, giving the Irish outdoor seasons), and has junior has continually improved since taking up the a solid nucleus upon which year in the sophomores from cleared 5-10 – in her prep steeple in her rookie campaign, advancing to the to return to the form that saw their freshman year and am career. Mattoon was an All- NCAA Mideast Regional in that event last year, and Notre Dame send six relay American in the pole vault she should place well in both the conference and teams to the NCAA anticipating similar results as a high school senior last regional competitions this season. Junior Brianne Championships in 2002 and from this year’s class.” year and has been ranked Schmidt and sophomore Jacqueline Carter are the 2003 (four in the 4x100, two in nationally for the past three returning middle distance specialists for Notre Dame the 4x400). – John Millar years, with a personal best of this season. Schmidt was a member of last year’s Irish “I’m excited about the sprints and hurdles coach 12-9. distance medley relay squad that finished second at potential of this year’s “We have a great group of the BIG EAST indoor meet and earned all-conference group,” sprints and hurdles jumpers, with a strong mix of honors. Carter almost picked up her own all-BIG EAST coach John Millar said. “I saw big improvement last veterans and rookies,” jumps coach Scott Winsor said. citation last season, winding up fifth in the 1,000-meter year in the sophomores from their freshman year and “The talent level from top to bottom is probably deeper run at the league’s indoor championship. am anticipating similar results from this year’s class. than it’s ever been for the jumps crew. Staying healthy Freshmen Ramsey Kavan and Morgan Schulz will “Maryann had an outstanding sophomore year, but is the key factor, along with leadership and guidance help the Irish in the distances. Kavan, a two-time she was hindered at the end of the year by injury,” from our upperclassmen. This group’s potential is Gatorade Track Athlete of the Year in South Dakota, Millar continued. “I’m hoping she will be able to build tremendous, and their goals are nothing less than mak- sports a 4:48 mile personal best and Schulz starred at on this because she has the potential to be an NCAA ing the NCAAs, along with winning the BIG EAST title. Colorado’s Smoky Hill High School, one of the most pro- finalist both indoor and outdoors. Okechi also had a “Emily and Stacey are our two veteran leaders, both lific girls long distance programs in the nation over the breakthrough year and we expect big things from her of whom have made it to the NCAAs and Stacey is an past several years. Meanwhile, rookie Megan Flynn, a this year. After qualifying for the NCAA outdoor meet, All-American,” Winsor continued. “Both of them have a local product from Mishawaka Marian High School she has the final as her goal this season. great spirit and desire to succeed, which makes them who was the Indiana state champion at 800 meters last Sophomore Domenique Manning was one of the excellent leaders by example. Laura is also a very tal- year, will have an opportunity to make an early state- country’s top hurdlers coming out of high school, and ented athlete, who just goes about her business and ment in the middle distances. she will look to build back up to that form after logging gets the job done. Cassie could be a major factor in “Beyond our All-Americans in Molly, Stephanie and a pair of first-place finishes during her initial indoor both the triple jump and high jump at conference and Sunni, we have a lot of kids who are capable of being season. Manning also garnered all-BIG EAST honors we’re looking for a breakout year from her to reach her big-time conference level athletes,” women’s distance as a member of Notre Dame’s 4x100-meter relay team potential. coach Tim Connelly said. “We have to see if they can that finished second at the league’s outdoor meet. “Mary’s potential is unlimited,” Winsor concluded. step up. Katie DeRusso scored points at the conference Fellow sophomore Antonia Bethel did not compete last “She will be a major factor in both events at the BIG meet and did a nice job getting to the regional and run- year, but was a two-sport letterwinner in high school EAST, and barring injury, she will be a factor in the ning a PR there. Jackie Carter and Brianne Schmidt did and set the Turlock (Calif.) High School record in the NCAA pole vault. Lauren should also be a major con- well in the indoor conference meet, and now they have 300-meter hurdles. Freshman Alyissa Hasan is a multi- tributor at the conference meet, and she has great to take that next step and get to the regional level. sport star out of Williamsville, N.Y., who has performed potential for the future. Kate has vaulted very well and “Both Ramsey and Morgan give us some fresh blood particularly well in the hurdles and long jump and has room for a tremendous amount of improvement. in the distances and they’ll get started early by com- could see immediate action in both events. Like the others, she could be a great asset to this team’s peting with our cross country team,” Connelly contin- success.” ued. “We’ve also got Megan Flynn coming in, who is someone who will definitely be able to help us on the track in the 800 and 1,000. I think we’ve got most of our bases covered from the 800 meters on up.” UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME 14 2005-06 Women’s Track & Field Roster

Name Ht. Event Class Hometown High School Rebecca Antas 5-6 Distance So. Wheaton, IL North Becca Bauman 5-8 Distance Fr. Grand Rapids, MI Catholic Central Stephanie Best 5-3 Throws Jr. Dallas, TX Bishop Lynch Antonia Bethel 5-11 Sprints So. Turlock, CA Turlock Lauren Biscardi 5-10 Jumps Fr. Wading River, NY Shoreham Wading River Elena Brandewie 5-7 Distance Fr. Valparaiso, IN Andrean Jacqueline Carter 5-5 Distance So. Boise, ID Bishop Kelly Stacey Cowan 5-8 Jumps Sr. Ferndale, WA Ferndale Brienne Davis 5-6 Sprints So. Grand Prairie, TX South Grand Prairie Mary Debevec 5-8 Distance So. Media, PA Cardinal O’Hara Katie DeRusso 5-6 Distance Jr. Fairport, NY Fairport Maryann Erigha 5-7 Sprints Jr. Stone Mountain, GA Chamblee Megan Flynn 5-8 Distance Fr. South Bend, IN Mishawaka Marian Cassie Gullickson 5-7 Jumps Jr. Palm Beach Gardens, FL Brentwood (TN) Domn Harris 5-11 Distance Fr. Newburgh, NY Newburgh Free Academy Alyissa Hasan 5-9 Multi Fr. Williamsville, NY Williamsville South Rachel Heneghan 5-9 Distance So. Zionsville, IN Zionsville Meghan Horn 6-0 Throws Sr. Upper Sandusky, OH Upper Sandusky Laura Huarte 5-8 Pole Vault Sr. Shingle Springs, CA St. Francis Molly Huddle 5-4 Distance Sr. Elmira, NY Notre Dame Katie Jannazo 5-8 Jumps So. Ft. Walton Beach, FL Choctawhatchee Ramsey Kavan 5-8 Distance Fr. Yankton, SD Yankton Loryn King 5-6 Distance Sr. Arlington Heights, IL St. Viator Amy Kohlmeier 5-6 Distance Jr. Sarnia, Ontario St. Patrick’s Jennifer Leong 5-4 Sprints So. Jericho, NY Jericho Erin Locke 5-9 Distance So. Wakeeney, KS Trego Community Emily Loomis 6-1 High Jump Sr. Fort Wayne, IN Bishop Luers Stephanie Madia 5-6 Distance Sr. Wexford, PA North Allegheny Domenique Manning 5-3 Hurdles So. Riverside, CA John W. North Jean Marinangeli 5-2 Distance Sr. Arlington Heights, IL Buffalo Grove Kate Mattoon 5-4 Pole Vault Fr. San Diego, CA Rancho Bernardo Ann Mazur 5-5 Distance Jr. Pittsburgh, PA Seton-LaSalle Meagan McGinley 5-5 Distance So. Doylestown, PA Central Bucks West Kahki Mealey 5-6 Distance Fr. Meadowbrook, PA Gwynedd Mercy Academy Okechi Ogbuokiri 5-10 Sprints Jr. Willingboro, NJ Willingboro Sunni Olding 5-9 Distance So. Minster, OH Minster Julie Opet 5-5 Distance So. Wayne, PA Radnor Allyson Parker 5-6 Distance So. Macungie, PA Emmaus Elizabeth Philipp 5-8 Distance So. Kingwood, TX Kingwood Heidi Rocha 5-2 Distance Fr. Palmdale, CA Lancaster Paraclete Mary Saxer 5-6 Jumps Fr. Lancaster, NY Central Brianne Schmidt 5-7 Distance Jr. Miles City, MT Custer County District Catherine Schmidt 5-7 Sprints Sr. Orange, CA Mater Dei Morgan Schulz 5-5 Distance Fr. Centennial, CO Aurora Smoky Hill Crysta Swayzer 5-6 Sprints So. Houston, TX Westbury Senior Christine Walls 5-9 Distance Fr. Arlington, VA Bishop O’Connell Jenny Walls 5-8 Distance Sr. Arlington, VA Bishop Kelley (OK) Emily Wauford 5-8 Distance Fr. Midlothian, VA Maggie Walker Governor’s School Anna Weber 6-0 Throws Fr. Indianapolis, IN Roncalli Elizabeth Webster 5-4 Distance Sr. Dearborn, MI Divine Child Nicole Yergler 5-8 Sprints Fr. Coto de Caza, CA Santa Margarita Catholic

Head Coach: Joe Piane (Loras ’69 – 32nd season at Notre Dame; 31st season as head coach) Assistant Coach (Distance): Tim Connelly (Notre Dame ’83) Assistant Coach (Sprints/Hurdles): John Millar (Western Ontario ’78) Assistant Coach (Jumps): Scott Winsor (Loras ’87) Assistant Coach (Throws): B.J. Linnenbrink (Florida State ’02)

2004-05 CROSS COUNTRY/TRACK & FIELD 15 2005-06Men’s Cross Country Preview Irish Men’s Cross Country Team Has Table Set For Possible Championship Feast Notre Dame returns its top five runners with a focus on an NCAA Championship trophy

During the past 17 sea- ever to run a sub-four minute sons, the Notre Dame mile while garnering All- men’s cross country team America citations in the mile and established itself as a distance medley relay. Early in consistently strong per- the outdoor track season, former at the NCAA Benninger also broke the school Championships, making record in the 5,000 meters by five 14 trips to the national seconds before seeing his year meet and registering 10 truncated by an injury. top-10 finishes in that Another possible frontrunner time. After a one-year for Notre Dame this season is hiatus in 2003, the Irish senior Kaleb Van Ort. A two-time returned to the NCAA all-BIG EAST choice, Van Ort also Championships last sea- finished eighth at the Great son, entering the event Lakes Regional a year ago. After ranked fifth in the nation. qualifying for the 2005 NCAA However, an 11th-place Outdoor Track Championships in showing left veteran the 10,000 meters, Van Ort figures head coach Joe Piane and to be the fourth Irish runner gun- his charges dissatisfied ning for cross country All- and hungry to return America honors this fall. Notre Dame to its perch among Rounding out the probable top the country’s elite programs in five for Notre Dame is senior 2005. Vinny Ambrico. Prior to last sea- “We had a great season up son, Ambrico had been known until the NCAAs,” Piane said. primarily as a strong middle dis- “We went from being totally tance runner for the track team. unranked to being ranked fifth in However, in 2004, he improved the country. Then, we just ran enough to be Notre Dame’s main poorly at the NCAAs. We’ve been Seniors Tim Moore (434), Sean O'Donnell (436) and Kaleb Van Ort (438) each earned all- fifth runner, a development that trying to debate why that hap- conference honors last season, helping Notre Dame win the BIG EAST Championship. would be critical in clinching a pened, but I guess we need to use one-point Irish victory at the BIG that as a motivator for this year. EAST meet. Heading into this We ended up 11th and the fourth- and fifth- the 2004 National Catholic Championship, fall, Ambrico is out to continue his improve- place teams were both teams we had beaten Moore finished 43rd in last year’s NCAA meet ment and tighten up the spread between the twice. It was a disappointing finish to say the after taking ninth at the Great Lakes Regional. top five Irish runners. least. Already boasting three all-BIG EAST honors, “It’s kind of an eclectic group,” Piane “We need to understand that no one is going Moore will be looking to add a fourth to his observed. “You have Tim Moore, who was a to roll over for us,” Piane continued. “We just resume this season, along with his first All- Foot Locker national champion in high school didn’t run with the right vigor and commitment America citation. and was at a pretty high level when he came and that’s not going to happen this year. If you Meanwhile, Notre Dame retains another in. Kaleb Van Ort was a pretty good runner out talk to those kids, they’ll tell you the same experienced leader in O’Donnell, who was a of Indiana who has made himself into a thing. They’re all really fired up. They’ve co-captain and all-BIG EAST selection for the national class runner. You take Kurt Benninger, learned that they have to do every little thing Irish last year. He brings consistency and sta- who was very good as a miler and half-miler in that it takes, and if the weather is inclement bility to the Irish top seven, as evidenced by his high school, but has evolved into a terrific dis- they have to turn that into a positive. If the ninth-place finish at the ’04 BIG EAST meet and tance guy. He’s one of the best 5,000-meter run- weather is great, then we’re going to run great. 19th-place showing at last year’s Great Lakes ners in Canada now. Then you take Sean They’ve also learned that they don’t need to Regional. An accomplished student as well, O’Donnell, who is a coach’s dream, who was a take a back seat to anybody.” O’Donnell was named to the 2005 ESPN The 4:27 high school miler. He has turned himself While still feeling the sting from last year, Magazine Academic All-America Third Team, from an average high school runner into a guy Piane has reason to be excited about the posting a 3.854 grade-point average as he that has become awfully good. It’s not a group prospects for the Irish this season, with a very earned his bachelor’s degree in mechanical that came from the same background — they experienced group of returning runners in the engineering back in May. weren’t all high school studs. Some of those fold, highlighted by six of the team’s seven While Moore and O’Donnell lend veteran kids have really evolved into greatness.” NCAA Championship participants from a year savvy to the Irish roster, Notre Dame’s most Other prospective contributors for Notre ago. Among these harriers are the team’s co- exciting harrier could be junior Kurt Benninger. Dame in 2005 will be seniors A.J. Andrassy and captains — senior Tim Moore and fifth-year A two-time All-American during the 2004-05 Austin Weaver, junior Todd Ptacek, and sopho- senior Sean O’Donnell. indoor track season, Benninger prefaced those mores Dan Curran, Brett Adams, and Jake Moore served as a co-captain on last year’s honors by evolving into a top threat on the Watson. Andrassy competed with the Irish at squad and has been the only Irish runner to cross country course, logging four top-10 fin- the 2004 NCAA Championship and brings valu- compete at each of the last three NCAA ishes in the five meets he ran, while also being able big-meet experience to fill out the team, Championships. The individual champion at the first Irish runner across the line at the while Weaver is a two-time monogram winner. NCAA Championship. On the track, he went on Ptacek was prepared to join the varsity to become just the third Notre Dame runner squad last season before a hamstring injury

UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME 16 2005-06 Men’s Cross Country Preview sidelined him for the remainder of the cam- paign. He bounced back with an excellent 2005-06 Men’s Cross Country Roster track season featuring a 4:05 mile and 9:05 stee- Name Ht. Class Hometown High School plechase, and he appears ready to assert him- self in the Irish rotation. Curran earned a Brett Adams 5-8 So. Davenport, IA Assumption monogram during his rookie season at Notre Jamal Afridi 5-10 So. Perrysburg, OH Maumee Valley Dame and should compete among the top 10 Vinny Ambrico 5-11 Sr. Alamonte Springs, FL Choate Rosemary Hall Irish runners this season. A.J. Andrassy 5-10 Sr. Bay Village, OH St. Ignatius Though Piane may not need to rely heavily Robbie Barany 5-11 Fr. Yakima, WA Eisenhower on his incoming freshmen to ensure a strong team, there are several incoming athletes that Kurt Benninger 5-11 Jr. Chepstow, Ontario Walkerton D.S.S. will add quality depth to the Irish roster. Daniel Bradley 5-11 So. South Bend, IN St. Joseph’s Robbie Barany earned All-America honors with Billy Buzaid 6-1 Fr. Verona, NJ Seton Hall Prep an eighth-place finish at the 2004 Foot Locker John Cavanaugh 5-10 So. Granger, IN St. Joseph’s Cross Country Championship, capping off a Tom Chamney 6-2 Jr. Tipperary, Ireland St. Columba’s stellar high school career in Yakima, Wash., at Daniel Clark 5-10 Fr. Jackson, MI Lumen Christi Eisenhower High School, one of the country’s elite prep cross country programs. Another Dan Curran 5-11 So. Naperville, IL North freshman, Patrick Smyth, also figures to be in Adam Currie 5-11 So. Verdun, Quebec Richelieu Valley the mix after an outstanding career at Judge John Daly, Jr. 6-1 Fr. Louisville, KY St. Xavier Memorial High School in Salt Lake City, Utah. Colin Diamond 5-10 Fr. Wheaton, IL St. Francis “I’ve never had a team this deep,” said Piane, Zach Einterz 5-8 So. Zionsville, IN Community who is in his 31st season at Notre Dame. “We’re probably 14-18 kids deep. We will take a big hit Benjamin Hess 5-11 Jr. Lititz, PA Warwick this year, but that just means that the Robbie Daniel Kuzma 5-7 Fr. McKees Rocks, PA Central Catholic Baranys and the Patrick Smyths will have a Thomas Longo 5-9 Sr. Northbrook, IL Glenbrook golden opportunity. They could really step in Michael McDonald 6-3 Fr. Granger, IN St. Joseph’s this season, but as deep as we are, they’ll strug- Kevin McFadden 6-1 Fr. New Tripoli, PA Allentown Central Catholic gle to be in the top seven. I look at guys like James Millar 6-3 So. Granger, IN St. Joseph’s Jake Watson and Todd Ptacek as being in front of those kids right now.” Mark Moore 6-5 Fr. Novi, MI Novi While big things are expected for Notre Tim Moore 6-1 Sr. Novi, MI Novi Dame this season, it already will be a mile- Andy O’Connor 6-0 Jr. Fort Wayne, IN Homestead stone campaign for another reason. On Sept. 30, Sean O'Donnell 6-3 Sr. Kansas City, MO Rockhurst the Irish will play host to the 50th annual Notre Mike Popejoy 5-11 So. Wheaton, IL Warrenville South Dame Invitational, which has evolved into one of the nation’s oldest intercollegiate cross coun- Todd Ptacek 6-1 Jr. Benton Harbor, MI Lake Michigan Catholic try races. The Notre Dame Invitational, which Chris Rodriguez 5-10 Fr. Kelso, WA Kelso was created in 1956 by legendary Irish coach Andy Scott 5-10 Fr. Portland, OR Jesuit (and Canadian Track Hall of Famer) Alex Patrick Smyth 5-9 Fr. Salt Lake City, UT Judge Memorial Wilson, is widely considered one of the most Kaleb Van Ort 6-1 Sr. Waterloo, IN DeKalb competitive regular season meets in the coun- try. Kevin Veselik 6-2 Fr. Clarendon Hills, IL Benet Academy “The Notre Dame Invitational has grown into Jake Watson 6-0 So. Stillwater, MN Stillwater Area a very good national meet,” Piane commented. Austin Weaver 5-8 Sr. Brentwood, TN Franklin Road Academy “It’s a good opportunity to run against teams outside your region, so we attract teams from Head Coach: Joe Piane (Loras ’69 – 32nd season at Notre Dame; 31st season as head coach) all over the country. Last year, people said they thought it was the best non- pre-national or regional meet in the country. I don’t know if it Bronx on Nov. 19 will serve as a tune-up for the — one would be us and the other would be was, but hopefully, it will be very similar to that NCAA meet two days later. Wisconsin. Wisconsin went into that meet last this year. It’s a source of pride and when we “Our first goal is getting to the NCAA meet year highly touted, and everyone basically have a home meet, I don’t feel like a cross coun- and I’ll be disappointed if we don’t do that,” conceded them the win. Then, Colorado came try coach, I feel like a host.” Piane said. “I expect us to be in the top 10 and out and kept moving up and did a great job. Notre Dame also will serve as the host site frankly, we have a chance to be on the podium Right now, when you look on the Internet, peo- for the 26th National Catholic Championship as one of the top four teams. As each goal is ple are making predictions and we’re not a fac- on Sept. 16, continuing to build an impressive attained, it gets a little more difficult. I also tor. I love it.” tradition for the meet Piane founded in 1980. think we have a legitimate shot at contending Numerous ingredients are needed to create a Besides their two home events, the Irish will for the BIG EAST title. We won it last year and successful team, and it would appear those open their season at the Valparaiso Invitational we return six or seven so we should have a pieces — talent, experience, depth and an insa- on Sept. 9 and are slated to compete in the Pre- good shot.” tiable work ethic — and have been put in place National meet Oct. 15 in Terre Haute, Ind., on “Our guys hold themselves accountable,” for Notre Dame in 2005. As such, the Irish are the same Lavern Gibson Course that will play Piane continued. “I think if we had run excep- poised to add the latest entry in a historical host to the NCAA Championships at season’s tionally well at NCAAs last year, then that ledger of excellence and bring the program its end. Notre Dame will aim to defend its BIG might have been a problem, but they know that second national championship. EAST title Oct. 28 at Van Cortland Park in Bronx, on any given day, a team can screw up. The N.Y., before turning its focus to the Great Lakes NCAA meet is not to see who runs the best, but Regional in Bloomington, Ind., on Nov. 12. A instead it’s a meet to see who screws up the visit to the IC4A Championships back in the least. There are two examples from last season

2004-05 CROSS COUNTRY/TRACK & FIELD 17 2005-06 Women’s Cross Country Preview Irish Women’s Cross Country Team Looking to Aim Higher in 2005 Notre Dame welcomes back three All-Americans for a run at the NCAA title

Fresh off its second top- four NCAA fin- ish in three years, Notre Dame wel- comes back three All- Americans who have a national title in their sights. The past three years have been spe- cial for the Notre Dame women’s cross country program. Three top-10 finishes, including two trips to the awards podium as a top-four squad, would make a good decade for just about any team. However, the Irish are not your average cross country The Notre Dame women's cross country team has its eyes set on an even bigger prize after last year's fourth-place finish at the NCAA program and the 2005 Championship. squad will not be con- tent with a drop-off at the national meet. believe in each other and what they’re 5,000 meters at the 2004 U.S. Olympic Trials While longtime head coach Tim doing. That’s how you have success. and twice won the NCAA Mideast Connelly loses two of the most decorated “The goal every year is to get to the Regional title in that same event (2003, athletes in school history in three-time national meet and be in a position to run 2004). Once she has completely recovered cross country All-American Lauren King as well as you can on that day,” Connelly from her injuries, Huddle will be poised to and 2004 cross country All-America pick continued. “That’s what we did last year — make her final season at Notre Dame a Kerry Meagher, the cupboard is hardly we went there and found a way to run memorable one and return to her post as bare in terms of returning talent. really well. I think our kids’ expectations one of the top runners in the nation. “When you run well at the end of the are that we want to improve on what we “The key with Molly is to not do too much year, that gives you confidence in what did last year and I think that’s a realistic too soon,” Connelly noted. “If we do that, you’ve been doing, so now you go back this possibility. But the goal every year is to she is talented enough to run with the best, year and trust that we are going to be walk away from that situation knowing and obviously, the goal and the hope is ready when it counts,” Connelly said. that we did everything we could do to run that she’ll be at the level she was at a year “Nobody’s expectations are higher than my well today. The focus last year was just to ago when she was seventh at the Olympic team, and that’s the important thing. be as good as we could be, and we knew Trials. I don’t see any reason why she can’t They’re confident, and when you believe in that we could beat a lot of people, even if get back to that.” what you doing, that more than anything is we weren’t all 100 percent.” Another outstanding top returnee is sen- probably the key to our success. It’s not Leading the way for the Irish will be sen- ior Stephanie Madia. Between cross coun- that we’re doing anything different than ior Molly Huddle. A seven-time All- try and track, Madia had a breakthrough anybody else in terms of training. We have American (including twice in cross year in 2004-05 with two All-America hon- some really talented kids, but we also country), Huddle battled through an injury- ors and a number of top performances. In have kids that everybody else has who plagued 2004 season, still managing to addition to being the first Irish runner to contribute to the team’s fourth-place NCAA cross the finish line at the national meet finish. A three-time all-BIG EAST selec- (23rd place), Madia also earned all-BIG tion, Huddle also placed seventh in the EAST honors at the league meet. She

UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME 18 2005-06 Women’s Cross Country Preview capped her year by qualifying for both the NCAA indoor and outdoor track meets, 2005-06 Women’s Cross Country Roster garnering All-America honors with a fifth- Name Ht. Class Hometown High School place finish in the outdoor 5,000 meters. Rebecca Antas 5-6 So. Wheaton, IL North “Part of the reason why Stephanie was Becca Bauman 5-8 Fr. Grand Rapids, MI Catholic Central so successful last year was that she knew Elena Brandewie 5-7 Fr. Valparaiso, IN Andrean she had to step up,” Connelly said. “Molly Jacqueline Carter 5-5 So. Boise, ID Bishop Kelly wasn’t going to be able to get it done and Mary Debevec 5-8 So. Media, PA Cardinal O’Hara Stephanie looked at the situation and said Katie DeRusso 5-6 Jr. Fairport, NY Fairport ‘I’m going to get it done.’ She’s been a Megan Flynn 5-8 Fr. South Bend, IN Mishawaka Marian great leader ever since she’s been here. Domn Harris 5-11 Fr. Newburgh, NY Newburgh Free Academy Last year, she finally had all the pieces Rachel Heneghan 5-9 So. Zionsville, IL Zionsville together where she could do it on the Molly Huddle 5-4 Sr. Elmira, NY Notre Dame track, too. What I expect of her isn’t any Ramsey Kavan 5-8 Fr. Yankton, SD Yankton more than she expects of herself. She Loryn King 5-6 Sr. Arlington Heights, IL St. Viator expects to improve. Amy Kohlmeier 5-6 Jr. Sarnia, Ontario St. Patrick's The third All-America cornerstone for Erin Locke 5-9 So. Wekeeney, KS Trego Community Notre Dame this season is sophomore Stephanie Madia 5-6 Sr. Wexford, PA North Allegheny Sunni Olding. In just her first year with Jean Marinangeli 5-2 Sr. Arlington Heights, IL Buffalo Grove the Irish, Olding secured a spot among the Ann Mazur 5-5 Jr. Pittsburgh, PA Seton-LaSalle team’s top five runners, winding up third Meagan McGinley 5-5 So. Doylestown, PA Central Bucks West on the team and 32nd overall at the NCAA Kahki Mealey 5-6 Fr. Meadowbrook, PA Gwynedd Mercy Academy Championship. Also a sixth-place fin- Sunni Olding 5-9 So. Minster, OH Minster isher at the Great Lakes Regional, Olding Julie Opet 5-5 So. Wayne, PA Radnor forms one-third of an extremely fast lead- Allyson Parker 5-6 So. Macungie, PA Emmaus off trio for the Irish. Elizabeth Philipp 5-8 So. Kingwood, TX Kingwood A host of athletes will compete to round Heidi Rocha 5-2 Fr. Palmdale, CA Lancaster Paraclete out Notre Dame’s top seven, beginning Brianne Schmidt 5-7 Jr. Miles City, MT Custer County District with seniors Jean Marinangeli, Elizabeth Webster, and Loryn King. Marinangeli Morgan Schulz 5-5 Fr. Centennial, CO Aurora Smoky Hill and Webster have been mainstays among Christine Walls 5-9 Fr. Arlington, VA Bishop O’Connell the team’s top 10 runners during the past Jenny Walls 5-8 Sr. Arlington, VA Bishop Kelley (OK) two seasons, with Marinangeli having Emily Wauford 5-8 Fr. Midlothian, VA Maggie Walker participated in the past two national Governor’s School meets. King’s career has been stunted at Elizabeth Webster 5-4 Sr. Dearborn, MI Divine Child times by injury since her outstanding freshman campaign, but she has the tal- Head Coach: Tim Connelly (Notre Dame ’83 — 18th season at Notre Dame) ent to emerge has a solid contributor for this year’s squad. While juniors Katie DeRusso and Amy ing in who have that potential as well. a direction and they motivate each other.” Kohlmeier each have the ability to carve Those kids coming in here expect to run at The past three years have seen Notre out regular spots in the Notre Dame that level right away, and that’s one of the Dame blaze trails on the women’s cross lineup, two incoming freshmen may pro- things that I’m looking for. I think we have country circuit that have never been seen vide Connelly with the biggest potential a nice blend. We have some older kids in the program’s history. Now, the chal- addition to the team’s top seven. Ramsey that are ready to make that next step like lenge will be to sustain and build upon Kavan and Morgan Schulz join the Irish Katie DeRusso and Amy Kohlmeier. Katie the foundation that has been laid with after highly successful prep campaigns in wasn’t quite ready physically or emotion- those three consecutive NCAA top-10 fin- South Dakota and Colorado, respectively. ally, and Amy has had all kinds of bad ishes. With the amount of talent, both Kavan, a two-time Gatorade South Dakota luck. She was getting on a roll during the young and old, on the Irish roster in 2005, Track Athlete of the Year, owns sixth- and indoor track season and then developed a it’s apparent that the future is exception- third-place finishes in the past two Foot staph infection in her foot. ally bright for Notre Dame and it may not Locker Cross Country Championships, “There are people here besides those be long before championship gold finds while Schulz took 11th at the prestigious incoming freshmen that can run at a its way back to the Golden Dome. national prep race in 2003. Both athletes pretty high level,” Connelly added. “Jean will hope to duplicate the success that Marinangeli has been our sixth or seventh Olding had in her rookie season at Notre runner for the past couple of years and has Dame. the ability to make that step, so we’re not “Sunni is one of those kids that has the just strictly relying on freshmen. We’ve got potential to be a great one,” Connelly enough good people here that can step in said. “I also think we have freshmen com- and help us get it done. I just point them in

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Joe Piane begins his 31st season as head cross country/track and field coach this season. He is the longest active tenured coach at the Notre Dame. Head Coach Joe Piane In 1889, track and field became the second varsity sport in school history. Head Coach One hundred and 16 years later student- athletes continue to represent the Fighting Irish across the nation on the 31st Season track, in the field and on the cross coun- try course. Loras College ‘69 Out of the 115 years of competition, Joe Piane has been leading the program for the past 30. The longest active tenured coach at Notre Dame, Piane begins his 31st season at Notre Dame in the fall of 2005. Since 1974, Piane’s cross country and track and field teams have posted the following num- Piane Continues To Blaze New bers: • Men’s cross country runners have earned Trails At Notre Dame All-American status 20 times. • A Notre Dame cross country runner has appeared at the NCAA Championship meet for Irish head coach celebrates his 31st season in 2005-06 the past 15 years, while the team has made the trip 14 out of the past 18 years. • The Notre Dame men’s cross country team coached by Piane in ’04 were has finished in the top 15 at the national meet in Nurudeen, Benninger and senior 13 of the past 18 seasons. Kevin Somok. • The Irish men’s track and field team has The 2003 track and field season earned 56 All-America citations since 1974, was highlighted by several special while the women’s team has received 34 such performances from Luke Watson. accolades since 1994. Combined, Piane has Both Piane and Watson set their helped guide 90 All-Americans during his sights on breaking the four-minute tenure at Notre Dame. mile barrier at the Meyo Invitational A distance-coaching specialist, Piane is rec- in 2002, hoping that Watson would ognized across the nation as one of the best in become just the second runner to the business. He has been named NCAA crack the mark. Piane helped Division I National Cross Country Coach of the assemble an outstanding field for Year on two different occasions (1987 and 2001) the race and it ended up as while garnering five district/regional coach of arguably the highlight of the colle- the year honors. giate indoor season. Watson did his As the Irish program continues to assert itself part, scorching past the field in the nationally (the men's track and field team won final straight away to win in 3:58.83, the 2005 BIG EAST indoor meet before taking easily a school-record time and second at the outdoor meet, while hurdler Selim briefly the fastest mile run in the Nurudeen and distance runner Kurt Benninger world during the indoor season. both picked up two All-America plaques, and Watson eventually moved on to gar- the women’s team yielded All-America perform- ner All-America honors in the ances from Stephanie Madia and Kerry indoor mile, indoor 3,000 meters and Meagher), Piane has led from the front for more outdoor 5,000 meters – as well as than three decades. taking home BIG EAST Benninger’s emergence highlighted a stellar Championships in the mile, 3,000- 2005 men’s track and field season for Piane’s meter steeplechase and outdoor Irish. The sophomore claimed All-America lau- 5,000 meters. rels with a third-place finish in the mile at the In 2001, Piane helped distance NCAA Indoor Championships and added specialist Ryan Shay compile one of another All-America citation with his contribu- the greatest track and field seasons tions to Notre Dame’s sixth-place distance med- in Notre Dame history. The Central ley relay team, the first Irish DMR unit to garner Lake, Mich., native won the BIG the award since 2000, but the fifth All-America EAST indoor 5,000 meters, the con- relay group in Piane’s illustrious tenure. ference outdoor 5,000 and 10,000 Meanwhile, Nurudeen closed out an impres- Nurudeen also won the BIG EAST indoor 200- meters and finished off the season in legendary sive career with All-America honors during both meter championship in 2005 and was named the style by becoming Notre Dame’s first individual track seasons, placing sixth in the indoor 60- meet’s Outstanding Track Performer, helping the NCAA champion since 1972 by taking first place meter hurdles and seventh in the outdoor 110- Irish win their second league indoor crown in in the 10,000 meters at the NCAA Outdoor meter hurdles at the NCAA Championships. three years. Like the team, Piane and his assis- Championships in Eugene, Ore. Shay has since Nurudeen also set a BIG EAST indoor meet tants picked up their second BIG EAST Men’s moved on to become one of the best marathon record in the 60-meter hurdles (7.72) and won the Indoor Track Championship Staff of the Year runners in the country. league hurdles crown in both the indoor and out- award in three seasons as well. The Notre Dame men’s cross country team has door meets, winning the outdoor title for the The 2004 men’s track and field season was enjoyed three of its most successful seasons in fourth consecutive year. highlighted by several different BIG EAST the program’s history over the past six years. In champions and NCAA Championship quali- 2000, Piane helped the Irish recover from the loss fiers. Among the successful distance athletes of Shay due to injury and finish ninth at the NCAA Championship meet.

UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME 22 see in 2005). Piane ushered the Irish into Head the BIG EAST in 1995-96 with third-place finishes in men’s Coach cross country and both the men’s Invitational has developed into one of and women’s indoor and outdoor the top indoor “last chance” meets in track and field. In 1997 and the nation, hosting the nation’s best again in 1999, Notre Dame indoor performers just prior to the moved up to second in both the NCAA Championship. men’s and women’s indoor and A 1969 graduate of Loras College, outdoor track championships, Piane ran both track and cross country with the Irish men’s coaching for four years at the Dubuque, Iowa, institution. staff earning staff-of-the-year He captained Loras’ undefeated cross country honors at the 1999 BIG EAST out- squad as a senior, while excelling in middle dis- door championships. The Irish tance events during the track season. He was got over the hump by winning inducted into the Loras College Athletics Hall of their first BIG EAST men’s track Fame in the fall of 2002. title at the Piane began his impressive coaching career 2000 BIG EAST Outdoor in 1970. Working for the Peace Corps, he coached Championships. Piane and his track and field and cross country at both the assistants earned the men’s regional and national levels in Morocco, North staff-of-the-year award for the Africa. Piane guided a top-ranked junior cross second straight season. country team, sending three runners to To date, Piane has coached Cambridge, England, for the World his men’s track teams to 58 indi- International Cross Country Championship in vidual BIG EAST 1972. Several of those runners went on to com- Championships and three relay pete in the Munich Olympics and one advanced wins in the past decade and the to the 1976 Summer Games in Montreal. women have finished first as After returning to the United States in July individuals 22 times and cap- 1972, Piane assisted the track and cross country tured four relay team titles (all in programs at Western Illinois. During that time the past five seasons). In addi- he earned a master’s degree in physical educa- tion, six athletes — Selim tion. Nurudeen (indoor, 2005), Godwin Born Aug. 6, 1946, in Westchester, Ill., Piane Mbagwu (outdoor, 2004), Liz joined the Notre Dame staff in 1974 as an assis- Grow (outdoor, 2002), Luke tant track coach and physical education instruc- Watson (outdoor, 2002), tor with plans to stay on for just one year. He was Marshaun West (outdoor, 1999) named head track and cross country coach the and Jason Rexing (outdoor, 1996 following season. and indoor, 1998) — have Piane and his wife, Mimi, reside in South received the conference’s out- Bend, with their son, Nick. standing track or field performer at various championship meets. In 1985, Piane was named a member of the United States 1987 & 2001 NCAA Division I National Track staff. As such, he National Cross Country Coach of the Year With Shay back on the team in 2001, Notre was one of 40 collegiate coaches given the opportunity to coach a United States squad in Dame achieved its highest-ever national rank- Five-time District IV Cross Country ing (fourth), won the BIG EAST Championship international competition. During the summer of (Piane and his staff earned the league’s 1987 he did just that, guiding a team of American Coach of the Year Coaching Staff of the Year award) and ended up all-stars in meets held in England and Ireland. sixth at the national meet to give the Irish their Upon the conclusion of the 1991 Notre Dame Six-time Midwestern Collegiate Conference track season, Piane once again faced interna- highest team finish since 1993. Cross Country Coach of the Year Last year, Notre Dame threatened to eclipse tional competition as he was appointed coach of its best-ever ranking, as Piane deftly guided his the U.S. Pan American juniors team for the charges from an unranked start all the way to a games in Kingston, . Six-time Midwestern Collegiate BIG EAST title and a No. 5 national ranking Piane became Midwest regional chairman for Conference Track Coach of the Year before placing 11th at the NCAA United States Olympic Development in the area Championships. For his efforts, Piane and his of track and field in 1984. Piane’s other Olympic aides garnered a second BIG EAST Men’s Cross preparation experience came in 1985 when he 2001, 2004 BIG EAST Men’s Cross Country Country Coaching Staff ot the Year plaque. coached the North team in the National Sports Staff of the Year In 1986, Piane was chosen as the District IV Festival. He also coached the U.S. team against England in Birmingham, England. track coach of the year. The MCC track coach-of- 2003, 2005 BIG EAST Men’s Indoor Track the-year award was given to Piane in the first Piane has produced a winning record in all six years that it was awarded, while the entire but one season with the Irish cross country team Championship Staff of the Year track and field coaching staff was named the and is also the creator of Notre Dame’s National Catholic Championship, an annual meet held BIG EAST women’s indoor staff of the year in 1999, 2000, 2003 BIG EAST Men’s Outdoor 2002 after guiding the on campus since 1980. The Irish running pro- Track Championship Staff of the Year women’s team to its first-ever BIG EAST gram continues to be a rapidly-growing entity Championship. The 2003 season witnessed the thanks to Piane’s achievements. Continually Irish men's team sweep the indoor and outdoor searching for greater challenges, he also 2002 BIG EAST Women’s Indoor Track founded the Meyo Invitational and the Alex titles, with the Notre Dame coaching staff hon- Championship Staff of the Year ored as the BIG EAST staff of the year for both Wilson Invitational, both traditional indoor meets (a precursor of the success the Irish would Notre Dame track events. The Alex Wilson

2005-06 CROSS COUNTRY/TRACK & FIELD 23 Assistant Coaches Tim Connelly As the Notre Dame women’s cross country team continues to establish itself Women’s as one of the best in the nation, Tim Cross Country Coach Connelly enters his 18th season at Notre Dame. Connelly serves as the head coach of Assistant Track & the Notre Dame women's cross country Field Coach team and tutors the middle distance and distance runners during the indoor and Women’s Middle Distance/ outdoor track seasons. He also is closely Distance involved with all aspects of the Notre Dame track and field/cross country program and is known as one of the best recruiters in the Midwest. Under Connelly’s guidance, the Irish had an Irish also broke through for their first two BIG exceptional 2004-05 season in both cross coun- EAST cross country titles in 2002 and 2003, led try and track. The women’s cross country squad by ‘02 individual champion Lauren King and peaked at just the right moment, racing to a the two-time conference Coaching Staff of the fourth-place finish at the NCAA Year. Additionally, King and ’02 second-place Championships, marking its second trip to the BIG EAST finisher Huddle, Notre Dame also awards podium in the past three seasons. Notre went on to capture its first NCAA Great Lakes Dame also had three women’s cross country All- Regional cross country title that season. Americans for the first time ever, as junior The Notre Dame women's cross country Stephanie Madia (23rd), freshman Sunni Olding emergence began in 1999, when the Irish (32nd) and senior Kerry Meagher (34th) all gar- placed first in the initial three meets of the sea- nered their first All-America citations. son and established themselves as a team to On the track last season, Connelly saw two of reckon with in the national picture. A fourth- his pupils run to All-America status at the place finish at the District IV Championships NCAA Outdoor Championships, as Madia (fifth earned the team an at-large berth to the 1999 in the 5,000 meters) and Meagher (10th in 1,500 NCAA championship meet, the second invita- meters) both completed unique cross tion in the program’s history. country/track All-America doubles. The Irish raised the bar again in 2001. Connelly and his athletes also performed Combining veterans Jennifer Handley (Class of very well in both cross country and track during '02) and Megan Johnson with talented rookie the 2003-04 campaign. The women’s cross coun- Lauren King, the Irish climbed to 15th in the try team won its second-straight BIG EAST title, nation. Notre Dame eventually finished fourth placed first in the NCAA Great Lakes Region in the BIG EAST Conference (behind three and capped off its season with a 10th-place fin- highly-ranked teams) and earned an automatic ish at the NCAA Championships. Junior Lauren bid to the NCAA Championship with a second- King and sophomore Molly Huddle earned All- place team finish at the NCAA Great Lakes America honors for the Irish, with 28th and 41st- Regional. place finishes, respectively. In 1993, Connelly and the Irish women’s cross On the track Connelly’s distance athletes country team qualified for their first-ever NCAA combined to garner five All-America awards championships and finished 15th. and five new school records, with Huddle During the track season, Connelly has responsible for many of those marks. helped the women's middle distance and dis- In 2004, Huddle had one of the most prolific tance runners reach NCAA Championship seasons in Irish track and field history. She was competition 22 times since 1996. At the BIG an All-American in the indoor 3,000 and 5,000- EAST level, Connelly has coached six individ- meter runs as well as the outdoor 5,000-meters. Connelly enjoyed one of his finest seasons ual champions, as well as the distance medley In all three of these events she also recorded a with the Irish in 2002-03, as he witnessed his relay team which set a meet record at the 2003 Notre Dame school record. After the collegiate cross country team finish third at the NCAA indoor championship. season ended Connelly accompanied Huddle Championship. The third-place finish marks A 1983 Notre Dame graduate, Connelly ran as she competed in the United States Olympic the highest-ever at the NCAA meet for the both cross country and track for the Irish. Trials, eventually finishing seventh in the 5,000 women's cross country team. On the track, Following his graduation, Connelly served as a meters as the top non-professional/collegian in Connelly guided Huddle (who finished sixth graduate assistant coach under Joe Piane the race. overall at the NCAA cross country meet) to All- while working toward his master’s degree in Connelly also helped Meagher have a break- America honors in the indoor 3,000 meters and business. out track season in 2004. She recorded two All- outdoor 5,000 meters. Huddle capped her sea- In 1986, Connelly moved on to Syracuse as an America honors, earning the awards in the son by running away with the U.S. Junior 3,000- assistant cross country and track coach. During indoor mile and the outdoor 1,500-meter run. Meter Championship at the national meet in his time in northern New York, he coached the She also helped set two indoor school records; Palo Alto, Calif. men’s and women’s middle distance and dis- one in the 4x800 meter relay with Lauren King, Taking over the women's cross country pro- tance runners and managed recruiting duties Megan Johnson, and Katie DeRusso, and one in gram in its infancy, Connelly assumed the reins for both programs. the distance medley relay with Lauren King, of the Irish program in 1988 and has led the A native of Pittsburgh, Pa., Connelly and his Kristen Dodd, and Huddle. team to four consecutive NCAA Championship wife, the former Donna Southerly, are the par- appearances and five in the past six years. The ents of a daughter, Alexandra, and son, Brendon.

UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME 24 Assistant Coaches

(indoor) all set school records in the John Millar past four seasons and the 4x100 group won BIG EAST Assistant Championships in 2003 and 2004. Track & Field Coach The development of the sprint group allowed Notre Dame to cap- ture its first-ever BIG EAST team title Sprints/Hurdles in 2002 at the league indoor meet. Millar and his fellow Irish coaches were named the BIG EAST Indoor Coaching Staff of the Year. Even after losing Grow to graduation in 2002, Millar helped the women's 4x400 team return to both the NCAA indoor and outdoor One of the top sprint and hurdle coaches in meets in 2003. The squad of Tiffany Gunn, the world, John Millar enters his 15th season Kristen Dodd, Ayesha Boyd and Kymia Love at Notre Dame and has developed the Irish just missed out on a repeat All-America effort women's sprint group into a force in the BIG at the outdoor meet, finishing ninth. Boyd, EAST Conference. Millar’s 15-year stay at Dodd and Love joined Tameisha King in the Notre Dame, which has included serving as 4x100 relay at the outdoor meet as well. the speed coach for all Notre Dame athletic The native of Toronto, Canada, took a teams for several years, is the third-longest break from his coaching duties at Notre Dame tenure of any current Irish assistant coach in in early March of 1999 to serve as the head any sport. coach of the USA women’s track squad, which A dedicated coach, recruiter and organizer, earned eight medals at the 1999 World Indoor Millar has developed the Irish sprint/hurdle Championships in Maebashi, Japan. group into one of the best in the Midwest. He Millar is a seasoned veteran of coaching also plays a key role in Notre Dame’s organi- athletes both on the national and interna- zation of four home indoor meets, which are tional levels. During a six-year stint at Texas, widely regarded as the top events during he coached 96 NCAA All-Americans, includ- each annual indoor season. ing 10 national champions, and helped guide Millar recently completed a successful the Lady Longhorns to four national titles. He relationship with hurdler Selim Nurudeen, has followed up by guiding Notre Dame ath- who was a two-time All-American, seven- letes to 16 different All-America finishes since time BIG EAST Champion and 15-time all- 1990. BIG EAST selection during his career at Notre Prior to his position at Texas, Millar was an Dame from 2001-05. Nurudeen also was assistant at Tennessee for two years where named the 2005 BIG EAST Indoor he worked with 1984 Olympic gold-medal Championship Outstanding Track Performer hurdler Benita Fitzgerald-Brown. In addition, after helping the Irish win the team title. he served as an assistant coach on the In his first year with the Irish, Millar began Canadian Olympic track staff and assisted in the process of enhancing the Notre Dame training world-class hurdler Mark McCoy. He sprint corps which culminated in three school also served as USA Track and Field’s national records in the 55 and 200 meters along with women’s hurdle coordinator, coach of the the 4x100 relay. He guided Raghib Ismail to a North team at the 1992 U.S. Olympic Festival second-place finish in the 1991 NCAA indoor and assistant coach of the USA Junior championships and the fastest collegiate 55- National Team at the 1993 Pan-Am Junior meter time in the world. Millar also coached Championships. two-time All-American Allen Rossum to sev- Millar was head coach at York University enth-place finishes in the 55-meter dash at in Toronto from 1981 to 1983 where he served the 1995 and 1997 NCAA indoor track champi- as chief director for both the men’s and onships and hurdler Errol Williams was an women’s programs in track and field. He led All-American in both indoor (55-meter hur- the school to a Canadian national champi- dles) and outdoor track (110-meter hurdles) in onship in 1981. 1998. and outdoor meets during her four years on He also traveled to the 2000 Olympic Millar has also developed a strong group the team. Games in Sydney, Australia, as a member of in the women's sprint lane. Currently, he has Millar's sprint group made a huge splash the Canadian track and field coaching staff. worked closely with Maryann Erigha and on the national scene in 2002. The women's Millar, a graduate of Western Ontario and Okechi Ogbuokiri, both of whom won their 4x400 relay unit consisting of Ayesha Boyd, master's degree recipient from Arizona State, first individual BIG EAST titles in 2005 (Erigha Kristen Dodd, Grow and Kymia Love quali- and his wife, the former Lynn Haan, have a in the outdoor 100 meters, and Ogbuokiri in fied for the NCAA Indoor Championships, 19-year-old son, James, who is a sophomore the indoor 400 meters). Both sprinters went on becoming the first Irish women's sprint relay cross country and middle distance runner at to qualify for the NCAA Championships for to achieve that distinction. In the outdoor sea- Notre Dame. the first time in their respective careers. son, the same group took a step further, earn- Prior to his current proteges, Millar helped ing All-America cultivate '02 graduate Liz Grow into Notre honors by finishing fifth in the nation at the Dame's first women's All-American sprinter, NCAA Championships in Baton Rouge, La. as Grow was a fixture at the NCAA indoor Millar's 4x100, 4x400 (outdoor) and 4x400

2005-06 CROSS COUNTRY/TRACK & FIELD 25 Assistant Coaches

A veteran with two decades of coaching experience under his belt, Scott Winsor Scott Winsor begins his 18th year as an assistant coach with the Notre Assistant Dame track and field program, work- Track & Field Coach ing directly with the Irish jumps group. Widely recognized as one of the top jumps coaches in the country, Winsor Jumps focuses his efforts on grooming Notre Dame’s participants in the high jump, long jump, triple jump and pole vault, as well as the multi-event specialists. Winsor’s record of success is an impressive one. During his Prior to his arrival in South tenure, he has helped guide Bend in 1988, Winsor spent two Irish competitors to 13 All- years (1983-84) as the varsity track America certificates, 21 BIG coach at Fulton High School in EAST championships and 93 Middleton, Mich., as well as one all-conference honors. In addi- season (1987) as an assistant at tion, Winsor’s pupils have qual- his alma mater, Loras College in ified for the NCAA Dubuque, Iowa. Championships 19 times, finish- A 1987 graduate of Loras with a ing among the top 10 in the bachelor’s degree in physical edu- country on 10 occasions. cation (K-12), Winsor was a stand- What’s more, the Notre Dame out performer on the track squad, record book is covered with specializing in the jumping marks set by Irish athletes events. He was the team’s captain working under Winsor’s watch- for his final two seasons, helping ful eye. In fact, 24 school records Loras win the 1987 Iowa have been set by athletes he Intercollegiate Athletic has coached, including 16 of the Conference title. For the past 20 18 current record holders in the years, he also has held the school jumps and multi-events at Notre record in the outdoor high jump Dame, as well as the current with a 7-0 leap. BIG EAST standard bearer in Winsor went on to earn his mas- the women’s indoor pole vault, ter’s of science in administration 2003 graduate Jaime Volkmer. degree from Notre Dame in 1995. Some of Winsor’s more notable proteges on to the first of her three All-America honors the men’s side have been two-time long jump (also in 1999 and 2000), making her the first All-American Marshaun West, as well as 1999 Notre Dame woman to accomplish that feat. indoor pole vault All-American Mike Brown, In addition, Engelhardt was the first Irish 1993 NCAA indoor high jump qualifier Todd female high jumper to clear six feet and she Herman, and Godwin Mbagwu, the went on to compete at the 2000 U.S. Olympic Outstanding Field Performer at the 2004 BIG Trials, where she finished tied for seventh. EAST Outdoor Championship, which was Another high jumper, Stacey Cowan, is won by Notre Dame. among Winsor’s current trainees. Cowan has As for the women, Winsor helped 2003 qualified for the NCAA Championships each graduate Tameisha King to long jump All- of the past three years, earning All-America America honors four times, including top- honors in 2004 with a 10th-place finish in the eight finishes in both the indoor and outdoor indoor high jump. Additionally, Cowan holds events in ’03. King is now considered one of the school records in the indoor high jump the top long jumpers in the United States and (1.82m) and heptathlon (4,576 points) and she is in prime position for a berth on the 2008 U.S. has earned six all-BIG EAST plaques. Olympic Team. Winsor’s achievements have not gone Winsor’s guidance also helped Volkmer unnoticed. He and the Notre Dame staff have evolve as the pioneer in women’s pole vault earned six BIG EAST Coaching Staff of the at Notre Dame, winning seven all-BIG EAST Year awards, while helping lead the Irish to citations and becoming the first Irish female six conference championships. vaulter to clear the 13-foot barrier. In addition to his coaching responsibili- Thanks to Winsor, Notre Dame broke new ties, Winsor designed the new Outdoor ground in 1997 as Jennifer Engelhardt Throwing Facility at the University. He also is became the first member of the Irish women’s actively involved with all aspects of recruit- track and field team to qualify for the NCAA ing for the Irish track and field program, and Championships in a field event. Engelhardt he plays an integral role in the event man- placed ninth in the indoor high jump en route agement for all home track and cross country meets at Notre Dame.

UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME 26 Assistant Coaches B.J. Linnenbrink

Assistant Track & Field Coach

Throws

One of the top young track and field throws Linnenbrink and the Irish throwers will coaches in the country, B.J. Linnenbrink is in his look to take the next step in 2005-06 and qual- fourth season at Notre Dame. Since joining the ify for the NCAA Championships, with return- Irish program just after the beginning of the ing all-conference selections Meghan Horn 2002-03 season, Linnenbrink has coached 10 all- and Kyle Annen, and ‘05 Mideast Regional BIG EAST Conference selections, including 2005 qualifier Garet Koxlien leading the way. BIG EAST hammer throw champion, Chip A 2002 graduate of Florida State, Roberts, and he has been a part of three BIG Linnenbrink finished his career as the number EAST Coaching Staffs of the Year (men’s indoor two all-time hammer thrower in Seminole his- and outdoor - 2003; men’s indoor - 2005). tory. He earned all-Atlantic Coast Conference A former NCAA and USATF championship honors in '02 as well. qualifier in the weight throw at Florida State, Before his two-year stint at FSU, Linnenbrink also has seen eight of his pupils Linnenbrink dominated at the junior college advance to the NCAA Mideast Regional during level, earning two NJCAA All-American the past three years, including five during the awards at Johnson County Community 2005 season alone. In addition, under College in Overland, Park, Kan. In his two Linnenbrink’s tutelage, Kate Duman extended years at Johnson, Linnenbrink collected seven the school javelin record in 2004, a year after all-Jayhawk East conference awards. Derek Goguen qualified for the USATF Junior Linnenbrink graduated from Florida State Championships in the same event. with a bachelor of science in physical educa- tion. He and his wife, the former Monica Hardy, were married July 31, 2004.

The Notre Dame coaching staff runs two of the top meets in the country each season, the Meyo Invitational and the Alex Wilson Invitational.

2005-06 CROSS COUNTRY/TRACK & FIELD 27 Support Staff Allison Baranay Brigitte Sanchez

Student Manager Student Manager

Allison Baranay is in her second year as Brigitte Sanchez is now in her second a student manager with the Notre Dame season as a manager for the Irish cross cross country and track and field programs. country and track and field teams. She cur- Baranay is a sophomore enrolled in Notre rently is enrolled in Notre Dame’s College Dame’s Mendoza College of Business, of Science as a science-business major, and where she majors in marketing with a she hopes to attend medical school and minor in education, schooling and society. pursue her interests in either pediatrics or A native of South Bend, Baranay is a 2004 internal medicine. graduate of Marian High School in nearby Sanchez hails from Portage, Ind., and Mishawaka, where she held numerous graduated from nearby Andrean High leadership positions and was active in com- School. While at Andrea, she competed on munity service. She also played soccer for both the soccer and track squads. Justin Kempe the Knights before an injury led her to become the team manager. That experience Assistant Cross Country led her to pursue a similar position upon & Distance Coaching Staff entering Notre Dame.

Justin Kempe begins his first year at Notre Dame as a member of the Irish assistant coaching staff. He will focus his efforts on Pham hails from Houston, Texas, where aiding head coach Joe Piane with Notre Hy Pham he was a 2005 graduate of Cinco Ranch Dame’s men’s cross country and distance High School. While there, he spent three units. Student Manager years as a manager for the basketball and Kempe spent the past two years on the track teams, helping win a pair of state cross country/track and field staff at Ohio titles in track during his final two years. University, helping the Bobcat men’s cross In addition. Pham was heavily involved country team improve from eighth to fourth with other extracurricular activities during in the Mid-American Conference and place Hy Pham starts his first year as a student his high school career. Most notably, he 13th at the 2004 NCAA Great Lakes manager with the Irish cross country and served multiple terms as his class presi- Regional. track and field teams. dent, spent time as an intern for Texas State Kempe also attended OU as an under- Pham is a freshman at Notre Dame, Representative Glenn Hegar, and partici- graduate, running cross country and track enrolled in the school’s First Year of Studies pated in various choral and theater produc- under the legendary Elmore “Mo” Banton program. He plans to major in chemistry tions. from 1999-2003. He served as team captain and pre-professional studies and also is Pham was born on April 30, 1987 in during his final season and qualified for the active in the Navy ROTC program at Notre Houston, Texas, and is the older of two chil- ‘03 NCAA Mideast Regional in the 3,000- Dame. dren. meter steeplechase. Kempe earned his bachelor’s degree in education from Ohio in 2003. He went on to receive his master’s degree in coaching education from OU in 2005. Born Sept. 29, 1980 in Youngstown, Ohio, Kempe now makes his home in South Bend.

Student managers (from left) Allison Baranay, Hy Phan and Brigitte Sanchez.

UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME 28 The Student-Athletes

Senior Stephanie Madia was one of two Notre Dame student-athletes to earn All-American honors in both cross country and track during the 2004-05 season. The

Athletes Stacey Cowan

5-8 • Senior Jumps/Multiple Events

Ferndale, Wash. Ferndale H.S.

All-American Indoor High Jump (2004)

AS A JUNIOR: One of the team’s top high jumpers along with Emily Loomis … also the team’s top pentathlete in the indoor season … performed well at the Notre Dame Invitational, high jumping 1.80m to win the event and tying for the second-best mark in school history … stepped up at the BIG EAST indoor meet to earn all-BIG EAST accolades in two events … placed third in the pentathlon with 3,554 points and took second in the high jump with a height of 1.77m (5-9 3/4) … qualified for the NCAA Indoor Championships in the high jump … fin- ished in a tie for 19th place at the national meet … tied for first in the high jump at the outdoor Stanford Invitational (1.78m, 5-10) … earned more all-BIG EAST honors at the outdoor meet, finishing second in the high jump with a 1.75m (5-8 3/4) effort … quali- fied for the NCAA Mideast Regional in the high jump … earned a bid to the NCAA Championships by winning a second- place jump off and clearing 1.76m (5-9 1/4) … finished 29th at the NCAA Championship with a 1.70m (5-7) leap … named to the 2005 ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America Women's Track and Field/Cross Country Third Team. AS A SOPHOMORE: Broke through for her first All-America honor by finishing former … developed into a threat for the finishing 10th by clearing 5-9 3/4 (1.77m) … 10th in the high jump at the 2004 NCAA BIG EAST Championship in the high jump, competed in the heptathlon and high jump Indoor Championship … the team’s top finishing second in the indoor meet (5-11 during the 2004 outdoor season … took first high jump, pentathlon and heptathlon per- 1/2, 1.82m) and third at the outdoor meet (5- place in the high jump at the Spring 9 1/4, 1.76m) … won the pentathlon compe- Opener (5-6, 1.68m) … qualified for the tition at the Notre Dame Invitational with NCAA Mideast Regional in the high jump, Career Track Bests 3,437 points … just missed all-BIG EAST finishing seventh overall by clearing 5-8 Indoor honors at the league indoor meet in the 1/4 (1.74m) … ended up 10th in the BIG High Jump ...... 1.82m (5-11 1/2) pentathlon, finishing fourth with 3,581 EAST heptathlon competition with a sea- 2004 BIG EAST Championship points … won indoor high jump competi- son-high 4,576 points … took fourth in the Pentathlon...... 3,581 points tions four times during the 2004 season heptathlon at the Tom Botts Invitational 2004 BIG EAST Championship (Alex Wilson Invitational, Notre Dame (4,287 points). Outdoor Indoor Opener, Blue and Gold Invitational AS A FRESHMAN: One of the best High Jump ...... 1.78m (5-10) and Central Michigan Opener) … also won all-around athletes on the team ... filled in 2004 Georgia Tech Invitational Heptathlon ...... 4,675 points the 60-meter hurdles at the Blue and Gold as the Irish multi-event competitor and 2003 BIG EAST Championship Invitational … moved on to the NCAA qualified for the NCAA outdoor champi- Indoor Championship in the high jump, onship in the high jump ... combines with

UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME 30 teammates Emily Loomis and Jennifer Kearney to provide Notre Dame with one The of the top high jump rosters in the BIG Athletes EAST Conference ... finished in the top four HIGH SCHOOL AND PER- in four different high jump competitions SONAL: Four-year letter winner during the indoor season ... just missed out in both track and field (high jump) on two all-BIG EAST honors at the league and swimming at Ferndale indoor meet, finishing fourth in the high (Wash.) High School … four-time jump (5-8, 1.73m) and fourth in the pen- league and district champion and tathlon (3,315 points) ... won the pentathlon two-time state titlist in high jump competition at the Meyo Invitational, fin- … ranked as high as fourth in ishing with a career best 3,419 points ... nation in high jump during soph- exploded on the national high jump scene omore year … went undefeated in high at the Baldy Castillo to begin the 2003 out- jump during her final three seasons … set door season, clearing 5-8 3/4 to win the school and state meet records in high competition ... that jump qualified her for jump (5-10) … placed second in heptathlon the inaugural NCAA regional meet, where at Junior Olympics regional meet … also she finished 4th, clearing 5-8 3/4 again ... set school records in 100-meter hurdles posted several noteworthy performances (14.63) and 300-meter hurdles (45.9) … while preparing for the outdoor hep- served as two-year team captain for track tathlon ... won the 100-meter hurdles at the squad … was captain of swim team as a Boilermaker Open in 14.67 ... finished fifth senior … third of four children … born Oct. in the long jump at the Boiler Open ... 6, 1983 in Bellingham, Wash. … two-time earned first all-BIG EAST honor of her member of the BIG EAST Academic All- career at the league outdoor meet, finish- Star team (2002-03, 2004-05) ... enrolled in ing third in the heptathlon with 4,675 the College of Science with a pre-profes- points ... ended up sixth in the BIG EAST sional studies major … earned Dean’s List outdoor high jump competition. recognition during fall 2004 term.

Meghan Horn

6-0 • Senior Throws

Upper Sandusky, Ohio Upper Sandusky H.S.

AS A JUNIOR: Improved all of her school history … had an excellent outdoor second-best in school history, while her throws and served as Notre Dame’s top campaign … garnered a first- and two sec- discus effort stands as the fifth-best … also threat in each of her events … established ond-place finishes at the Indy Relays competed in the hammer throw where she a new career best in the indoor weight while competing in the shot put (first, finished sixth with a 47.19m (154-10) toss … throw early on in the season, tossing 13.96m), discus (second, 41.47m), and ham- qualified for the NCAA Mideast Regional 15.23m (49-11 3/4) in a fourth-place effort at mer throw (second, 45.64m) … set three in the shot put and discus … finished 14th the Central Michigan Opener … improved new career bests at the Hillsdale Gina in the shot (45-0 1/2, 13.73m) and 10th in the her shot put career best at the Meyo Relays … threw 14.35m (47-1) in the shot for discus (144-0, 43.90m). Invitational, taking fifth with a 13.97m (45- fifth, 45.64m (149-9) in the discus for fifth, AS A SOPHOMORE: Continued her 10) toss … earned all-BIG EAST honors at and 47.89m (157-1) in the hammer throw for role as the top women’s thrower on the the indoor league meet with a second- 17th … earned a pair of all-BIG EAST hon- Irish roster … carried a heavy load for the place performance in the shot put … her ors at the outdoor league meet … placed throws group, including qualifying for 14.85m (48-8.75) effort was also a career third in the shot put with a 14.46m (47-5 1/4), three different events at the BIG EAST out- best in the event and a Notre Dame school career-best effort and third in the discus door meet … best all-around meet of the record … after the indoor season owned with a 45.69m (149-11), career-best mark … 2004 indoor season was the Notre Dame five of the top 10 shot put performances in the BIG EAST shot put mark ranks as the Invitational, in which she finished second

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AS A FRESH- HIGH SCHOOL AND PERSONAL: MAN: Carried the Four-year letterwinner in track and field torch as the lone (shot put and discus) and basketball, and Irish female throw three-year letter winner in volleyball at specialist on the Upper Sandusky (Ohio) High School … roster ... competed undefeated in shot put during regular-sea- well during her son competition throughout her high rookie season, qual- school career … won four conference titles ifying for both BIG and three regional and state champi- EAST meets in two onships … four-time all-conference pick different imple- and three-time all-state selection in track ments ... highlight of and field … three-time state champion in the season came at shot put (2000-02) … finished fifth in shot the BIG EAST out- put and discus at 2000 USATF Junior door meet, where Nationals, earning All-America honors … she finished fifth in set school records in both shot put (44-11 the shot put with a 1/2) and discus (140-0) … also a three-time toss of 45-5 1/4 all-conference honoree as a post in bas- (13.85m) ... began the ketball … averaged 15.6 points, 9.0 indoor season with rebounds, and 2.5 steals per game in her a second-place fin- career … two-time all-conference selec- ish in the shot put at tion in volleyball as a middle hitter … led the Central league in total blocks during her final two Michigan Opener, seasons … member of National Honor then won the shot Society … middle of three children … born against Western Jan. 21, 1984 in Marion, Ohio … enrolled in Michigan/Ball State the College of Arts and Letters as a sociol- and Michigan State ogy major. ... placed fourth in the Meyo Invitational in the shot put ... best weight in the weight throw (44-0, 13.41m) and fifth throw effort of the indoor season came in the shot put (41-8 3/4, 12.72m) … quali- at the Meyo Invitational, a 13.89m toss fied for the BIG EAST Indoor ... qualified for the BIG EAST indoor Championship in the shot put and scored meet in both the shot put and weight points toward the team effort by finishing throw ... finished eighth in the shot put eighth (44-10 1/4, 13.67m) … competed in (13.82m) and 13th in the weight throw ... the shot put, hammer throw and discus at carried over into the shot put and dis- the BIG EAST Outdoor Championship … cus during the outdoor season ... qual- scored points in both the shot put (eighth, ified for the U.S. Junior Nationals with 44-2, 13.46m) and discus (fourth, 149-6, a 13.85m (45-5 1/4) shot put effort at the 45.59m) … also finished 19th in the ham- BIG EAST outdoor meet ... won the shot mer throw … won the discus competition put competition at the Boilermaker at the Indy Relays with a 148-2 (45.16m) Open with a 13.60m (44-7 1/2) measure- measurement. ment ... also competed well at the Boilermaker Open in the discus, post- Career Track Bests ing a season-best 43.13m (141-6) meas- Indoor urement ... qualified for both Shot Put ...... 14.85m (48-8 3/4) implements at the BIG EAST outdoor 2005 BIG EAST Championship meet, finishing fifth in the shot put and Weight Throw...... 15.23m (49-11 3/4) ninth in the discus. 2005 Central Michigan Opener Outdoor 2005 BIG EAST Championship Discus ...... 45.69m (149-11) 2005 BIG EAST Championship Hammer Throw ...... 47.89m (157-1) 2005 Hillsdale Gina Relays

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Laura Athletes Huarte

5-8 • Senior Pole Vault/Javelin

Shingle Springs, Calif. St. Francis H.S.

BIG EAST Champion Outdoor Pole Vault (2004)

AS A JUNIOR: Did not com- selection in soccer … helped lead soccer pete during the 2005 track and field team to eighth in national rankings as a sen- season. ior … comes from an athletic background … AS A SOPHOMORE: Limited uncle, John, was a legendary football player during the 2004 indoor season due at Notre Dame, winning the 1964 Heisman to an injury, but responded during Trophy before graduating in ‘65 … father, Jim, the outdoor campaign to claim her played football at St. Mary’s (Calif.) College first BIG EAST Championship in … sister, Sarah, was a standout golfer at UC the pole vault … won four of the Berkeley, winning medalist honors at ’04 five pole vault competitions she NCAA Championships … cousin, Dave, is a entered during the 2004 season … ’61 graduate of Notre Dame … cousin, David took home victories in the Blue and Gallivan, is a ’91 graduate of Notre Dame … Gold Invitational (indoor), the BIG brother, Bryan, is a ’99 graduate of Notre EAST Championship, Purdue Dame … youngest of four children … born Invitational and Spring Opener Dec. 14, 1983 in Placerville, Calif. … two-year (all three outdoor) … picked up the member of the BIG EAST Academic All-Star javelin late in the outdoor season Team (2002-03, 2004-05) ... enrolled in the and just missed nabbing all-BIG Mendoza College of Business as a marketing EAST honors, finishing fourth with major … earned Dean’s List honors during a toss of 139-8 (42.59m) … also fin- spring 2005 term. ished second in the javelin at the Tom Botts Invitational (126-11, 38.69m) … top efforts of the season Career Track Bests in the pole vault came at the BIG Indoor EAST outdoor meet (12-3 1/2, 3.75m) Pole Vault...... 3.66m (12-0) and 11-9 (3.58m) during the indoor 2003 vs. Western Michigan and Ball State season at the Alex Wilson Outdoor Invitational. Pole Vault...... 3.75m (12-3 1/2) AS A FRESHMAN: Flashed 2004 BIG EAST Championship the potential to replace school- 2004 Purdue Invitational record holder, BIG EAST Javelin...... 42.59m (139-8) Champion and 2003 graduate 2004 BIG EAST Championship Jaime Volkmer in the pole vault ... ended up qualifying and scoring in both BIG EAST Championships during the 2003 season ... posted a victory in her first home pole vault competition, clearing 12-0 (3.66m) place first against Western Michigan and Ball State ... took third place in the Meyo Invitational, clearing 11-7 3/4 (3.55m) ... just missed all-BIG EAST honors at the league indoor meet, finishing ketball … ranked 38th in the nation in pole fourth (11-5 3/4) ... appeared only twice during vault as a senior … won conference and sub- the 2003 outdoor season, finishing third at the sectional titles and was named all-city in Tom Botts Invitational (11-6 1/4) and placing 2002 … set school record and personal best in sixth (11-5 3/4) at the BIG EAST outdoor meet. pole vault (11-9, 3.58m) and also established HIGH SCHOOL AND PERSONAL: league and sub-sectional meet records in Four-sport letter winner, competing in pole event … also was two-time conference cham- vault, soccer, tennis and junior varsity bas- pion in tennis … two-time all-conference

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Athletes Molly Huddle AS A JUNIOR: One of the fron- trunners on sixth-ranked Notre Dame 5-4 • Senior women’s cross country team … run- ner-up at the Notre Dame Invitational, Cross Country/Distance covering the Irish home course in 16:31 and helping the team to a third- Elmira, N.Y. place finish … had a third-place Notre Dame H.S. showing at the Pre-National meet (6,000 meters, 20:29) … earned all-BIG EAST hon- ors at the BIG EAST Championship, finish- ing fifth in 20:16 … battled injury in the latter part of the season, skipping the NCAA Great National meet … claimed her Lakes Regional … showed her commitment second straight all-BIG EAST fin- to the team by running at the NCAA ish at the conference cross coun- Championship despite not being fully try championship, finishing third healthy … ran 21:13 for 40th place, helping to lead Notre Dame to its second the team to a fourth-place finish and its sec- consecutive team title … won the ond team trophy in three years … earned NCAA Great Lakes Regional all-BIG EAST honors at the indoor BIG EAST individual title (after finishing meet with a second-place effort in the 5,000 second in ’02) and led Notre meters (16:12.17) … did not compete in the Dame to the meet title once outdoor track and field season due to injury. again … affected by a virus dur- AT THE 2004 U.S. OLYMPIC TRI- ing the NCAA Championship, ALS: Established herself as one of the top finishing 41st overall to earn her talents in collegiate distance running by second straight All-America finishing seventh in the finals of the 5,000 honor and help Notre Dame fin- meters at the 2004 U.S. Olympic Trials in ish 10th – the team’s second con- Sacramento, Calif. … posted the top finish secutive top-10 finish at the by a collegiate/non-professional athlete in national meet … finished no the field … finished the race in 15:37.92 after lower than third (save for the running 15:47.15 in the preliminaries. NCAA Championship) in each AS A SOPHOMORE: Became the most race she competed during the decorated female athlete (in terms of All- 2004 indoor season … won the America honors) in Notre Dame history in 3,000 meters in a school-record just her second season … brought home four and personal-best 9:08.60 at the All-America honors (cross country, indoor Meyo Invitational … claimed her 3,000 meters, indoor 5,000 meters, outdoor first BIG EAST individual track 5,000 meters) to push her career total to and field title in the 5,000 meters, seven … the 2003 NCAA Great Lakes running a school-record 15:57.22 Regional Cross Country Runner of the Year … earned all-BIG EAST honors after winning her first regional individual with a third-place finish in the title (and helping the Irish finish first as a 3,000 meters at the conference indoor meet … helped the dis- tance medley relay team (Lauren Career Track Bests King, Kerry Meagher, Kristen Indoor Dodd) qualify for the NCAA Mile ...... 4:41.91 Championship with a 11:07.94, 2004 Alex Wilson Invitational second-place effort at the Meyo 3,000m ...... 9:08.60 team) … finished third at the NCAA outdoor Invitational … was spectacular at the 2004 Meyo Invitational meet in the 5,000 meters, matching JoAnna NCAA Indoor Championship in 5,000m ...... 15:57.22 Deeter (10,000 meters, 1999) for the highest 2004 BIG EAST Championship Fayetteville, Ark., finishing third in the 5,000 individual finish for a Notre Dame female Outdoor meters (15:58.42) and seventh in the 3,000 athlete at an NCAA track and field meet … 1,500m ...... 4:20.47 meters (9:13.67) … became the first Irish 2004 Georgia Tech Invitational won her second consecutive NCAA Mideast women’s athlete to earn two All-America 3,000m ...... 9:19.52 Regional 5,000-meter crown and has the dis- honors at the NCAA indoor meet … focused 2003 USATF Junior Nationals tinction of winning the first two ever com- on the 5,000 meters during the 2004 outdoor 5,000m ...... 15:32.55 peted (the NCAA switched to regional season … began the season with a school- 2004 Mount SAC Relays competition for the outdoor season in 2003) record effort at the Mount SAC Relays, fin- … began the 2003 cross country season with ishing eighth in 15:32.55 … moved on to a victory in the Notre Dame Invitational finish first in the 5,000 meters at the BIG (17:12) … moved on to finish 10th in the Pre- EAST Championship (her second individual

UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME 34 Honors & Awards The Athletes U.S Junior National Champion 3,000 meters (2003) Alto, Calif., crossing the finish All-American line in 9:19.52, 25 seconds ahead Cross Country (2002, 2003) of her nearest competitor. Indoor 3,000 meters (2003, 2004) HIGH SCHOOL AND PER- Indoor 5,000 meters (2004) SONAL: Twice earned All- Outdoor 5,000 meters (2003, 2004) America honors in outdoor track and field (one and two mile runs), NCAA Mideast Regional Champion 5,000 meters (2003, 2004) while also garnering All- America recognition in indoor track and BIG EAST Champion field and cross country as a senior … did Indoor 5,000 meters (2004) not start running cross country until her Outdoor 5,000 meters (2004) senior year because high school did not Distance Medley Relay (2003) have a team … ran as one-runner team in 2001 with her father as coach … was unde- teammate Lauren King) to earn feated in cross country during regular sea- all-BIG EAST honors ... top finisher son, winning conference, regional and state for the team at the Great Lakes titles … set 12 course records … finished Regional, finishing second ... also fourth at 2001 Foot Locker National Cross the top team finisher at the NCAA Country Championships … two-time out- Championship, finishing sixth door track conference, regional and state overall to earn her first career All- champion … won Nike Indoor Classic (one America honor ... the sixth-place mile) and adidas Outdoor Championships effort is the second-highest at the (two mile) as a senior, setting a meet record NCAA Championship (JoAnna in the former event (4:46) … established new Deeter finished third in 1996) ... national high school record in outdoor two- won her first collegiate track and mile run (10:01) … owns outdoor 3,000-meter field race, placing first in the 3,000 record for New York State (9:21) … a four-sport meters against Western Michigan standout at Notre Dame High School in and Ball State ... set the school Elmira, N.Y. … also lettered her junior year in record in the 3,000 meters at the basketball and soccer … member of Meyo Invitational, finishing sec- National Honor Society … father, Robert, is a ond in 9:14.33 ... just missed out on 1969 Notre Dame graduate … uncle, Tim, is a her first individual BIG EAST title 1976 Notre Dame graduate … third of four in the 3,000 meters at the league children … born Aug. 31, 1984 in Elmira, N.Y. indoor meet, finishing second in … enrolled in the College of Science as a 9:18.24 ... member of the BIG EAST biological sciences major … earned place on title of the year) and the NCAA Mideast Champion distance medley relay team, 2004-05 BIG EAST Academic All-Star Team. Regional … took third place in the 5,000 which won in a meet record 11:24.45, along meters at the NCAA outdoor meet, finishing with teammates Lauren King, Tricia Floyd Career Cross Country Results the race in 16:25.44 … also competed in the and Megan Johnson ... moved on to the NCAA 2004 1,500 meters during the outdoor season and Championship in the 3,000 meters, earning Notre Dame Invitational ...... 2nd contributed points toward the team effort at All-America honors with a ninth-place finish Pre-National ...... 3rd the BIG EAST outdoor meet by finishing sixth (9:20.30) ... concentrated on the 5,000 meters BIG EAST Championship...... 5th … ran a personal-best 4:20.47 in the 1,500 during most of the 2003 outdoor season ... NCAA Championship ...... 40th meters at the Georgia Tech Invitational. placed fifth in the 5,000 meters at the Mount AS A FRESHMAN: Enjoyed one of the SAC Relays, running a season-best 15:36.95 ... 2003 Notre Dame Invitational ...... 1st top rookie campaigns in Notre Dame competed in the 1,500 meters at the Stanford Pre-National ...... 10th Invitational, finishing sixth in 4:20.50 ... won women’s cross country/track and field history BIG EAST Championship ...... 3rd ... 2003 U.S. Junior National 3,000-meter cham- her first individual BIG EAST title at the Great Lakes Regional ...... 1st pion ... earned three All-American certifi- league outdoor meet, placing first in the 5,000 NCAA Championship ...... 41st cates during her freshman season ... key meters (15:58.51) ... followed up with a victory member of Notre Dame’s third-place effort at in the 5,000 meters at the inaugural NCAA 2002 the 2002 NCAA Cross Country Mideast Regional, out-running an elite field Notre Dame Invitational...... 4th Championship, the highest finish in to finish in 16:12.81 ... made the trip to the Pre-National ...... 7th women’s cross country history ... began the NCAA Championship for the 5,000 meters BIG EAST Championship ...... 2nd cross country season with a team-best and finished third in her preliminary heat Great Lakes Regional ...... 2nd NCAA Championship ...... 6th fourth-place effort at the Notre Dame (16:18.21) ... ended up fourth in the finals of Invitational ... finished seventh in the Pre- the 5,000 meters, claiming her third All- National meet ... helped the Irish women win America certificate of the year in 15:55.90 ... their first BIG EAST cross country champi- ran away with the U.S. Junior National 3,000- onship with a second-place effort (behind meter title at the yearly competition in Palo

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Athletes Loryn King

5-6 • Senior Cross Country/Distance

Arlington Heights, Ill. St. Viator H.S.

AS A JUNIOR: Ran 19:20 for 28th place Michigan State (5:10.69) and at the National Catholic Championship … fourth in the 3,000 meters vs. contributed to the Notre Dame women’s Western Michigan and Ball State cross country team’s third-place finish at (10:08.40). the Notre Dame Invitational … finished HIGH SCHOOL AND PER- 121st in a time of 18:35 … did not compete SONAL: Top young cross coun- in the 2005 track season due to an injury. try and distance runner despite AS A SOPHOMORE: Did not compete not competing at high school during the 2003 cross country season and level until her junior year … two- 2004 track and field season due to an time all-state, all-city and all- injury. conference selection at St. Viator AS A FRESHMAN: Quickly devel- High School in Arlington oped into one of the top five cross country Heights, Ill. … also won confer- runners on the 2002 women’s squad ... ence and regional titles in her began the season by finishing ninth in the final two years, placing second National Catholic Invitational ... ended up in state meet as a junior and 37th in the competitive Notre Dame third as a senior … was unde- Invitational ... made the trip to the Pre- feated in every race as a junior National meet and ran well in the open with the exception of the state race, finishing seventh overall ... flirted meet … also was a standout soc- with all-BIG EAST honors at the league cer player at St. Viator, lettering cross country championship, finishing all four years as a forward … 23rd overall while helping the Irish win named all-state in soccer three their first team title ... ended up 25th at the times, and won all-city and all- Great Lakes Regional, helping the Irish conference honors four times … claim yet another team title ... fourth on the tied state record for single-sea- team at the NCAA Championship, finish- son assists (36), finishing with 96 ing 76th overall ... saw limited action dur- goals and 94 assists in her career ing the 2003 track and field season, … member of U.S. Olympic running two events during the indoor sea- Development Midwest Regional son ... finished fifth in the mile against Soccer Team from 1998-2001 … member of National Honor Society … father, Kevin, played Career Cross Country Results football at Loyola (Ill.) University 2004 … younger of two children … National Catholic ...... 28th born March 30, 1984 in Chicago, Notre Dame Invitational ...... 121st Ill. … enrolled in the College of Pre-National ...... 69th* Arts and Letters as a double major in psychology and film, 2002 television and theater … earned National Catholic ...... 9th Dean’s List honors in both semes- Notre Dame Invitational ...... 37th ters during 2004-05 academic Pre-National ...... 7th* year … named to ’04-05 BIG EAST BIG EAST Championship...... 23rd Academic All-Star Team. Great Lakes Regional ...... 25th NCAA Championship ...... 76th * - indicates open race

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Emily Athletes Loomis in season opener vs. Loyola- Chicago … also had eight digs and 6-1 • Senior six blocks (four solo) for a team-high High Jump 20 points vs. the Ramblers … had 12 kills, seven blocks and four digs for 17 points vs. Fresno State … finished Fort Wayne, Ind. with 1.22 block average in Cal Poly Bishop Luers H.S. Invitational, which ranked sixth among tournament leaders, while BIG EAST Champion four solo blocks were most by any player at Indoor High Jump (2003) the event … had 11 kills, six digs and five blocks against Michigan … notched 14 kills while only making one error for a .361 hitting percentage against Seton Hall … had 13 kills on a team-best .333 hitting in five games against Brigham Young … notched 10 kills on .304 hitting vs. St. John’s, and 11 kills on .391 attack percentage at Georgetown … led Irish in kills (nine), hitting percentage (.250) and points (11) at Villanova … key part of Notre Dame’s sweep of league rival Pittsburgh, ending with 13 kills on .344 hitting … posted 12 kills against College in BIG EAST semifinals … had eight kills on .333 hitting to go with five blocks in sweep of UC Irvine … in 37 games (10 matches) as middle blocker, averaged 2.30 kills on .181 hitting to go with 1.41 digs, 1.05 blocks and 3.03 points. AS A JUNIOR: Did not compete during the 2004 track and field season to concentrate on volleyball. AS A JUNIOR MEMBER OF THE VOLLEYBALL TEAM: One of Notre Dame’s top offensive threats for the second straight season … named honorable mention All-America by the American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) … also gar- nered all-Northeast Region honors from the AVCA and was a second-team all-BIG EAST AS A SENIOR: Returned to Irish track fourth in Division I in team blocking (3.37) … selection … started all 30 matches and team to form half of outstanding high jump- led team with career-high 34 solo blocks after played in all 109 games … played at opposite ing duo with teammate Stacey Cowan … par- having just 20 in ‘03 … major part of Irish in every match before moving to middle ticipated in two meets during indoor season ranking second in nation in total block solos blocker for the final two contests … led team … best indoor performance was sixth-place (117) … had eight or more kills 18 times in 20 in kills (387/3.55) for second year in a row and showing at Meyo Invitational where she matches at outside hitter (played first 10 was second in points (472.5/4.33) … on Nov. 29 jumped 1.70 meters (5-7) … progressed matches at middle blocker), averaging 3.17 at Stanford, became the 14th player in Irish steadily during outdoor track season, eventu- kills on .263 hitting to go along with 1.21 history to register 1,000 career kills … set two ally earning trip to NCAA Championships … blocks and 3.93 points … ranked ninth in BIG Notre Dame records: consecutive matches jumped well at Mount SAC Relays, tying for EAST in blocking … had 10+ kills in 15 with 10+ kills (21) and most kills in a match fourth place with jump of 1.67 meters (5-5 3/4) matches … turned in best match of career at without an error (24) … the former included … participated at highly-competitive Drake Long Beach State in regular-season finale, the last six matches of 2002 and the initial 15 Relays, taking sixth with effort of 1.70 meters slamming career-high 29 kills on season-high of ‘03 … latter Irish record came on .571 hitting (5-7) … qualified for outdoor BIG EAST meet, .414 hitting to go with six blocks (three solo) in three games vs. Valparaiso … previous finishing seventh in league … stepped up at for career-best 33.5 points in leading Irish to record was 23 by Jaimie Lee in 1995 … missed NCAA Mideast Regional with then-career- first-ever win vs. 49ers … kill total was most ND record for kills in a three-game match by best jump of 1.76 meters (5-9 3/4), good for tie by an ND player since 2000 and 11 better than one … a major reason Notre Dame led the for second place and spot in national cham- previous season high … notched double-dou- nation in blocking (3.72) … important in Irish pionships … established new career-best out- bles vs. Notre Dame’s two Missouri Valley defense that set school record for block aver- door mark at NCAA meet, jumping 1.77 Conference foes, Illinois State and Northern age for second year in a row … ranked eighth meters (5-9 3/4) and finishing tied for 16th. Iowa … had one of best matches of season in in conference — and fourth on Irish — in AS A SENIOR MEMBER OF THE five-game win over ISU, ending with 18 kills, blocking (119/1.09) … in BIG EAST matches, VOLLEYBALL TEAM: Honorable mention 11 blocks and 25 points … in final contest at was among the league leaders in blocks (4th, all-BIG EAST and honorable mention AVCA Joyce Center, registered 15 kills, season-high 1.29), points (8th, 4.75), and kills (10th, 3.76) … all-Northeast Region … ranked second on 12 digs and four blocks for 17 points against registered four double-doubles to bring team in blocks (126/1.16, both career highs), Pittsburgh … also had double-double (14 career total to 12 … joined Lauren Kelbley third in kills (313/2.87) and points (395/3.62), kills, 10 blocks) against Valparaiso in open- and fourth in hitting percentage (.238) … big ing round of NCAA Championship … shared reason Notre Dame led league and ranked team-high honors with 15 kills on .316 hitting

2005-06 CROSS COUNTRY/TRACK & FIELD 37 EAST Championship The Most Outstanding Player

Athletes Award … in the champi- onship match against Miami (Fla.), posted 21 and Lauren Brewster to form the first kills (on .462 hitting) with Irish trio ever to have 350+ kills apiece six digs, five blocks and in the same season two aces ... ended the AS A SOPHOMORE: Continued season on a six-match her role as one of the top high jumpers run of double-digit kill for the Notre Dame women’s track and performances ... earned a field team ... became the first athlete spot on the Shamrock in Notre Dame history to earn all-con- Invitational and Golden ference honors in two distinctly differ- Dome Invitational all- ent sports (excluding indoor and outdoor tournament teams … track and field) ... broke through for her first named to the BIG EAST individual BIG EAST Championship at the Academic All-Star team. league outdoor meet in 2003, clearing 1.75m AS A FRESHMAN: (5-8 3/4) to claim first place ... began the indoor Debuted for the Irish season with a victory in the high jump vs. women’s track and field Western Michigan and Ball State ... came team at the 2002 Meyo back the next weekend to win once again vs. Invitational, finishing Michigan State with a 1.75m (5-8 3/4) effort ... second in the high jump continued the win streak at the Meyo with a 1.73m effort (5-8) ... Invitational, clearing 5-7 3/4 to take first place made the trip to the in the competitive field ... finished second at Windsor Team the BIG EAST Indoor Championship with an Challenge in Windsor, impressive 1.79m (5-10 1/2) clearance ... has Ontario, and finished earned all-BIG EAST honors in all four con- second, improving her ference high jump competitions in which she season-best height to has competed ... ranked as one of the top 50 1.75m ... played a large high jumpers in the nation for the indoor sea- part in Notre Dame’s first son and narrowly missed out on a qualifying BIG EAST Conference effort for the NCAA Championship ... her BIG women’s team champi- EAST Championship effort in the league out- onship, finishing third to door meet marked her first competition of the score six crucial points outdoor season ... finished fifth in the high as the Irish earned the jump at the Georgia Tech Invitational. indoor team title with 112 AS A SOPHOMORE MEMBER OF points over Georgetown’s THE VOLLEYBALL TEAM: Posted one of 110 ... the 1.73m, third- the top second-year campaigns in Notre place finish was good for all-BIG EAST hon- Dame volleyball history … all-BIG EAST first- match against Georgetown, totaling 19 kills ors and assured a spot in the BIG EAST team selection… AVCA all-northeast region (on .368 hitting) with 10 digs and four blocks. Outdoor Championship high jump competi- first-team selection … 2002 BIG EAST PREP AND PERSONAL: Three-sport tion ... competed in just one outdoor competi- Championship Most Outstanding Player ... standout at Bishop Luers High School in Fort tion, the 2002 BIG EAST Championship, led the team in kills with 400 (3.70 per game) Wayne, Ind. … earned four letters each in vol- finishing third once again to earn all-BIG ... her 23 double-digit kill performances put leyball, basketball and track and field … two- EAST honors (5-7 clearance). her eighth all-time on the single-season list ... time Fort Wayne News-Sentinel Female AS A FRESHMAN MEMBER OF THE hit for 20 or more kills in five matches (22 vs. Athlete of the Year (1999-2000 and 2000-01) … VOLLEYBALL TEAM: Immediately #10 Pepperdine, 21 at Purdue, 20 vs. Wendy’s High School Heisman (presented to stepped in as a rookie to start her first match Connecticut, 20 vs. St. John’s and 21 vs. Miami the top male and female high school athlete and ended up with 27 starts in 29 matches (Fla.) in the BE Champ.), which ranks sixth in Indiana) finalist in 2000 … member of (appearing in 94 of 103 games) ... third on the all-time on the single-season charts ... com- Volleyball Magazine’s “Fab 50” … undefeated team in kills with 221 … also had 147 digs and piled outstanding numbers across the board in the high jump during the 2000-01 season … 56 blocks ... ended up with nine double-digit with 400 kills, 25 aces (0.23), 208 digs (1.93) and holds the Bishop Luers school records in both kill performances and two double-doubles ... 108 blocks (1.00) ... led the team in solo blocks the high jump (5-11-1/4) and long jump (17-0) had an impressive outing during the first with 29 ... reached the 15-kill plateau in 10 … earned numerous all-state honors in sev- weekend of competition, drilling 14 kills with matches during the season ... led Notre Dame eral sports: volleyball (1999, 2000), basketball eight digs, two blocks and an ace in the to victory over #10 Pepperdine with a career- (2001) and track and field (1998-2001) … gar- championship match of the Shamrock high 22 kills and six blocks ... earned the BIG nered All-America honors in volleyball in Invitational vs. Idaho ... played well in the 1997 and track and field in 2001 … scored over regular-season matchup with Georgetown, 1,000 points during her high school basket- Career Track Bests scoring 11 kills with six digs and three blocks ball career and was a member of the first Indoor ... had 12 kills and three blocks at Connecticut women’s high school basketball team to win High Jump ...... 1.79m (5-10 1/2) in Notre Dame’s four-game victory ... strung three consecutive Indiana state champi- 2003 BIG EAST Championship together three consecutive matches with dou- onships (1999-2001) … member of the National Outdoor ble-digit kills at West Virginia (11 kills, six Honor Society, Students Against Destructive High Jump ...... 1.77m (5-9 3/4) digs, two blocks), at Pittsburgh (10 kills, eight Decisions and Bishop Luers’ Peer Tutoring 2005 NCAA Championship digs, four blocks) and vs. St. John’s (12 kills, Program … youngest of five children … seven digs, seven blocks) ... stepped up in the daughter of Jane and Charles Loomis … born five-game victory vs. Illinois State with 14 Dec. 16, 1982 in Coldwater, Ohio … graduated kills and a then-career-best 13 digs ... was in May 2005 from College of Arts and Letters spectacular in the BIG EAST Championship with degree in industrial design. UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME 38 Stephanie The Madia Athletes

5-6 • Senior Cross Country/Distance

Wexford, Pa. North Allegheny H.S.

All-American Cross Country (2004) Outdoor 5,000 meters (2005)

10th-place finish at the league the NCAA Mideast Regional in the 5,000 meet (21:00) … with Molly meters … ran 16:23.78 for fourth place at the Huddle out, stepped up and led meet, qualifying for the NCAA the team to second place in the Championship … reached the 5,000 meter NCAA Great Lakes Regional, final at the championships by running covering the 6,000-meter course 16:14.59 in the preliminaries … finished in 20:10 … received her first All- fifth in the final, running 16:43.98 to obtain America honor at the NCAA her second All-America citation of 2004-05 Championships, running 20:57 and join teammate Kerry Meagher in for 23rd place … helped the pulling off the cross country/track All- team obtain the fourth-place America double last season. team trophy after Irish closed AS A SOPHOMORE: Joined the cross the season with a No. 6 national country season late due to an injury but ranking … set a career best in played a key role when back in the Notre the mile run at the Notre Dame Dame lineup … finished 57th at the Pre- Opener in 4:54.35 … set a huge National meet, her first competition of the career best in the 3,000 meters 2003 season … moved up to 20th at the BIG at the Meyo Invitational in EAST Championship, helping the Irish 9:39.70 … improved the mark at claim their second straight conference the BIG EAST indoor meet, run- crown … ran well at the Great Lakes ning 9:25.12 to earn all-BIG Regional, finishing 15th overall as Notre EAST honors with a second- Dame claimed the team title … competed place finish … also competed in in her second consecutive NCAA Cross the distance medley relay at the Country Championships in Ames, Iowa, league meet, earning second finishing 111th … did not compete during place with Crysta Swayzer, the 2004 indoor track and field season … Brianne Schmidt, and Sunni returned to the track for the outdoor cam- Olding in 11:32.29 … bettered paign, running both the 1,500 meters and her personal mark in the 3,000 5,000 meters … earned all-BIG EAST track meters at the Alex Wilson honors for the first time in her career at the Invitational, placing third in league outdoor meet, finishing third in the 9:22.50 with the ninth-fastest 5,000 meters (16:37.35) … her 16:34.48 effort performance in school history in the 5,000 meters at the Mt. SAC Relays … qualified for the NCAA qualified her for the NCAA Mideast Indoor Championship in the 3,000 meters … finished 12th at the national meet in 9:36.67 … Career Track Bests opened the outdoor season with Indoor a 16:14.30 effort in the 5,000 Mile ...... 4:54.35 meters at the Stanford 2005 Notre Dame Opener AS A JUNIOR: Earned the first two All- Invitational, winning the event … ran a 3,000m ...... 9:22.50 America honors of her career during a truly very fast 5,000 meters at the Mount SAC 2005 Alex Wilson Invitational outstanding year … individual champion Relays, placing fourth in 15:53.11 for the Outdoor at the National Catholic Championship, fifth-best time in Notre Dame history … 1,500m ...... 4:26.28 running the Irish course in 17:38 … took qualified for the outdoor BIG EAST meet in 2003 NCAA Mideast Regional 17th at the Notre Dame Invitational in 17:11 two events, placing sixth in the 1,500 5,000m ...... 15:53.11 … kept improving over the course of the meters in 4:36.69 and third in the 5,000 2005 Mount SAC Relays season, placing 11th at the Pre-National meters in 16:39.30 … earned all-BIG EAST meet … earned all-BIG EAST honors with a honors in the 5,000 meters … qualified for

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Regional, in which she finished sixth in 16:36.45 … won the 3,000 meters at Notre Dame’s Spring Opener (9:52.94) … ran both the 800 meters and 1,500 meters at the Georgia Tech Invitational. AS A FRESHMAN: One of the top cross country and distance spe- cialists on the team during her rookie sea- son ... key contributor as one of the top seven harriers during the 2002 cross coun- try team and appeared at both BIG EAST championship meets during the 2003 track and field slate ... finished fifth in the first collegiate cross country meet, the National Catholic ... ended up 34th in the Notre Dame Invitational ... competed in the Pre- National meet in Terre Haute, Ind., finish- ing 71st overall ... helped Notre Dame win its first women’s cross country team title with a 31st-place finish at the league meet ... aided another team title at the Great Lakes Regional, finishing 27th overall ... ran at the NCAA cross country champi- onship, finishing 78th overall ... concen- trated on the mile for the 2003 indoor track and field season ... qualified for the BIG EAST indoor meet, finishing 12th overall (5:11.00) ... one of the top 1,500-meter spe- cialists on the team during the outdoor season ... scored points toward the team effort at the BIG EAST outdoor meet, finish- ing eighth in the finals of the 1,500 meters (4:30.65) ... qualified for the inaugural NCAA Mideast Regional, finishing sixth in her heat (in a season-best 4:26.28) and 10th

Career Cross Country Results 2004 in the finals ... finished third in both the placing second in 3,200 meters as a sopho- National Catholic ...... 1st 1,500 meters and 3,000 meters at the Tom more … also named to indoor all-state Notre Dame Invitational ...... 17th Botts Invitational. track team as a sophomore and never fin- Pre-National ...... 11th HIGH SCHOOL AND PERSONAL: ished lower than sixth in 3,000 meters at BIG EAST Championship ...... 10th One of the premier distance runners in the state meet during her prep career … set Great Lakes Regional ...... 4th state of Pennsylvania and among the school record in outdoor 3,200-meter run NCAA Championship ...... 23rd nation’s best cross country standouts … (10:46) and as member of 3,200-meter relay 2003 four-year letter winner in both cross coun- (9:23) … named Pittsburgh Tribune-Review BIG EAST Championship ...... 20th try and track and field at North Allegheny Athlete of the Year in 2001 and 2002 … Great Lakes Regional ...... 15th High School in Wexford, Pa. … four-time named Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Athlete of NCAA Championship ...... 111th all-state honoree in cross country, winning the Year in 2002 … member of National Pre-National ...... 57th state championship as a senior … also Honor Society … also volunteers with placed second in state cross country meet Habitat for Humanity … younger of two 2002 as a junior and third as a sophomore … children … born Sept. 30, 1983, in National Catholic ...... 5th ranked 23rd in the nation at 2001 Foot Pittsburgh, Pa. … two-time member of the Notre Dame Invitational ...... 34th Locker National Championships … ranked BIG EAST Academic All-Star Team (2002- Pre-National ...... 71st among top 50 high school cross country 03, 2004-05) ... enrolled in the Mendoza BIG EAST Championship ...... 31st runners in nation by The Harrier … four- College of Business while pursuing a Great Lakes Regional ...... 27th time all-state selection in outdoor track finance degree … garnered Dean’s List NCAA Championship ...... 78th and field, winning state title in 1,600 recognition during spring 2005 term after meters as both a junior and senior, and recording a 3.96 semester GPA.

UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME 40 The Jean Athletes Marinangeli 18th in the open race ... also competed for the Irish at the BIG EAST Championship, finishing 56th and 5-2 • Senior helping Notre Dame claim its first Cross Country/Distance women’s cross country team title ... competed in just two meets during the indoor season, finishing sixth in the Arlington Heights, Ill. 3,000 meters against Western Buffalo Grove H.S. Michigan and Ball State (10:22.71) and sixth in the 5,000 meters (18:10.45) in the Meyo Invitational ... claimed first collegiate track and field victory at the Tom Botts Invitational, finish- ing first in the 5,000 meters in 17:15.42 ... com- AS A JUNIOR: Consistent varsity contribu- peted in the challenging 5,000 tor on a Notre Dame women’s cross country team meter-10,000-meter combination at the BIG EAST that finished the season ranked sixth in the outdoor meet ... finished ninth in the 5,000 national poll and earned the fourth-place trophy meters (17:30.81) and scored by taking seventh in at the NCAA Championship … placed sixth at the 10,000 meters (36:45.19). the National Catholic Championship in 18:18 … HIGH SCHOOL AND PERSONAL: Four- took 28th place at the BIG EAST Championship, year letter winner in both cross country and completing the 6,000 meter course in 21:54 … ran track and field at Buffalo Grove (Ill.) High School very well at the NCAA Great Lakes Regional, … two-time all-state and all-conference selec- helping the team finish second with a 21:13 time tion in cross country, placing 10th in state meet … competed in her first NCAA Championship, as a junior … set school record on home course finishing 136th in 22:16 … opened indoor track … three-time all-conference and 2002 all-state season with a career best in the 3,000 meters at pick in track and field … established school the Notre Dame Opener (10:13.23) … placed fifth records in indoor one-mile and two-mile runs, as in the Meyo Invitational 5,000 meters in 17:22.72 well as the outdoor two-mile event … finished … qualified for the indoor BIG EAST third in 3,200-meter run at 2002 state champi- Championship in the 5,000 meters … finished onships … also placed 24th at 2002 Foot Locker 10th at the league meet in 17:22.30 … set a new Midwest Regional Championships … served as career best in the outdoor 5,000 meters at the cross country team captain her senior year … Hillsdale Gina Relays (17:12.73) … ran two member of National Honor Society … father, events at the outdoor BIG EAST meet … placed Rich, is a 1973 graduate of Notre Dame … 11th in the 5,000 meters and nearly earned all- younger of two children … born Nov. 29, 1983 in BIG EAST honors in the 10,000 meters with a Elk Grove Village, Ill. … two-time member of the fourth place finish in 36:42.66. BIG EAST Academic All-Star Team (2002-03, AS A SOPHOMORE: Established herself 2004-05) ... enrolled in the College of Arts and as one of the top six harriers on the 2003 cross Letters with a double major in anthropology and country team … began the ’03 season with her French. first individual career victory at the Valparaiso Invitational (22:16) … finished third on the team and fourth overall at the National Catholic … Career Cross Country Results helped Notre Dame claim the team title at the 2004 Notre Dame Invitational, finishing 42nd in 18:24 National Catholic ...... 6th … also ran at the Pre-National (87th) and BIG EAST Championship (42nd) … helped the Irish Notre Dame Invitational ...... 75th claim the Great Lakes Regional title with a 63rd- Pre-National ...... 113th place finish … competed at her first NCAA Cross BIG EAST Championship ...... 28th Country Championship in 2003, finishing 240th Great Lakes Regional ...... 36th … ran career bests in both the 3,000 and 5,000 NCAA Championship ...... 136th meters during the 2004 track and field season … finished eighth in the Notre Dame Invitational in 2003 the 3,000 meters (10:17.62) … qualified for the BIG Valparaiso Invitational ...... 1st EAST indoor meet in the 5,000 meters at the National Catholic ...... 4th Meyo Invitational, finishing second in 17:20.20 … Notre Dame Invitational ...... 42nd ended up taking ninth place at the BIG EAST Pre-National ...... 87th BIG EAST Championship ...... 42nd Indoor Championship (16:37.35) … ran the 10,000 Career Track Bests Great Lakes Regional ...... 63rd Indoor meters during the ’04 outdoor season, finishing 29th at the Stanford Invitational in a personal- NCAA Championship ...... 240th 3,000m ...... 10:13.23 best 36:14.66 … scored points toward the team 2005 Notre Dame Opener effort at the BIG EAST outdoor meet, finishing 2002 5,000m ...... 17:20.20 seventh in the 10,000 meters (37:32.75). National Catholic ...... 7th 2004 Meyo Invitational AS A FRESHMAN: Key contributor in both Pre-National ...... 18th* Outdoor cross country and track and field during her BIG EAST Championship ...... 56th 5,000m ...... 17:12.73 rookie season ... debuted for the cross country * - indicates open race 2005 Hillsdale Gina Relays team at the National Catholic Invitational, fin- 10,000m ...... 36:14.66 ishing seventh ... made the trip to the Pre- 2004 Stanford Invitational National meet in Terre Haute, Ind., finishing

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AS A JUNIOR: Shifted focus to the 800 Catherine meters during the 2005 track and field season … neared her career best indoor 500 meter Schmidt time at the Meyo Invitational with a 1:18.81 effort … top performance of the outdoor sea- 5-7 • Senior son was a 2:19.20, seventh-place finish at the Indy Relays. Middle Distance AS A SOPHOMORE: Competed in the middle distance sprints during the 2004 track Orange, Calif. and field season … finished first in her sec- tion of the 500 meters at the Notre Dame Mater Dei H.S. Invitational (1:19.46) … also finished first in her section

Career Track Bests tion, including first-team honors in 2002 … topped 15- Indoor of the 500 meters at Notre Dame’s Indoor Opener (1:20.03) … top finish of the outdoor season came in the year-old school record in 400-meter run and then broke 400m ...... 59.12 800 meters at the Indy Relays, placing third in 2:18.17. it five times, finishing with a personal-best time of 2003 Alex Wilson Invitational AS A FRESHMAN: Middle-distance sprinter 57.41 … anchored Mater Dei's 1,600-meter relay team, 500m ...... 1:18.18 focused on improvement during her rookie season in helping unit break school record three times … school 2004 Blue and Gold Invitational 2003 ... ran the 400 meters during the indoor season, won Orange County Champions meet in 2000 and fin- 800m ...... 2:25.09 posting a season-best 59.12 at the Alex Wilson ished second in 2002 … served as team captain her Invitational ... progressively improved her times in senior year … also lettered twice in soccer as a 2005 Notre Dame Invitational each meet ... also ran the 400 meters during the out- defender … member of National Honor Society … Outdoor door season ... ran 1:00.41 to finish 12th at the Indy father, Joseph, played football at the University of San 400m ...... 59.91 Relays. Diego … cousin, Ron Arnold, was a baseball standout 2004 Purdue Invitational HIGH SCHOOL AND PERSONAL: A four-year at USC … oldest of four children … born March 4, 1984 800m ...... 2:18.17 letter winner as a sprinter at Mater Dei High School in in Orange, Calif. … enrolled in College of Arts and 2004 Indy Relays Santa Ana, Calif. … won conference outdoor title in Letters as a studio art major. 400 meters as a senior … a two-time all-county selec-

ing her entire high school career with exception of Elizabeth state meet in first two years … set school records in 800 and 1,600-meter runs, breaking 16-year-old school mark in former event, and establishing new stadium Webster record in latter event … served as team captain in 2002 for high school track team that never lost a dual meet 5-4 • Senior from 1999-2002 … also four-time all-city and all-league selection in cross country, winning city and league Cross Country/Distance titles as junior and senior … won regional title and was named to all-state team in 2002 … four-time state meet qualifier in cross country … set school cross Dearborn, Mich. country records on seven different courses … member Divine Child H.S. of National Honor Society … class salutatorian … comes from athletic family … sister, Shannon, com- peted for cross country and track teams at Central Michigan … father, Dan, was member of baseball and swimming teams at Central Michigan … great-uncle, AS A JUNIOR: Ran in five cross country meets … meet and helped the team win title … competed in sev- Bob Maurer, played football at Michigan … uncle, Dr. helped team attain a No. 6 ranking in the final national eral different distances during indoor track season … James Corran, is 1967 graduate of Notre Dame … mid- poll … top Irish finisher at Valparaiso Invitational, tak- appeared in 800, 1,000 and 3,000 meters along with dle of three children … born May 31, 1984 in Ann Arbor, ing third in 22:51 … placed eighth at National Catholic mile … won 1,000 meters at Blue and Gold Invitational Mich. … two-year member of BIG EAST Academic All- Championship (18:34) and two weeks later took 112th and finished third in 1,000 meters at Windsor Team Star Team (2002-03, 2004-05) ... enrolled in College of (18:30) at the Notre Dame Invitational … competed for Challenge … focused on 1,500 meters during outdoor Arts and Letters as psychology major … had perfect the varsity women in both NCAA Pre-National and BIG season, finishing second at Purdue Invitational and 2004-05 academic year in classroom, posting consecu- EAST meets, helping Irish to runner-up finish at latter Indy Relays … also finished eighth in 800 meters at tive 4.0 semester GPAs and earning Dean’s List honors event … again proved versatile distance athlete dur- Purdue Invitational. on both occasions. ing 2005 track season … ran mile and 3,000 meters AS A FRESHMAN: Competed in three cross indoors, posting season best in mile at Notre Dame country meets during rookie season ... began with sec- Opener (5:10.21) … ran career best 9:58.47 in 3,000 ond-place finish in National Catholic JV race ... ended Career Track Bests meters at Meyo Invitational … scored team points at up 89th in Notre Dame Invitational Gold Division race Indoor ... also ran at Bronco Open, finishing 26th overall ... BIG EAST indoor meet with eighth-place finish in 3,000 1,000m ...... 2:52.43 meters (10:02.30) … ran 17:23.75 to finish 29th and set concentrated on middle distance during indoor track career best in outdoor 5,000 meters at Stanford season ... qualified for BIG EAST indoor meet in 1,000 2003 BIG EAST Championship Invitational … finished third in 1,500 meters (4:45.51) at meters, ending up 14th in preliminaries ... ran season- Mile ...... 5:01.58 Mike Poehlein Invitational … also took fifth at Central best 2:55.56 in 1,000 meters at Meyo Invitational to fin- 2004 Alex Wilson Invitational Collegiates in 1,500 meters (4:51.53). ish fifth ... competed in two 1,500-meter races during 3,000m ...... 9:58.47 AS A SOPHOMORE: One of Notre Dame’s top outdoor campaign, finishing sixth at Tom Botts eight cross country harriers … started season strong Invitational and third at Boilermaker Open. 2005 Meyo Invitational with fourth-place finish at Valparaiso Invitational and HIGH SCHOOL AND PERSONAL: Four-year Outdoor third-place effort at National Catholic … helped Notre letter winner in both cross country and track and field 1,500m ...... 4:45.51 Dame claim the ND Invitational title with a 55th-place at Divine Child High School in Dearborn, Mich. … two- 2005 Mike Poehlein Invitational effort … ran in NCAA Pre-National open race, finish- time state champion and four-time regional, city and ing 59th … competed for Irish at 2003 BIG EAST indoor league titlist in track and field (800 and 1,600 meters) … 5,000m ...... 17:23.75 qualified for state meet in three events during all four 2005 Stanford Invitational prep seasons … was undefeated at 1,600 meters dur-

UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME 42 The Athletes Katie teammates Lauren King, Megan Johnson and Kerry Meagher … quali- DeRusso fied for the BIG EAST outdoor meet in the steeplechase by running 11:10.54 to 5-7 • Junior finish second at Notre Dame’s Spring Cross Country/Distance Opener … also finished second in the steeplechase at the Tom Botts Invitational … eventually finished Fairport, N.Y. 17th in the steeplechase at the BIG Fairport H.S. EAST Outdoor Championship … com- peted as part of the 4x800-meter relay team at the conference outdoor meet, finishing eighth. HIGH SCHOOL AND PERSONAL: Earned five letters in both cross country and out- AS A SOPHOMORE: Improved to door track and field during indoor season … become one of Notre Dame’s most con- Fairport High Female Athlete of the Year in 2003 sistent distance contributors … ran at … led cross country team to four Monroe County every one of the Irish cross country League conference titles in five years and four meets … placed eighth at the consecutive indoor crowns … five-time all-state Valparaiso Invitational and 11th at the and first-team Section V honoree in cross coun- National Catholic Championship … try … named New York State Freshman Runner competed in the Open race at the Notre of the Year in 1999 … earned Monroe Country all- Dame Invitational and ran 18:29 over league honors on 23 occasions in both cross 5,000 meters for ninth place … was country and track … captured eight Section V among Notre Dame’s varsity competitors championships in individual or relay events for all three post-season meets … fin- during her prep career, including three during ished 46th at the BIG EAST meet in 22:39 the 2002-03 school year … member of 4x800 … stepped up in a big way at the NCAA meter relay team at Fairport that established Great Lakes Regional, running 21:28 to three school records (indoor and outdoor) … in finish 50th and help the team to a sec- final scholastic season in cross country, finished ond-place finish … participated in her sixth at NYSPHSA Class A championship and first NCAA Championship … focused on seventh at NYS Federation race … also placed the mile during the indoor track season 22nd at NE Foot Locker regional-seeded race … … ran her season best time in the event led team to second-place finish at 2002 NYSPHA at the Notre Dame Invitational (5:01.73) state championship after winning Section V … competed in two events at the indoor crown … was undefeated in the 3,000 meters in BIG EAST Championship … finished all Section V races during her senior year … fin- fourth in the 4x800 meter relay with ished third in 3,000 meters at NYS Federation Brianne Schmidt, Rachel Heneghan, outdoor meet … as a freshman in high school and Jacqueline Carter (9:07.30) … scored placed sixth at the National Junior Olympics team points with an eighth-place, 5:03.45 Youth Race … captained cross country and track effort in the mile … set a then-career teams during her senior year … member of best in the 3,000 meter steeplechase at National Honor Society and Spanish National the outdoor Stanford Invitational … fin- Honor Society … received JP Morgan National ished third in her section with a time of Merit Scholarship … National Merit Scholarship 10:51.41 … competed at the prestigious recipient and AP Scholar … played violin for the Mount SAC Relays, taking 21st in the Fairport High School orchestra … father, Paul, steeplechase … again competed in two graduated from Notre Dame in 1976 … oldest of events at the BIG EAST meet, this time two children … born June 6, 1985 … enrolled in running the 4x800 meter relay and 3,000 the College of Science with a major in biological meter steeplechase … took eighth in the relay in steeplechase while running 10:55.06 … ran the sciences. 9:15.86 with Jacqueline Carter, Kerry Meagher, steeplechase at the Georgia Tech Invitational, and Brianne Schmidt … finished ninth in the finishing fourth in 10:56.30 … set a 10-second Career Cross Country Results career best at the NCAA Mideast Regional … 2004 took 12th with a 10:41.49 effort, good for the top Valparaiso Invitational ...... 8th Career Track Bests mark in the school record books … owns four of National Catholic ...... 11th Indoor the five fastest steeplechase performances in Notre Dame Invitational ...... 9th* Mile ...... 5:00.73 Notre Dame history. AS A FRESHMAN: Developed well during Pre-National...... 21st* 2004 Alex Wilson Invitational her rookie season and provided depth to the BIG EAST Championship ...... 46th 1,000m ...... 3:00.52 Irish distance group … competed in three races Great Lakes Regional ...... 50th 2004 Windsor Team Challenge during her freshman season in cross country … NCAA Championship ...... 211th 3,000m ...... 10:15.50 finished 26th in the National Catholic, 41st in the 2003 2005 Meyo Invitational Notre Dame Invitational gold division race and National Catholic ...... 26th Outdoor 78th in the Pre-National open race … ran both Notre Dame Invitational ...... 41st* 1,500m ...... 4:43.46 the mile and 1,000 meters during the 2004 indoor Pre-National ...... 78th* 2004 Purdue Invitational track and field season … finished second in the * - indicates open/Gold Division race Steeplechase ...... 10:41.49 1,000 meters at the Windsor Team Challenge 2005 Mideast Regional and third at the Blue and Gold Invitational … ran on the 4x800-meter relay team at the BIG EAST indoor meet, finishing fourth along with

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Athletes Maryann Erigha

5-7 • Junior Sprints

Stone Mountain, Ga. Chamblee H.S.

BIG EAST Champion Outdoor 100 meters (2005)

AS A SOPHOMORE: Emerged as Notre AS A FRESHMAN: Posted strong Dame’s top sprinter and a bona fide champi- performances at the beginning of the onship contender … also won women’s track indoor season, then the end of the out- and field MVP honors … won 15 competitions door season in 2004 … qualified for the throughout the 2005 track and field season BIG EAST indoor meet and ran a sea- …topped her 2004 season bests at the Blue and son-best in her first race of the year, Gold Invitational, running 7.47 in the 60 meters posting a 7.55 effort at the Blue and and 24.34 in the 200 meters … won both events at Gold Invitational … ended up eighth in the Notre Dame Opener … set a career best in the 60 meters at the BIG EAST Indoor the 200 meters at the Meyo Invitational, running Championship (8.04) after running a 23.85 for first place … also ran 7.48 for third in the 7.63 in the preliminaries … qualified for 60 meters … earned all-BIG EAST honors in the the BIG EAST outdoor meet in both the indoor 60 meters and 200 meters … ran 7.52 for 100 and 200 meters … became one of second in the 60 meters and 24.09 for second in the top 200 meter runners in the the 200 meters … also ran the 4x400 meter relay Midwest during the late portion of the with Tiffany Gunn, Crysta Swayzer, and Okechi 2004 outdoor campaign … won both the Ogbuokiri (third, 3:47.99) … concluded the indoor 100 and 200 meters at the Purdue season by tying a career best in the 60 meters in Invitational (12.03, 24.29) … finished 7.47 and setting a new career best in the 200 sixth in the 100 meters and seventh in meters with a 23.60 effort … her 23.60 mark also the 200 meters at the BIG EAST outdoor tied the school record in the event …also owns meet … ran a 23.89 200-meter race at the seven of the top ten 60-meter performances in Georgia Tech Invitational to qualify for Notre Dame history … ran well at the first two the NCAA Mideast Regional … eventu- outdoor meets before exploding for two firsts at ally ran a personal-best 23.70 in the 200 the Mt. SAC Relays … won the 100 meters in meters at the regional meet to finish 11.28 seconds and took the 200 meters in 23.28 10th overall … earned first all-confer- seconds to cap an outstanding meet … her 11.28 ence honor of her career at the league mark set a new school record … also holds outdoor meet, helping the 4x100-meter seven of the top ten 100-meter times and five of team of Ayesha Boyd, Kristen Dodd and the top ten 200-meter performances in Notre Tricia Floyd finish third in 46.19. Dame history … competed in four events at the HIGH SCHOOL AND PER- outdoor BIG EAST meet … earned her first BIG SONAL: Four-year letter winner in EAST Championship title in the 100 meters, run- both indoor and outdoor track at ning 11.69 … also garnered all-BIG EAST honors Chamblee High School as a sprint spe- in the 200 meters with a 24.10 mark and in the cialist … two-time Georgia state cham- 4x100 meter relay with teammates Okechi pion in 100 and 200 meters … state Ogbuokiri, Domenique Manning, and Brienne champion in three different classifica- Davis (46.46) … scored more BIG EAST points in tions (AA, AAA and AAAA) during her a sixth-place, 3:47.03 effort with the 4x400 meter four-year career … ran personal bests relay that also featured Okechi Ogbuokiri, of 11.75 in 100 and 23.83 in 200-meter outdoor events … ran personal best Career Track Bests indoor times in 200 meters (24.5), 60 meters (7.70), 55 meters (7.09) and 50 Indoor meters (6.58) … established DeKalb 60m ...... 7.47 County record of 24.02 in 200 meters … 2005 Alex Wilson Invitational member of 4x100 relay team that broke 200m ...... 23.60 the Junior Olympic National record in 2005 Alex Wilson Invitational Buffalo, N.Y. with a time of 44.79 … Outdoor Crysta Swayzer, and Brienne Davis … qualified youngest of three children … born Nov. 3, 1984 … 100m ...... 11.28 for the NCAA Mideast Regional in the 100 and enrolled in College of Arts and Letters as a dou- 2005 Mount SAC Relays 200 meter dashes … finished seventh and ble major in sociology and computer applica- tions … earned Dean’s List honors in the spring 200m ...... 23.28 eighth, respectively, and earned bids to the 2005 term after posting a perfect 4.0 semester 2005 Mount SAC Relays NCAA Championships in both events … failed to make the NCAA finals in either event due to GPA … named to 2004-05 BIG EAST Academic injuries. All-Star Team.

UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME 44 The Athletes

Cassie awarded three letters in soccer … three- time Tennessee state champion in the Gullickson pentathlon in 2001, ’02 and ’03 … also captured state titles in ’03 in both the 5-7 • Junior long jump and triple jump … in winning pentathlon crown, established a new Jumps state record … set national high school triple jump record in her senior season Palm Beach Gardens, Fla. … led prep team to three consecutive state high school titles … grandfather, Brentwood (Tenn.) H.S. Leroy Leslie, graduated from Notre Dame in 1952 and was a member of the basketball team for three seasons, serving as team captain during his senior year … uncle, Tom Gullickson, is a 1974 Notre Dame graduate and played football … father, Bill, AS A SOPHOMORE: Competed in all of the high jump during her rookie season in 2004 … qual- was a 15-year pitching veteran (1979-94) in both the jumps during the 2005 track and field season … ified for both the BIG EAST indoor and outdoor American and National Leagues … attended same established a career best in the high jump at the meets … won her first collegiate event title in the high school as Lauren Brewster, a senior on the Notre Dame Invitational, clearing 1.69m (5-6 1/2) for Notre Dame Invitational, jumping 38-8 1/4 (11.79m) Irish volleyball team … oldest of six children … second place … also triple jumped 11.60m at the … posted her best effort of the indoor season at the born May 18, 1985 … enrolled in the Mendoza meet … qualified for the indoor BIG EAST meet in BIG EAST meet with a measurement of 39-1 College of Business as a marketing major. the high jump and triple jump … managed point- (11.91m), good enough for sixth place in the compe- scoring sixth-place finishes in each event, clearing tition … also qualified for the BIG EAST indoor 1.65m (5-5) in the high jump and 11.49m (37-8 1/2) in meet in the high jump, finishing 10th overall (5-2 Career Track Bests the triple jump … placed second in the outdoor 1/2, 1.59m) … best high jump finish of the indoor Indoor high jump at the Willie Williams Invitational season came at the Notre Dame Invitational, plac- (1.60m, 5-3) … performed well at the Indy Relays, ing third (5-4 1/2, 1.64m) … placed second in the out- Triple Jump ...... 11.91m (39-1) winning the triple jump competition in 11.64m (38-2 door triple jump at both the Indy Relays and Notre 2004 BIG EAST Championship 1/4) and placing third in the high jump with a 1.65m Dame Spring Opener … moved on to finish 14th in High Jump ...... 1.69m (5-6 1/2) (5-5) mark … qualified for the high jump and triple the triple jump at the BIG EAST Outdoor 2005 Notre Dame Invitational jump at the BIG EAST outdoor meet … took 10th in Championship. Outdoor the high jump with a 1.65m (5-5) clearance and 10th HIGH SCHOOL AND PERSONAL: Four- Triple Jump ...... 11.65m (38-2 3/4) in the triple jump an 11.5m (37-8 3/4) effort. year letter winner in track and field at Brentwood AS A FRESHMAN: Focused on developing High School as she concentrated on the pen- 2004 Indy Relays consistent performances in the triple jump and tathlon, long jump and triple jump … also was High Jump ...... 1.65m (5-5) 2005 BIG EAST Championship

AS A SOPHOMORE: Did not compete dur- ing the cross country season … established a series of career bests in the 3,000 meters during the 2005 indoor track and field season … won the Notre Dame Opener in 10:08.37 … took 23rd Amy in the 3,000 meters at the Meyo Invitational, coming through the line at 9:54.58 … scored BIG Kohlmeier EAST team points at the indoor league meet by clocking 10:01.66 for seventh in the 3,000 meters … established a career best at the Alex Wilson 5-6 • Junior Invitational by finishing 14th in the 3,000 meters Cross Country/Distance in 9:49.91 … did not compete in the outdoor track and field season. Sarnia, Ontario AS A FRESHMAN: Competed in just one meet during her rookie cross country season, St. Patrick’s H.S. finishing 120th at the Notre Dame Invitational (19:37) … did not compete during the 2004 track and field season. HIGH SCHOOL AND PERSONAL: One place in both the 1,500- and 3,000-meter events Canada Summer Games in , Ontario … of the top cross country and track athletes in … won the LSSAA 800 meters in ’03 and was the recipient of ’02 Queen’s Jubilee Medal for out- Southwestern Ontario region … attended the Senior Girls SWOSSAA champion in the 800- standing contributions to the community … World Youth Championships in Hungary in 2001 and 1,500-meter events … LSSAA and SWOS- three-time winner of St. Patrick’s Athlete of the and placed eighth in final of 1,500 meters … SAA record holder in both the 1,500- and 3,000- Year award … mother, Denise, was a track and bronze medalist in ’02 as a member of the meters while winning back-to-back titles in field standout at McMaster University in Ontario Track and Field Association (OFTA) both races in both ’02 and ’03 … represented Hamilton, Ontario … oldest of three children … club team in the Junior Girls cross country race Canada at the ’01 World Cross Country born May 7, 1984 … enrolled in College of … captured silver medal at the Ontario Championships in Dublin, Ireland … led club Science with a pre-professional major. Federation of School Athletic Association team to Canadian Cross Country (OFSAA) championship while helping team to Championship that same year and also fin- bronze medal in that event … Senior Girls ished first in the race … ’01 OFTA girls cross Career Track Bests champion at the Lambton Secondary Schools country champion after completing sweep of Indoor Athletic Association (LSSAA) and Southwestern LSSAA, SWOSSAA and OFSAA that same year 3,000m ...... 9:49.91 Ontario Secondary Schools Athletic … double gold medalist in the 1,500- and 3,000- 2005 Alex Wilson Invitational Association (SWOSSAA) meets as she guided meter races at OFSAA Championship … cap- squad to team title … double winner at the ’02 tured the silver medal in the 5,000 meters and West Regional championships as she took first- bronze medal in the 1,500 meters at the ’01

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Athletes Okechi Ogbuokiri

5-10 • Junior Sprints

Willingboro, N.J. Willingboro H.S.

BIG EAST Champion Indoor 400 meters (2005)

AS A SOPHOMORE: Improved signifi- AS A FRESHMAN: A key cantly in the 400 meters to earn a spot amongst member of Notre Dame’s sprint the nation’s top athletes in the event … won the group in 2004, providing depth in 400 meters at the Central Michigan Opener, all relays and events … qualified clocking 56.87 seconds … established a career for the BIG EAST indoor meet in best of 1:13.92 in the 500 meters at the Notre the 500 meters, finishing 12th in Dame Opener … placed second in both the 200 1:17.56 … won her first career BIG and 400 meters at the Notre Dame Invitational EAST Championship as part of the (25.31, 55.58) … lowered her 400-meter career 4x400-meter indoor relay team … best to 54.29 at the Meyo Invitational in a sec- helped teammates Tiffany Gunn, ond-place effort … won her first BIG EAST title Kristen Dodd and Tricia Floyd fin- in the 400 meters at the indoor meet … clocked ish in 3:45.23 … also earned all-BIG 54.99 in the final to claim the crown … also ran EAST honors on the distance med- the 4x400 meter relay with teammates Brienne ley relay team, finishing second in Davis, Maryann Erigha, and Crysta Swayzer 11:32.95 along with Lauren King, and finished third … lowered her indoor career Megan Johnson and Kerry best in the 400 meters to 54.03 at the Alex Wilson Meagher … focused on the 400 Invitational … this performance also stands as meters during the ’04 outdoor sea- the eighth-best in school history … started off son, finishing third at the Indy the outdoor season strong with a 55.06, second- Relays and Tom Botts Invitational. place showing in the 400 meters at the Willie HIGH SCHOOL AND PER- Williams Invitational … took fourth in the 400 at SONAL: Named 2003 Female the Mt. SAC Relays in a time of 54.59 … also Track Athlete of the Year by the broke 55 seconds at the Hillsdale Gina Relays Burlington Times, Courier Post, where she clocked 54.74 … scored team points Newark Star-Ledger and in four events at the outdoor BIG EAST meet … Philadelphia Inquirer … garnered placed sixth in the 200 meters in 24.67 while 13 All-American honors during her earning all-BIG EAST honors in the 400 meters prep career both individually and in 53.80 … earned another all-BIG EAST honor as a member of a relay team … with the 4x100 meter relay team that included earned All-American recognition herself and Domenique Manning, Brienne in the 400 meters during all four of Davis, and Maryann Erigha … also scored her scholastic season … won sixth-place points in the 4x400 with Crysta National Scholastic Indoor Swayzer, Brienne Davis and Maryann Erigha … Championship in the 400 meter as established her current career best in the 400 a senior … won the AAU national meters at the Georgia Tech Invitational with a championship in 400 meters as a 53.45 second, sixth-place mark … qualified for junior … named Performer of the the NCAA Mideast Regional in the 400 meters Year for her indoor and outdoor … ran 54.25 for eighth and earned a big to the track performances during her NCAA Championship … ran a fast 53.73 at the senior season by the South Jersey national meet to earn 19th place. Coaches Association … owns New Jersey state records in the 400 meters (54.2), indoor 4x400-meter Career Track Bests relay (3:45.3), indoor (4:01.5) and Indoor outdoor (3:59.0) 4x400-meter sprint 400m ...... 54.03 relays … class valedictorian … 2005 Alex Wilson Invitational member of the National Honor Society … 500m ...... 1:13.92 served as class treasurer during her junior year 2005 Notre Dame Indoor Opener … played in the marching and jazz bands … Outdoor youngest of four children … born March 10, 1985 … enrolled in the Mendoza College of Business 400m ...... 53.45 as a marketing major … earned spot on 2004-05 2005 Georgia Tech Invitational BIG EAST Academic All-Star Team.

UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME 46 The Brianne Athletes … specialized in middle distance events … won three Montana Class Schmidt 3A state championships in the 800 meters … garnered all-state recogni- 5-7 • Junior tion in track and field all four years Cross Country/Middle Distance during her prep career and was an all- state selection in cross country during her junior and senior seasons … Miles City, Mont. placed second as a sophomore and Custer County District H.S. sixth as a junior at state cross country meet … led her team to two Eastern “A” confer- ence championships in cross country and three in track … served as team captain of both cross country and track teams during her junior and AS A SOPHOMORE: Solid runner that meters at the Alex Wilson Invitational, running senior seasons … school record holder in 800 served as one of Notre Dame’s top middle dis- 2:12.95 for the ninth-fastest time in school his- meters with a time of 2:13.67 … presented the tance competitors … also competed in two cross tory … best performance of the outdoor season Ashley Memorial as school’s most outstanding country meets in the fall … established a new came at the Hillsdale Gina Relays … finished athlete in 2003 … was a finalist for the Wendy’s career best by winning the 800 meters at the fourth in the 800 meters in 2:15.06 … competed in Heisman Award for the state of Montana … Notre Dame Opener in 2:13.70 … bettered that two events at the outdoor BIG EAST meet … ran class valedictorian … National Honor Society mark and set another career best in the 1,000 the individual 800 meters and the 4x800 meter member … served as student representative on meters at the Meyo Invitational … ran 2:13.28 in relay with Jacqueline Carter, Katie DeRusso, school board … was president of sophomore the 800 and 2:53.25 for third place in the 1,000 … and Kerry Meagher. class … sister, Melissa, is a ’03 Notre Dame competed in three events at the BIG EAST AS A FRESHMAN: An 800-meter special- graduate and was co-captain of 2002 Irish indoor meet … placed 11th in the 800 meters ist who showed some promising development women’s cross country team that finished third and fourth in the 4x800 meter relay with in 2004 … competed in two cross country meets at the NCAA Championships … youngest of Jacqueline Carter, Rachel Heneghan, and Katie during her freshman season, finishing 53rd in three children … born June 4, 1985 … enrolled in DeRusso … earned all-BIG EAST honors with the National Catholic and 78th in the Notre the Mendoza College of Business as a finance the distance medley relay, finishing second in Dame Invitational gold division race … quali- major … named to 2004-05 BIG EAST Academic 11:32.29 … joined on the DMR by Stephanie fied for the BIG EAST indoor meet in the 800 All-Star Team. Madia, Crysta Swayzer, and Sunni Olding … meters, running 2:16.18 at the Meyo Invitational established her current career best in the 800 … eventually finished 11th in the BIG EAST 800- Career Track Bests meter field … came back the next week to run a Indoor Career Cross Country Results personal-best 2:14.56 in the 800 meters at the 2004 Alex Wilson Invitational … competed at the BIG 800m ...... 2:12.95 Valparaiso Invitational ...... 35th EAST Outdoor Championship in the 4x800- 2005 Alex Wilson Invitational Notre Dame Invitational ...... 86th* meter relay, finishing eighth … top outdoor 1,000m ...... 2:53.25 2003 effort was a second-place finish in the 800 2005 Meyo Invitational meters (2:17.05) at the Indy Relays. National Catholic ...... 53rd Outdoor HIGH SCHOOL AND PERSONAL: 800m ...... 2:15.06 Notre Dame Invitational ...... 78th* Earned four letters in cross country and track 2005 Hillsdale Gina Relays * - indicates Gold division race and field at Custer County District High School

Antonia Bethel

5-11 • Sophomore Hurdles

Turlock, Calif. Turlock H.S.

AS A FRESHMAN: Did not compete dur- Central California Conference track & field National Honor Society … daughter of Jennifer ing the 2005 track and field season. champion as a sophomore and junior … was a and Ken Bethel … youngest of two children … HIGH SCHOOL AND PERSONAL: Two- track team captain her junior and senior cam- grandfather played football at Cal Poly … born sport athlete at Turlock High School … lettered paigns … team MVP for her freshman, sopho- April 18, 1986, in Modesto, Calif. … enrolled in all four years in track as a hurdler … earned more and senior seasons … owns the 300 meter the College of Arts and Letters … named to two letters as a member of the volleyball team, hurdles record at Turlock High School … led the Dean’s List in her first semester on campus (fall where she was a middle-blocker … was named conference in blocks her senior year of volley- 2004) after posting a 3.667 GPA. all-conference and all-city for four straight ball … volleyball team captured three confer- years in track and two years in volleyball … ence titles during her career … member of the

2005-06 CROSS COUNTRY/TRACK & FIELD 47 The Athletes AS A FRESHMAN: Ran very well Jacqueline in her rookie season with the Irish … won the National Catholic Carter Championship junior varsity race with a time of 19:22 … two weeks later ran 18:44 5-5 • Sophomore on the same course to take 16th in the Cross Country/Distance Gold race at the Notre Dame Invitational … competed in the Pre-National Open race before participating in the BIG Boise, Idaho EAST Championships for the Irish Bishop Kelly H.S. women, where she placed 50th in 22:53 … focused on the 800 and 1,000 meter runs during her indoor season … raced the mile at the Notre Dame Invitational, finishing in 4:59.68 … had a successful Meyo Invitational, setting career meters in the preliminaries, running 2:54.79 … and the medley relay … team MVP and captain bests in the 800 and 1,000 meters with times of followed up that performance with a 2:55.03 in during her senior cross country campaign … 2:13.24 and 2:55.35, respectively … scored team the final to take fifth place … took fourth in the cross country team won the state championship points at the BIG EAST indoor meet in the 1,000 4x800 meter relay with Rachel Heneghan, her sophomore and senior seasons … vice pres- meters and as part of the 4x800 meter relay … Brianne Schmidt, and Katie DeRusso … ran well ident of the National Honor Society … national established a new career best in the 1,000 at the Alex Wilson Invitational with a 2:13.50 in finalist for the Wendy’s High School Heisman the 800 meters … established her current out- award … has three siblings … sister, Jennifer, door 800-meter career best at the Stanford played soccer at Notre Dame … brother, Preston, Career Track Bests Invitational (2:13.57) … won the 800 meters at the is currently a junior at Notre Dame … born Nov. Indoor Indy Relays in 2:14.15 … placed second in the 4, 1985, in Great Falls, Mont. … enrolled in the 800m ...... 2:13.24 Hillsdale Gina Relays 800 meters with a time of College of Arts and Letters while working on her 2005 Meyo Invitational 2:14.57 … ran two events at the BIG EAST outdoor psychology degree. 1,000m ...... 2:54.79 meet, placing tenth in the 1,500 meters in 4:46.72 2005 BIG EAST Championship and eighth in the 4x800 meter relay. Career Cross Country Results HIGH SCHOOL AND PERSONAL: Mile ...... 4:59.68 2004 2005 Notre Dame Invitational Lettered all four years at Bishop Kelly High School in both cross country and track … team National Catholic...... 1st* Outdoor captain of the state championship track & field Notre Dame Invitational ...... 16th* 800m ...... 2:13.57 squad her senior season … state champion in Pre-National ...... 58th* 2005 Stanford Invitational the 800 meters, 1,600 meters, 4x400 relay, and as BIG EAST Championship ...... 50th 1,500m ...... 4:46.72 part of the medley relay team as a senior … * - indicates JV/Gold/Open Division race 2005 BIG EAST Championship state record holder in the 800 (2:14.3), 4x400 relay,

the 100 meters at the Hillsdale Gina Relays, run- ning 12.01 for third place … qualified for two events at the outdoor BIG EAST Championship Brienne … placed seventh in the 100 meters in 12.22 and 12th in the 200 meters in 25.32 … also competed Davis in two relays at the league meet, earning all-BIG EAST honors in the 4x100 meter relay with team- 5-6 • Sophomore mates Maryann Erigha, Domenique Manning, and Okechi Ogbuokiri (46.46) … took sixth in the Sprints 4x400 meter relay with Erigha, Ogbuokiri, and Crysta Swayzer. Grand Prairie, Texas HIGH SCHOOL AND PERSONAL: South Grand Prairie H.S. Excellent track career at South Grand Prairie High School … eight-time letter winner (track and cheerleading) … two-time All-American and all-state track & field performer … four-time all-city and all-conference athlete in track … regional champion in the 200 meters her junior AS A FRESHMAN: Immediately stepped and senior seasons … her team won the confer- Career Track Bests in as one of Notre Dame’s top sprinters … won ence and regional championships three years Indoor the 200 meters at the Notre Dame Opener in 25.40 straight from 2001-03 … clocked in a personal- 60m ...... 7.64 … topped the 200-meter field at the Notre Dame best and school record time of 24.19 in the 200 Invitational in 25.21 … performed very well at 2005 Meyo Invitational meters at the 2004 Texas University the Meyo Invitational, taking 11th in the 60 200m ...... 24.73 Interscholastic League Region 1-5A meters in a career-best 7.64 and seventh in the Championships … 2004 National Scholar- 2005 Meyo Invitational 200 meters in another career best of 24.73 … Athlete Award recipient … 2004 National Outdoor qualified for the BIG EAST indoor meet in the 60 Achievement Award recipient … Dallas Morning 100m ...... 12.01 and 200 meter dashes … placed seventh in the News and Fort Worth Star-Telegram all-area 2005 Hillsdale Gina Relays 60 meters with runs of 7.66 and 7.70 and scored track & field first team in 2003 … team captain of 200m ...... 25.20 another seventh-place finish in the 200 meters the track squad her final two seasons … NCA 2005 Mike Poehlein Invitational with times of 25.08 and 25.42 … concentrated on All-American cheerleader for three years … the 100 and 200 meters in the outdoor season … enrolled in the College of Arts and Letters. ran times of 12.07 and 25.20 at the Mike Poehlein Invitational … bettered her career-best mark in

UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME 48 The Mary Athletes Debevec

5-8 • Sophomore Cross Country/Distance

Media, Pa. Cardinal O’Hara H.S.

AS A FRESHMAN: Added depth to the the Hillsdale Gina Relays with a 2:19.64 effort. are graduates of Notre Dame … born July 16, Irish distance squad … competed in two cross HIGH SCHOOL AND PERSONAL: 1986 in Steubenville, Ohio … enrolled in the country meets, taking fourth at the National Three-sport athlete at Cardinal O’Hara High Mendoza College of Business. Catholic JV race and 43rd in the Notre Dame School, where she was also salutatorian … let- Invitational Gold race … ran 2:19.25 for sixth tered all four years in track and soccer … earned place in the 800 meters at the Notre Dame three letters in cross country … All-American Opener … established a career best in the honors as a sophomore as she was a member of indoor 800 meters at the Meyo Invitational, run- the 4x800 meters and 4x1-mile relay teams that Career Track Bests ning 2:18.43 … best performance of the outdoor placed in the top six in the nation … three-time Indoor campaign came at the Indy Relays … finished all-state performer in track … track team cap- 800m ...... 2:18.43 eighth in 2:19.22 at the meet … also broke 2:20 at tain and MVP her junior and senior seasons … 2005 Meyo Invitational garnered all-Catholic Conference honors three Outdoor Career Cross Country Results times in both track and cross country and once 800m ...... 2:19.22 in soccer … established school records in the 400 2004 2005 Indy Relays National Catholic ...... 4th* and 800 meters indoor races … soccer team won the Catholic League championship for the first Notre Dame Invitational ...... 43rd* time in school history … has six siblings … sis- * - indicates JV/Gold Division race ter, Christine, and brothers, Luke and Jacob, all

AS A FRESHMAN: Notre Dame’s strongest threat in the hurdles during her rookie track sea- Domenique son … won the 60 meter hurdles at the Notre Dame Opener in 8.72 … also took first in the 60 Manning meter hurdles at the Notre Dame Invitational (8.78) … established a career best in the indoor 5-3 • Sophomore hurdles at the Meyo Invitational, finishing sev- enth in 8.66 … qualified for the indoor BIG EAST Hurdles/Sprints meet in the 60-meter hurdles … finished 10th with an 8.86 time in the preliminaries … concen- Riverside, Calif. trated primarily on the 100 meter hurdles during John W. North H.S. the outdoor season … ran well at the Willie Williams Invitational, clocking 14.49 for fourth in the hurdles … set a career best in the 100 hur- dles at the Mike Poehlein Invitational, running 14.29 and finishing fifth … won the 100 meter ishing second in the 100 meters … ran a strong during her junior campaign … ran the top time hurdles at the Indy Relays in 14.60 while also fin- time in the 100 hurdles at the Hillsdale Gina in the state of California her senior season Relays (14.38) … ran two events at the outdoor (13.67) … four-year all-city performer … garnered Career Track Bests BIG EAST meet, placing sixth in the 100 meter all-state and all-Southern California hurdles in 14.66 and earning all-BIG EAST hon- Conference honors twice … born May 25, 1987 in Indoor ors in the 4x100 meter relay (46.46) …was joined Long Beach, Calif. … has one younger sister … 60m ...... 7.89 on the relay by Maryann Erigha, Okechi cousin, Ricky, played college football at UCLA 2005 Central Michigan Opener Ogbuokiri, and Brienne Davis. and is currently a member of the NFL’s Carolina 60m hurdles ...... 8.66 HIGH SCHOOL AND PERSONAL: Panthers … uncle, Eric, was a football player at 2005 Meyo Invitational Lettered in track all four years at John W. North Oregon State … intends to major in business Outdoor High School … All-American in the 100 meter and psychology … enrolled in the College of 100m hurdles ...... 14.29 hurdles her senior season … top time in the 100 Arts and Letters. 2005 Mike Poehlein Invitational hurdles is 13.31, which occurred as a member of the USA youth team that competed in Canada

2005-06 CROSS COUNTRY/TRACK & FIELD 49 The

Athletes Sunni AS A FRESHMAN: One of Notre Dame’s most consistent and outstanding Olding runners during the cross country season … showed remarkable improvement through- 5-9 • Sophomore out the season, culminating in the receipt of Cross Country/Distance her first All-America honor at the NCAA Championships … took second at the National Catholic Championship in her first Minster, Ohio race with the Irish … placed 31st at the Notre Minster H.S. Dame Invitational in 17:30 … helped the team attain a second-place finish at the Pre- All-American National meet by finishing in 29th place … earned all-conference honors at the BIG EAST Cross Country (2004) Championships with a 12th-place effort … stepped up in the absence of Molly Huddle at the NCAA Madia, Brianne Schmidt, and Crysta Swayzer … cross country and track … owns school marks in Great Lakes Regional, finishing sixth and helping focused on the 5,000 meters during the outdoor sea- cross country, 800 meters, 1,600 meters, 3,200 meters, the team take second place and earn a berth to the son … set a very fast career best in the 5,000 meters and as a member of the 4x800-meter relay team … NCAA Championship … concluded her amazing at the Stanford Invitational, finishing second qualified for the 2002 and 2003 Foot Locker freshman campaign by placing 32nd at the national behind teammate Stephanie Madia in 16:14.77 … Nationals … basketball team won the state title her meet, earning All-America honors and contributing competed at the prestigious Mount SAC Relays, senior season … Gatorade High School Athlete of to the team’s fourth-place finish and second trip to earning 17th place in the 5,000 meters while posting the Year in the state of Ohio her senior year … the podium in three years … won the mile at the a time of 16:27.12 … just missed out on outdoor all- Wendy’s High School Heisman state finalist … indoor Notre Dame Invitational in 4:51.98 … estab- BIG EAST honors in the 5,000 meters, running member of the National Honor Society … oldest of lished her current career best in the 3,000 meters at 16:39.71 for fourth place. three children … born May 28, 1986 in St. Mary’s, the Meyo Invitational, running 9:32.33 for eighth HIGH SCHOOL AND PERSONAL: Ohio … enrolled in the College of Arts and Letters place … earned two all-BIG EAST honors at the Outstanding prep career as she captured 12 indi- … twice earned Dean’s List honors during her fresh- league indoor meet, placing third in the 3,000 meters vidual state titles and seven team championships man year, including a perfect 4.0 semester GPA dur- in 9:36.13 and second in the distance medley relay in at Minster High School … lettered all four years in ing the spring 2005 term … named to 2004-05 BIG 11:32.29 … was joined on the DMR by Stephanie track and cross country and also earned two varsity EAST Academic All-Star Team. letters in basketball … USA Today All-American in Career Track Bests track during her junior and senior seasons … won Career Cross Country Results Indoor the adidas Outdoor Championship in the two-mile in 2003 and 2004 … went undefeated in the 1,600 2004 Mile ...... 4:51.98 meters, 3,200 meters, and the 4x800 meter relay the National Catholic...... 2nd 2005 Notre Dame Invitational final two years of her high school career … four- Notre Dame Invitational ...... 31st 3,000m ...... 9:32.33 time state champion in the 1,600 … ninth girl in Pre-National ...... 29th 2005 Meyo Invitational Ohio history to win the same event four times at the BIG EAST Championship ...... 12th state meet … three state crowns as part of the 4x800 Outdoor Great Lakes Regional ...... 6th 5,000m ...... 16:14.77 relay team … two state titles in the 3,200 … state record holder in the 1,600 (4:48) and the 3,200 (10:20) NCAA Championship...... 32nd 2005 Stanford Invitational … garnered all-state recognition all four years in

earned another all-BIG EAST honor in the 4x400 meter relay by finishing third in 3:47.99 with Okechi Ogbuokiri, Tiffany Gunn, and Maryann Crysta Erigha … also competed in the 500 meters at the league meet, finishing tenth in 1:16.99 … got off Swayzer to a fast start in the outdoor season with a 56.97 time in the 400 meters at the Willie Williams Invitational … ran 25.79 in the 200 meters at the 5-6 • Sophomore Dr. Pepper Invitational … set a new career best Sprints in the outdoor 400 meters at the Hillsdale Gina Relays, running 56.58 for third … competed in Houston, Texas two events at the BIG EAST outdoor meet, plac- ing ninth in the 400 meters with a career-best Westbury H.S. 56.15 and taking sixth with the 4x400 meter relay … teammates on the relay included Okechi Ogbuokiri, Brienne Davis, and Maryann Erigha. HIGH SCHOOL AND PERSONAL: Four- AS A FRESHMAN: Added strong depth to year letter winner in track as a sprinter at Career Track Bests the Irish sprint group … took second in the 400 Westbury High School … collected All-American Indoor meters at the Blue and Gold Invitational, post- honors her senior season as a member of the 400m ...... 57.51 ing a time of 58.34 … established her current 4x400 and 4x200 meter relay teams that com- peted at the 2004 Nike national indoor meet … 2005 Notre Dame Invitational career best in the 500 meters at the Notre Dame team captain for three seasons and named team 500m ...... 1:15.23 Opener, running 1:15.23 … competed well at the Notre Dame Invitational, taking fourth in the 200 MVP her senior campaign … regional champion 2005 Notre Dame Opener meters in 26.05 and third in the 400 in 57.51 … ran as a freshman … her Houston Heat summer Outdoor 1:15.35 over 500 meters for third place at the track team captured first-place in the 4x800 and 400m ...... 56.15 Meyo Invitational … ran in three events at the 4x400 relays at the Junior Olympic National 2005 BIG EAST Championship BIG EAST Indoor Championship … earned all- Championships in 2003 … born April 7, 1986 in BIG EAST honors in the distance medley relay Houston, Texas … has one younger brother … with Stephanie Madia, Sunni Olding, and enrolled in the Mendoza College of Business. Brianne Schmidt (second, 11:32.29) … nearly

UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME 50 The Athletes

Lauren Megan Alyissa Ramsey Biscardi Flynn Hasan Kavan

5-10 • Freshman 5-8 • Freshman 5-9 • Freshman 5-8 • Freshman Jumps Cross Country/ Multiple Events Cross Country/Distance Middle Distance Wading River, N.Y. Williamsville, N.Y. Yankton, S.D. Shoreham Wading South Bend, Ind. Williamsville South H.S. Yankton H.S. River H.S. Mishawaka Marian H.S.

HIGH SCHOOL AND PER- HIGH SCHOOL AND PER- HIGH SCHOOL AND PER- HIGH SCHOOL AND PER- SONAL: High jump standout on SONAL: Four-year track and field SONAL: Four-year letter track SONAL: Four-year letterwinner in the indoor and outdoor track and letter winner at Marian High and field letterwinner at cross country and track at Yankton field squads for Shoreham Wading School in Mishawaka, Ind. … also Williamsville South High School … High School … two-time cross country River High School … won national earned four letters in both soccer 15-time All-American at all levels All-American at Foot Locker high jump titles at the National and swimming … won the Indiana in seven different events, including Championships, finishing sixth (2003) Scholastic Indoor Championships state 800-meter championship as a the long jump, triple jump, high and third (2004) … also earned track All-America honors in 2004 and 2005 and Nike Indoor Nationals in the senior in 2005 … earned additional jump, 100-meter hurdles, pen- … named to 2005 USA Today All-USA same weekend in 2004 … two-time all-state honors in 2003 and 2004 tathlon, heptathlon, and shot put … High School Track and Field team … All-American in both indoor and with 5th and 13th-place finishes in won four USATF junior titles and South Dakota’s Gatorade Track and outdoor track … six-time New York the 1,600 meters … received aca- six state championships in various Field Athlete of the Year in 2001 and high jump state champion and demic all-state honors six times in events … named 2001 USATF Junior 2005 … won individual title at inau- seven-time all-state honoree … her three different sports … eight- Olympics Multi-Event Athlete of gural Nike Team Nationals cross four-time indoor county champion time sectional champion and part the Year after setting national country race in 2004, helping team and seven-time outdoor county of Marian’s sectional record-hold- record in pentathlon (3,512 points) place third overall … nationally champion, including the distinc- ing 4x400- and 4x800-meter relays … also owns New York state record ranked each of last two years of high tion of being the only female to win … won eight conference titles in in the outdoor pentathlon … school … two-mile champion at all three jump events (long, high, her career and was named the achieved national rankings in Golden West Invitational in 2005 … triple) in the same county meet … Northern Indiana Conference MVP each of her four years of high owns state records in 1,600 meters, school and county record holder in in both 2003 and 2004 … owns school … won state pentathlon 3,200 meters and 4x800-meter relay the high jump … personal best school records in the 3,200, 1,600, championships her junior and sen- (9:01) … three-time South Dakota state mark is 5-10 1/2 … member of 800, 4x400 (3:57.07), and 4x800 ior seasons while garnering all- cross country champion after placing third in state meet as freshman and National Honor Society, band, and (9:27.54) … named Marian track and state and all-conference honors all 24th as eighth grader … won 1,600- orchestra at Shoreham Wading field captain in 2004 and 2005 and four years … served as varsity cap- meter state title each of four years, River … Brookhaven Science team MVP in 2002, 2003, 2004, and tain each year since entering sev- adding 3,200-meter title in freshman Associate award winner and 2005 … personal bests of 5:01.05 in enth grade … also earned letters in and sophomore campaigns … Foot among the top five percent of her the 1,600, 2:14.12 in the 800, and gymnastics and swimming during Locker Midwest Regional cross coun- graduating class … older of two 12:07.00 in the 3,200 … honorable her career … was a member of the try champion in 2004 (runner-up in children … born Dec. 3, 1987 in mention all-state soccer player in USA Junior National Gymnastics 2003) … earned all-state honors in Smithtown, New York … plans to 2003 and 2004 … president of Team from age 9-12 … member of each of high school sports seasons … major in mathematics … enrolled National Honor Society, president Student Council and Pep Club … undefeated at state level during jun- in the First Year of Studies. of French Club, and active in vol- oldest of three children … born Jan. ior and senior seasons of cross coun- unteer work at Marian … also the 30, 1987 in Buffalo, N.Y. … plans to try and senior season of track in 1,600 school’s first female individual major in business management … meters … personal bests of 2:10.10 in state champion … one of four chil- enrolled in the First Year of Studies. 800, 4:37.53 in 1,500, 4:43 in 1,600, dren … uncle, Joe Boener, ran track 4:45.49 in mile, and 10:20 in 3,200 … at Navy … born Aug. 16, 1986 in member of National Honor Society, student council and Girls State at South Bend, Ind. … enrolled in the Yankton … hails from same town First Year of Studies. (Yankton) as former NBC anchor Tom Brokaw … born July 22, 1986 in Norfolk, Neb. … enrolled in the First Year of Studies.

2005-06 CROSS COUNTRY/TRACK & FIELD 51 The Athletes

Kate Mary Morgan Anna Mattoon Saxer Schulz Weber

5-5 • Freshman 5-6 • Freshman 5-5 • Freshman 6-0 • Freshman Pole Vault Pole Vault/Jumps Cross Country/Distance Throws

San Diego, Calif. Lancaster, N.Y. Centennial, Colo. Indianapolis, Ind. Rancho Bernardo H.S. Lancaster Central H.S. Smoky Hill H.S. Roncalli H.S.

HIGH SCHOOL AND PER- HIGH SCHOOL AND PER- HIGH SCHOOL AND PER- HIGH SCHOOL AND PER- SONAL: Four-year letter winner SONAL: Four-year letter winner in SONAL: Four-year letter winner in SONAL: Four-year letter winner in and pole vault standout in track and track and field at Lancaster Central both cross country and track and field track and field, volleyball, and bas- field at Rancho Bernardo High School High School … also added two letters at Smoky Hill High School … also ketball at Roncalli High School … … earned All-American honors in the as a field hockey forward … the most earned three letters in soccer … 2004 Indiana state shot put champion pole vault at the USATF Junior accomplished female prep pole earned All-America honors as the … all-state selection in her junior and National meet (fourth place) … vaulter in United States history … 11th-place finisher at the 2003 Foot senior track and field seasons … also first high school female to clear 14 Locker Cross Country National achieved a national ranking in the received first team academic all-state feet in the pole vault … owns the Championships and as a member of pole vault each of the last three years accolades in her senior campaign … national high school pole vault Smoky Hill’s 4x800-meter relay team … two-time California all-state selec- record after breaking her own mark in 2002 … four-year all-state selection two-time track regional champion tion with a third-place finish in 2004 nine times … also owns the American in cross country with two runner-up and team MVP … owner of Roncalli and a fifth-place performance in 2005 junior record in the pole vault and the finishes … member of Colorado state school records in the shot put and dis- … San Diego CIF Section record world record for a female under 17 … champion 4x800-meter relays in 2002, cus … personal bests of 46-1 (14.045m) holder … pole vaulted at several named the 2005 National High School 2003, and 2004 … also earned all-state in the shot put and 127-11 (38.98m) in prestigious invitationals during her Indoor Athlete of the Year … track honors in the 2005 4x800-meter the discus … tallied 314 kills and 177 senior season, including the Arcadia appointed to the 2005 USA Today All- relay and on nine different occasions blocks for the volleyball team and Invitational (first), Mount SAC Relays USA High School Track and Field in three different individual events … averaged 14 points and eight (first), and Golden West Invitational Team … earned All-America honors earned runner-up state finishes in the rebounds per game as a senior on the (fourth) … three-time conference and as the long jump champion at adidas 800, 1,600, and 3,200 meters in 2004 … basketball squad … member of regional champion … undefeated in Indoor Nationals in 2004 … won the state record holder in the 4x800-meter National Honor Society, student coun- San Diego County in her junior and pole vault competition at both the relay (9:01) … took eighth place over- cil, and her senior class treasurer … senior years … personal best mark of adidas Indoor and Outdoor National all at the 2004 Nike Team Nationals daughter of Martha and Tom Weber meets in 2005, collecting two more cross country race, helping the Smoky 12-9 (3.89m) … Rancho Bernardo’s … older of two children … classmate All-America honors … New York Hill team finish second … placed sev- Scholar Athlete of the Year as a senior of freshman Irish football player indoor and outdoor long jump state enth in two-mile run at the 2004 adi- … member of National Honor Society, champion in 2004 … won the indoor das Outdoor Championships to Patrick Kuntz … born May 23, 1987 in concert band, and Royal Regiment and outdoor pole vault state titles in establish herself as one of the Indianapolis, Ind. … enrolled in the marching band … father, Terry, wres- 2005 … took the pole vault title at the nation’s top performers in the event … First Year of Studies. tled at Fort Lewis College … older of 2005 National Scholastic Indoor six-time all-league and all-city selec- two children … born July 16, 1987 in Championship by a 23-inch margin tion … 2004 league champion and all- Los Gatos, Calif. … enrolled in the … competed at the 2005 Millrose time record holder in the 1,600 meters First Year of Studies. Games in against pro- … personal bests of 2:14 in the 800, fessionals and past Olympians, fin- 4:56 in the 1,600, 10:45 in the 3,200, and ishing sixth … personal bests of 14-3 10:32 in the two-mile … also boasts a (4.345m) in the pole vault and 19-9 top 5,000-meter cross country time of (6.02m) in the long jump … member of 17:38 … an accomplished soccer National Honor Society and student player and member of several elite government at Lancaster Central … Colorado club teams … member of older of two children … born June 21, National Honor Society, Fellowship of 1987 in Buffalo, N.Y. … enrolled in the Christian Athletes, and DECA … win- First Year of Studies. ner of the 2005 Smoky Hill Faculty Award for Exceptional Quality Citizen … older of two children … born April 6, 1987 in Denver, Colo. … enrolled in the First Year of Studies.

UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME 52 The Student-Athletes

Senior Tim Moore was a co-captain on the 2004 Notre Dame men’s cross country team that rose to fifth in the national rankings. The

Athletes Vinny

AS A JUNIOR: Emerged as a key Ambrico contributor and consistent No. 5 runner for the fifth-ranked Notre Dame cross 5-11 • Senior country team … one of two athletes to Cross Country/Distance compete in all seven of the team’s races in the fall … passed four runners in the final 1,000 meters at the BIG EAST Cross Altamonte Springs, Fla. Country Championships to finish in Choate Rosemary Hall 24:27 and help the Irish win the competition by Academy one point … participated in his first NCAA Cross Country Championship … cross country season bests were 24:27 over 8,000 meters at the BIG EAST Championships and 31:22 over 10,000 meters at the NCAA Great Lakes Regional … HIGH SCHOOL AND won the mile at the Notre Dame Invitational PERSONAL: A four-year let- indoor track meet with a time of 4:11.98 … quali- ter winner in both cross coun- fied individually for the BIG EAST indoor meet try and track and field at in the one mile run, scoring points for the even- Choate Rosemary Hall in tual team champion … did not compete during Wallingford, Conn. … three- the outdoor track season. time conference champion AS A SOPHOMORE: A talented middle and all-conference pick in distance runner capable of running several dif- track and field … two-time ferent distances … won the 1,000 meters at the all-conference choice in cross Windsor Team Challenge, finishing first in country … earned all-state 2:29.99 … ran a personal-best 4:07.96 in the mile honors in both track and field run at the Alex Wilson Invitational … also fin- and cross country as a senior ished fourth in the mile at the Meyo Invitational … served as team captain in and the Notre Dame Invitational … just missed both sports in 2001-02 … set out on all-BIG EAST honors at the indoor meet as four school records in track a part of the distance medley relay team, com- and field … placed fourth in bining with teammates Eric Morrison, Mark the mile run at 2002 National Barber and Thomas Chamney to finish fourth in Scholastic Indoor 10:02.87 … qualified for the BIG EAST outdoor Championships in New York meet in the 1,500 meters, finishing 10th in 3:54.60, City … ranked sixth in the moving up from 12th in the preliminaries. nation in the indoor mile and AS A FRESHMAN: Established himself as 1,000-meter run during 2002 a reliable middle-distance specialist for the season … won New England Notre Dame track and field team … began the Prep School Championship in 2003 indoor season running the 800 meters … fin- 1,500-meter run as a senior … ished third in the 800 meters against Western also placed third in 1,600 Michigan and Ball State in 1:51.18 … moved up meters at 2001 state meet … to the mile for the Meyo Invitational and posted helped lead Choate to 2002 his first collegiate victory, winning the regular New England Prep School section of the mile run in 4:11.16 … also won his Cross Country Championship section of the mile at the Alex Wilson … member of National Honor Invitational (4:11.67) … qualified for the BIG Society … father, Vincent, was EAST indoor meet in the mile and competed a two-year monogram winner well, scoring points for the team with a sixth- in track and field at Notre place effort (4:17.04) … focused on the 1,500 Dame (1969-70) … youngest of meters for the 2003 outdoor season … competed three children … born Nov. 21, 1982 in Orlando, Fla. … enrolled in the Mendoza Career Cross Country Results College of Business as an 2004 accounting major. Valparaiso Invitational...... 5th National Catholic ...... 3rd Notre Dame Invitational...... 47th Pre-Nationals ...... 66th at the Stanford Invitational, finishing eighth in BIG EAST Championship...... 17th Career Track Bests Great Lakes Regional ...... 43rd his section (3:51.73) … took fifth in the 1,500 Indoor NCAA Championship ...... 224th meters at the Tom Botts Invitational … qualified 800m ...... 1:54.18 2003 for the second BIG EAST meet of his rookie sea- 2003 vs. Western Michigan and Ball State Notre Dame Invitational ...... 6th* son, taking 10th in both the preliminary and Mile...... 4:07.96 (* - indicates Gold Division race) finals of the 1,500 meters … ran season-best 1,500-meter time of 3:51.13 at the Georgia Tech 2004 Alex Wilson Invitational Invitational. Outdoor 1,500m...... 3:48.95 2004 Georgia Tech Invitational

UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME 54 The A.J. Athletes Andrassy

5-10 • Senior Cross Country/Distance

Bay Village, Ohio St. Ignatius H.S.

AS A SENIOR: Showed AS A FRESHMAN (at John Carroll his trademark improvement University): Began his career at NCAA during the cross country sea- Division III entity John Carroll University in son, earning a regular spot University Heights, Ohio … competed on the among the team’s top seven … cross country and track and field squads during after a sixth-place finish at the his freshman year … top cross country perform- Valparaiso Invitational, won ance was a 26:44 effort over 8,000 meters at his first collegiate cross coun- Bowling Green … also finished 16th at the try race with a 26:00 run in the Wilmington Fall Classic in 27:10 … broke (and National Catholic still holds) the John Carroll school record in the Championship JV race … 3,000-meter steeplechase at 9:44.03 … recog- returned to the Notre Dame nized as the top freshman in the Ohio Athletic home course two weeks later Conference. and ran 40 seconds faster to fin- HIGH SCHOOL AND PERSONAL: ish 23rd in the Notre Dame Four-year letter winner in cross country and Invitational Gold race … had a three-year letter winner in track and field dur- strong finish at the BIG EAST ing his career at Saint Ignatius … ranked Championship for the second- among the top runners in his district in cross straight year, taking 24th in a country while serving as team captain during time of 24:43 … one of the top his senior season … member of Saint Ignatius’ seven finishers for the BIG state championship winning track and field EAST Champions … made his team in 2001 … personal best of 4:30.1 in the 10,000-meter debut at the NCAA 1,600 meters … also a letter-winning member of Great Lakes Regional, helping the Ohio state champion basketball team as the team advance to the NCAA the manager … member of National Honor Championship with a 59th- Society, Student Community Involvement place finish in a time of 31:45 … Program, and his class treasurer … has two had a tough race in the unfa- older siblings … his brother Bryan kicked for vorable conditions at the the Ohio Wesleyan football team and sister national meet as Notre Dame Jennifer ran cross country and track at Xavier … took 11th in team competition born Sept. 9, 1983 in Fairview, Ohio … enrolled … ran one race during the 2005 in the College of Arts and Letters with a double track season … won the 3,000- major in history and English … serving as pres- meter steeplechase at the Indy ident of Notre Dame’s Student-Athlete Advisory Relays with a time of 9:26.09. Council during 2005-06 academic year. AS A JUNIOR: Improved over the course of the cross country season to become one Career Cross Country Results of Notre Dame’s top 10 runners 2004 … ran extremely well at the Valparaiso Invitational...... 6th BIG EAST Championship, tak- National Catholic ...... 1st* ing 24th overall with a per- Notre Dame Invitational...... 23rd* sonal-best 8,000-meter time of Pre-National ...... 20th* 25:40 … was the sixth finisher BIG EAST Championship...... 24th for the Notre Dame team that Great Lakes Regional ...... 59th finished second at the meet NCAA Championship ...... 240th behind Georgetown … only competed in one race during 2003 the 2004 track and field season, Valparaiso Invitational...... 7th running 4:13.60 in the mile at National Catholic ...... 35th the Blue and Gold Invitational. Notre Dame Invitational ...... 18th* AS A SOPHOMORE: Did BIG EAST Championship...... 24th not compete during the 2002-03 season. (* - indicates JV/Gold/Open Division race)

2005-06 CROSS COUNTRY/TRACK & FIELD 55 The

Athletes Tim

AS A JUNIOR: All-American Moore who co-captained the Notre Dame 6-1 • Senior cross country squad that attained a Cross Country/Distance No. 5 national ranking in the final Novi, Mich. Mondo poll … formed an effective Novi H.S. 1-2 punch with sophomore Kurt Benninger that paced the team in All American nearly every meet … kicked off the Cross Country (2004) cross country season as an individual BIG EAST Champion champion at the National Catholic Indoor 5,000 meters (2003) Invitational, running 24:58 over 8,000 meters … followed up that performance had a sensational debut in two weeks later by running 23:58 on the the outdoor season with a same course at the Notre Dame career best in the 10,000 Invitational, an effort that earned him 13th meters at the Stanford place … led the team to victory at the BIG Invitational … ran 29:03.43 EAST Championships, finishing sixth which was good for 21st overall (23:53) in front of three teammates place in a very deep field … to earn all-BIG EAST honors … helped ran the 5,000 meters at the Notre Dame advance to the NCAA Mount SAC Relays, taking Championships by taking ninth in the 20th in 14:15.06 … scored Great Lakes Regional, running 30:25 over points in two events at the 10,000 meters … competed in the NCAA outdoor BIG EAST Championships for the third time, and his Championships, finishing first with the Irish team … ran 31:56 over fifth in both the 5,000 meters 10,000 meters in sloppy conditions, good for and 10,000 meters … con- 43rd place (and his first All-American cita- cluded the year with a 12th- tion) as the team finished 11th at the place finish in the 5,000 national meet … began the indoor track meters (14:20.68) at the season with a fourth-place 3,000-meter fin- NCAA Mideast Regional. ish at the Notre Dame Invitational … com- AS A SOPHOMORE: peted in the Meyo Invitational the Continued his role as one of following weekend and ran a career best of the top cross country harri- 14:12.67 in the 5,000 meters, finishing fourth ers on the Irish roster … … made a huge contribution to Notre switched back and forth with senior Todd Mobley as Career Cross Country Results the top two runners on the 2004 team … began the 2003 cross National Catholic ...... 1st country season with a third- Notre Dame Invitational...... 13th place finish at the Notre Pre-Nationals ...... 13th Dame Invitational, helping BIG EAST Championship...... 6th the Irish claim the team title Great Lakes Regional ...... 9th … followed up with a team- NCAA Championship ...... 43rd best 15th-place effort at the Pre-National meet … fin- 2003 Notre Dame Invitational...... 3rd ished first on the team for Pre-National ...... 15th the second year in a row and BIG EAST Championship...... 6th earned all-BIG EAST honors Great Lakes Regional ...... 15th for the second time by fin- NCAA Championship ...... 89th ishing sixth at the league cross country championship 2002 … ended up second on the adidas Invitational ...... 2nd team and 15th overall at the National Catholic ...... 2nd NCAA Great Lakes Regional Notre Dame Invitational...... 6th Dame’s indoor BIG EAST title with two all- … was invited to the NCAA Championship Pre-National ...... 22nd BIG EAST performances, running 14:27.25 BIG EAST Championship...... 10th as an individual entry, finishing 89th over- for third in the 5,000 meters and a season- Great Lakes Regional ...... 14th all … did not compete during the 2004 track NCAA Championship ...... 63rd best 8:17.04 for second in the 3,000 meters … and field season. concluded the indoor campaign with a AS A FRESHMAN: Highly-touted 14th-place effort in the 5,000 meters at the rookie lived up to his billing during the competitive Alex Wilson Invitational … 2002 cross country season and 2003 track

UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME 56 Career Track Bests Championship to finish first on the team in 10th place … that finish provided the first The Indoor 3,000m...... 8:16.83 all-BIG EAST honor of his career … Notre Athletes 2003 BIG EAST Championship Dame finished fourth as a team at the BIG HIGH SCHOOL AND PER- 5,000m...... 14:12.67 EAST cross country meet … posted another SONAL: A four-year letter winner 2005 Meyo Invitational top-15 finish at the Great Lakes Regional, in both cross country and track Outdoor ending up 14th in 30:57.1 to post the top fin- and field and Novi (Mich.) High 5,000m...... 14:15.06 ish on the team yet again … flirted with School … a four-time All-America 2005 Mideast Regional All-America honors at the NCAA pick in track and field and two- 10,000m...... 29:03.43 Championship, eventually ending up 63rd time All-America selection in 2005 Stanford Invitational in the field as Notre Dame’s top finisher … cross country … won three state began the 2003 indoor track and field sea- titles in cross country and two state crowns and field slate … ended up as a BIG EAST son with a victory in the 3,000 meters in track and field … also a four-time all-city champion and qualified for the 2003 IAAF against Western Michigan and Ball State and all-conference choice in both cross World Cross Country Championship in … ran the difficult double of the 5,000 country and track and field … holds school Lausanne, Switzerland … posted an out- meters and 10,000 meters at the BIG EAST record in 3,200-meter run and was part of standing first BIG EAST Championship at outdoor meet, finishing fifth in the 5,000 school record-setting 3,200-meter relay the 2003 indoor meet, winning his first indi- meters and earning second all-BIG EAST team … was a three-time regional and con- vidual title in the 5,000 meters (14:26.78) and honors of the season in the 10,000 meters ference champion in track and field … earning all-BIG EAST honors with a third- (30:31.13) … also competed at the Mount served as cross country team captain his place finish in the 3,000 meters (8:16.83) … SAC Relays in the 10,000 meters, running a final two seasons … qualified for 2001 began his first cross country season in 2002 season-best 29:45.93 … stepped out of track cross country Junior World Championships with a second-place finish behind team- and field competition in February of 2003 to … member of National Honor Society … mate Todd Mobley in the adidas compete at the USA Cross Country oldest of two children … brother Mark is a Invitational … followed the same pattern Championships in Houston, Texas … fin- freshman cross country/distance runner at at the National Catholic, finishing behind ished fifth at the USA Championship to Notre Dame … born April 12, 1984 in Royal Mobley again to take second and help the qualify for the IAAF World Championship, Oak, Mich. … member of the 2002-03 BIG Irish win the team title … ran well at the run in Switzerland … made the trip to EAST Academic All-Star team … enrolled highly-competitive Notre Dame Lausanne, Switzerland, to run with the U.S in Mendoza College of Business as a dou- Invitational, finishing sixth … top finisher Junior National Team … finished second on ble major in finance and mathematics … for the team at the Pre-National meet, tak- the team at the World Championship and earned Dean’s List honors for spring 2005 ing 22nd place … stepped up due to an 34th overall, helping the United States fin- term after posting a 3.778 semester GPA. injury to Mobley at the BIG EAST ish eighth as a team.

place finish … this performance ranks as the 10th-best in Notre Dame history … Sean established his outdoor career best in the O’Donnell 5,000 meters at the Stanford Invitational … ran 14:05.60 and took sixth place in the meet … competed at the Mount SAC 6-3 • 5th Year Relays and finished 11th in the 5,000 Cross Country/Distance meters in 14:12.23 … posted a seventh- place effort at the outdoor BIG EAST Kansas City, Mo. Championship, covering 5,000 meters in Rockhurst H.S. 14:43.04 … set a new career best of 3:49.51 in the 1,500 meters at the Georgia Tech Invitational … qualified for the NCAA Mideast Regional in the 5,000 meters … ran 14:27.98 for 15th place at the competition … AS A SENIOR: One of the co-captains Championship, helping the team take 11th for the Notre Dame cross country team that place in the meet … had a very productive was ranked fifth in the nation in the final track season, setting a career best in the Career Track Bests polls … one of the top four runners for the indoor 3,000 meters at the Notre Dame Indoor Irish … placed 20th at the Notre Dame Invitational (8:19.50) early in the season … 3,000m...... 8:19.50 Invitational, helping the team to a second- took eighth in the 5,000 meters amidst a 2005 Notre Dame Invitational place finish … earned all-BIG EAST honors strong field at the Meyo Invitational … 5,000m...... 14:11.12 at the league meet and contributed to the scored BIG EAST points at the league meet 2005 Alex Wilson Invitational Irish team title with a ninth-place finish … in the 3,000 meter run with a seventh-place Outdoor ran 23:55 over 8,000 meters in the race and finish (8:24.83) … also contributed to the 1,500m...... 3:49.51 finished in a pack of four teammates … BIG EAST champion distance medley relay 2005 Georgia Tech Invitational performed well at the NCAA Great Lakes team, comprised of Brett Adams, Jamal 5,000m...... 14:05.60 Regional, placing 19th and covering the Afridi and Jordan Powell (10:00.17) … set a 2005 Stanford Invitational 10,000 meter course in 30:35 … Notre career best in the 5,000 meters at the Alex Dame’s fourth man at the NCAA Wilson Invitational with a 14:11.12, fourth-

2005-06 CROSS COUNTRY/TRACK & FIELD 57 1,500 meters during the The outdoor season … Athletes placed 16th in the pre- liminaries of the 1,500 named to the 2005 ESPN The meters at the 2003 BIG Magazine Academic All-America EAST outdoor meet … Track and Field/Cross Country on the cusp of the top Third Team. eight runners for the AS A JUNIOR: Turned in the Irish cross country team top overall season of his career, in 2002 … participated developing into one of the top five in four meets, including runners on the cross country team and the Pre-National meet scoring in both the indoor and outdoor BIG (103rd) … ended up 30th EAST meets … ended up just missing all- in the adidas BIG EAST honors in cross country (finish- Invitational … ran the ing 20th – top 15 earn all-conference JV race at the National accolades) and the indoor 3,000 meters Catholic, taking fourth (finishing fourth – top three earn all-con- place … also finished ference honors) … began the ’03 cross fourth in the Gold country season by finishing second on the Division race at the team and third overall at the National Notre Dame Catholic … ran well at the Notre Dame Invitational. Invitational, finishing fourth on the team AS A FRESHMAN: and 20th overall … competed in the Pre- Competed in one cross National meet, taking 58th place … country race during his helped Notre Dame finish second at the rookie season, finishing BIG EAST cross country meet, finishing 13th at the Valparaiso 20th overall … ended up third on the team Invitational … did not and 41st overall at the NCAA Great Lakes compete during the 2002 Regional … warmed up for the indoor track and field season. track season with a first-place effort in the HIGH SCHOOL mile (4:12.20) at the Blue and Gold AND PERSONAL: Invitational … ran very well at the BIG Three-sport standout at EAST Indoor Championships in the 3,000 Rockhurst High School meters, finishing fourth overall in 8:19.56 in Kansas City, Mo. … … ran the 5,000 meters just twice during earned letters in cross the ’04 outdoor season, qualifying for the country, track and field BIG EAST meet at the Stanford and soccer … served as team captain of both Career Cross Country Results the cross country and 2003 track and field teams Notre Dame Invitational...... 20th during his senior sea- Pre-National ...... 50th son … named track and BIG EAST Championship...... 9th field team MVP while Great Lakes Regional ...... 19th earning all-conference, NCAA Championship ...... 97th all-city and all-state Invitational (14:25.66), then finishing accolades … excelled at the state level, 2003 eighth at the BIG EAST Outdoor setting school records in the 4x800-meter National Catholic ...... 3rd relay and 1,600 meters at the state champi- Notre Dame Invitational...... 20th Championship (14:57.32). onship … key member of state champi- Pre-National ...... 58th AS A SOPHOMORE: Qualified for BIG EAST Championship...... 20th both BIG EAST Championship meets dur- onship soccer team in 1999 … president of Great Lakes Regional ...... 41st ing his second season with the Irish … the National Honor Society at Rockhurst ended up fourth in the indoor mile run at and a member of the Regis Club … middle 2002 the BIG EAST meet, scoring points toward of three children … born June 25, 1982, in adidas Invitational...... 30th an eventual Notre Dame team title … won Kansas City, Mo. … earned degree in National Catholic ...... 4th* his section of the mile run at the Meyo mechanical engineering from College of Notre Dame Invitational ...... 4th* Invitational to claim his first individual Engineering in May 2005 … enrolled in Pre-National ...... 103rd victory at college level … focused on the graduate studies at Notre Dame. 2001 Valparaiso Invitational...... 13th (* - indicates JV/Gold Division race)

UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME 58 Ryan The Athletes Postel Michigan State … posted a season- best time of 48.24 to cap the indoor sea- 6-3 • Senior son at the Alex Wilson Invitational … qualified for the BIG EAST indoor Sprints/Jumps meet in the 400 meters, finishing ninth in the preliminaries … member of the Lexington, Ky. 2003 men’s distance medley relay Lexington Catholic H.S. team during the indoor season … com- bined with teammates Kevin Somok, BIG EAST Champion Thomas Chamney and Eric Morrison to qualify Outdoor 400 meters (2004) for the NCAA Championships … eventually fin- ished 10th at the NCAA Indoor Championships in Fayetteville, Ark. … continued to run well AS A JUNIOR: Did not com- during the outdoor season, taking home a vic- pete due to illness. tory at the Tom Botts Invitational in the 400 AS A SOPHOMORE: Took a meters (47.97) … qualified for the BIG EAST out- large step forward as one of the door meet, scoring points for the team effort by top sprinters in the BIG EAST finishing sixth in the finals of the 400 meters Conference … claimed his first (47.77). individual BIG EAST HIGH SCHOOL AND PERSONAL: A Championship in the outdoor 400 three-sport standout, earning letters in track meters, beating the field with a and field (four), basketball (three) and football 47.22 effort in the finals (ran a per- (two) at Lexington (Ky.) Catholic High School … sonal-best 46.63 in the preliminar- won state title in 400-meter dash in 2002 … ies) … also claimed a share of the three-time all-state selection and nine-time indoor 4x400-meter relay school individual state championship medalist … record, combining with Trevor helped team to four regional titles and a state McClain-Duer, Jordan Powell and runner-up finish in 2001 … 12-time individual Selim Nurudeen to run 3:09.87 at regional championship medalist … was ranked the Alex Wilson Invitational … among top five in the state in nine different achieved his career best and set events from 2000-02, including a number one the school record in the indoor 400 ranking at 400 meters … Kentucky AAU two- meters at the Alex Wilson time gold medalist in 2001 at 100 and 200 Invitational … upon completion meters, and a bronze medalist in long jump … of the indoor season had the two two-time team captain of track and field squad fastest indoor 400 meter times in … also was a talented wide receiver in football, school history and three school ranking first in the state in 2001 in average records … has earned seven all- yards per reception and second in touchdown BIG EAST honors as an individual catches … garnered honorable mention all- and on various relays in just two state honors from the Associated Press in 2001 full track and field seasons … ran … was a member of LCHS state championship well at the BIG EAST indoor meet basketball team in 2002 … team was ranked as as well, finishing second in 47.66 high as 10th in the nation by USA Today … to earn all-BIG EAST honors … member of National Honor Society … played earned all-BIG EAST honors at football alongside current Irish senior gridder the BIG EAST indoor meet in the Jake Carney, and was a teammate of former 4x400 relay, finishing second with Notre Dame basketball standout David Graves McClain-Duer, Powell and at Lexington Catholic … middle of three chil- Nurudeen … appeared at the adi- dren … born Oct. 22, 1983 in Miami, Fla. … das Indoor Games in the distance enrolled in the Mendoza College of Business medley relay, running 9:45.33 with with a double major in management informa- Kurt Benninger, Thomas tion systems and economics. Chamney and Eric Morrison … ran 10.57 over 100 meters at the Career Track Bests outdoor Spring Opener, posting the fourth- same team ran 3:09.65 at the NCAA Mideast Indoor fastest performance in school history … ran Regional, the second-best 4x400-meter relay in 200m...... 21.68 extremely well during the BIG EAST outdoor school history … spent the fall of 2004 working 2004 Blue and Gold Invitational meet, as his 46.63 effort in the preliminaries out with the Notre Dame football team as a 400m...... 47.01 ranks as the fourth-best in school history … fin- walk-on receiver. 2004 Alex Wilson Invitational ished a solid fourth in the 400 meters at the Mt. AS A FRESHMAN: Developed well dur- Outdoor SAC Relays (47.41) … qualified for the NCAA ing his rookie season, concentrating on the 400 100m ...... 10.57 Mideast Regional in the 400 meters, finishing meters … earned two all-BIG EAST honors as a 20th (47.46) … after winning the 400 meters at member of Notre Dame’s relay teams … helped 2004 Notre Dame Opener the BIG EAST outdoor meet, earned all-BIG teammates Trevor McClain-Duer, Ryan Hurd 200m...... 21.79 EAST honors with second-place efforts in the and Mark Barber finish second in the 4x400 2004 BIG EAST Championship 4x100 and 4x400-meter relays … combined with relay at the BIG EAST indoor meet (3:15.85) … 400m...... 46.63 Nurudeen, Ryan Hurd and Tommie Lee in the helped Hurd, Barber and Selim Nurudeen finish 2004 BIG EAST Championship 4x100-meter relay posting a time of 41.20 … third in the 4x100 at the BIG EAST outdoor meet teamed with McClain-Duer, Powell and (41.31) … claimed victories in the 400 meters Nurudeen in the 4x400 relay in 3:10.52 … the against Western Michigan/Ball State and

2005-06 CROSS COUNTRY/TRACK & FIELD 59 The Athletes Kaleb AS A JUNIOR: One of Notre Van Ort Dame’s top four harriers during the 2004 cross country season … a consistent performer and key member of one of the 6-1 • Senior country’s top teams … placed 14th in the Notre Dame Invitational, running 23:59 Cross Country/Distance on the Irish home course … ran 24:34 at the NCAA Pre-National meet, good for Waterloo, Ind. 28th place … earned all-BIG EAST hon- DeKalb H.S. ors at the league championships with an eighth place, 23:54 effort … finished second on the team and eighth overall at the NCAA Great Lakes Regional … took 96th place overall at his first NCAA Championships as the team fin- cross country meets, the adidas ished 11th … competed in the 3,000 meters and Invitational and National Catholic … 5,000 meters during the indoor track season … finished 84th in the highly-competitive scored in two events at the indoor BIG EAST Notre Dame Invitational … also Championships … ran 8:19.44 for fourth in the appeared for the Irish in the Pre- 3,000 meters and 14:29.57 for fifth in the 5,000 National meet (183rd) … helped Notre meters … ran a career best of 14:18.72 in the Dame finish fourth at the BIG EAST 5,000 meters at the Alex Wilson Invitational … cross country championship with a 49th- competed in the 10,000 meters at the Stanford place effort … did not compete during Invitational in the outdoor season, winning his the 2003 indoor track and field season … section and running a career best of 28:59.35 … returned to the track for the outdoor sea- performance ranks as the seventh-fastest 10,000 son, qualifying for the BIG EAST outdoor meter run in school history … earned all-BIG meet in the 10,000 meters … eventually EAST honors at the outdoor championships scored points toward the team title with with a third place finish in the 10,000 meters a sixth-place effort (31:19.38). (30:26.01) … also scored points in the 5,000 HIGH SCHOOL AND PER- meters with a fourth place effort … competed in SONAL: A four-year letter winner in the NCAA Outdoor Championships in the 10,000 both cross country and track and field at meters … finished a strong 13th in 29:19.74, one DeKalb High School in Waterloo, Ind. … spot ahead of the 2004 NCAA cross country a two-time all-state selection in cross champion. country and track and field … also AS A SOPHOMORE: One of the top five earned four all-city and all-conference runners on the Irish cross country team during awards in cross country and two all-city the 2003 season … also a key contributor at the and all-conference honors in track and BIG EAST meets in track and field, earning field … named Indiana Cross Country three all-BIG EAST honors during the 2004 sea- Runner of the Year as both a junior and son … began the ’03 cross country slate with a senior … won Junior Olympics national team-best second-place finish at the National title at 3,200-meters in 2000 … set school Catholic, leading Notre Dame to the team title record in 3,200-meter run as a junior … … ended up 26th in the Notre Dame Invitational claimed two conference titles in track and field … finished sixth at Mideast All-Stars cross country race and 10th at Career Cross Country Results Foot Locker regional cross country meet 2004 as a senior … served as team co-captain Notre Dame Invitational...... 14th on cross country squad during his final Pre-National ...... 28th year, winning conference and regional BIG EAST Championship...... 8th titles that season … member of National Great Lakes Regional ...... 8th Honor Society … uncle, Michael Schrauth, graduated from Notre Dame NCAA Championship ...... 96th … competed in the Pre-National meet, finishing in 1985 … middle of three children … born April 52nd … earned first all-BIG EAST honor of his 21, 1984 in Auburn, Ind. … enrolled in the 2003 career at the BIG EAST Cross Country College of Engineering. National Catholic ...... 2nd Championship, finishing 12th overall and third Notre Dame Invitational...... 26th on the team … ran both the 3,000 and 5,000 Pre-National ...... 52nd meters during the 2004 indoor track and field Career Track Bests BIG EAST Championship...... 12th season … earned all-BIG EAST honors in both Indoor Great Lakes Regional ...... 50th distances, finishing third in the 3,000 meters 3,000m...... 8:12.18 (8:18.90) and second in the 5,000 meters (14:25.90) 2004 Alex Wilson Invitational 2002 at the league indoor meet … ran two distances 5,000m...... 14:18.72 adidas Invitational...... 8th at the BIG EAST outdoor meet as well … fin- 2005 Alex Wilson Invitational National Catholic ...... 8th ished third in the 10,000 meters, running the race Outdoor Notre Dame Invitational...... 84th in 30:58.93 … also scored in the 5,000 meters, fin- 5,000m...... 14:32.54 Pre-National...... 183rd ishing seventh in 14:54.06. 2005 BIG EAST Championship BIG EAST Championship...... 49th AS A FRESHMAN: Strong start to the 2002 10,000m...... 28:59.35 cross country season established him as one of 2005 Stanford Invitational the top nine runners on the Irish roster … fin- ished eighth overall at his first two collegiate

UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME 60 The Geoff Athletes Bennett

5-11 • Junior Hurdles

Houston, Texas St. Thomas H.S.

preliminaries with a time of 8.30 before blazing through the final heat in 8.19 for third place and all-BIG EAST honors … started the outdoor season on the right foot by winning the 110-meter hurdles at the Spring Opener in 14.90 … qualified for the BIG EAST Championship in the 110-meter hurdles … ran 14.94 in the preliminaries and 14.93 in the final for eighth place, scor- ing points for the eventual team champion. HIGH SCHOOL AND PERSONAL: Four-year letterwinner in track at St. Thomas High School in Houston, Texas … member of four-year conference champion and two-time state champion track squad … twice was named all-conference and earned team MVP honors as a junior … set two school records for the shuttle hurdle and triple jump … personal bests for 110m hurdles (14.4 hand-timed), 300m hurdles (40.4 automatic timed) and triple jump (44- 4.75) … served as team captain during sen- ior year … also played cornerback and lettered on football team as a senior … member of National Honor Society … grandfather, Malcolm, ran cross country at Rice … born Oct. 24, 1984 in Houston, Texas … younger of two children … enrolled in Mendoza College of Business and is pur- suing a double major in accounting and Spanish.

AS A SOPHOMORE: Continued to eighth in the 110-meter hurdles … took Career Track Bests develop as a hurdler for the Irish team … third at the Indy Relays in 15.01 … ran the Indoor ran the 60-meter hurdles in 8.20 at the 110-meter hurdles at the BIG EAST outdoor 60m hurdles...... 8.19 Notre Dame Opener … took third at the meet, establishing a huge career best in 2005 BIG EAST Championship Notre Dame Invitational in the same race the preliminaries with a time of 14.66 … 2004 BIG EAST Championship with a time of 8.38 … placed second behind returned to run 14.75 in the final for eighth Outdoor teammate Nurudeen at the Windsor Team place. 110m hurdles...... 14.66 Challenge for the second straight year AS A FRESHMAN: Stepped in and 2005 BIG EAST Championship (8.24) … again qualified for the BIG EAST added immediate depth to the Irish hur- meet, running the 60-meter hurdles … dles group … ran a strong 8.30 in the 60- posted a time of 8.29 in the preliminaries meter hurdles at the Notre Dame and improved to a mark of 8.19 in the final, Invitational … took second behind team- good for fifth place … scored points for the mate Selim Nurudeen at the Windsor title-winning Notre Dame squad … made Invitational in 8.35 … qualified for the BIG his outdoor season debut at the Mike EAST Indoor Championship in the 60- Poehlein Invitational, running 15.00 for meter hurdles … tied his career best in the

2005-06 CROSS COUNTRY/TRACK & FIELD 61 The Athletes Kurt Benninger

5-11 • Junior Cross Country/Distance

Chepstow, Ontario Walkerton D.S.S.

AS A SOPHOMORE: Emerged as one of the premier distance runners in the Honors & Awards nation … finished as Notre Dame’s top run- All-American ner in four of five cross country meets in Mile (4th - 2005) Distance Medley Relay (6th - 2005) which he participated … made his 2004 cross country debut in the Notre Dame BIG EAST Champion Invitational, finishing second in 23:43 … Mile (2005) took eighth at the NCAA Pre-National 3,000 meters (2005) meet (24:07) before contributing to the team’s BIG EAST title at the league cross country championships … ran in a pack of league meet … ran 4:12.14 in the four Irish runners at the meet, finishing finals of the mile and 8:15.22 in the second on the team and seventh overall in 3,000 meters … continued his 23:54 to earn all-BIG EAST honors … ran to excellent season at the NCAA an outstanding third-place finish at the Indoor Championships … earned NCAA Great Lakes Regional, completing his first career All-American honor the 10,000 meter course in 30:17 … com- in the mile run, taking fourth in peted aggressively at the NCAA 4:02.24 (sixth-fastest in school his- Championships, eventually finishing tory) … also garnered All- 42nd as Notre Dame’s top runner … named American status in the distance the men’s cross country Notre Dame medley relay, teaming with Trevor Monogram Club MVP … had one of the McClain-Duer, Eric Morrison, and better indoor track seasons in school his- Adam Currie to take sixth place … tory … ran the 3,000 meters at the Notre began the outdoor season by run- Dame Invitational … won the race con- ning his first career 5,000 meters at vincingly in a time of 7:59.39, the fifth- the Stanford Invitational … ran fastest performance in school history … one of the year’s world-leading competed in the prestigious Meyo Mile at times and broke Watson’s school the Meyo Invitational, finishing fourth and record with a 13:33.05 performance breaking four minutes with a 3:58.75 effort … qualified for the NCAA Mideast … was the first Irish runner to break four Regional in the 5,000 meters … sat minutes in the mile since Notre Dame dis- out the rest of the outdoor season tance legend Luke Watson managed the with an injury. AS A FRESHMAN: Contributed as one of the top five runners on the 2003 cross country Career Cross Country Results team and developed well during 2004 the 2004 track and field season, Notre Dame Invitational ...... 2nd eventually qualifying as an indi- Pre-National ...... 8th BIG EAST Championship...... 7th vidual for the NCAA Outdoor Great Lakes Regional ...... 3rd Championship … began his cross NCAA Championship ...... 42nd country career with a 12th-place effort at the National Catholic, 2003 feat in 2003 …was the second-fastest mile helping Notre Dame claim the team title … Notre Dame Invitational...... 12th ever run by a Notre Dame athlete (behind ran well at the BIG EAST Championship, Pre-National ...... 88th Watson) … performed well at the indoor finishing 21st overall … also ran at the BIG EAST Championship ...... 21st BIG EAST Championships … won both the NCAA Great Lakes Regional, finishing Great Lakes Regional ...... 38th mile and the 3,000 meters, becoming just 38th … qualified for the BIG EAST indoor the third Notre Dame athlete to win two mile competition at the Meyo Invitational, individual events in the same BIG EAST finishing 10th in the Meyo Mile (4:03.67) …

UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME 62 The Athletes just missed his first BIG EAST meters, crossing the finish Championship at the league indoor meet, line in 3:51.34 … appeared in finishing second in the mile with a 4:08.74 his first NCAA effort … also finished fifth in the 3,000 Championship at the out- meters at the BIG EAST meet, crossing the door competition, finishing finish line in 8:19.61 … focused almost 25th in the 1,500 meters exclusively on the 1,500 meters during the (3:55.13) … earned all-BIG 2004 outdoor season, steadily improving EAST honors on the only his time throughout the year … once again relay in which he competed just missed out on a BIG EAST title, finish- during the outdoor season, ing second in the 1,500 meters at the out- finishing second in the door meet (3:50.03) … ran a spectacular 4x800-meter relay along 3:41.95 in the 1,500 meters at the Georgia with teammates Eric Tech Invitational, qualifying for the NCAA Morrison, Kevin Somok and Mideast Regional … his 3:41.95 time Thomas Chamney. ranked second all-time in Notre Dame HIGH SCHOOL AND track and field history for the outdoor 1,500 PERSONAL: One of the meters … finished an impressive fifth at top prep cross country and the NCAA Mideast Regional in the 1,500 middle distance runners in Ontario over the last four years … earned a silver medal at the 2003 Pan Am Junior Games, finishing second in the 1,500 meters … two-time member of the Canadian Junior National Cross Country Team that competed at the World Junior Championships in 2002 and 2003 … member of the Canadian Junior Track and Field Team that competed at the World Youth Championships in 2001 … won the 2003 U.S. Junior National 1,500-meter championship after finishing sec- Career Track Bests ond in 2002 … placed third in the Indoor 2002 National Junior Cross Mile...... 3:58.75 Country Championship … holds 2005 Meyo Invitational Walkerton school records in the 3,000m...... 7:59.39 800, 1,500 and 3,000 meters … also 2005 Notre Dame Invitational Outdoor holds the Ontario Under-19 out- 1,500m...... 3:41.95 door 3,000-meter record (8:10.50) … 2004 Georgia Tech Invitational posts personal-best performances 5,000m...... 13:33.05 of 8:10.50 in the 3,000 meters, 3:49.08 2005 Stanford Invitational in the 1,500 meters and 1:51.61 in the 800 meters … born Jan. 1, 1985, in Walkerton, Ontario … oldest of two children … enrolled in the College of Arts and Letters, pursu- ing his degree in history.

2005-06 CROSS COUNTRY/TRACK & FIELD 63 The Athletes Tom 2004-05 SEASON: Took a year off Chamney from his studies to train full time for the European Under-23 Championships in Erfurt, Germany … took a very strong 6-2 • Junior fifth in the 800 meters at the meet, repre- Cross Country/ senting his native Ireland … made his Middle Distance Irish Senior National team debut at the European Cup in Leiria, Portugal, again posting a fifth-place finish with a time of Tipperary, Ireland 1:50.18 … won silver in the 800 meters at the Irish St. Columba’s College National Senior Track and Field Championships in Dublin, Ireland … ran unattached at Notre Dame’s Alex Wilson Invitational, establishing an 800-meter personal best of 1:48.73 in a fourth- the 2003 men’s distance medley relay place effort … opened the outdoor season at the team … combined with teammates Len Paddock Invitational with an outdoor per- Kevin Somok, Ryan Postel, and Eric sonal-best 800-meter performance of 1:48.92 … Morrison to qualify for the NCAA further lowered that personal best at the IAAF Championship … eventually finished Grand Prix meet in Seville, Spain, where he won 10th at the 2003 NCAA indoor meet in the B 800-meter heat in 1:48.84 … took the 800- Fayetteville, Arkansas … started the meter title at the Irish Under-23 Championship outdoor season at the Stanford in a time of 1:52.23. Invitational, placing 12th in the 800 AS A SOPHOMORE: Reprised his role as meters (1:52.01) … broke the 1:50 mark the team’s top 800-meter runner … ran well at in the 800 at the Tom Botts Invitational, the Notre Dame Indoor Opener, clocking 1:52.71 coming through with an impressive … bettered that time and set a career best in the 1:49.55 and nabbing his first collegiate indoor 800 meters at the Meyo Invitational, run- outdoor victory (second overall) … ning 1:51.53 for ninth place … qualified for the made the trip to the famed Drake BIG EAST indoor meet in two events … ran the Relays and finished fifth overall 800 at the championship, eventually finishing (1:51.97) … qualified for the second con- eighth … also scored BIG EAST team points with ference meet of his rookie season, a fourth-place effort in the distance medley placing 15th in the 800 meters at the relay with teammates Kurt Benninger, Ryan BIG EAST outdoor meet … continued to Postel, and Eric Morrison … competed at the adi- run well at the Georgia Tech das Indoor Games with the same group and ran Invitational, finishing eighth in 1:51.03 9:45.33 as a team … steadily dropped his times … qualified for the inaugural NCAA in the outdoor season, culminating in his sea- Mideast Regional, finishing fourth in son-best run at the NCAA Mideast Regional … his heat with a 1:51.19 effort … took 14th in 1:50.14 at the meet … other outdoor returned back to Ireland during the highlights came with a first-place finish at the summer of 2003 and entered the Tom Botts Invitational in 1:52.52 … competed at European Junior Championships in the prestigious Mount SAC Relays, finishing the 800 meters … finished an impres- 17th in 1:51.44 … qualified for the BIG EAST out- sive 13th in the elite field. door meet in two events, taking seventh in the HIGH SCHOOL AND PER- 800 meters with a 1:50.24 mark in the preliminar- SONAL: Ranked among the top prep ies and running in the 4x800-meter relay … middle-distance runners in Ireland … earned all-BIG EAST honors by placing second three-time all-Irish selection and in the relay in 7:28.48 with teammates Eric three-time all-regional champion … Morrison, Kevin Somok, and Kurt Benninger. ranked in the top five in Ireland at 800 AS A FRESHMAN: Top 800-meter special- meters all four years of high school … ist on the team as a rookie in 2003 … won his first also served as team captain for cross collegiate 800-meter race at the Central country his final two years … was Michigan Opener, besting the field in 1:54.83 … ranked in top 25 nationally in cross best performance of the indoor season came at country as a junior and senior … rep- the Meyo Invitational, finishing third in 1:52.29 resented Ireland in five different inter- … qualified for the BIG EAST indoor meet, end- national meets, including the World ing up 11th in the preliminaries … member of Youth Games in Hungary … also played rugby and soccer at St. Columba’s College … father, John, Career Track Bests played rugby for Trinity College in Indoor Dublin, Ireland … youngest of two chil- 800m ...... 1:51.53 dren … born April 16, 1984 in Cork, 2004 Meyo Invitational Ireland … member of the 2002-03 BIG Outdoor EAST Academic All-Star team … 800m ...... 1:49.55 enrolled in the College of Arts and 2003 Tom Botts Invitational Letters with a double major in history and film, television, and theater.

UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME 64 Christopher The Athletes door track and twice in football … placed Jacques sixth at the Nike Indoor Track Championships to garner All-American 6-0 • Junior honors … three-time all-city and six-time Sprints/Jumps all-conference track athlete … won six con- ference track titles … MVP of his indoor track squad his sophomore season and Old Brookville, N.Y. earned same honor as a junior for the out- Chaminade H.S. door season … owns career-bests of 6-6 in the high jump, 22-11.75 in the long jump, and 46-8.5 in the triple jump … established BIG EAST Champion the school triple jump record and the indoor long Indoor Long Jump (2005) jump standard … gold medal winner in the long jump and high jump at the 2001 Empire State Games … born Jan. 18, 1985 in Flushing, N.Y. … has two siblings … enrolled in the Mendoza College of Business as a Bennett, Selim Nurudeen, and Tommie Lee in 42.46. AS A SOPHOMORE: Progressed in both the long finance major. jump and high jump while also competing in the AS A FRESHMAN: Proved to be a valuable sprints … finished ninth in the long jump at the Meyo horizontal jumper for the Irish during his rookie sea- Invitational (6.98m) and set a career best in the 200 son … qualified for the BIG EAST indoor and outdoor Career Track Bests meters with a 22.69 dash … exploded at the BIG EAST meet in both the long jump and high jump … won Indoor indoor meet with a career best 7.23m (23-8.75) long jump both the high jump and long jump at the Notre Dame High Jump ...... 2.00m (6-6 3/4) … took his first BIG EAST title in the event and out- Invitational for his first two collegiate event victories 2004 Notre Dame Invitational jumped the second place finisher by over .25m (10”) … … cleared a season-best 2.00m (6-6) in the high jump also competed in the high jump at the league meet, … best long jump of the season came at the BIG EAST Long Jump...... 7.23m (23-8 3/4) scoring team points with a seventh-place finish (1.97m, Championship, leaping 6.75m (22-1) to finish ninth … 2005 BIG EAST Championship 6-5.50) … entered into the outdoor season by taking scored toward the team title at the BIG EAST indoor 200m...... 22.69 fourth in the 100 meters at the Mike Poehlein meet, finishing sixth by clearing 1.96m (6-5) … pulled 2005 Meyo Invitational Invitational (11.01) … also finished first in the 4x100 double duty during the outdoor season as well, fin- Outdoor meter relay at the meet, running with teammates Selim ishing sixth in the BIG EAST meet in the long jump High Jump ...... 1.99m (6-6 1/4) Nurudeen, Zach Labrecque and Tommie Lee (42.79) … and seventh in the high jump … posted a season best had a strong meet at the Indy Relays, setting a career 7.15m (23-5) measurement in the long jump at the BIG 2005 BIG EAST Championship best in the outdoor long jump with a 7.17m (23-6.25) EAST meet … best outdoor high jump clearance came Long Jump...... 7.17m (23-6 1/4) effort … also finished fifth in the high jump with a leap at the league outdoor meet as well, going over 1.99m 2005 Indy Relays of 1.85m … qualified for the BIG EAST outdoor meet in (6-6). 100m...... 11.01 the high jump and long jump… scored team points HIGH SCHOOL AND PERSONAL: Competed 2005 Mike Poehlein Invitational with a sixth-place effort in the high jump (1.99m, 6-6.25) in track & field and football at Chaminade High … also placed sixth in the 4x100 meter relay with Geoff School … lettered three seasons in indoor and out-

AS A SOPHOMORE: Concentrated on the weight throw during the indoor season … set career bests in both the shot put and discus at the Blue and Gold Invitational … set a big career best in the weight throw at the Central Garet Michigan Opener (16.14, 52-11.5) … took fourth in the weight throw at the Notre Dame Invitational with a toss of 15.24m … threw the weight 15.98m at the Meyo Koxlien Invitational … performed well for the indoor BIG EAST Champion men’s team at the league meet, placing fourth 6-2 • Junior in the weight throw with a career-best toss of 16.91m (55- 5.75) … improved dramatically throughout the outdoor Throws campaign … concentrated on the hammer throw and dis- cus … threw 46.41m (152-3) early on in the Willie Williams Galesville, Mich. Classic for an eighth place finish … set a new career best in the hammer throw at the Mike Poehlein Invitational, Galesville-Ettrick- placing ninth with a toss of 47.65m (156-4) … also threw Trempealeau H.S. the discus 44.56m (146-2) in that meet for third place … had a career day at the Indy Relays with a second place finish in the discus (46.37m, 152-1) and a fifth place finish in the hammer throw (49.15m, 161-3) … again set a career best in the hammer throw at the Central Collegiate … earned letters in track and field, baseball, football and Championship with a 49.94m (163-10) throw … scored BIG powerlifting … helped the power-lifting club team claim EAST Championship points out the outdoor meet with a the state title three-straight seasons (2001-03) … served as sixth place and career-best showing in the hammer throw team captain of the track and field and power lifting (51.07m, 167-7) … claimed all-BIG EAST honors in the dis- Career Track Bests teams during his senior season … two-time MVP and all- cus with a third place effort and huge career best throw of Indoor conference selection as a member of the track and field 51.06m (167-6) … qualified for the NCAA Mideast Regional team … set the freshman record in the discus during his Shot Put ...... 13.10m (42-11 3/4) in the discus, but did not place. rookie season … appeared at the Midwest Senior 2004 Alex Wilson Invitational AS A FRESHMAN: Worked on improving his dis- Spotlight Meet in 2003 … posted an impressive senior foot- Weight Throw ...... 16.91m (55-5 1/4) tances with all the throwing implements during his ball campaign, earning all-conference, all-city and all- rookie season … steadily improved all his measurements 2005 BIG EAST Championship state honors, as well as being named the team MVP while during the year … best indoor shot put effort was 12.88m Outdoor playing both sides of the ball on the offensive and defen- (42-3) at the Alex Wilson Invitational … top weight throw Hammer Throw ...... 51.07m (167-7) sive line … active in extra-curricular activities, including was posted at the Notre Dame Invitational (13.57m, 44-6) National Honor Society, FFA, Student Senate and 4-H … 2005 BIG EAST Championship … during the outdoor season, posted a 13.49m (44-3) to fin- oldest of two children … born May 6, 1985, in LaCrosse, Discus Throw ...... 51.06m (167-6) ish third in the Indy Relays … top discus effort was 46.82m Wis. … plans to major in biology … enrolled in the College (153-7) at the Purdue Invitational. 2005 BIG EAST Championship of Arts and Letters as a pre-professional/psychology HIGH SCHOOL AND PERSONAL: Multi-sport major. standout at Galesville-Ettrick-Trempealeau High School

2005-06 CROSS COUNTRY/TRACK & FIELD 65 The Athletes Justin AS A SOPHOMORE: Formed part of a formidable pole vault duo Oppel with teammate Dave Viken … quali- fied for the indoor BIG EAST 5-10 • Junior Championship and scored points for Pole Vault the championship-winning men’s team … tied for third in the league Amarillo, Texas meet with a vault of 4.50m (14-9) … Amarillo H.S. also qualified for the BIG EAST outdoor meet … placed fifth with a vault of 4.35m (14-3.25). AS A FRESHMAN: Steadily improved during the 2004 indoor season and eventu- ally finished seventh at the BIG EAST indoor fifth place … competed in just two competi- field team MVP in 2003 … set the Ratliff meet to score points toward the team title … tions during the 2004 outdoor season, carding Stadium Record (Lubbock, Texas) at the seventh-place finish came on a 4.65m (15-3) a best effort of 4.70m (15-5) at the Tom Botts Lubbock Invitational on March 1, 2003, clear- clearance … best indoor effort was 4.80m (15- Invitational. ing 15-3 … top prep pole vault clearance 9) at the Meyo Invitational, good enough for HIGH SCHOOL AND PERSONAL: ended up at 15-6, posted at the Deaf Smith One of the top prep pole vaulters coming out Relays at Hereford, Texas … finished fifth at Career Track Bests of Texas in 2003 … earned three letters in the Texas State Track Meet in the pole vault Indoor track and field, and was also a two-year let- as a junior … member of the National Honor Pole Vault ...... 4.80m (15-9) ter winner in football playing cornerback at Society … second cousin, Gary Metzler (’80) is 2004 Meyo Invitational Amarillo … won the regional pole vault a graduate of Notre Dame … born June 6, Outdoor championship as a junior … moved on to 1985, in Amarillo, Texas … enrolled in the Pole Vault ...... 4.70m (15-5.25) 2004 Tom Botts Invitational claim the district championship during his College of Arts and Letters while working senior season … was named the track and towards a psychology degree.

AS A SOPHOMORE: Served as a 400 meter specialist … qualified for the BIG EAST Championships in the 400 meters … placed third in the 4x400 meter relay at the Jordan league meet with Trevor McClain-Duer, Powell Robert Kueny, and Austin Weaver … achieved BIG EAST Champion status in the 6-3 • Junior distance medley relay along with team- Sprints mates Brett Adams, Jamal Afridi, and Sean O’Donnell … ran the 400 meters and con- tributed to the 4x400 meter relays during the Springfield, Ill. outdoor season … competed in the 4x400 Calvary Academy meter relay at the BIG EAST outdoor meet … anchored the sixth-place relay that also fea- tured teammates Austin Wechter, Bob Kueny, and Roberto Garcia. Wilson Invitational in 3:09.87 … helped that track records, including the 100, 200, 400 and AS A FRESHMAN: Proved to be a valu- same team earn all-BIG EAST honors by fin- 800 meters, as well as the long jump … com- able relay and individual performer during ishing second at the league indoor meet in peted in track and field all four years of high his freshman season in 2004 … helped set the 3:13.71 … qualified for the BIG EAST indoor school without the aid of a practice track … school record in the 4x400-meter relay during meet in the 400 meters, just missing all-con- boasts personal bests of 11.1 in the 100 the indoor season, combining with team- ference honors with a fourth-place effort meters, 22.3 in the 200 meters, 48.9 in the 400 mates Trevor McClain-Duer, Selim Nurudeen (49.20) … logged two great relay results dur- meters and 1:56.9 in the 800 meters … capped and Ryan Postel to finish third at the Alex ing the outdoor season … helped the same his prep career with an outstanding basket- indoor team finish eighth at the NCAA ball season as well, earning AP all-state Career Track Bests Mideast Regional in 3:09.65 – the second-best honors … averaged 21.3 points per game and Indoor 4x400-meter relay in school history … also 9.0 rebounds as a senior forward … member 400m...... 48.99 earned all-BIG EAST honors by helping the of the National Honor Society, serving as 2004 Meyo Invitational squad finish second at the league outdoor Calvary Academy's chapter president … 500m ...... 1:04.49 meet in 3:10.52. also served as the Student Council president 2004 Notre Dame Invitational HIGH SCHOOL AND PERSONAL: and was named class valedictorian … made Outdoor Two-sport stand out in track and field and a trip to South Africa and organized several 400m...... 49.62 basketball at Calvary Academy … 2003 basketball clinics during his visit … born 2004 Stanford Invitational Illinois state champion in the indoor 400 Dec. 13, 1984, in Decatur, Ill. … enrolled in the meters and finished as the runner-up at the College of Arts and Letters as a political sci- outdoor meet … owns many of the school ence major.

UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME 66 The Todd Athletes Ptacek

6-1 • Junior Cross Country/Distance

Benton Harbor, Mich. Lake Michigan Catholic H.S.

fastest in school his- chase during the 2004 outdoor season, winning tory… helped the his first collegiate event at the Indy Relays in 4x800 meter relay 9:14.40 … took fifth in the BIG EAST outdoor meet team finish second in in the steeplechase (9:15.93). 7:38.09 … joined on HIGH SCHOOL AND PERSONAL: that relay by Eric Multi-sport standout at Lake Michigan Catholic Morrison, Adam in St. Joseph, Mich. … earned 16 varsity letters in Currie, and Brett his prep career on five different teams (cross Adams … followed up country, golf, basketball, track and field and that performance by football) … 2003 Southwest Michigan Athlete of placing tenth in the the Year … led the 2002 cross country team to an mile at the Alex undefeated conference record … won the Wilson Invitational Berrien County Cross Country individual title (4:05.57) … concen- as well as the Red Arrow Conference champi- trated on the 3,000 onship … took home conference championships meter steeplechase in in the 800 and 1,600 meters as a senior … moved the outdoor season … on to claim regional titles in the 4x800 relay, 800, placed sixth in his sec- 1,600 and 5,000 meters … ended up as the tion of the steeple- Berrien County 1,600-meter runner up in 2002 chase at the Stanford and 2003, while finishing third in the 800 meters Invitational (9:05.40) … in ’03 … helped the cross country team finish ran well at the Indy fourth at the 2002 state meet … highly involved Relays, placing third in extra-curricular activities, including National in the 1,500 meters Honor Society, class treasurer, choir, Youth to with a time of 3:50.55 Youth, Spanish Club, Academic Challenge, … competed with Eric Tutor Principal List and preschool mentor … Morrison, Brett Adams, youngest of two children … born April 2, 1985, in and Jake Watson in St. Joseph, Mich. … plans to major in mechani- the 4x1600 meter relay cal/aerospace engineering … enrolled in the at the Drake Relays … College of Engineering … earned Dean’s List ran a 1600-meter split honors during both the fall 2004 and spring 2005 of 4:09 … qualified for terms and takes a 3.767 cumulative GPA into the BIG EAST 2005-06 academic year. Championships in the 3,000 meter steeple- chase … earned all- Career Track Bests BIG EAST honors with Indoor a third place finish 1,000m...... 2:26.29 behind two team- 2005 BIG EAST Championship mates (9:06.12) … qual- Mile...... 4:05.57 ified for the NCAA 2005 Alex Wilson Invitational AS A SOPHOMORE: Came on strong dur- Mideast Regional in the 3,000 meter steeple- Outdoor ing the track season after his cross country sea- chase … ran 9:12.17 in the meet for 10th place. 1,500m...... 3:50.55 son was spoiled by injury … had a AS A FRESHMAN: Competed in his first 2005 Indy Relays breakthrough meet at the indoor BIG EAST three career cross country meets … finished 3,000m Steeplechase ...... 9:05.40 Championships, competing in the 4x800 meter 23rd at the Valparaiso Invitational, 49th at the 2005 Stanford Invitational relay and the 1,000 meter run … just missed all- National Catholic and 30th in the Notre Dame BIG EAST honors in the 1,000 meters by placing Invitational gold division race … attempted fourth in a time of 2:26.29 that ranks as the ninth- several different distances during the 2004 indoor track and field season, eventually quali- Career Cross Country Results fying for the BIG EAST indoor meet in the 1,000 2003 meters (2:29.42) and mile (4:18.35) … did not com- pete as an individual at the BIG EAST indoor Valparaiso Invitational...... 23rd meet, but helped the 4x800-meter relay team of National Catholic ...... 49th Kevin Somok, Eric Morrison and Ryan Hurd fin- Notre Dame Invitational...... 30th ish fourth in 7:42.24 … focused on the steeple-

2005-06 CROSS COUNTRY/TRACK & FIELD 67 The Athletes Dave Viken AS A SOPHOMORE: Teamed with Justin Oppel to give the Irish two strong performers in the pole vault … set a career best early in the indoor season 5-9 • Junior with a 4.71 (15-5.) meter vault at the Pole Vault Central Michigan Opener … qualified for the BIG EAST Indoor Arlington Heights, Ill. Championships and finished fifth with a vault of 4.50m (14-9) … tied a career best in Rolling Meadows H.S. the outdoor season with a 4.75 meter (15-7) vault at the Mike Poehlein Invitational … fin- ished fourth in the pole vault at the outdoor BIG EAST Championships with a vault of 4.50 AS A FRESHMAN: Worked on his devel- ally ranked (eighth) with a season-best 16-1 meters … scored points in both BIG EAST opment in the pole vault during his rookie sea- effort in 2003 … set the school indoor (15-9) and league meets during the 2005 season. son in 2004 … posted a season-best 4.65m (15-3) outdoor (16-1) records during his prep career … clearance during the indoor campaign at the was undefeated in the individual pole vault Notre Dame Indoor Opener … best effort of the during his senior season … only loss came in Career Track Bests outdoor season (4.60m, 15-1) placed him fourth the state finals, where he finished second … Indoor at the Purdue Invitational. placed fourth in the pole vault at the Junior Pole Vault ...... 4.71m (15-5.5) HIGH SCHOOL AND PERSONAL: Two- Olympics in 2003 … was a four-year letter win- 2005 Central Michigan Opener sport standout at Rolling Meadows High ner as a goalkeeper for the soccer team … sec- Outdoor School in Rolling Meadows, Ill. … four-year let- ond oldest of four children … born March 5, Pole Vault ...... 4.75m (15-7) ter winner in both track and field and soccer … 1985, in Mt. Prospect, Ill. … enrolled in the 2005 Mike Poehlein Invitational an outstanding pole vaulter who was nation- Mendoza College of Business as an accounting major.

Brett HIGH SCHOOL AND PERSONAL: Nine-time letterwinner in three sports (cross Adams country, track, and basketball) at Davenport Assumption High School … achieved a top-25 5-8 • Sophomore ranking in the 1,600 meters … garnered All- American honors in track as he placed eighth Cross Country/Distance in the 1,500 meters at the Junior National Meet in College Station, Texas … 2004 Iowa state Davenport, Iowa champion in the 800, 1,600, and 1,600 medley Assumption H.S. relay … established state meet records in the 1,600 and the 1,600 medley relay … owns school marks in the 800, 1,600, 3,200, 4x800 and 1,600 medley relay … three-time team MVP in track and twice in cross country … boasts career bests of 1:54.43 (800), 4:14.31 (1,600), 9:31 (3,200), AS A FRESHMAN: Competed in two Invitational … formed part of the indoor BIG and 15:36 (5,000) … all-conference runner three events during the cross country season … took EAST Champion Distance Medley Relay along times in track and cross country … became his second place in the National Catholic with Jordan Powell, Jamal Afridi, and Sean school’s first-ever cross country conference Invitational JV race and 20th in the Notre Dame O’Donnell (10:00.17) … also earned BIG EAST champion … National Honor Society member Invitational Gold Division race … ran top 8,000 points with the 4x800 meter relay … finished … born Nov. 3, 1985 in Davenport, Iowa … has meter cross country time of 25:17 at the Notre second in the event with Eric Morrison, Adam three siblings … enrolled in the College of Arts Dame Invitational … ran well in the middle Currie, and Todd Ptacek (7:38.09) … concluded and Letters. distances during both track seasons while also the indoor season with a 4:10.79 mile at the Alex serving as a valuable contributor to the dis- Wilson Invitational … ran well in the outdoor tance relays … won the 800 meters at the Notre 1,500 meters at the Stanford Invitational, win- Career Track Bests Dame Opener with a career best 1:54.19 effort ning the “B” sections of the event in 3:52.27 … Indoor … qualified for the indoor BIG EAST took fourth in the 800 meters at the Indy Relays 800m ...... 1:54.19 Championship in the 1,000 meters with a (1:53.10) … competed in the 4x1600 meter relay 2005 Notre Dame Opener 2:26.54, fifth-place performance at the Meyo at the Drake Relays, finishing third with Eric 1,000m...... 2:26.54 Morrison, Todd Ptacek, and Jake Watson … ran 2005 Meyo Invitational Career Cross Country Results a split of 4:12.30 in the race … established a career best in the 1,500 meters at the outdoor Mile...... 4:10.79 2004 BIG EAST meet, running 3:51.61 in the prelimi- 2005 Alex Wilson Invitational National Catholic...... 2nd* naries … scored team points by finishing sixth Outdoor Notre Dame Invitational ...... 20th* in the event final (3:58.95) … also ran the 4x800 800m ...... 1:53.10 (* - indicates JV/Gold Division race) meter relay at the league meet, placing fifth on 2005 Indy Relays a team comprised entirely of freshmen (7:40, 1,500m...... 3:51.61 Adam Currie, Jamal Afridi, Jake Watson) … 2005 BIG EAST Championship ended the season at the Georgia Tech Invitational running 3:57.88 over 1,500 meters.

UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME 68 The Kyle Athletes state records in the weight and ham- Annen mer throws his senior year … the hammer and weight throws are not 5-11 • Sophomore sanctioned high school events in Throws Idaho so he participated in them as part of a club sport … owns personal bests of 64-9 in the 25-pound weight, Orofino, Idaho 193-2 in the hammer, 53-0 in the shot Orofino H.S. put, and 160-0 in the discus … confer- ence champion and team captain his senior campaign … third-place showing at the 2004 Simplot Games … competed at the 2003 and 2004 Golden West Invitational, registering a AS A FRESHMAN: Progressed well in eighth in the hammer throw with a 55.94m effort fourth-place finish in 2004 … lettered in football the throws throughout the indoor and outdoor … earned all-BIG EAST honors at the outdoor as a kicker his freshman year of high school … track seasons … placed 14th in the weight league meet with a third-place showing in the enrolled in the College of Arts and Letters as a throw at the Meyo Invitational with a 16.21m hammer throw (52.66m, 172-9) … also competed pre-professional major. toss … scored BIG EAST points for the eventual in the discus at the BIG EAST meet, posting a team champion at the league meet … placed throw of 41.16m (135-0) to earn tenth place … Career Track Bests fifth in the weight throw with a career best qualified for the NCAA Mideast Regional in the Indoor throw of 16.48m (54-1) … competed in the ham- hammer throw, recording a 53.96m (177-0) toss at Weight Throw...... 16.48m (54-1) mer and discus throws during the outdoor cam- the meet. 2005 BIG EAST Championship paign … at the Indy Relays took sixth in the HIGH SCHOOL AND PERSONAL: Four- discus (40.29m, 132-2) and third in the hammer year letterwinner in track & field as a thrower at Outdoor (52.89m, 173-06) … improved his top mark in the Orofino High School … ranked seventh and 12th Hammer Throw ...... 55.94m (183-6) hammer at the Central Collegiate nationally in the 25-pound indoor weight and 2005 Hillsdale Gina Relays Championship with a 53.26m (174-9) toss … set hammer throw, respectively, his senior season Discus Throw ...... 43.41m (142-5) two career bests at the Hillsdale Gina Relays, … also achieved top-50 rankings in those events 2005 Hillsdale Gina Relays throwing the discus 43.41m (1425) and placing as a sophomore and junior … established Idaho

AS A FRESHMAN: Made a strong contri- bution to the Irish cross country team that was ranked as high as fifth in the nation … took ninth place overall at the National Catholic Dan Championship, helping the Irish win the team title … ran his season’s top 8,000-meter time of Curran 24:55 in the Notre Dame Invitational gold race, finishing sixth … competed in the Pre-National 5-11 • Sophomore Meet and took seventh in the open race with a time of 25:10 … was the lone freshman to com- Cross Country/Middle Distance pete for Notre Dame at the BIG EAST Championship … an Achilles injury ended his Naperville, Ill. season after the league meet … ran well in the Naperville North H.S. indoor track and field season, establishing a personal best time of 8:21 in the 3,000 meters at the Notre Dame Invitational … set another career-best mark the following weekend at the Meyo Invitational, running 14:33 over 5,000 cross country and track and field at the U.S. Air meters … qualified for the BIG EAST indoor HIGH SCHOOL AND PERSONAL: Force Academy … born Oct. 9, 1985 in Downers meet in the 5,000 meters, eventually finishing Four-year letter winner in both cross country Grove, Illinois … enrolled in the Mendoza ninth in 14:42 … competed in three races during and track and field at Naperville North High College of Business as a double major in finance the outdoor season … qualified for the outdoor School … earned Illinois all-state cross country and economics … earned Dean’s List honors his league meet in the 10,000 meters. honors in 2003 with an eighth-place finish at the state meet … also garnered all-state honors in first semester on campus (fall 2004) with 3.80 GPA. Career Track Bests track and field during the 2004 season, finish- ing fifth in the 3,200 meters … won the 3,200- Indoor meter title at the 2004 Illinois Prep Top Times 3,000m...... 8:21.77 indoor meet … cross country and indoor track Career Cross Country Results 2005 Notre Dame Invitational 1,600-meter conference champion in 2003 … six- 2004 5,000m...... 14:33.73 time all-conference honoree and the Naperville National Catholic ...... 9th 2005 Meyo Invitational Sun 2003 “Cross Country Runner of the Year” … Notre Dame Invitational ...... 6th* Outdoor personal best of 9:17 in the 3,200 meters … mem- Pre-National ...... 7th* 10,000m...... 32:47.85 ber of National Honor Society and an Illinois BIG EAST Championship ...... 43rd 2005 BIG EAST Championship State Scholar at Naperville North … oldest of (* - indicates Gold Division/Open race) three children … identical twin brother Joe runs

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Athletes Adam

AS A FRESHMAN: Served as Currie Notre Dame’s top 800 meter specialist … took first in the 800 meters at the 5-11 • Sophomore Notre Dame Invitational, running a Cross Country/Middle Distance career best time of 1:50.29 … ran 1:51.20 at the competitive Meyo Invitational to finish 11th in the 800 meters … quali- Verdun, Quebec fied for the BIG EAST indoor meet in the Richelieu Valley H.S. 800 meters, eventually finishing eighth in the event final … also competed in the 4x800 All-American meter relay with teammates Eric Morrison, Distance Medley Relay (2005) Brett Adams, and Todd Ptacek to finish fifth in 7:38.09 … ran in the distance medley relay at the NCAA Indoor Championships … earned All-American honors by finishing sixth along the competition with a time of 1:51.83 … quali- … personal bests of 1:50.22 in the 800 meters with teammates Kurt Benninger, Eric Morrison, fied for the outdoor BIG EAST meet in the 800 and 3:54.24 in the 1,500 … 11-time Provincial and Trevor McClain-Duer … made his outdoor and finished 12th in 1:52.92 … ran on Notre Champion in cross country and track … named 800-meter debut at the Stanford Invitational, Dame’s 4x800 meter relay at the league meet, team MVP and captain of the volleyball squad finishing fifth in a career-best 1:51.09 … won finishing fifth (7:40.22) with fellow freshmen three years straight … nominated for Quebec the 800 meters at the Mike Poehlein Brett Adams, Jamal Afridi, and Jake Watson … athlete of the year in 2003 … named to the 2002 Invitational in 1:54.22 … competed at the Mount capped the season with a 26th-place effort regional all-star team in volleyball … class SAC Relays in the 800 meters … took tenth in (1:52.40) in the 800 meters at the Georgia Tech valedictorian … received the T.W. Smith award Invitational. for being the most outstanding student of his HIGH SCHOOL AND PERSONAL: graduating class … winner of the Governor Career Track Bests Three-sport athlete at Richelieu Valley High General’s Medal for academic excellence … Indoor School where he lettered all four years in track, born Nov. 24, 1984 in Montreal, Quebec … has 800m ...... 1:50.29 cross country, and volleyball … represented one older brother … intends to major in 2005 Notre Dame Invitational his native Canada at the 2003 Junior Pan Am mechanical engineering … enrolled in the Outdoor Games as he placed sixth in the 800 meters … College of Engineering … earned Dean’s List 800m ...... 1:51.09 eighth-place finish at the 2004 Canadian honors in his first semester on campus (fall 2005 Stanford Invitational Olympic trials … bronze medalist at the 2003 2004), posting a 3.804 GPA. Junior National Track Championship in the 800

indoor and outdoor track … nationally Jose ranked in both track seasons as a junior and senior … seven-time all-conference and all- Genao city performer in track & field … team cap- tain and MVP five times during his track 6-0 • Sophomore career … collected five conference champi- Sprints/Hurdles onships in track and was a member of a con- ference champion football squad … all-conference receiver/cornerback his sen- Port Jefferson Station, N.Y. ior season … named most outstanding ath- Comsewogue H.S. lete at his high school … member of the National Honor Society … born Sept. 23, 1986 in Stony Brook, N.Y. … youngest of five chil- dren … intends to major in finance … enrolled in the Mendoza College of AS A FRESHMAN: One of Notre by running 14.92 for sixth … qualified for the Business. Dame’s hurdle specialists during the 2005 outdoor BIG EAST Championship in the 110 track season … ran well at the Notre Dame meter hurdles and finished 10th (14.83). Career Track Bests Indoor Opener, clocking times of 8.30 in the HIGH SCHOOL AND PERSONAL: Indoor 60-meter hurdles and 7.32 in the 60-meter Accomplished track and football athlete at 60m hurdles...... 8.30 dash … placed fourth at the Windsor Team Comsewogue High School … collected 10 2005 Notre Dame Opener Challenge with an 8.37 mark in the 60-meter varsity letters throughout his prep career … 60m dash ...... 7.32 hurdles … qualified for the indoor BIG EAST ran sprints and hurdles during the indoor 2005 Notre Dame Opener meet in the 60-meter hurdles … finished 11th and outdoor track seasons … earned All- Outdoor in 8.45 at the competition … concentrated on American status by finishing third at the 110m hurdles...... 14.83 the 110-meter hurdles during the outdoor National Scholastic Indoor Track and Field 2005 BIG EAST Championship campaign … ran 15.01 in the event at the Championship in the 60-meter high hurdles Indy Relays, finishing fourth … improved in a state record-tying time of 8.06 … all- his career best at the Hillsdale Gina Relays state athlete his junior and senior seasons in

UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME 70 The Bob Athletes Kueny

6-3 • Sophomore Sprints

Lebanon, Mo. Lebanon H.S.

his 400 record broke a 44-year old standard … National Honor Society member and senior class vice president … born Oct. 10, 1985 in AS A FRESHMAN: Competed primarily HIGH SCHOOL AND PERSONAL: Springfield, Mo. … has four siblings … his in the 400 meters for the Notre Dame team … Three-sport standout at Lebanon High School cousin, Emily Greenwood, was a swimmer at ran a fast 49.57 400 meters in the team’s first (track, soccer, basketball) … earned nine varsity Truman State … enrolled in the College of Arts indoor meet … ran a career best in the 400 letters during his prep career … all-state track and Letters. meters at the Notre Dame Invitational (50.13) … athlete his junior campaign … four-year all-city qualified for the indoor BIG EAST and all-conference performer in track … gar- Championship in the 400 meters and finished nered the same honors for two seasons as a Career Track Bests 10th with a 50.69 effort … also ran in the 4x400 defenseman in soccer … captured conference Indoor meter relay at the league meet, taking third in championship in track as a junior and regional 400m...... 49.45 3:18.16 with teammates Trevor McClain-Duer, title the following year … team captain as a 2005 Notre Dame Invitational Jordan Powell, and Austin Weaver … ran an senior for all three varsity squads … track & Outdoor outdoor season best at the Indy Relays (50.16, field MVP final two seasons … boasts personal 400m...... 50.16 3rd) … took sixth in the 4x400 meter relay at the bests of 48.95 in the 400 meters, 23.00 in the 200, 2005 Indy Relays outdoor BIG EAST Championships along with and 11.02 in the 100 … school record-holder in Austin Wechter, Jordan Powell, and Roberto the 400 and as part of the 800 and 1,600 relays … Garcia.

Zachary Labrecque

6-1 • Sophomore Sprints

Battle Creek, Mich. Harper Creek H.S.

AS A FRESHMAN: Ran 22.59 over 200 meter dash with a personal best time of 21.94 meters at the Meyo Invitational … qualified seconds … all-conference sprinter his soph- Career Track Bests for the BIG EAST indoor meet in the 200 omore and junior seasons … captained the Indoor meters and finished tenth in 22.86 … best track squad his final two campaigns, includ- 200m...... 22.59 outdoor effort was a 10th-place finish in the ing his senior season when he was team 2005 Meyo Invitational Mike Poehlein Invitational 400 meters (50.75). MVP … three-time all-conference selection Outdoor HIGH SCHOOL AND PERSONAL: in football as he played running back, wide 400m...... 50.75 Three-sport athlete at Harper Creek High receiver, and defensive back … senior cap- 2005 Mike Poehlein Invitational School … lettered four years in track as a tain of his football team … member of the sprinter … earned three letters as a member National Honor Society and student govern- of the football team and two more as part of ment … born March 23, 1986 in Kalamazoo, the wrestling squad … state champion and Mich. … father was a collegiate wrestler at all-state performer in track as a junior … Olivet College … has one younger sister … Division II state record holder in the 200 enrolled in the College of Arts and Letters.

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Athletes Mike Popejoy

5-11 • Sophomore Cross Country/Distance

Wheaton, Ill. Wheaton-Warrenville South H.S.

AS A FRESHMAN: One of Notre … Chicago Tribune Scholar-Athlete nomi- meters and 3,200 meters … has career-best Dame’s strong young distance runners … nee … all-state in cross country as a senior times of 4:20.9 in the 1,600 and 9:15.5 in the competed in the early indoor track season. … earned the same distinction in track as a 3,200 … honorable mention academic all- HIGH SCHOOL AND PERSONAL: sophomore … placed 10th at the Footlocker state … class valedictorian and member of Lettered all-four years in cross country and Midwest Cross Country Championships, the National Honor Society in high school … track while at Wheaton Warrenville South which placed him on the All-Midwest sec- 2004 Illinois State Scholar … father ran cross ond team … four-time all-conference cross country at Michigan State … born Nov. 30, Career Track Bests country runner … three-time all-conference 1985 in Winfield, Ill. … second oldest of five Indoor performer in track … sectional champion as children … enrolled in the College of Arts 3,000m...... 9:05.58 a sophomore in the 3,200 … won regional and Letters … has made Dean’s List each of 2005 Notre Dame Opener cross country title as a junior … owns school first two semesters at Notre Dame, high- records in the indoor and outdoor 1,600 lighted by a 4.0 GPA during spring 2005 term.

Mike Schubert

6-5 • Sophomore Throws

Naperville, Ill. Benet Academy

AS A FRESHMAN: Notre Dame’s pri- finisher in the shot put at the Midwest Senior mary shot put specialist … posted a strong Spotlight meet as a senior … sixth-place Career Track Bests early-season throw of 14.85m at the Blue and showing at the Illinois state meet … three- Indoor Gold Invitational … also won the Notre time conference champion in the shot put … Shot Put ...... 14.81m (48-7 1/4) Dame Opener with a toss of 14.76m … qual- track MVP final two seasons … team captain 2005 BIG EAST Championship ified for the BIG EAST indoor meet and took of his football and track squads as a junior Outdoor eighth in the shot put (14.81m, 48-7.25) … and senior … three-time all-conference ath- Shot Put ...... 14.92m (48-11 1/2) threw his outdoor season best at the Indy lete in track & field … all-conference and all- 2005 Indy Relays Relays, finishing first with a 14.92m (48-11.5) city offensive lineman his senior year … effort … scored points at the BIG EAST out- member of the National Honor Society … door meet by placing sixth in the shot put born March 25, 1986 in Hinsdale, Ill. … has with a 14.79m (48-6.25) toss. three siblings … sister, Beth, played volley- HIGH SCHOOL AND PERSONAL: ball at Saint Mary’s University in Minnesota Three-year letter winner in both track & field … intends to major in civil engineering … and football at Benet Academy … school- enrolled in the College of Engineering. record shot put mark of 57-10 … a third-place

UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME 72 The Jake Athletes 17 times total as a prep athlete … con- Watson ference and regional champion in track as a junior and senior … mem- 6-0 • Sophomore ber of the state record-setting 4x800 Cross Country/Distance relay team … conference and regional cross country champion as a senior … finalist for Minnesota runner of the Stillwater, Minn. year in 2004 … team MVP of his Track Stillwater Area H.S. and cross country teams as a senior … section 4AA cross country champion in 2003 … cross country team ranked 21st in the nation during his junior campaign … 3,200 meters sec- tion champion in 2003 and 2004 … Nordic skiing team MVP for three seasons … captained all three of his teams as a senior … born Jan. 27, AS A FRESHMAN: One of Notre Dame’s enth … concentrated on the 3,000 meter steeple- 1986 in St. Paul, Minn. … youngest of four chil- most versatile distance runners … competed in chase throughout the outdoor season … also dren … brother, Luke, was an accomplished three cross country meets during the fall … ran a solid 3:50.19 in the 1,500 meters at the Indy cross country and track athlete at Notre Dame best finish was a second-place effort at the Relays … placed seventh in the steeplechase at from 1998-2003 … intends to major in theology National Catholic Championship (25:06) … ran the Drake Relays (9:10.44) and ran a 4:09.6 1,600- … enrolled in the College of Arts and Letters. 24:54 on the Irish home course at the Notre meter split in the 4x1600 meter relay (Eric Dame Invitational … ran several different Morrison, Brett Adams, Todd Ptacek) … earned events during the indoor track season … ran all-BIG EAST honors in the 3,000-meter steeple- Career Track Bests 4:12.71 for third place in the mile at the Notre chase by finishing second behind teammate Indoor Dame Invitational … ran the 1,000 meters at the Ryan Johnson … ran his career best in the event 800m ...... 1:54.20 Meyo Invitational, finishing fourth in 2:25.98 with a time of 9:04.60 … also placed fifth in the 2005 Notre Dame Opener (eighth-fastest in school history) … qualified 4x800 meter relay with fellow freshmen Adam 1,000m...... 2:25.98 for the BIG EAST indoor meet in the 1,000 Currie, Jamal Afridi, and Brett Adams (7:40.22) … meters and the mile run … raced the 1,000 qualified for the NCAA Mideast Regional in the 2005 Meyo Invitational meters at the league meet and finished sev- steeplechase and finished ninth in 9:07.40. Mile...... 4:12.71 HIGH SCHOOL AND PERSONAL: 2005 Notre Dame Invitational Outdoor Career Cross Country Results Outstanding scholastic athlete who collected 13 varsity letters (cross country, track, Nordic ski- 1,500m...... 3:50.19 2004 ing) at Stillwater Area High School … three- 2005 Indy Relays National Catholic ...... 2nd time all-state runner in cross country … earned 3,000m steeplechase ...... 9:04.60 Notre Dame Invitational...... 73rd all-state recognition twice in both track and 2005 BIG EAST Championship Pre-National ...... 121st Nordic skiing … garnered all-conference honors

AS A FRESHMAN: Notre Dame’s top new- comer in the long hurdles and sprints … posted a time of 49.01 for second place in the 400 meters at the Notre Dame Invitational … took third in Austin the 500 meters at the Meyo Invitational with a 1:03.62 effort … qualified for the indoor BIG Wechter EAST 500 meters and placed fifth in a time of 1:04.70 … focused almost exclusively on the 400 meter hurdles in the outdoor campaign … took 5-10 • Sophomore 12th in the 400 hurdles at the Baylor Dr. Pepper Sprints/Hurdles Invitational in 57.15 … set a huge career best at the Indy Relays, running the 400 hurdles in 55.17 Shelby, Ohio for third place … improved his career best at the Hillsdale Gina Relays by running 55.01 for Shelby H.S. ninth in the 400 hurdles … took fifth in 55.07 in the 400 hurdles at the outdoor BIG EAST meet … also ran the 4x400 meter relay with Roberto Garcia, Robert Kueny, and Jordan Powell (sixth, HIGH SCHOOL AND PERSONAL: with a time of 36.69 … owns the Division II state 3:21.81). Track & field standout at Shelby High School … meet record time of 36.83 in the 300 hurdles … earned four letters in both track and cross coun- four-time conference champion in the 110 meter Career Track Bests try … helped track team to back-to-back state hurdles, 300 hurdles, and 4x400 relay … personal championships as he captured state titles in bests of 13.9 in the 110 hurdles and 36.69 in the Indoor 300 hurdles … son of Dawn and John Wechter … 400m...... 49.01 the 110 meter hurdles, 300 hurdles, and 4x400 relay as a junior and senior … achieved a has two siblings … born March 25, 1986 in 2005 Notre Dame Invitational national ranking his final two seasons … team Shelby, Ohio … enrolled in the College of Arts 500m ...... 1:03.62 MVP as a sophomore and junior and team cap- and Letters, majoring in design … made Dean’s 2005 Meyo Invitational tain as a senior … established the state List in each of first two semesters at Notre Dame Outdoor Division II standard in the 300 meter hurdles and owns 3.699 cumulative GPA. 400m hurdles...... 55.01 2005 Hillsdale Gina Relays

2005-06 CROSS COUNTRY/TRACK & FIELD 73 The Athletes

Alvin Robbie Gonzalo Adjei Barany Brenner

6-0 • Freshman 6-0 • Freshman 6-0 • Freshman Sprints Cross Country/Distance Multiple Events

Houston, Texas Yakima, Wash. Santiago, Chile Langham Creek H.S. Eisenhower H.S. St. George’s College

HIGH SCHOOL AND PERSONAL: Four- HIGH SCHOOL AND PERSONAL: Four- HIGH SCHOOL AND PERSONAL: year letter winner in track and field at Langham year letter winner in both cross country and Three-year track and field letter winner for Creek High School … earned fifth place honors track during his career at Eisenhower High Saint George’s College … Chile’s Junior at the Texas state meet as a member of School … earned cross country All-America National decathlon champion in 2004 … ranked Langham Creek’s 4x100-meter relay in 2004 … honors at the 2004 Foot Locker National first nationally in the decathlon and fourth in garnered AAU all-state honors in the 200 meters Championships with an eighth-place finish … the hurdles … in 2003, he ranked third in the in his sophomore year … team captain and MVP qualified for the Foot Locker meet with a third- nation in the junior decathlon … ranked seventh honoree … personal bests of 10.82 in the 100 and place effort at the 2004 Nike Team Nationals … in the nation in the youth high jump in 2002 … 21.82 in the 200 … older of two children … born three-time all-state performer, two-time team captain and MVP as a senior … has one March 12, 1987 in Houston, Texas … plans to regional champion, and four-time conference younger and two older siblings … born April 1, major in business … enrolled in the First Year of champion in cross country … two-time track 1985 in Santiago, Chile … plans to major in Studies. conference champion and school and valley business … enrolled in the First Year of Studies. record-holder in the 3,200 meters … earned national rankings in cross country each of his last two seasons and served as team captain during both his senior cross country and track seasons … personal bests are 9:06 in the 3,200 meters, 4:19 in the 1,600 meters, 15:00 for 5,000- meter cross country and 14:41 for three-mile cross country … member of the National Honor Society … middle of three children … born Aug. 7, 1986 in Yakima, Wash. … intends to major in business … enrolled in the First Year of Studies.

UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME 74 The Athletes

Billy Charlie Blair Buzaid Hilding Majcina

6-1 • Freshman 6-1 • Freshman 6-1 • Freshman Cross Country/Middle Distance Sprints Jumps

Verona, N.J. Oak Brook, Ill. Mokena, Ill. Seton Hall Prep Montini Catholic H.S. Lincoln-Way East H.S.

HIGH SCHOOL AND PERSONAL: HIGH SCHOOL AND PERSONAL: HIGH SCHOOL AND PERSONAL: Four- Earned three varsity letters in both indoor and Three-year track and field standout at Montini year letter winner in track and field at Lincoln- outdoor track and another in cross country dur- Catholic High School … also earned letters in Way East High School … also earned three ing his career at Seton Hall Prep … earned All- cross country (two), football (two), and basket- letters as a defensive back on the football team American honors as a member of Seton Hall ball (one) … member of Montini’s Illinois Class … All-American in the high jump during his Prep’s 4x400-meter relay team that finished A state champion 4x100- and 4x200-meter relays senior season and ranked second in the nation fourth at Nike Outdoor Nationals (3:13.88) … the in 2005 … the 4x200 relay team set a state record with a leap of 7-1 … won high jump titles at the 4x400 relay also won the New Jersey state with a time of 1:27.94 … was the state’s runner- 2004 Illinois Prep Top Times indoor state meet indoor championship and earned an indoor and up in the 100 meters, finishing behind teammate and the Illinois High School outdoor state meet outdoor national ranking … his 4x800 team also Jeff Farnell … also earned all-state honors as a … top ranked Illinois high jumper for the dura- earned a national ranking in his senior season member of the 4x100- and 4x200-meter relays in tion of the 2005 season … 2003 USATF National (7:46) … outdoor track team MVP and 400-meter 2004 … holds school records in four events, Champion in the intermediate boys high jump conference champion in 2004 … qualified for including the 400 meters … conference record … three-time conference and 2005 sectional two Championship of America races at the 2005 holder in the 400 meters and 4x100-meter relay high jump champion … also a three-time team (4x400, 4x800), the first New Jersey … six-time sectional and five-time conference captain and MVP on Lincoln-Way East’s club team to accomplish such a feat in over 20 years champion … personal bests of 11.04 in the 100, volleyball team that placed ninth at nationals … personal bests include 48.00 in the 400 meters 22.05 in the 200, and 49.9 in the 400 … seven-time in 2003 … once jumped to block a field goal and 1:53.6 in the 800 meters … member of academic all-conference honoree … oldest of attempt and returned it for an 87-yard touch- National Honor Society and Spanish Honor three children … born March 31, 1987 in La down … inducted into Lincoln-Way East’s Hall Society … grandfather, Joseph Colleran, played Grange, Ill. … plans to major in business … of Fame in 2005 … member of National Honor hockey at Boston College … oldest of three chil- enrolled in the First Year of Studies. Society, student council, and Mu Alpha Theta dren … born Feb. 14, 1987 in Hinsdale, Ill. … (math society) at Lincoln-Way East … vice-pres- plans to major in finance … enrolled in the First ident of his sophomore, junior, and senior Year of Studies. classes … younger of two children … born Feb. 14, 1987 in Palos Heights, Ill. … plans to major in pre-professional science … enrolled in the First Year of Studies.

2005-06 CROSS COUNTRY/TRACK & FIELD 75 The Athletes

Tray Patrick Chris Patrick Morgan Needham Rodriguez Smyth

6-2 • Freshman 6-5 • Freshman 5-10 • Freshman 5-9 • Freshman Pole Vault Sprints/Jumps Cross Country/Distance Cross Country/Distance

Daphne, Ala. Chicago, Ill. Kelso, Wash. Salt Lake City, Utah McGill-Toolen Loyola Academy Kelso H.S. Judge Memorial H.S. Catholic H.S.

HIGH SCHOOL AND PER- HIGH SCHOOL AND PER- HIGH SCHOOL AND PER- HIGH SCHOOL AND PER- SONAL: Three-time letter winner SONAL: Three-year letter winner SONAL: Eight-time varsity letter- SONAL: Cross country and track in indoor and outdoor track and in track and field at Loyola winner in cross country and track standout at Judge Memorial High field at McGill-Toolen Catholic Academy … also earned a letter in at Kelso High School … three-time School … eight-time varsity letter High School … multi-event athlete cross country … 2005 regional cross country and two-time track winner in the two sports … 2005 with a focus on the pole vault … a champion in the 110-meter hurdles all-state selection in the state of Utah Gatorade Track Athlete of the nationally-ranked pole vaulter in … conference high jump champion Washington … also a three-time Year and Utah High School Athletic his final high school season … in 2005 … all-conference honoree in conference and regional champion Association Track Athlete of the Alabama outdoor pole vault state three different events during his in both cross country and track … Year … nationally ranked in cross champion in his sophomore year … sophomore, junior, and senior sea- owns the Kelso school record in the country and track during his senior three-time all-state honoree sons … three-time track team MVP 1,600 meters with a time of 4:14.6 … season … two-time state champion indoors and two-time recipient out- and served as captain during his also owns his high school cross in both cross country and track … doors in the pole vault … took senior campaign … personal bests country course and school record four-time all-state selection in fourth in the outdoor decathlon dur- of 14.5 in the 110-meter hurdles, 40.3 with a time of 14:45 for three miles cross country and two-time hon- ing the 2005 season … Nokia Sugar in the 300-meter hurdles, and 6-6 in … a three-time competitor at the oree in track and field … Utah state Bowl Classic pole vault champion the high jump … father, Thomas, Border Clash cross country meet, two mile record holder with a time in his junior season … three-time ran track at Notre Dame from 1977- an invitational between top run- of 9:17 … Stanford Invitational mile all-city selection in the pole vault 81 and aunt, Jenny, competed in ners from Oregon and Washington champion in 2005 (4:14) … fifth for both indoor and outdoor track … track at St. Thomas … oldest of … once won his district cross coun- place finish in the two mile at the personal bests of 15 feet in the pole three children … born May 2, 1987 try meet after losing his shoe 200 highly competitive Arcadia vault and 146 feet in the javelin … in Chicago, Ill. … plans to major in meters into the race … captained Invitational in 2005 (9:04) … school member of National Honor Society, mathematics … enrolled in the the cross country team in his junior record holder in four events … Campus Ministry, Ambassador First Year of Studies. and senior seasons and the track three-time regional champion in Club, and recipient of two aca- team in his final campaign … cross country and four-time cham- demic/scholastic letters at McGill- member of National Honor Society, pion in track … two-time team cap- Toolen Catholic … younger of two Varsity K Club, Fellowship of tain and MVP in both sports … children … grandfather, David Christian Athletes, and the Hwa 12th-place finish at the Foot Locker Stapleton, played football at Rang Do Association (martial arts) West Championship in 2004 … Auburn … born June 6, 1987 in … older of two children … born father, Daniel, played rugby at St. Sulphur, La. … enrolled in the First Sept. 9, 1986 in Lodi, Calif. … plans Mary’s College in California … Year of Studies. to major in chemical engineering youngest of three children … born … enrolled in the First Year of Aug. 6, 1986 in Rock Springs, Wyo. Studies. … enrolled in the First Year of Studies.

UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME 76 Season in Review

Selim Nurudeen closed out his brilliant career by winning BIG EAST titles and earning All-America citations in both the 60-meter hurdles (indoor) and 110-meter hurdles (outdoor) last season. 2004 Men’s Cross Country Results

VALPARAISO NATIONAL NOTRE DAME PRE-NATIONAL BIG EAST GREAT LAKES NCAA INVIT. CATHOLIC INVIT. INVIT. INVIT. CHAMPIONSHIP REGIONAL CHAMP. SENIORS

Ryan Johnson 25:30 (2) 25:11 (6) 24:54 (75) 25:14 (88) 24:48 (25) 31:43 (56) 33:30 (189) Terry Lennon 26:39 (8) 27:12 (3)* 25:48 (51)^ Mike Manning 25:34 (3) 25:29 (12) 25:18 (21)^ 25:32 (24)# Eric Morrison 25:46 (49)^ Sean O’Donnell 24:04 (20) 24:53 (50) 23:55 (9) 30:35 (19) 32:32 (97)

JUNIORS

Vinny Ambrico 25:45 (5) 25:08 (3) 24:36 (47) 25:00 (66) 24:27 (17) 31:22 (43) 34:24 (224) A.J. Andrassy 25:57 (6) 26:00 (1)* 25:20 (23)^ 25:28 (20)# 24:43 (24) 31:45 (59) 35:48 (240) Tim Moore 24:58 (1) 23:58 (13) 24:12 (13) 23:53 (6) 30:25 (9) 31:56 (43) Kaleb Van Ort 23:59 (14) 24:34 (28) 23:54 (8) 30:25 (8) 32:32 (96) Austin Weaver 25:34 (4) 25:12 (7) 25:09 (92) 25:16 (12)# 24:59 (34)

SOPHOMORES

Kurt Benninger 23:43 (2) 24:07 (8) 23:54 (7) 30:17 (3) 31:54 (42) Dan Driscoll 25:30 (1) 25:13 (8) 25:16 (106) 25:38 (31)# Todd Ptacek 25:10 (15)^

FRESHMEN

Brett Adams 26:11 (2)* 25:17 (20)^ Dan Curran 25:18 (9) 24:55 (6)^ 25:10 (7)# 25:13 (43) Jake Watson 25:06 (2) 24:54 (73) 25:30 (121)

TEAM FINISH 1st of 4 1st of 30 2nd of 24 2nd of 35 1st of 10 2nd of 29 11th of 30 15 points 19 points 95 points 165 points 47 points 82 points 350 points

Number in parentheses indicates finish in race, * - indicates National Catholic JV race, ^ - indicates Notre Dame Invitational Gold Division race, # - indicates Pre-National open race.

UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME 78 2004 Women’s Cross Country Results

VALPARAISO NATIONAL NOTRE DAME PRE-NATIONAL BIG EAST GREAT LAKES NCAA INVIT. CATHOLIC INVIT. INVIT. INVIT. CHAMPIONSHIP REGIONAL CHAMP. SENIORS

Christine Arnerich 23:49 (15) 19:03 (19) 19:00 (32)^ 24:09 (114)# Lauren King 21:43 (52) 21:29 (21) 21:02 (24) 22:04 (111) Kerry Meagher 16:45 (5) 21:03 (16) 21:26 (19) 20:22 (9) 21:10 (34) Maggie Nelson 20:39 (131)^ 21:33 (55)

JUNIORS

Molly Huddle 16:31 (2) 20:29 (3) 20:16 (5) 21:14 (40) Loryn King 19:20 (28) 18:35 (121) 23:21 (69)# Stephanie Madia 17:38 (1) 17:11 (17) 20:54 (11) 21:00 (10) 20:10 (4) 20:58 (23) Jean Marinangeli 18:18 (6) 18:06 (75) 22:17 (113) 21:54 (28) 21:13 (36) 22:17 (136) Jenny Walls 23:43 (13) 19:44 (46) 19:07 (39)^ Elizabeth Webster 22:51 (3) 18:34 (8) 18:30 (112) 22:59 (187) 22:55 (53)

SOPHOMORES

Katie DeRusso 23:19 (8) 18:43 (11) 18:29 (9)^ 22:36 (21)# 22:39 (46) 21:28 (50) 23:04 (211) Ann Mazur 20:59 (11)* Jennifer Richard 23:48 (14) 19:41 (42) 19:34 (73)^ Brianne Schmidt 25:33 (35) 19:39 (86)^

FRESHMEN

Jackie Carter 19:22 (1)* 18:44 (16)^ 23:15 (58)# 22:53 (50) Kathleen Coverick 26:04 (37) 21:28 (14)* Mary Debevec 20:10 (4)* 19:12 (43)^ Rachel Heneghan 20:14 (5)* Erin Locke 20:41 (8)* Sunni Olding 17:40 (2) 17:30 (31) 21:23 (29) 21:04 (12) 20:15 (6) 21:10 (32) Julie Opet 19:46 (2)* 18:59 (30)^ 23:30 (82)# Alyson Parker 24:29 (23) 19:51 (3)*

TEAM FINISH 3rd of 6 1st of 31 3rd of 24 2nd of 37 2nd of 12 2nd of 30 4th of 31 53 points 28 points 127 points 111 points 67 points 79 points 170 points

Number in parentheses indicates finish in race, * - indicates National Catholic JV race, ^ - indicates Notre Dame Invitational Gold Division race # - indicates Pre-National open race

2005-06 CROSS COUNTRY/TRACK & FIELD 79 5,000 Meters 4x800-Meter Relay 2005 1. Sean O’Donnell ...... 14:11.12 1. Notre Dame ...... 9:07.30

Track & Field Results 2. Tim Moore ...... 14:12.67 Brianne Schmidt, Rachel Heneghan, 3. Kaleb Van Ort...... 14:18.72 Katie DeRusso, Jacqueline Carter 4x400-Meter Relay Distance Medley Relay 1. Notre Dame ‘A’ ...... 3:14.61 1. Notre Dame ...... 11:32.29 4x800-Meter Relay Stephanie Madia, Crysta Swayzer, 1. Notre Dame ...... 7:38.09 Brianne Schmidt, Sunni Olding Eric Morrison, Adam Currie, Todd Ptacek, High Jump Brett Adams 1. Stacey Cowan ...... 1.80m Distance Medley Relay 2. Emily Loomis ...... 1.70m 1. Notre Dame ...... 9:35.12 3. Cassie Gullickson ...... 1.69m Eric Morrison, Trevor McClain-Duer, Adam Currie, Long Jump Kurt Benninger 1. Petra Dankova...... 5.88m High Jump Triple Jump 1. Chris Staron...... 2.02m 1. Petra Dankova...... 12.59m 2. Christopher Jacques ...... 1.97m 2. Cassie Gullickson ...... 11.60m 3. Adam Recorrd ...... 1.96m Pole Vault Long Jump 1. Dee Dee Bryant ...... 3.35m 1. Chris Jacques ...... 7.23m Shot Put Pole Vault 1. Meghan Horn ...... 14.85m 1. Dave Viken ...... 4.71m Weight Throw 2. Justin Oppel ...... 4.65m 1. Meghan Horn ...... 15.64m Shot Put 2. Amber Jackson ...... 14.46m 1. Mike Schubert ...... 14.81m 3. Adria Helmich ...... 10.97m Weight Throw Pentathlon 1. Chip Roberts ...... 17.62m 1. Stacey Cowan ...... 3.554 points 2. Garet Koxlien ...... 16.91m 2. Kate Jannazo...... 2,913 points 3. Kyle Annen...... 16.48m 2005 MEN’S TOP 2005 WOMEN’S TOP Garet Koxlien posted Notre Dame’s best mark OUTDOOR TIMES in the discus, second-best figure in the weight INDOOR TIMES throw and third-best distance in the hammer 100 Meters throw last season. 60 Meters 1. Christopher Jacques ...... 11.01 1. Maryann Erigha ...... 7.47 2. Tommie Lee ...... 11.07 2. Brienne Davis ...... 7.64 3. Ryan Regula ...... 11.23 2005 MEN’S TOP 3. Domenique Manning ...... 7.89 110-Meter Hurdles 60-Meter Hurdles INDOOR TIMES 1. Selim Nurudeen ...... 13.65 1. Domenique Manning ...... 8.66 2. Geoffrey Bennett ...... 14.66 2. Tiffany Gunn ...... 8.75 60 Meters 3. Jose Genao ...... 14.83 1. Dwight Ellick ...... 6.78 200 Meters 200 Meters 2. Terrail Lambert ...... 6.82 1. Maryann Erigha ...... 23.60 1. Selim Nurudeen ...... 21.11 3. Selim Nurudeen ...... 6.83 2. Brienne Davis ...... 24.73 2. Tommie Lee ...... 22.52 3. Okechi Ogbuokiri ...... 25.31 60-Meter Hurdles 3. Jim Goebl ...... 22.73 1. Selim Nurudeen ...... 7.72 400 Meters 400 Meters 2. Geoff Bennett...... 8.19 1. Okechi Ogbuokiri ...... 54.03 1. Robert Kueny...... 50.16 3. Jose Genao ...... 8.30 2. Tiffany Gunn ...... 54.29 2. Zach Labrecque ...... 50.75 3. Crysta Swayzer...... 57.51 200 Meters 3. Jordan Powell ...... 51.37 1. Selim Nurudeen ...... 21.33 500 Meters 400-Meter Hurdles 2. Dwight Ellick ...... 21.88 1. Tiffany Gunn ...... 1:12.45 1. Roberto Garcia ...... 54.44 3. Zach Labrecque ...... 22.50 2. Okechi Ogbuokiri ...... 1:13.92 2. Austin Wecher...... 54.80 3. Crysta Swayzer ...... 1:15.23 400 Meters 800 Meters 1. Trevor McClain-Duer...... 48.19 800 Meters 1. Adam Currie...... 1:51.09 2. Austin Wechter ...... 49.01 1. Stephanie Madia...... 2:11.58 2. Brett Adams ...... 1:53.10 3. Robert Kueny...... 49.45 2. Brianne Schmidt ...... 2:12.95 3. Jamal Afridi...... 1:53.71 3. Jacqueline Carter ...... 2:13.24 500 Meters 1,500 Meters 1. Trevor McClain-Duer ...... 1:03.24 1,000 Meters 1. Eric Morrison ...... 3:46.55 2. Austin Wechter ...... 1:03.62 1. Brianne Schmidt ...... 2:53.25 2. Sean O’Donnell ...... 3:49.51 3. Adam Currie...... 1:04.68 2. Jacqueline Carter ...... 2:54.79 3. Jake Watson ...... 3:50.19 3. Rachel Heneghan ...... 2:57.01 800 Meters 3,000-Meter Steeplechase 1. Adam Currie...... 1:50.29 Mile 1. Ryan Johnson ...... 9:04.21 2. Eric Morrison ...... 1:52.08 1. Sunni Olding ...... 4:48.79 2. Jake Watson ...... 9:04.60 3. Jamal Afridi...... 1:53.86 2. Stephanie Madia...... 4:52.28 3. Todd Ptacek...... 9:05.40 3. Jacqueline Carter ...... 4:59.68 1,000 Meters 5,000 Meters 1. Jake Watson ...... 2:25.98 3,000 Meters 1. Kurt Benninger...... 13:33.05 2. Todd Ptacek...... 2:26.29 1. Stephanie Madia...... 9:22.50 2. Sean O’Donnell ...... 14:05.60 3. Brett Adams ...... 2:26.54 2. Sunni Olding ...... 9:32.33 3. Tim Moore ...... 14:15.06 3. Amy Kohlmeier ...... 9:49.91 Mile 10,000 Meters 1. Kurt Benninger...... 3:58.75 5,000 Meters 1. Kaleb Van Ort...... 28:59.35 2. Todd Ptacek...... 4:05.57 1. Molly Huddle ...... 16:12.17 2. Tim Moore ...... 29:03.43 3. Todd Mobley ...... 4:09.15 2. Amy Kohlmeier ...... 17:15.91 3. Todd Mobley ...... 29:37.21 3. Jean Marinangeli ...... 17:22.30 3,000 Meters 4x100-Meter Relay 1. Kurt Benninger...... 7:59.39 4x400-Meter Relay 1. Notre Dame ...... 42.46 2. Tim Moore ...... 8:17.04 1. Notre Dame ‘A’ ...... 3:42.67 Geoffrey Bennett, Selim Nurudeen, 3. Kaleb Van Ort...... 8:17.84 Christopher Jacques, Tommie Lee

UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME 80 4x400-Meter Relay 4x800-Meter Relay 1. Notre Dame ‘A’ ...... 3:18.48 1. Notre Dame ...... 9:15.86 2005

4x800-Meter Relay Jacqueline Carter, Brianne Schmidt, Track & Field Results 1. Notre Dame ...... 7:40.22 Katie DeRusso, Kerry Meagher Adam Currie, Jamal Afridi, Brett Adams, High Jump Jake Watson 1. Stacey Cowan ...... 1.78m High Jump 2. Emily Loomis ...... 1.77m 1. Chris Staron...... 2.01m 3. Cassie Gullickson ...... 1.65m 2. Christopher Jacques ...... 1.99m Long Jump 3. Adam Record ...... 1.94m 1. Petra Dankova...... 5.52m Long Jump Triple Jump 1. Christopher Jacques ...... 7.17m 1. Petra Dankova...... 12.13m Pole Vault 2. Cassie Gullickson ...... 11.64m 1. Dave Viken ...... 4.75m Pole Vault 2. Justin Oppel ...... 4.60m 1. Dee Dee Bryant ...... 3.35m Shot Put Shot Put 1. Mike Schubert ...... 14.92m 1. Meghan Horn ...... 14.46m Discus Throw Discus Throw 1. Garet Koxlien ...... 51.06m 1. Meghan Horn ...... 45.69m 2. Chip Roberts ...... 46.96m 2. Amber Jackson ...... 39.60m 3. Kyle Annen...... 43.41m Hammer Throw Hammer Throw 1. Meghan Horn ...... 47.89m 1. Chip Roberts ...... 56.08m 2. Amber Jackson ...... 29.52m 2. Kyle Annen...... 55.94m Javelin Throw 3. Garet Koxlien ...... 51.07m 1. Kate Duman ...... 43.56m Javelin Throw 2. Mona Lisa DellaVolpe...... 29.10m 1. Derek Goguen ...... 59.91 3. Kristin Drach ...... 23.81m

2005 WOMEN’S TOP 2005 MEET-BY-MEET RESULTS OUTDOOR TIMES BLUE AND GOLD 100 Meters INVITATIONAL 1. Maryann Erigha ...... 11.28 DECEMBER 3, 2004 Elizabeth Webster got her 2004-05 season off 2. Brienne Davis ...... 12.01 to a solid start, winning the 3,000-meter run at 100-Meter Hurdles NOTRE DAME, IND. the Blue and Gold Invitational. 1. Domenique Manning ...... 14.29 Women’s 60 Meters 200 Meters 1. Maryann Erigha ...... 7.47 Men’s 400 Meters 1. Maryann Erigha ...... 23.28 2. Brienne Davis ...... 7.73 2. Jordan Powell ...... 49.41 2. Okechi Ogbuokiri ...... 24.28 3. Domenique Manning ...... 7.74 3. Rob Kueny ...... 49.57 3. Brienne Davis ...... 25.20 4. Tiffany Gunn ...... 7.87 4. Elliott Patrick...... 52.65 400 Meters 5. Okechi Ogbuokiri ...... 7.97 Women’s 500 Meters 1. Okechi Ogbuokiri ...... 53.45 Men’s 60 Meters – Section One 1. Tiffany Gunn ...... 1:13.12 2. Crysta Swayzer...... 56.15 1. Chris Jacques ...... 7.15 2. Okechi Ogbuokiri ...... 1:15.44 400-Meter Hurdles 2. Kepha Chin ...... 7.25 3. Jennifer Leong ...... 1:18.84 1. Okechi Ogbuokiri ...... 1:06.35 3. Steve Walchuk ...... 7.27 Men’s 500 Meters 2. Rose Brakel-Pierce ...... 1:09.85 4. Ryan Regula ...... 7.35 1. Trevor McClain-Duer ...... 1:02.29 800 Meters Men’s 60 Meters – Section Two 2. Austin Wechter ...... 1:04.45 1. Jacqueline Carter ...... 2:13.57 1. Zach Labrecque ...... 7.12 3. Roberto Garcia...... 1:06.18 2. Brianne Schmidt ...... 2:15.06 2. Tommie Lee ...... 7.12 4. Grant Frieling ...... 1:08.24 3. Crysta Swayzer ...... 2:16.85 5. Louis Apollon ...... 7.53 Women’s 1,000 Meters 1,500 Meters Women’s 60-Meter Hurdles 1. Brianne Schmidt ...... 2:55.34 1. Kerry Meagher ...... 4:16.37 1. Domenique Manning ...... 8.81 2. Jackie Carter...... 2:55.69 2. Stephanie Madia...... 4:36.69 2. Stacey Cowan ...... 9.23 3. Julie Opet...... 3:01.75 3. Elizabeth Webster...... 4:36.20 3. Cassie Gullickson ...... 9.78 4. Mary Debevec ...... 3:03.91 3,000-Meter Steeplechase 4. Tashi Thomas ...... 11.15 5. Becky Antas ...... 3:04.76 6. Liz Philipp ...... 3:05.44 1. Katie DeRusso ...... 10:41.49 Men’s 60-Meter Hurdles 2. Julie Opet...... 11:10.74 1. Geoff Bennett...... 8.41 Men’s 1,000 Meters 3. Elizabeth Philipp...... 11:23.89 2. Jose Genao ...... 8.48 2. Eric Morrison ...... 2:26.52 5,000 Meters Women’s 200 Meters 3. Adam Currie...... 2:27.36 4. Ben Hess ...... 2:29.99 1. Stephanie Madia...... 15:53.11 1. Maryann Erigha ...... 24.34 5. Andy O’Connor ...... 2:31.58 2. Sunni Olding ...... 16:14.77 2. Brienne Davis ...... 25.85 6. Jamal Afridi...... 2:32.82 3. Lauren King ...... 17:03.93 3. Crysta Swayzer...... 26.26 7. Terry Lennon...... 2:33.13 10,000 Meters Men’s 200 Meters – Section One 8. James Millar ...... 2:40.25 1. Lauren King ...... 33:56.95 1. Steve Walchuk ...... 23.41 Men’s Mile 2. Jean Marinangeli ...... 36:42.66 2. Geoff Bennett...... 23.48 1. Jake Watson ...... 4:14.56 3. Kepha Chin ...... 23.65 4x100-Meter Relay 2. Brett Adams ...... 4:16.99 4. Ryan Regula ...... 23.67 1. Notre Dame ...... 46.04 3. Thomas Balmat ...... 4:26.36 Domenique Manning, Maryann Erigha, Men’s 200 Meters – Section Two Women’s 3,000 Meters Brienne Davis, Okechi Ogbuokiri 1. Zach Labrecque ...... 22.50 1. Elizabeth Webster...... 10:09.80 2. Tommie Lee ...... 22.64 4x400-Meter Relay 2. Maggie Nelson...... 10:26.37 3. Jose Genao ...... 22.96 1. Notre Dame ...... 3:47.03 3. Jen Richard ...... 10:40.87 4. Louis Apollon ...... 23.81 Okechi Ogbuokiri, Brienne Davis, 4. Jenny Walls...... 10:46.26 Crysta Swayzer, Maryann Erigha Women’s 400 Meters 2. Crysta Swayzer...... 58.34

2005-06 CROSS COUNTRY/TRACK & FIELD 81 Women’s Weight Throw Women’s Weight Throw 2005 2. Meghan Horn ...... 14.97m 4. Meghan Horn ...... 15.23m 3. Amber Jackson ...... 14.52m Track & Field Results Men’s Weight Throw 7. Adria Helmich ...... 10.62m 3. Chip Roberts ...... 17.20m Men’s Weight Throw 5. Garet Koxlien ...... 16.14m 1. Chip Roberts ...... 18.03m 6. Kyle Annen...... 14.90m 2. Kyle Annen...... 15.88m 3. Garet Koxlien ...... 15.53m 4. Kevin Moffitt...... 13.45m NOTRE DAME INDOOR OPENER CENTRAL MICHIGAN OPENER JANUARY 21, 2005 JANUARY 15, 2005 NOTRE DAME, IND. MT. PLEASANT, MICH. Women’s 60 Meters Women’s 60 Meters – Preliminaries 1. Maryann Erigha ...... 7.47 2. Brienne Davis ...... 7.78 1. Maryann Erigha ...... 7.47 6. Domenique Manning ...... 7.92 4. Domenique Manning ...... 7.89 Women’s 60 Meters – Final Men’s 60 Meters 1. Selim Nurudeen ...... 6.98 1. Maryann Erigha ...... 7.51 2. Tommie Lee ...... 7.12 6. Domenique Manning ...... 8.00 3. Christopher Jacques ...... 7.15 Men’s 60 Meters – Preliminaries 5. Jose Genao ...... 7.32 3. Selim Nurudeen ...... 6.89 6. Geoffrey Bennett ...... 7.33 6. Zach Labrecque ...... 7.16 9. Ryan Regula ...... 7.46 Men’s 60 Meters – Final Women’s 60-Meter Hurdles 3. Selim Nurudeen ...... 6.85 1. Domenique Manning ...... 8.72 5. Zach Labrecque ...... 7.16 11. Cassie Gullickson ...... 9.90 Women’s 60-Meter Hurdles – 14. Tashi Thomas ...... 10.47 Preliminaries Men’s 60-Meter Hurdles 3. Domenique Manning ...... 8.79 1. Selim Nurudeen ...... 7.91 4. Tiffany Gunn ...... 9.00 2. Geoffrey Bennett ...... 8.20 9. Stacey Cowan ...... 9.43 3. Jose Genao ...... 8.30 Women’s 60-Meter Hurdles – Final Women’s 200 Meters Brett Adams nosed out teammate Jake Watson 2. Tiffany Gunn ...... 8.75 1. Maryann Erigha ...... 24.09 by one-hundredth of a second to win the 800 4. Domenique Manning ...... 8.80 2. Brienne Davis ...... 25.40 meters at the Notre Dame Indoor Opener. Men’s 60-Meter Hurdles – 14. Domenique Manning ...... 26.87 Preliminaries Men’s 200 Meters 1. Selim Nurudeen ...... 7.85 1. Selim Nurudeen ...... 21.74 Men’s 5,000 Meters 4. Geoff Bennett...... 8.36 2. Tommie Lee ...... 22.66 1. Kaleb Van Ort...... 14:39.47 6. Jose Genao ...... 8.51 5. Robert Kueny...... 23.32 2. Todd Mobley ...... 14:44.78 Men’s 60-Meter Hurdles – Final 8. Ryan Regula ...... 23.88 3. Tim Moore ...... 14:45.69 1. Selim Nurudeen ...... 7.87 Women’s 400 Meters 4. Austin Weaver ...... 15:07.60 5. Geoff Bennett...... 8.43 1. Tiffany Gunn ...... 57.15 5. Mike Popejoy ...... 15:13.46 6. Jose Genao ...... 8.49 Men’s 400 Meters 6. Mike Manning ...... 15:25.05 Women’s 200 Meters – Section Four 1. Robert Kueny...... 50.13 Women’s High Jump 2. Brienne Davis ...... 25.69 Women’s 500 Meters 1. Stacey Cowan ...... 1.71m Men’s 200 Meters – Section One 1. Tiffany Gunn ...... 1:13.25 2. Cassie Gullickson ...... 1.65m 4. Rob Kueny ...... 23.75 2. Okechi Ogbuokiri ...... 1:13.92 Men’s High Jump Men’s 200 Meters – Section Two 4. Crysta Swayzer ...... 1:15.23 1. Ryan Mineburg ...... 1.94m 6. Rose Brakel-Pierce ...... 1:17.57 2. Zach Labrecque ...... 22.83 1. Chris Staron...... 1.94m 8. Kate Jannazo...... 1:19.23 3. Austin Wechter ...... 22.96 Women’s Long Jump 10. Rebecca Antas ...... 1:20.43 Women’s 400 Meters 1. Petra Dankova...... 5.63m 11. Rachel Heneghan ...... 1:21.08 1. Okechi Ogbuokiri ...... 56.87 2. Stacey Cowan ...... 5.13m 3. Tiffany Gunn ...... 57.63 Men’s 500 Meters 3. Katie Jannazo...... 4.96m 1. Austin Wechter ...... 1:04.62 4. Crysta Swayzer...... 58.64 4. Cassie Gullickson ...... 4.92m 2. Adam Currie...... 1:04.68 Men’s Long Jump Women’s 800 Meters 3. Jordan Powell ...... 1:05.07 5. Katie Jannazo ...... 2:30.25 2. Chris Jacques ...... 6.63m 8. Stacey Cowan ...... 2:54.30 Women’s 800 Meters Women’s Triple Jump 1. Brianne Schmidt ...... 2:13.70 Women’s High Jump 1. Petra Dankova...... 12.20m 2. Jacqueline Carter ...... 2:14.78 1. Stacey Cowan ...... 1.68m 2. Cassie Gullickson ...... 11.48m 6. Mary Debevec ...... 2:19.25 3. Cassie Gullickson ...... 1.58m Women’s Pole Vault 10. Julie Opet...... 2:24.47 Men’s High Jump 11. Elizabeth Philipp...... 2:25.98 1. Dee Dee Bryant ...... 3.20m 2. Chris Staron...... 1.97m Men’s 800 Meters Men’s Pole Vault 4. Adam Record ...... 1.87m 1. Brett Adams ...... 1:54.19 1. Dave Viken ...... 4.65m Women’s Long Jump 2. Jake Watson ...... 1:54.20 Women’s Shot Put 9. Katie Jannazo...... 5.08m 3. Vincent Ambrico ...... 1:56.26 1. Meghan Horn ...... 13.90m 10. Stacey Cowan ...... 4.97m 4. Jamal Afridi...... 1:56.73 7. Katie Jannazo...... 10.27m Men’s Pole Vault 6. James Millar ...... 1:59.16 8. Stacey Cowan ...... 8.99m 2. Dave Viken ...... 4.71m Women’s Mile 9. Cassie Gullickson ...... 8.66m 1. Stephanie Madia...... 4:54.35 Men’s Shot Put Women’s Shot Put 2. Meghan Horn ...... 13.87m 6. Katie DeRusso ...... 5:09.34 1. Mike Schubert ...... 14.85m 7. Elizabeth Webster...... 5:10.2 2. Garet Koxlien ...... 13.10m Men’s Shot Put 2. Mike Schubert ...... 14.72m

UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME 82 Men’s Mile Men’s 60-Meter Hurdles 1. Kurt Benninger...... 4:11.21 1. Selim Nurudeen ...... 7.86 2005 2. Kaleb Van Ort...... 4:16.77 3. Geoff Bennett...... 8.38 Track & Field Results 3. Ben Hess ...... 4:18.71 4. Jose Genao ...... 8.46 4. Dan Curran ...... 4:19.60 Women’s 200 Meters 5. Todd Mobley ...... 4:20.98 1. Brienne Davis ...... 25.21 10. Thomas Balmat ...... 4:27.21 2. Okechi Ogbuokiri ...... 25.31 Women’s 3,000 Meters 4. Crysta Swayzer...... 26.05 1. Amy Kohlmeier ...... 10:08.37 Men’s 200 Meters 2. Jean Marinangeli ...... 10:13.23 3. Dwight Ellick ...... 21.88 Men’s 3,000 Meters 5. Trevor McClain-Duer...... 22.51 2. Michael Manning ...... 8:37.96 10. Christopher Jacques ...... 22.83 7. Tom Longo...... 8:43.03 11. Tommie Lee ...... 22.94 8. Ryan Johnson ...... 8:45.04 13. Jim Goebl ...... 23.14 13. Mike Popejoy ...... 9:05.58 16. Robert Kueny...... 23.32 Women’s 4x400-Meter Relay 22. Ryan Regula ...... 23.79 2. Notre Dame ‘A’ ...... 3:48.88 Women’s 400 Meters 4. Notre Dame ‘B’ ...... 4:00.85 1. Tiffany Gunn ...... 55.07 Men’s 4x400-Meter Relay 2. Okechi Ogbuokiri ...... 55.58 1. Notre Dame ‘A’ ...... 3:22.01 3. Crysta Swayzer...... 57.51 4. Notre Dame ‘B’ ...... 3:28.65 Men’s 400 Meters Women’s High Jump 1. Trevor McClain-Duer...... 48.19 1. Stacey Cowan ...... 1.78m 2. Austin Wechter ...... 49.01 Men’s High Jump 4. Robert Kueny...... 49.45 1. Chris Staron...... 2.01m Women’s 500 Meters 3. Ryan Mineburg ...... 1.91m 1. Tiffany Gunn ...... 1:12.45 4. Adam Record ...... 1.86m 2. Rose Brakel-Pierce ...... 1:17.95 Women’s Long Jump 4. Jennifer Leong ...... 1:19.58 4. Petra Dankova...... 5.36m Men’s 500 Meters 9. Stacey Cowan ...... 4.83m 5. Trey Williams ...... 1:07.17 10. Cassie Gullickson ...... 4.80m Women’s 800 Meters Women’s Triple Jump 3. Stephanie Madia...... 2:11.58 2. Petra Dankova...... 11.97m 4. Brianne Schmidt ...... 2:14.78 8. Rachel Heneghan ...... 2:19.50 3. Cassie Gullickson ...... 11.37m One of Cassie Gullickson’s best performances Women’s Pole Vault 10. Mary Debevec ...... 2:20.40 12. Rebecca Antas ...... 2:20.86 of the season in the triple jump came at the 3. Dee Dee Bryant ...... 3.20m 13. Elizabeth Philipp...... 2:21.96 Notre Dame Invitational, where she took Men’s Pole Vault 15. Erin Locke ...... 2:24.29 runner-up honors. 1. Justin Oppel ...... 4.65m 17. Catherine Schmidt ...... 2:25.09 2. Dave Viken ...... 4.50m Men’s 800 Meters Women’s Shot Put 1. Adam Currie...... 1:50.29 Women’s High Jump 1. Meghan Horn ...... 13.92m 4. Eric Morrison ...... 1:52.08 1. Stacey Cowan ...... 1.80m 11. Kate Jannazo ...... 10.29m 9. Brett Adams ...... 1:54.28 2. Cassie Gullickson ...... 1.69m 17. Stacey Cowan ...... 9.35m 10. Jamal Afridi ...... 1:55.08 4. Emily Loomis ...... 1.59m Men’s Shot Put 11. Ben Hess ...... 1:55.20 Men’s High Jump 1. Mike Schubert ...... 14.76m 18. James Millar ...... 1:59.33 1. Chris Staron...... 2.01m Women Weight Throw Women’s Mile 3. Christopher Jacques ...... 1.91m 4. Meghan Horn ...... 15.64m 1. Sunni Olding ...... 4:51.98 5. Ryan Mineburg ...... 1.91m 7. Amber Jackson ...... 13.06m 4. Jacqueline Carter ...... 4:59.68 6. Adam Record ...... 1.86m 16. Adria Helmich ...... 10.39m 5. Katie DeRusso ...... 5:01.73 Women’s Long Jump Men’s Weight Throw 8. Amy Kohlmeier ...... 5:07.86 1. Petra Dankova...... 5.41m 10. Elizabeth Webster...... 5:12.22 1. Chip Roberts ...... 16.87m 13. Julie Opet...... 5:18.80 Women’s Triple Jump 2. Garet Koxlien ...... 15.89m 17. Allyson Parker ...... 5:27.94 2. Cassie Gullickson ...... 11.60m 3. Kyle Annen...... 15.24m Women’s Pole Vault 5. Kevin Moffitt...... 13.87m Men’s Mile 1. Vincent Ambrico ...... 4:11.98 2. Dee Dee Bryant ...... 3.35m 3. Jake Watson ...... 4:12.71 Men’s Pole Vault NOTRE DAME INVITATIONAL 11. Tom Longo...... 4:21.71 4. Dave Viken ...... 4.65m JANUARY 29, 2005 Women’s 3,000 Meters 5. Justin Oppel ...... 4.35m NOTRE DAME, IND. 8. Jean Marinangeli ...... 10:16.92 Women’s Shot Put 14. Ann Mazur...... 10:54.12 1. Meghan Horn ...... 13.87m Women’s 60 Meters -. Jenny Walls ...... DNF Men’s Shot Put 1. Maryann Erigha ...... 7.50 Men’s 3,000 Meters 6. Mike Schubert ...... 14.65m 3. Brienne Davis ...... 7.97 1. Kurt Benninger...... 7:59.39 Women’s Weight Throw Men’s 60 Meters 4. Tim Moore ...... 8:17.54 2. Meghan Horn ...... 14.97m 2. Selim Nurudeen ...... 6.85 5. Kaleb Van Ort...... 8:17.84 3. Amber Jackson ...... 14.46m 3. Dwight Ellick ...... 6.89 7. Sean O’Donnell ...... 8:19.50 9. Adria Helmich ...... 10.22m 7. Christopher Jacques ...... 7.20 10. Dan Curran ...... 8:21.77 8. Tommie Lee ...... 7.21 12. Todd Mobley ...... 8:24.01 Men’s Weight Throw 11. Jim Goebl ...... 7.24 15. Michael Manning ...... 8:32.26 1. Chip Roberts ...... 16.16m 16. Jose Genao ...... 7.41 18. Ryan Johnson ...... 8:33.76 4. Garet Koxlien ...... 15.24m 17. Ryan Regula ...... 7.48 6. Kyle Annen...... 14.93m Women’s 4x400-Meter Relay 8. Kevin Moffitt...... 14.00m Women’s 60-Meter Hurdles 3. Notre Dame ‘B’ ...... 4:04.94 1. Domenique Manning ...... 8.78 -. Notre Dame ‘A’ ...... DNF 6. Tashi Thomas ...... 10.80

2005-06 CROSS COUNTRY/TRACK & FIELD 83 Men’s 200 Meters Women’s High Jump 2005 3. Selim Nurudeen ...... 21.33 2. Stacey Cowan ...... 1.70m 24. Tommie Lee ...... 22.56 6. Emily Loomis ...... 1.70m Track & Field Results 25. Zach Labrecque ...... 22.59 20. Cassie Gullickson ...... 1.60m 26. Christopher Jacques ...... 22.69 Men’s High Jump 31. Jim Goebl ...... 23.46 9. Chris Staron...... 2.01m 32. Ryan Regula ...... 23.86 15. Adam Record ...... 1.96m Women’s 400 Meters 22. Ryan Mineburg ...... 1.86m 2. Okechi Ogbuokiri ...... 54.29 Women’s Long Jump 3. Tiffany Gunn ...... 54.29 18. Petra Dankova...... 5.60m Men’s 400 Meters Men’s Long Jump 20. Trevor McClain-Duer...... 49.16 9. Christopher Jacques ...... 6.98m 29. Jordan Powell ...... 49.74 38. Robert Kueny...... 50.33 Women’s Triple Jump 5. Petra Dankova...... 12.20m Women’s 500 Meters 15. Cassie Gullickson ...... 11.38m 3. Crysta Swayzer ...... 1:15.35 17. Catherine Schmidt ...... 1:18.81 Women’s Pole Vault 19. Kate Jannazo...... 1:19.06 16. Dee Dee Bryant ...... 3.20m 23. Jennifer Leong ...... 1:19.89 Men’s Pole Vault Men’s 500 Meters 13. Dave Viken ...... 4.50m 3. Austin Wechter ...... 1:03.62 Women’s Shot Put 12. Roberto Garcia...... 1:06.43 5. Meghan Horn ...... 13.97m 13. Trey Williams...... 1:06.93 27. Kate Jannazo ...... 9.67m Women’s 800 Meters Women’s Weight Throw 21. Jacqueline Carter ...... 2:13.24 9. Meghan Horn ...... 14.74m 22. Brianne Schmidt ...... 2:13.28 21. Amber Jackson ...... 11.70m 38. Rachel Heneghan ...... 2:17.86 22. Adria Helmich ...... 10.97m 40. Mary Debevec ...... 2:18.43 Men’s Weight Throw Chris Staron was Notre Dame’s top finisher in 43. Rebecca Antas ...... 2:18.83 9. Chip Roberts ...... 16.58m the high jump at the Meyo Invitational, placing 50. Elizabeth Philipp...... 2:22.29 14. Kyle Annen...... 16.21m ninth overall. Men’s 800 Meters 17. Garet Koxlien ...... 15.98m 11. Adam Currie...... 1:51.20 26. Kevin Moffitt ...... 14.05m 27. Jamal Afridi ...... 1:53.86 41. James Millar ...... 1:58.65 WINDSOR TEAM CHALLENGE MEYO INVITATIONAL Women’s 1,000 Meters FEBRUARY 12, 2005 FEBRUARY 4-5, 2005 3. Brianne Schmidt ...... 2:53.25 4. Jacqueline Carter ...... 2:55.35 WINDSOR, ONTARIO NOTRE DAME, IND. 12. Mary Debevec ...... 3:00.09 18. Rebecca Antas ...... 3:02.84 Women’s 60 Meters – Preliminaries Women’s 60 Meters - Preliminaries 19. Elizabeth Philipp...... 3:04.23 1. Maryann Erigha ...... 7.57 2. Maryann Erigha ...... 7.49 28. Erin Locke ...... 3:13.70 2. Brienna Davis ...... 7.86 8. Brienne Davis ...... 7.64 3. Domenique Manning ...... 7.92 21. Domenique Manning ...... 7.91 Men’s 1,000 Meters 4. Jake Watson ...... 2:25.98 Women’s 60 Meters – Final Women’s 60 Meters – Final 5. Brett Adams ...... 2:26.54 1. Maryann Erigha ...... 7.53 3. Maryann Erigha ...... 7.48 9. Ben Hess ...... 2:27.97 2. Brienne Davis ...... 7.70 11. Brienne Davis ...... 7.69 10. Todd Ptacek ...... 2:28.13 4. Domenique Manning ...... 7.92 Men’s 60 Meters – Preliminaries 20. James Millar ...... 2:31.89 Men’s 60 Meters – Final 6. Terrail Lambert...... 6.90 Women’s Mile 1. Dwight Ellick ...... 6.81 19. Tommie Lee ...... 7.10 30. Julie Opet...... 5:16.06 2. Terrail Lambert...... 6.84 21. Jim Goebl ...... 7.29 34. Allyson Parker ...... 5:22.39 5. Tommie Lee ...... 7.11 24. Ryan Regula ...... 7.46 Women’s 60-Meter Hurdles – -. Christopher Jacques ...... FS Men’s Mile 11. Tim Loh...... 4:40.31 Preliminaries Women’s 60-Meter Hurdles - 3. Domenique Manning ...... 8.77 Preliminaries Meyo Mile 4. Kurt Benninger...... 3:58.75 Women’s 60-Meter Hurdles – Final 8. Domenique Manning ...... 8.74 13. Eric Morrison ...... 4:10.86 3. Domenique Manning ...... 8.67 31. Stacey Cowan ...... 9.41 -. Vincent Ambrico ...... DNF 47. Tashi Thomas ...... 10.59 Men’s 60-Meter Hurdles – Women’s 60-Meter Hurdles – Final Women’s 3,000 Meters Preliminaries 8. Sunni Olding ...... 9:32.33 7. Domenique Manning ...... 8.66 1. Selim Nurudeen ...... 7.93 15. Stephanie Madia...... 9:39.70 3. Geoff Bennett...... 8.45 Men’s 60-Meter Hurdles – 23. Amy Kohlmeier ...... 9:54.58 4. Jose Genao ...... 8.42 Preliminaries 26. Elizabeth Webster...... 9:58.47 Men’s 60-Meter Hurdles – Final 1. Selim Nurudeen ...... 7.84 39. Katie DeRusso ...... 10:15.50 1. Selim Nurudeen ...... 7.96 14. Geoffrey Bennett ...... 8.35 Women’s 5,000 Meters 2. Geoff Bennett...... 8.24 23. Jose Genao ...... 8.55 5. Jean Marinangeli ...... 17:22.72 4. Jose Genao ...... 8.37 Men’s 60-Meter Hurdles – Final Men’s 5,000 Meters Women’s 300 Meters 3. Selim Nurudeen ...... 7.81 4. Tim Moore ...... 14:12.67 1. Maryann Erigha ...... 39.45 Women’s 200 Meters 8. Sean O’Donnell ...... 14:23.50 2. Okechi Ogbuokiri ...... 39.47 1. Maryann Erigha ...... 23.85 10. Kaleb Van Ort...... 14:26.72 7. Brienne Davis ...... 42.36 7. Brienne Davis ...... 24.73 11. Todd Mobley...... 14:31.64 8. Jennifer Leong...... 42.89 12. Dan Curran...... 14:33.73 Men’s 300 Meters 21. Tom Longo...... 14:49.31 5. Jordan Powell ...... 36.20 23. Michael Manning ...... 14:53.65 8. Rob Kueny ...... 36.42 25. Ryan Johnson ...... 15:08.33 Women’s 600 Meters Women’s 4x400-Meter Relay 1. Tiffany Gunn ...... 1:35.07 3. Notre Dame ‘A’ ...... 3:42.67 3. Crysta Swayzer ...... 1:36.04 Men’s 4x400-Meter Relay 12. Catherine Schmidt ...... 1:41.12 8. Notre Dame ‘A’ ...... 3:14.61 13. Rose Brakel-Pierce ...... 1:41.51

UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME 84 Men’s 600 Meters Women’s 800 Meters - Preliminaries 1. Trevor McClain-Duer ...... 1:20.79 11. Brianne Schmidt ...... 2:16.69 2005 3. Austin Wechter ...... 1:22.64 12. Rachel Heneghan ...... 2:17.21 Track & Field Results Women’s 1,000 Meters Men’s 800 Meters – Preliminaries 2. Rachel Heneghan ...... 2:57.01 6. Adam Currie...... 1:55.44 6. Becky Antas ...... 2:59.58 15. Jamal Afridi ...... 1:59.59 7. Mary Debevec ...... 3:00.09 Men’s 800 Meters – Final 8. Liz Philipp ...... 3:06.25 8. Adam Currie...... 1:57.83 Men’s 1,000 Meters Women’s 1,000 Meters – 2. James Millar ...... 2:34.79 Preliminaries 7. Jacqueline Carter ...... 2:54.79 BIG EAST INDOOR 11. Rebecca Antas ...... 3:00.50 CHAMPIONSHIP Women’s 1,000 Meters – Final FEBRUARY 19-20, 2005 5. Jacqueline Carter ...... 2:55.03 Men’s 1,000 Meters – Preliminaries SYRACUSE, N.Y. 3. Todd Ptacek...... 2:26.78 Women’s 60 Meters – Preliminaries 6. Jake Watson ...... 2:28.74 10. Brett Adams ...... 2:30.54 2. Maryann Erigha ...... 7.51 12. Ben Hess ...... 2:32.38 6. Brienne Davis ...... 7.66 15. Domenique Manning ...... 7.94 Men’s 1,000 Meters – Final Women’s 60 Meters – Final 4. Todd Ptacek...... 2:26.29 7. Jake Watson ...... 2:29.72 2. Maryann Erigha ...... 7.52 7. Brienne Davis ...... 7.70 Women’s Mile – Preliminaries Men’s 60 Meters – Final 3. Stephanie Madia...... 5:02.90 12. Katie DeRusso ...... 5:05.59 2. Dwight Ellick ...... 6.78 3. Terrail Lambert...... 6.82 Women’s Mile - Final 4. Selim Nurudeen ...... 6.83 2. Stephanie Madia...... 4:52.28 Women’s 60-Meter Hurdles – 8. Katie DeRusso ...... 5:03.45 Preliminaries Men’s Mile – Preliminaries 10. Domenique Manning ...... 8.86 1. Kurt Benninger...... 4:14.42 14. Tiffany Gunn ...... 8.97 3. Eric Morrison ...... 4:14.51 5. Vincent Ambrico ...... 4:15.19 Sunni Olding picked up a pair of all-BIG EAST Men’s 60-Meter Hurdles – Men’s Mile – Final citations at the league’s indoor meet, finishing Preliminaries 1. Kurt Benninger...... 4:12.14 third in the 3,000 meters and anchoring the 1. Selim Nurudeen ...... 7.81 5. Eric Morrison ...... 4:13.88 Irish distance medley relay team to a runner-up 6. Geoffrey Bennett ...... 8.29 7. Vincent Ambrico ...... 4:14.43 placement. 11. Jose Genao ...... 8.4 Women’s 3,000 Meters Men’s 60-Meter Hurdles – Final 2. Stephanie Madia...... 9:25.12 Men’s Distance Medley Relay 1. Selim Nurudeen ...... 7.72 3. Sunni Olding ...... 9:36.13 1. Notre Dame ...... 10:00.17 5. Geoffrey Bennett ...... 8.19 7. Amy Kohlmeier ...... 10:01.66 Brett Adams, Jordan Powell, Women’s 200 Meters – 8. Elizabeth Webster...... 10:02.30 Jamal Afridi, Sean O’Donnell Preliminaries Men’s 3,000 Meters Women’s High Jump 3. Maryann Erigha ...... 24.48 1. Kurt Benninger...... 8:15.22 2. Stacey Cowan ...... 1.77m 7. Brienne Davis ...... 25.08 2. Tim Moore ...... 8:17.04 6. Cassie Gullickson ...... 1.65m Women’s 200 Meters – Final 4. Kaleb Van Ort...... 8:19.44 Men’s High Jump 2. Maryann Erigha ...... 24.09 7. Sean O’Donnell ...... 8:24.83 3. Chris Staron...... 2.02m 7. Brienne Davis ...... 25.42 Women’s 5,000 Meters 7. Christopher Jacques ...... 1.97m Men’s 200 Meters – Preliminaries 2. Molly Huddle ...... 16:12.17 9. Adam Record ...... 1.92m 1. Selim Nurudeen ...... 21.67 8. Amy Kohlmeier ...... 17:15.91 Women’s Long Jump 7. Dwight Ellick ...... 21.89 10. Jean Marinangeli ...... 17:22.30 3. Petra Dankova...... 5.88m 10. Zach Labrecque ...... 22.86 Men’s 5,000 Meters 12. Tommie Lee ...... 23.23 Men’s Long Jump 3. Tim Moore ...... 14:27.25 1. Christopher Jacques ...... 7.23m Men’s 200 Meters – Final 5. Kaleb Van Ort...... 14:29.57 1. Selim Nurudeen ...... 21.38 6. Todd Mobley ...... 14:34.88 Women’s Triple Jump -- Dwight Ellick ...... DNF 9. Dan Curran ...... 14:42.21 2. Petra Dankova...... 12.59m 6. Cassie Gullickson ...... 11.49m Women’s 400 Meters – Women’s 4x400-Meter Relay Women’s Pole Vault Preliminaries 3. Notre Dame ...... 3:47.99 10. Dee Dee Bryant ...... 3.30m 1. Okechi Ogbuokiri ...... 55.96 Tiffany Gunn, Crysta Swayzer, Maryann Erigha, Okechi Ogbuokiri Men’s Pole Vault Women’s 400 Meters – Final 3. Justin Oppel ...... 4.50m 1. Okechi Ogbuokiri ...... 54.99 Men’s 4x400-Meter Relay 5. Dave Viken ...... 4.50m Men’s 400 Meters – Preliminaries 3. Notre Dame ...... 3:18.16 Trevor McClain-Duer, Jordan Powell, Women’s Shot Put 10. Robert Kueny...... 50.69 Robert Kueny, Austin Weaver 2. Meghan Horn ...... 14.85m 13. Jordan Powell ...... 51.47 Women’s 4x800-Meter Relay Men’s Shot Put Women’s 500 Meters – 4. Notre Dame ...... 9:07.30 8. Mike Schubert ...... 14.81m Preliminaries Brianne Schmidt, Rachel Heneghan, Women’s Weight Throw 1. Tiffany Gunn ...... 1:13.72 Katie DeRusso, Jacqueline Carter 10. Crysta Swayzer ...... 1:16.99 12. Meghan Horn...... 15.00m Men’s 4x800-Meter Relay Men’s Weight Throw Women’s 500 Meters – Final 2. Notre Dame ...... 7:38.09 1. Tiffany Gunn 1:13.44 3. Chip Roberts ...... 17.26m Eric Morrison, Adam Currie, 4. Garet Koxlien ...... 16.91m Men’s 500 Meters – Preliminaries Todd Ptacek, Brett Adams 5. Kyle Annen...... 16.48m 1. Trevor McClain-Duer ...... 1:03.50 Women’s Distance Medley Relay 4. Austin Wechter ...... 1:04.92 Women’s Pentathlon 2. Notre Dame ...... 11:32.29 3. Stacey Cowan ...... 3,554 points Men’s 500 Meters – Final Stephanie Madia, Crysta Swayzer, 11. Kate Jannazo...... 2,913 points 3. Trevor McClain-Duer ...... 1:03.24 Brianne Schmidt, Sunni Olding 5. Austin Wechter ...... 1:04.70

2005-06 CROSS COUNTRY/TRACK & FIELD 85 Men’s Mile Men’s 200 Meters 2005 10. Todd Ptacek ...... 4:05.57 39. Christopher Jacques ...... 22.78 21. Todd Mobley ...... 4:09.15 58. Geoffrey Bennett ...... 23.55 Track & Field Results 22. Vincent Ambrico ...... 4:09.27 Women’s 400 Meters 26. Brett Adams ...... 4:10.79 2. Okechi Ogbuokiri ...... 55.06 Women’s 3,000 Meters 6. Crysta Swayzer...... 56.97 3. Stephanie Madia...... 9:22.50 Men’s 400-Meter Hurdles 14. Amy Kohlmeier ...... 9:49.91 15. Roberto Garcia ...... 55.16 18. Elizabeth Webster...... 10:15.35 Men’s 400 Meters Men’s 3,000 Meters -. Roberto Garcia ...... NT 31. Michael Manning ...... 8:33.15 Women’s 800 Meters Women’s 5,000 Meters 10. Crysta Swayzer ...... 2:16.85 7. Jean Marinangeli ...... 17:26.41 Women’s 4x100-Meter Relay Men’s 5,000 Meters 4. Notre Dame ...... 46.58 4. Sean O’Donnell ...... 14:11.12 Domenique Manning, Maryann Erigha, 12. Kaleb Van Ort...... 14:18.72 Brienne Davis, Crysta Swayzer 14. Tim Moore ...... 14:20.04 15. Todd Mobley...... 14:22.41 Women’s High Jump 22. Ryan Johnson ...... 14:44.97 2. Cassie Gullickson ...... 1.60m 25. Dan Curran...... 15:11.89 Men’s High Jump Men’s Distance Medley Relay 3. Chris Staron...... 1.95m 3. Notre Dame ...... 9:35.12 9. Christopher Jacques ...... 1.90m Women’s High Jump Women’s Long Jump 2. Stacey Cowan ...... 1.70m 3. Petra Dankova...... 5.50m Men’s High Jump Men’s Long Jump 10. Chris Staron...... 2.00m 6. Christopher Jacques ...... 6.66m Men’s Pole Vault Women’s Triple Jump 14. Dave Viken ...... 4.52m 3. Petra Dankova...... 11.70m 5. Cassie Gullickson ...... 10.95m Men’s Weight Throw 9. Chip Roberts ...... 17.62m Women’s Shot Put 7. Meghan Horn ...... 13.94m NCAA INDOOR Men’s Shot Put 13. Mike Schubert ...... 13.85m Kurt Benninger garnered the first two All- CHAMPIONSHIP Women’s Discus Throw America plaques of his career at the 2005 MARCH 11-12, 2005 -. Meghan Horn...... ND NCAA Indoor Championships, ending up fourth Men’s Discus Throw in the mile and sixth as a member of Notre FAYETTEVILLE, ARK. 14. Chip Roberts ...... 43.62m Dame’s distance medley relay squad. Men’s 60-Meter Hurdles – 16. Garet Koxlien ...... 42.73m Preliminaries Women’s Hammer Throw 6. Selim Nurudeen ...... 7.77 17. Meghan Horn...... 44.60m ALEX WILSON INVITATIONAL Men’s 60-Meter Hurdles – Final Men’s Hammer Throw MARCH 4-5, 2005 6. Selim Nurudeen ...... 7.78 7. Chip Roberts ...... 48.13m NOTRE DAME, IND. Men’s 200 Meters – Preliminaries 8. Garet Koxlien ...... 46.41m 16. Selim Nurudeen ...... 21.91 Women’s Javelin Throw Women’s 60 Meters – Preliminaries Men’s Mile – Preliminaries 8. Kate Duman ...... 41.91m 2. Maryann Erigha ...... 7.47 2. Kurt Benninger...... 4:03.79 Men’s Javelin Throw Women’s 60 Meters – Final Men’s Mile – Final 7. Derek Goguen ...... 59.91m -. Maryann Erigha...... DNS 4. Kurt Benninger...... 4:02.24 Women’s 60-Meter Hurdles – Women’s 3,000 Meters DR. PEPPER INVITATIONAL Preliminaries 12. Stephanie Madia...... 9:36.67 MARCH 26, 2005 9. Domenique Manning ...... 8.78 Men’s Distance Medley Relay WACO, TEXAS Men’s 60-Meter Hurdles – 6. Notre Dame ...... 9:36.67 Preliminaries Eric Morrison, Trevor McClain-Duer, Women’s 100 Meters -. Selim Nurudeen ...... DNF Adam Currie, Kurt Benninger 2. Maryann Erigha ...... 11.47 Women’s 200 Meters Women’s High Jump 22. Domenique Manning ...... 12.66 1. Maryann Erigha ...... 23.60 19. Stacey Cowan ...... 1.72m Women’s 100-Meter Hurdles Women’s 400 Meters 4. Domenique Manning ...... 14.78 3. Okechi Ogbuokiri ...... 54.03 WILLIE WILLIAMS CLASSIC Men’s 110-Meter Hurdles 8. Tiffany Gunn ...... 56.71 MARCH 18-19, 2005 1. Selim Nurudeen ...... 13.92 Women’s 800 Meters TUCSON, ARIZ. Women’s 200 Meters 16. Brianne Schmidt ...... 2:12.95 1. Maryann Erigha ...... 23.48 18. Jacqueline Carter ...... 2:13.50 Women’s 100 Meters 4. Okechi Ogbuokiri ...... 24.33 20. Rebecca Antas ...... 2:14.52 4. Maryann Erigha ...... 11.76 26. Crysta Swayzer...... 25.79 Men’s 800 Meters 11. Domenique Manning ...... 12.60 45. Domenique Manning ...... 27.01 15. Jamal Afridi ...... 1:54.17 -. Brienne Davis ...... DNS Men’s 200 Meters 20. James Millar ...... 1:56.67 Men’s 100 Meters 3. Selim Nurudeen ...... 21.53 21. Ben Hess ...... 1:58.67 20. Christopher Jacques ...... 11.27 Women’s 400 Meters Women’s Mile Women’s 100-Meter Hurdles 3. Okechi Ogbuokiri ...... 55.43 9. Sunni Olding ...... 4:48.79 4. Domenique Manning ...... 14.49 10. Crysta Swayzer...... 58.08 21. Katie DeRusso ...... 5:03.09 Women’s 200 Meters Men’s Pole Vault 24. Elizabeth Philipp...... 5:15.83 1. Maryann Erigha ...... 23.67 4. Justin Oppel ...... 4.60m 25. Allyson Parker ...... 5:20.56 8. Okechi Ogbuokiri ...... 24.79 26. Julie Opet...... 5:27.77 Women’s Shot Put 16. Brienne Davis ...... 25.46 2. Meghan Horn ...... 13.69m 37. Petra Dankova ...... 26.84 44. Cassie Gullickson ...... 29.20

UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME 86 Women’s Discus Throw Women’s 400 Meters 5. Meghan Horn ...... 41.55m 12. Jennifer Leong ...... 1:02.46 2005

Women’s Javelin Throw Men’s 400 Meters Track & Field Results 1. Kate Duman ...... 43.56m 10. Zach Labrecque ...... 50.75 Men’s Javelin Throw 14. Robert Kueny...... 52.27 2. Derek Goguen ...... 57.26m Women’s 400-Meter Hurdles 6. Okechi Ogbuokiri ...... 1:06.35 STANFORD INVITATIONAL 12. Rose Brakel-Pierce ...... 1:09.85 MARCH 25-26, 2005 Men’s 400-Meter Hurdles 6. Roberto Garcia ...... 56.60 PALO ALTO, CALIF. 7. Austin Wechter ...... 57.28 Women’s 800 Meters Women’s 800 Meters – “B” Sections 4. Kerry Meagher ...... 2:19.37 9. Jacqueline Carter ...... 2:13.57 7. Rebecca Antas ...... 2:22.24 28. Brianne Schmidt ...... 2:22.21 9. Kate Jannazo...... 2:24.70 Men’s 800 Meters – Top Sections 14. Catherine Schmidt ...... 2:26.28 15. Adam Currie...... 1:51.09 17. Mary Debevec ...... 2:27.82 Men’s 1,500 Meters – Top Sections Men’s 800 Meters 13. Eric Morrison ...... 3:46.55 1. Adam Currie...... 1:54.22 Men’s 1,500 Meters – “B” Sections 3. Eric Morrison ...... 1:54.84 1. Brett Adams ...... 3:52.27 5. Brett Adams ...... 1:58.15 Women’s 3,000-Meter Steeplechase 9. Jamal Afridi...... 1:59.93 20. James Millar ...... 2:04.20 – Section Two 3. Katie DeRusso ...... 10:51.41 Women’s 1,500 Meters 1. Kerry Meagher ...... 4:38.24 Men’s 3,000-Meter Steeplechase 2. Stephanie Madia...... 4:44.50 – Section Two 3. Elizabeth Webster...... 4:45.51 6. Todd Ptacek...... 9:05.40 11. Brianne Schmidt ...... 4:56.26 8. Ryan Johnson ...... 9:09.46 13. Katie DeRusso ...... 4:57.47 Women’s 5,000 Meters 15. Jacqueline Carter ...... 4:58.60 – Section One 21. Allyson Parker ...... 5:13.51 1. Stephanie Madia...... 16:14.30 Men’s 1,500 Meters 2. Sunni Olding ...... 16:14.77 14. Zach Einterz ...... 4:15.51 Women’s 5,000 Meters 18. Dan Curran ...... 4:21.19 – Section Two Women’s 2,000-Meter Steeplechase 29. Elizabeth Webster...... 17:23.75 3. Julie Opet...... 7:48.19 Brianne Schmidt was a solid middle distance Men’s 5,000 Meters – Section One 5. Elizabeth Philipp...... 7:56.53 runner for the Irish in 2004-05, as shown by 1. Kurt Benninger...... 13:33.05 Men’s 3,000-Meter Steeplechase her third-place showing in the 800 meters at Men’s 5,000 Meters – Section Two 2. Jake Watson ...... 9:19.68 the Indy Relays. 6. Sean O’Donnell ...... 14:05.60 Women’s 5,000 Meters Men’s 10,000 Meters – Section One 1. Lauren King ...... 17:03.93 Women’s Hammer Throw 21. Tim Moore ...... 29:03.43 Men’s 5,000 Meters 22. Amber Jackson ...... 29.52m 34. Todd Mobley...... 29:37.21 5. Michael Manning ...... 15:35.21 -. Meghan Horn ...... FOUL Men’s 10,000 Meters – Section Two Women’s 4x100-Meter Relay Men’s Hammer Throw 1. Kaleb Van Ort...... 28:59.35 1. Notre Dame ...... 46.59 4. Chip Roberts ...... 53.95m Women’s High Jump – Flight One Domenique Manning, Maryann Erigha, 6. Kyle Annen...... 50.40m Brienne Davis, Okechi Ogbuokiri 1. Stacey Cowan ...... 1.78m 9. Garet Koxlien ...... 47.65m 14. Kevin Moffitt ...... 44.37m Men’s Hammer Throw Men’s 4x100-Meter Relay 1. Notre Dame ...... 42.79 19. Mike Schubert ...... 34.36m – “B” Sections Selim Nurudeen, Zach Labrecque, Women’s Javelin Throw 5. Chip Roberts ...... 53.15m Christopher Jacques, Tommie Lee 4. Mona Lisa DellaVolpe...... 29.10m 6. Kyle Annen...... 52.77m Women’s High Jump 9. Kristin Drach ...... 23.81m 2. Stacey Cowan ...... 1.65m Men’s Javelin Throw MIKE POEHLEIN INVITATIONAL 6. Cassie Gullickson ...... 1.60m 1. Derek Goguen ...... 55.06m APRIL 3, 2005 6. Emily Loomis ...... 1.60m WEST LAFAYETTE, IND. Men’s High Jump INDY RELAYS 2. Chris Staron...... 1.95m Women’s 100 Meters 3. Adam Record ...... 1.90m APRIL 15-16, 2005 3. Brienne Davis ...... 12.07 Women’s Long Jump INDIANAPOLIS, IND. Men’s 100 Meters 18. Kate Jannazo ...... 4.79m Women’s 100 Meters 4. Christopher Jacques ...... 11.01 Men’s Long Jump 2. Domenique Manning ...... 12.67 7. Tommie Lee ...... 11.12 3. Christopher Jacques ...... 6.64m Men’s 100 Meters 15. Jim Goebl ...... 11.27 Women’s Triple Jump 19. Ryan Regula ...... 11.35 4. Chris Jacques ...... 11.19 2. Cassie Gullickson ...... 11.61m Women’s 100-Meter Hurdles 5. Tommie Lee ...... 11.36 Men’s Pole Vault 10. Jim Goebl ...... 11.52 5. Domenique Manning ...... 14.29 1. Dave Viken ...... 4.75m 11. Ryan Regula ...... 11.55 Men’s Shot Put Men’s 110-Meter Hurdles Women’s 100-Meter Hurdles 4. Mike Schubert ...... 14.02m 1. Domenique Manning ...... 14.60 1. Selim Nurudeen ...... 13.96 8. Geoff Bennett...... 15.00 Women’s Discus Throw Men’s 110-Meter Hurdles Women’s 200 Meters 4. Meghan Horn ...... 41.05m 3. Geoff Bennett...... 15.01 9. Amber Jackson ...... 37.92m 4. Jose Genao ...... 15.29 9. Brienne Davis ...... 25.20 -. Adria Helmich ...... FOUL Men’s 200 Meters Men’s Discus Throw 15. Jim Goebl ...... 22.85 3. Garet Koxlien ...... 44.56m 17. Tommie Lee ...... 22.87 8. Chip Roberts ...... 39.90m 21. Robert Kueny...... 23.26 10. Kyle Annen...... 38.73m 27. Ryan Regula ...... 23.7

2005-06 CROSS COUNTRY/TRACK & FIELD 87 Men’s 4x400-Meter Relay Women’s 10,000 Meters – 2005 2. Notre Dame ...... 3:18.48 Invitational Women’s High Jump 15. Lauren King ...... 34:11.78 Track & Field Results 3. Cassie Gullickson ...... 1.65m Women’s High Jump – 6. Kate Jannazo ...... 1.50 University/Open Men’s High Jump 4. Emily Loomis ...... 1.67m 1. Chris Staron...... 2.01m 4. Adam Record ...... 1.85m CENTRAL COLLEGIATE 5. Chris Jacques ...... 1.85m Women’s Long Jump CHAMPIONSHIP 6. Kate Jannazo ...... 4.68m APRIL 23, 2005 Men’s Long Jump CHAMPAIGN, ILL. 1. Chris Jacques ...... 7.17m Women’s Triple Jump Women’s 800 Meters 1. Cassie Gullickson ...... 11.64m 4. Jacqueline Carter ...... 2:20.75 6. Rebecca Antas ...... 2:23.58 Women’s Pole Vault 12. Mary Debevec ...... 2:29.33 1. Dee Dee Bryant ...... 3.35m 14. Kate Jannazo...... 2:32.88 2. Stephanie Best ...... 2.90m Men’s 800 Meters Women’s Shot Put 14. Jamal Afridi ...... 2:01.44 1. Meghan Horn ...... 13.96m 17. James Millar ...... 2:02.45 Men’s Shot Put Women’s 1,500 Meters 1. Mike Schubert ...... 14.92m 5. Elizabeth Webster...... 4:51.53 Women’s Discus Throw 14. Allyson Parker ...... 5:18.84 2. Meghan Horn ...... 41.47m Women’s 3,000-Meter Steeplechase 7. Amber Jackson ...... 34.02m 4. Elizabeth Philipp...... 11:44.92 Men’s Discus Throw Women’s High Jump 2. Garet Koxlien ...... 46.37m 4. Stacey Cowan ...... 1.63m 4. Chip Roberts ...... 41.90m 5. Cassie Gullickson ...... 1.55m 6. Kyle Annen...... 40.29m Men’s High Jump One of Notre Dame’s top pole vaulters, Dave Women’s Hammer Throw 1. Chris Staron...... 1.98m Viken finished second in the event at the 2005 2. Meghan Horn ...... 45.64m Men’s Pole Vault Central Collegiates. Men’s Hammer Throw 2. Dave Viken ...... 4.60m 1. Chip Roberts ...... 54.13m 3. Kyle Annen...... 52.89m Women’s Shot Put 2. Meghan Horn ...... 14.05m Men’s 200 Meters 5. Garet Koxlien ...... 49.15m 7. Kevin Moffitt...... 44.79m Men’s Shot Put 2. Tommie Lee ...... 22.52 12. Mike Schubert ...... 36.67m 11. Mike Schubert ...... 13.87m 4. Jim Goebl ...... 22.73 13. Ryan Regula ...... 23.60 Women’s Javelin Throw Women’s Hammer Throw 7. Meghan Horn ...... 44.26m Women’s 400 Meters 2. Kate Duman ...... 41.97m -. Mona Lisa DellaVolpe ...... FOUL 1. Jennifer Leong...... 59.31 Men’s Hammer Throw 2. Chip Roberts ...... 54.60m Men’s 400 Meters 4. Kyle Annen...... 53.26m 3. Robert Kueny...... 50.16 MOUNT SAC RELAYS 9. Garet Koxlien ...... 49.94m 6. Jordan Powell ...... 51.37 APRIL 15-17. 2005 14. Kevin Moffitt ...... 44.24m Men’s 400-Meter Hurdles WALNUT, CALIF. 16. Mike Schubert ...... 39.18m 1. Roberto Garcia ...... 54.68 3. Austin Wechter ...... 55.57 Women’s 100 Meters – HILLSDALE GINA RELAYS Women’s 800 Meters University/Open 1. Jackie Carter...... 2:14.15 1. Maryann Erigha ...... 11.28 APRIL 28-30, 2005 3. Brianne Schmidt ...... 2:15.83 Men’s 110-Meter Hurdles – HILLSDALE, MICH. 5. Becky Antas ...... 2:18.19 Invitational 7. Catherine Schmidt ...... 2:19.20 6. Selim Nurudeen ...... 13.90 Women’s 100 Meters 8. Mary Debevec ...... 2:19.22 1. Maryann Erigha ...... 11.64 10. Kate Jannazo...... 2:20.19 Women’s 200 Meters – 3. Brienne Davis ...... 12.01 Men’s 800 Meters Universty/Open Men’s 100 Meters 1. Maryann Erigha ...... 23.28 4. Brett Adams ...... 1:53.10 8. Tommie Lee ...... 11.07 18. Okechi Ogbuokiri ...... 24.28 6. Jamal Afridi...... 1:53.71 16. Ryan Regula ...... 11.23 15. James Millar ...... 1:58.69 Women’s 400 Meters – 29. Jim Goebl ...... 11.38 Women’s 1,500 Meters University/Open Women’s 100-Meter Hurdles 2. Elizabeth Webster...... 4:36.20 4. Okechi Ogbuokiri ...... 54.59 3. Domenique Manning ...... 14.38 7. Allyson Parker ...... 4:54.93 Men’s 800 Meters – University/Open Men’s 110-Meter Hurdles Men’s 1,500 Meters 10. Adam Currie...... 1:51.83 6. Jose Genao ...... 14.92 2. Jake Watson ...... 3:50.19 Women’s 1,500 Meters – 9. Geoffrey Bennett ...... 15.2 3. Todd Ptacek...... 3:50.55 University/Open Men’s 200 Meters Women’s 3,000-Meter Steeplechase 7. Kerry Meagher ...... 4:22.83 35. Ryan Regula ...... 23.41 1. Julie Opet...... 11:31.68 Women’s 3,000-Meter Steeplechase Women’s 400 Meters 2. Liz Philipp ...... 11:44.37 – University/Open 1. Okechi Ogbuokiri ...... 54.74 Men’ s 3,000-Meter Steeplechase 21. Katie DeRusso ...... 11:06.42 3. Crysta Swayzer...... 56.58 1. A.J. Andrassy ...... 9:26.09 Women’s 5,000 Meters – Invitational 16. Jennifer Leong ...... 1:00.27 Men’s 5,000 Meters 4. Stephanie Madia...... 15:53.11 Men’s 400 Meters 4. Dan Driscoll ...... 14:55.89 17. Sunni Olding ...... 16:27.1 23. Robert Kueny...... 50.41 5. Michael Manning ...... 14:58.00 Men’s 5,000 Meters – 38. Jordan Powell ...... 51.71 6. Tom Longo...... 15:09.91 University/Open Men’s 400-Meter Hurdles 7. Dan Curran ...... 15:11.25 11. Sean O’Donnell ...... 14:12.23 9. Austin Wechter ...... 55.01 20. Tim Moore ...... 14:15.06

UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME 88 Women’s 800 Meters BIG EAST OUTDOOR 2. Jacqueline Carter ...... 2:14.57 2005 4. Brianne Schmidt ...... 2:15.06 CHAMPIONSHIP 15. Rebecca Antas ...... 2:19.22 MAY 6-8, 2005 Track & Field Results 17. Mary Debevec ...... 2:19.64 PISCATAWAY, N.J. Men’s 800 Meters 8. Jamal Afridi...... 1:54.75 Women’s 100 Meters – 36. James Millar ...... 1:58.84 Preilminaries Women’s 1,500 Meters 1. Maryann Erigha ...... 11.97 1. Kerry Meagher ...... 4:27.01 7. Brienne Davis ...... 12.24 51. Allyson Parker ...... 5:07.74 Women’s 100 Meters – Final Men’s 1,500 Meters 1. Maryann Erigha ...... 11.69 67. Tim Loh...... 4:13.17 7. Brienne Davis ...... 12.22 Women’s 3,000-Meter Steeplechase Men’s 100 Meters – Preliminaries 9. Julie Opet...... 11:10.74 12. Tommie Lee ...... 11.28 12. Elizabeth Philipp...... 11:23.89 Women’s 100-Meter Hurdles – Women’s 5,000 Meters Preliminaries 16. Jean Marinangeli ...... 17:12.73 8. Domenique Manning ...... 14.37 29. Maggie Nelson...... 17:53.48 Women’s 100-Meter Hurdles – Final Men’s 5,000 Meters 6. Domenique Manning ...... 14.66 26. Tom Longo...... 14:37.44 Men’s 110-Meter Hurdles – 57. Michael Manning ...... 14:56.32 Preliminaries Women’s 4x100-Meter Relay 1. Selim Nurudeen ...... 13.78 1. Notre Dame ...... 46.04 6. Geoffrey Bennett ...... 14.66 Women’s Pole Vault 10. Jose Genao...... 14.83 12. Dee Dee Bryant ...... 3.33m Men’s 110-Meter Hurdles – Final Women’s Shot Put 1. Selim Nurudeen ...... 13.65 5. Meghan Horn ...... 14.35m 8. Geoffrey Bennett ...... 14.75 The duo of Chip Roberts (left) and Kyle Annen Women’s 200 Meters – Men’s Shot Put (right) sparked the Irish to a 1-3 finish in the 14. Mike Schubert ...... 14.13m Preliminaries hammer throw at the 2005 BIG EAST Outdoor Women’s Discus Throw 1. Maryann Erigha ...... 24.17 Championships. 5. Meghan Horn ...... 45.64m 5. Okechi Ogbuokiri ...... 24.67 17. Amber Jackson ...... 39.60m 12. Brienne Davis ...... 25.32 Men’s Discus Throw Women’s 200 Meters – Final Women’s 5,000 Meters 3. Stephanie Madia...... 16:39.30 15. Garet Koxlien ...... 45.20m 2. Maryann Erigha ...... 24.10 4. Sunni Olding ...... 16:39.71 18. Chip Roberts ...... 44.85m 6. Okechi Ogbuokiri ...... 24.76 11. Jean Marinangeli ...... 17:37.75 24. Kyle Annen...... 43.41m Men’s 200 Meters – Preliminaries 13. Elizabeth Webster...... 17:55.29 Women’s Hammer Throw 3. Selim Nurudeen ...... 21.11 Men’s 5,000 Meters 12. Meghan Horn...... 47.89m Men’s 200 Meters – Final 4. Kaleb Van Ort...... 14:32.54 2. Selim Nurudeen ...... 21.11 Men’s Hammer Throw 5. Tim Moore ...... 14:35.85 8. Kyle Annen...... 55.94m Women’s 400 Meters – 7. Sean O’Donnell ...... 14:43.04 11. Chip Roberts ...... 54.05m Preliminaries 10. Ryan Johnson ...... 14:55.44 24. Garet Koxlien ...... 49.68m 3. Okechi Ogbuokiri ...... 54.05 12. Michael Manning ...... 15:09.09 31. Kevin Moffitt ...... 45.44m 9. Crysta Swayzer...... 56.15 44. Mike Schubert ...... 37.44m Women’s 10,000 Meters Women’s 400 Meters – Final 2. Lauren King ...... 35:57.74 Women’s Javelin Throw 2. Okechi Ogbuokiri ...... 53.80 4. Jean Marinangeli ...... 36:42.66 4. Kate Duman ...... 39.76m Men’s 400-Meter Hurdles Men’s 10,000 Meters Men’s Javelin Throw 7. Roberto Garcia ...... 54.44 3. Kaleb Van Ort...... 30:26.01 1. Derek Goguen ...... 58.49m 8. Austin Wechter ...... 54.80 5. Tim Moore ...... 30:41.27 Women’s 800 Meters – 7. Dan Driscoll ...... 31:42.40 DRAKE RELAYS Preliminaries 8. Todd Mobley ...... 31:44.48 11. Dan Curran...... 32:47.85 APRIL 27-30, 2005 17. Brianne Schmidt ...... 2:23.91 Men’s 800 Meters – Preliminaries Women’s 4x100-Meter Relay DES MOINES, IOWA 2. Notre Dame ...... 46.46 12. Adam Currie...... 1:52.92 Domenique Manning, Maryann Erigha, Men’s 110-Meter Hurdles Women’s 1,500 Meters Brienne Davis, Okechi Ogbuokiri 9. Selim Nurudeen ...... 13.94 4. Kerry Meagher ...... 4:29.50 6. Stephanie Madia...... 4:36.69 Men’s 4x100-Meter Relay Men’s 800 Meters 6. Notre Dame ...... 42.46 8. Adam Currie...... 1:52.3 10. Jacqueline Carter ...... 4:46.72 Geoffrey Bennett, Selim Nurudeen, Men’s 3,000-Meter Steeplechase Men’s 1,500 Meters – Preliminaries Christopher Jacques, Tommie Lee 3. Todd Ptacek...... 3:50.57 7. Jake Watson ...... 9:10.44 Women’s 4x400-Meter Relay 11. Ryan Johnson ...... 9:14.35 7. Brett Adams ...... 3:51.61 6. Notre Dame ...... 3:47.03 10. Eric Morrison ...... 3:52.33 Men’s 4x1,600-Meter Relay Okechi Ogbuokiri, Brienne Davis, 3. Notre Dame ...... 16:44.12 Men’s 1,500 Meters – Final Crysta Swayzer, Maryann Erigha 6. Brett Adams ...... 3:58.95 Eric Morrison, Brett Adams, Men’s 4x400-Meter Relay Jake Watson, Todd Ptacek 7. Todd Ptacek...... 3:59.10 6. Notre Dame ...... 3:21.81 11. Eric Morrison ...... 3:59.97 Women’s High Jump Austin Wechter, Robert Kueny, 6. Emily Loomis ...... 1.70m Women’s 3,000-Meter Steeplechase Roberto Garcia, Jordan Powell 11. Stacey Cowan ...... 1.65m 9. Katie DeRusso ...... 10:55.06 16. Julie Opet...... 11:38.27 18. Elizabeth Philipp...... 11:51.33 Men’s 3,000-Meter Steeplechase 1. Ryan Johnson ...... 9:04.21 2. Jake Watson ...... 9:04.60 3. Todd Ptacek...... 9:06.12

2005-06 CROSS COUNTRY/TRACK & FIELD 89 Men’s Discus Throw Men’s 1,500 Meters 2005 3. Garet Koxlien ...... 51.06m 17. Eric Morrison ...... 3:49.71

Track & Field Results 5. Chip Roberts ...... 46.96m Women’s 3,000-Meter Steeplechase 10. Kyle Annen...... 41.16m 12. Katie DeRusso ...... 10:41.49 Women’s Hammer Throw Men’s 3,000-Meter Steeplechase 6. Meghan Horn ...... 47.19m 20. Jake Watson ...... 9:07.40 Men’s Hammer Throw 23. Todd Ptacek ...... 9:12.17 1. Chip Roberts ...... 54.09m 28. Ryan Johnson ...... 9:27.94 3. Kyle Annen...... 52.66m Women’s 5,000 Meters 6. Garet Koxlien ...... 51.07m 4. Stephanie Madia...... 16:23.78 10. Kevin Moffitt...... 45.74m Men’s 5,000 Meters Women’s Javelin Throw 12. Tim Moore ...... 14:20.68 3. Kate Duman ...... 42.38m 15. Sean O’Donnell ...... 14:27.98 Men’s Javelin Throw Women’s High Jump 5. Derek Goguen ...... 57.75m 2. Emily Loomis ...... 1.76m 2. Stacey Cowan ...... 1.76m GEORGIA TECH Women’s Shot Put INVITATIONAL 27. Meghan Horn...... 13.57m MAY 13-14, 2005 Men’s Discus Throw 26. Garet Koxlien ...... 47.54m ATLANTA, GA Men’s Hammer Throw Women’s 100 Meters – Preliminaries 15. Chip Roberts ...... 56.08m 7. Maryann Erigha ...... 11.62 22. Kyle Annen...... 53.96m Women’s 100 Meters – Final Women’s Javelin Throw 3. Maryann Erigha ...... 11.60 8. Kate Duman ...... 43.29m Women’s 200 Meters 5. Maryann Erigha ...... 23.84 NCAA OUTDOOR Women’s 400 Meters CHAMPIONSHIP 6. Okechi Ogbuokiri ...... 53.45 JUNE 8-11, 2005 Men’s 800 Meters SACRAMENTO, CALIF. 26. Adam Currie...... 1:52.40 Okechi Ogbuokiri earned a berth in the NCAA Outdoor Championships with her eighth-place Men’s 1,500 Meters Women’s 100 Meters – finish in the 400 meters at the NCAA Mideast 12. Sean O’Donnell ...... 3:49.51 Preliminaries 14. Adam Currie...... 3:50.47 Regional. 28. Maryann Erigha ...... 12.23 42. Brett Adams ...... 3:57.88 Men’s 110-Meter Hurdles – Women’s 3,000-Meter Steeplechase Preliminaries Women’s 4x800-Meter Relay 4. Katie DeRusso ...... 10:56.30 10. Selim Nurudeen ...... 13.91 8. Notre Dame ...... 9:15.86 Women’s Shot Put Men’s 110-Meter Hurdles – Jacqueline Carter, Brianne Schmidt, 14. Meghan Horn ...... 13.73m Katie DeRusso, Kerry Meagher Semi-finals Women’s Discus Throw 9. Selim Nurudeen ...... 13.85 Men’s 4x800-Meter Relay 10. Meghan Horn ...... 43.90m 5. Notre Dame ...... 7:40.22 Men’s 110-Meter Hurdles – Final Adam Currie, Jamal Afridi, Men’s Discus Throw 7. Selim Nurudeen ...... 13.86 Brett Adams, Jake Watson 5. Garet Koxlien ...... 48.86m Women’s 200 Meters – Women’s High Jump Men’s Hammer Throw Preliminaries 2. Stacey Cowan ...... 1.75m 10. Kyle Annen...... 53.49m -. Maryann Erigha...... DNS 7. Emily Loomis ...... 1.65m Men’s Javelin Throw Women’s 400 Meters – 10. Cassie Gullickson ...... 1.65m 5. Derek Goguen ...... 56.21m Preliminaries Men’s High Jump NCAA MIDEAST REGIONAL 19. Okechi Ogbuokiri ...... 53.73 4. Chris Staron...... 1.99m MAY 27-28, 2005 6. Christopher Jacques ...... 1.99m Women’s 1,500 Meters – 9. Adam Record ...... 1.94m BLOOMINGTON, IND. Preliminaries 11. Kerry Meagher ...... 4:16.37 Women’s Long Jump Women’s 100 Meters – Preliminaries 10. Petra Dankova...... 5.52m Women’s 1,500 Meters – Final 5. Maryann Erigha ...... 11.56 10. Kerry Meagher ...... 4:20.02 Men’s Long Jump Women’s 100 Meters – Final 11. Christopher Jacques ...... 6.39m Women’s 5,000 Meters – 7. Maryann Erigha ...... 13.08 Women’s Triple Jump Preliminaries Men’s 110-Meter Hurdles – 6. Petra Dankova...... 12.13m 5. Stephanie Madia...... 16:14.59 10. Cassie Gullickson ...... 11.50m Preliminaries Women’s 5,000 Meters – Final 3. Selim Nurudeen ...... 13.80 Women’s Pole Vault 5. Stephanie Madia...... 16:43.98 7. Dee Dee Bryant ...... 3.35m Men’s 110-Meter Hurdles – Final Women’s 10,000 Meters 4. Selim Nurudeen ...... 13.88 Men’s Pole Vault 12. Lauren King ...... 33:56.95 4. Dave Viken ...... 4.50m Women’s 200 Meters – Preliminaries Men’s 10,000 Meters 5. Justin Oppel ...... 4.35m 3. Maryann Erigha ...... 23.61 13. Kaleb Van Ort...... 29:19.74 Women’s Shot Put Women’s 200 Meters – Final Women’s High Jump 3. Meghan Horn ...... 14.46m 8. Maryann Erigha ...... 25.33 16. Emily Loomis ...... 1.77m Men’s Shot Put Women’s 400 Meters – Preliminaries 29. Stacey Cowan ...... 1.70m 6. Mike Schubert ...... 14.79m 8. Okechi Ogbuokiri ...... 54.25 Women’s Discus Throw Women’s 400 Meters – Final 3. Meghan Horn ...... 45.69m 8. Okechi Ogbuokiri ...... 54.66 Women’s 1,500 Meters 5. Kerry Meagher ...... 4:25.23

UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME 90 History and Records

Senior Molly Huddle already has earned more All-America citations (seven) than any other Notre Dame female student-athlete in history, regardless of sport. NCAA Cross Country History All-Americans Men’s Cross Country at the NCAA Championships Year TM Finish Points Top Finisher Place Time Site Distance 1938 2 61 Greg Rice 1 20:12.9 East Lansing, Mich. 4 miles 1939 8 217 Curt Hester 30 22:06 East Lansing, Mich. 4 miles 1940 5 115 Oliver Hunter 2 20:41 East Lansing, Mich. 4 miles 1941 6 137 Oliver Hunter 2 20:48 East Lansing, Mich. 4 miles 1942 6 145 Oliver Hunter 1 20:18 East Lansing, Mich. 4 miles 1944 2 64 Bill Tully 9 22:59 East Lansing, Mich. 4 miles 1945 2 65 Bill Tully 7 22:11 East Lansing, Mich. 4 miles 1946 10 265 Cornelius Styers 34 21:58 East Lansing, Mich. 4 miles 1947 9 223 Jim Kittell 20 21:55 East Lansing, Mich. 4 miles 1948 5 164 Jim Murphy 14 20:44 East Lansing, Mich. 4 miles 1949 10 265 Jim Kittell 30 21:28 East Lansing, Mich. 4 miles 1950 5 110 Benny Almaguer 7 21:02 East Lansing, Mich. 4 miles 1951 11 231 Jack Alexander 38 21:20 East Lansing, Mich. 4 miles 1952 12 275 Jack Alexander 57 21:16 East Lansing, Mich. 4 miles 1953 Jack Alexander 47 21:09 East Lansing, Mich. 4 miles 1954 6 169 Bill Squires 14 20:29 East Lansing, Mich. 4 miles 1955 3-T 95 Bill Squires 12 20:32.5 East Lansing, Mich. 4 miles 1956 4 201 John Michno 35 21:12 East Lansing, Mich. 4 miles 1957 1 121 Ed Monnelly 19 20:18 East Lansing, Mich. 4 miles 1958 4 114 Ron Gregory 13 20:47 East Lansing, Mich. 4 miles 1959 4 141 Ron Gregory 17 21:37 East Lansing, Mich. 4 miles 1960 10 252 Bill Yaley 55 21:28 East Lansing, Mich. 4 miles 1961 Frank Carver 42 21:12.5 East Lansing, Mich. 4 miles 1962 11 251 Frank Carver 9 19:55 East Lansing, Mich. 4 miles 1963 3 128 Bill Clark 13 20:11 East Lansing, Mich. 4 miles 1964 4 122 Bill Clark 2 20:14.2 East Lansing, Mich. 4 miles 1965 9 230 Ed Dean 22 30:51 Lawrence, Kan. 6 miles 1966 21 459 Dan Bergan 50 31:30 Lawrence, Kan. 6 miles 1972 Daniel Dunne 35 29:37 Houston, Texas 6 miles 1984 19 370 Mike Collins 59 30:55.4 University Park, Pa. 10,000 meters 1987 7 259 Dan Garrett 6 29:24.94 Charlottesville, Va. 10,000 meters 1988 9 255 Dan Garrett 9 29:41 Des Moines, Iowa 10,000 meters 1990 3 185 John Coyle 24 30:00 Knoxville, Tenn. 10,000 meters 1991 Mike McWilliams 17 31:00 Tucson, Ariz. 10,000 meters 1992 6 246 Mike McWilliams 24 31:34.1 Bloomington, Ind. 10,000 meters 1993 5 200 Mike McWilliams 18 30:12.8 Bethlehem, Pa. 10,000 meters 1994 14 316 Nate Ruder 45 31:45.1 Fayetteville, Ark. 10,000 meters 1995 8-T 237 Derek Seiling 27 31:31 Ames, Iowa 10,000 meters 1996 9 248 Jason Rexing 26 31:34 Tucson, Ariz. 10,000 meters 1997 12 309 Jason Rexing 55 30:43 Greenville, S.C. 10,000 meters 1998 Ryan Shay 229 34:16.8 Lawrence, Kan. 10,000 meters 1999 8 312 Ryan Shay 12 30:46.1 Bloomington, Ind. 10,000 meters 2000 9 276 Luke Watson 7 31:04 Ames, Iowa 10,000 meters 2001 6 248 Luke Watson 5 29:19 Greenville, S.C. 10,000 meters 2002 22 527 Tim Moore 63 30:50 Terre Haute, Ind. 10,000 meters 2003 Todd Mobley 27 30:09.5 Waterloo, Iowa 10,000 meters 2004 11 350 Kurt Benninger 42 31:53.4 Terre Haute, Ind. 10,000 meters

Men’s Cross Country All-Americans

Benny Almaguer...... 1950 Tim Moore...... 2004 Frank Carver ...... 1962 Ken Muening ...... 1944 Bill Clark ...... 1963-64 Jim Murphy...... 1948 Mike Coffey ...... 1964 Mike O’Connor ...... 1989 Pat Conway ...... 2000 Jason Rexing ...... 1996 John Coyle ...... 1990 Greg Rice ...... 1938-39 Todd Mobley Dan Garrett...... 1987-88 Derek Seiling ...... 1995-96 finished 27th at Ron Gregory...... 1958 Ryan Shay ...... 1999, 2001 the 2003 Oliver Hunter ...... 1940-41-42-43 Bill Squires ...... 1954-55 NCAA Cross Jim Kelly ...... 1945 Steve Szumachowski ...... 1938 Country Championship Anthony Maloney...... 1940-41, 1943 Lou Tracy...... 1948 to earn his Ron Markezich...... 1988 Bill Tully ...... 1945 second career Mike McWilliams...... 1990-91-92-93 Luke Watson...... 2000-2001 All-America Todd Mobley ...... 2001, 2003 honor.

UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME 92 BIG EAST/NCAA Championship Results Women’s Cross Country at the NCAA Championships Year TM Finish Points Top Finisher Place Time Site Distance 1993 15 331 Sarah Riley 33 17:20.1 Bethlehem, Pa. 5,000 meters 1994 Maureen Kelly 53 18:01.6 Fayetteville, Ark. 5,000 meters 1996 JoAnna Deeter 3 17:24 Tucson, Ariz. 5,000 meters 1998 JoAnna Deeter 14 17:19.73 Lawrence, Kan. 5,000 meters 1999 29 626 Alison Klemmer 73 17:49.60 Bloomington, Ind. 5,000 meters 2001 19 504 Lauren King 27 21:17 Greenville, S.C. 6,000 meters 2002 3 170 Molly Huddle 6 19:55.7 Terre Haute, Ind. 6,000 meters 2003 10 352 Lauren King 28 20:35.6 Waterloo, Iowa 6,000 meters 2004 4 170 Stephanie Madia 23 20:57.1 Terre Haute, Ind. 6,000 meters

2002 Lauren King ...... 1st 1987 3rd* Women’s NCAA Molly Huddle ...... 2nd 1988 2nd* All-Americans Jennifer Handley...... 12th 1989 6th JoAnna Deeter...... 1996, 1998 2003 Molly Huddle ...... 3rd 1990 1st* Molly Huddle ...... 2002, 2003 Kerry Meagher...... 6th 1991 4th Lauren King...... 2001, 2002, 2003 Lauren King ...... 14th 1992 2nd* Stephanie Madia ...... 2004 2004 Molly Huddle ...... 5th 1993 1st* Kerry Meagher ...... 2004 Stephanie Madia ...... 10th 1994 3rd* Sunni Olding ...... 12th 1995 2nd* Sunni Olding ...... 2004 1996 1st* Sarah Riley...... 1993 1997 4th* Team Finishes 1998 8th Bold indicates 2005 returnee. 1999 2nd* BIG EAST Men’s Cross Country 2000 3rd* Individual Finishes 1995 3rd ...... 83 points 2001 1st* 1996 4th ...... 81 points 2002 8th* All-BIG EAST Finishes (Men) 1997 1st ...... 50 points 2003 8th 1998 3rd ...... 91 points 2004 2nd* 1995 Derek Seiling ...... 5th 1999 1st ...... 43 points 1996 Jason Rexing...... 2nd 2000 4th ...... 100 points District IV/Great Lakes Region Derek Seiling ...... 8th 2001 1st ...... 49 points Women’s Cross Country Matt Althoff...... 11th 2002 4th ...... 132 points 1986 20th 1997 Jason Rexing ...... 4th 2003 2nd ...... 66 points 1987 14th Antonio Arce ...... 5th 2004 1st ...... 47 points 1988 15th Ryan Maxwell ...... 10th 1989 17th Ryan Shay...... 11th BIG EAST Women’s Cross Country 1990 14th 1998 Ryan Shay...... 6th 1995 7th ...... 175 points 1991 11th Luke Watson...... 7th 1996 5th ...... 123 points 1992 4th 1999 Ryan Shay ...... 1st 1997 4th ...... 126 points 1993 2nd* Luke Watson ...... 3rd 1998 5th ...... 144 points 1994 4th Ryan Maxwell ...... 9th 1999 5th ...... 98 points 1995 6th Marc Striowski ...... 11th 2000 6th ...... 160 points 1996 5th 2000 Luke Watson...... 7th 2001 4th ...... 107 points 1997 6th Marc Striowski...... 8th 2002 1st ...... 69 points 1998 4th 2001 Luke Watson ...... 2nd 2003 1st ...... 43 points 1999 4th* Todd Mobley...... 8th 2004 2nd ...... 67 points 2000 8th Marc Striowski...... 9th 2001 2nd* Ryan Shay...... 11th 2002 1st* District IV/Great Lakes Region 2002 Tim Moore ...... 10th 2003 1st* 2003 Tim Moore ...... 6th Men’s Cross Country 2004 2nd* Todd Mobley...... 7th 1972 9th *Qualified for NCAA Championships Kaleb Van Ort ...... 12th 1973 NA 2004 Tim Moore ...... 6th 1974 10th Kurt Benninger ...... 7th 1975 9th Kaleb Van Ort ...... 8th 1976 11th Sean O’Donnell ...... 9th 1977 10th All-BIG EAST Finishes (Women) 1978 8th 1979 10th 1996 JoAnna Deeter ...... 2nd 1980 12th Nicole LaSelle ...... 10th 1981 Did not compete 1998 JoAnna Deeter ...... 3rd 1982 15th 1999 Allison Klemmer ...... 4th 1983 8th Jennifer Handley...... 12th 1984 4th* 2001 Jennifer Handley...... 7th 1985 12th Megan Johnson ...... 14th 1986 15th

2005-06 CROSS COUNTRY/TRACK & FIELD 93 Cross Country Meet History

Notre Dame Invitational The 50th running of the Notre Dame Invitational, one of the nation’s oldest and largest intercollegiate cross country races, is scheduled for Sept. 30, 2005, at the University of Notre Dame Golf Course. The Invitational was started by former Irish coach Alex Wilson in 1956, which makes it one of the oldest cross country invitationals in the nation. Men’s Champions Year Team Individual Time 1956 Notre Dame John Michno (Notre Dame) 20:36 1957 Notre Dame Ed Monnelly (Notre Dame) 20:12 1958 Western Michigan Art Eversole (W. Michigan) 19:46 1959 Western Michigan Ron Gregory (Notre Dame) 20:11.9 1960 Western Michigan Jerry Ashmore (W. Michigan) 19:47 1961 Western Michigan Tom O’Hara (Loyola) 19:20 The 1957 national champion Irish cross country team reunited on campus in the fall 1962 Western Michigan Frank Carver (Notre Dame) 19:32.5 of 2001 and was honored at the football game against Michigan State on Sept. 22. 1963 Notre Dame Frank Carver (Notre Dame) 19:13 Member of that same '57 championship won the first-ever Notre Dame Invitational 1964 Notre Dame Bill Clark (Notre Dame) 19:19 title in 1956. 1965 Notre Dame Steve Smith (W. Michigan) 19:07.4 1966 Western Michigan Sam Bair (Kent State) 19:23.3 Women’s Champions 1967 Notre Dame Sam Bair (Kent State) 18:49 Year Team Individual Time * – Race expanded from four to five miles 1987 Virginia Patty Matava (Virginia) 17:59.4 1968 Eastern Michigan Jerry Richie (Pittsburgh) 23:58 1988 Ohio University Tiffany Fox (Wisconsin-Oshkosh) 18:15.3 1969 Western Michigan Jerome Liebenerg (W. Michigan) 23:49.1 1989 Ohio University Jill Purola (Western Ontario) 17:35.8 1970 Bowling Green Gary Harris (W. Michigan) 23:59 1990 Virginia Beni Gras (Virginia) 18:31.5 1971 Bowling Green Dave Wottle (Bowling Green) 24:02 1991 South Dakota St. Pam Hansen (South Dakota St.) 17:52.6 1972 Bowling Green Mike Slack (North Dakota) 23:44.1 1992 Michigan Karen Harvey (Michigan) 17:41.8 1973 Wisconsin Gordon Minty (E. Michigan) 23:36 1993 Notre Dame Becki Wells (Alabama) 17:18.7 1974 Michigan Dave Smith (E. Michigan) 23:34 1994 Alabama Jessica Fry (Alabama) 17:28.6 1975 Michigan Dave Smith (E. Michigan) 23:26.7 1995 Wake Forest Cindy Moreshead (Wake Forest) 17:13.0 1976 Wisconsin Greg Meyer (Michigan) 23:24.02 1996 Notre Dame JoAnna Deeter (Notre Dame) 16:27 1977 Eastern Illinois Marc Hunter (Cleveland St.) 23:26 1997 Bowling Green Lisa Petsche (Edinboro) 17:11 1978 Michigan Marc Hunter (Cleveland St.) 23:30 1998 North Carolina St. JoAnna Deeter (Notre Dame) 16:50 1979 Auburn Tom Graves (Auburn) 23:35 1999 Notre Dame JoAnna Deeter (Notre Dame) 16:52 1980 Michigan Jim Spivey (Indiana) 23:35 2000 Stanford Sheela Agrawal (Duke) 17:05 1981 Indiana Bill Shuey (Purdue) 24:09.3 2001 Notre Dame Lauren King (Notre Dame) 17:20 1982 Michigan Tim Warneke (E. Illinois) 24:24 2002 Notre Dame Sara Bei (Stanford) 16:48 1983 Bowling Green Jeffrey Drenth (C. Michigan) 24:03 2003 Notre Dame Molly Huddle (Notre Dame) 17:12 1984 Notre Dame Mike Vanatta (SE Missouri St.) 24:02.7 2004 Stanford Sara Bei (Stanford) 16:22 1985 Edinboro Chris Brewster (Michigan) 24:13.8 1986 Eastern Michigan Ron Johnson (C. Michigan) 24:52.2 1987 Michigan John Scherer (Michigan) 24:10.4 1988 Central Michigan Bill Taylor (C. Michigan) 23:51.7 1989 Central Michigan Shannon Ritchie (Ohio) 24:06.1 1990 Notre Dame Keith Dowling (Pittsburgh) 25:04.5 1991 Notre Dame Mike Formica (Pittsburgh) 24:26.4 1992 Notre Dame Sandy Rebenciuc (Augustana) 24:30.8 1993 Notre Dame John Murray (Malone College) 24:10.8 1994 Notre Dame Robert Gray (Ohio State) 24:25.5 1995 Notre Dame Charles Mulinga (Lewis) 23:50.3 1996 Michigan James Njoroge (Taylor) 23:34 1997 Eastern Michigan Elly Rono (Southern Indiana) 24:10 1998 North Carolina St. Julius Mwangi (Butler) 22:49 1999 Michigan/ Georgetown Ryan Shay (Notre Dame) 23:52 2000 Stanford Luke Watson (Notre Dame) 24:56 2001 Notre Dame Luke Watson (Notre Dame) 24:06 2002 Stanford (Stanford) 24:10 2003 Notre Dame Gavin Thompson (E. Michigan) 24:06 2004 Stanford Josh Rohatinsky (BYU) 23:40

The 2003 women’s cross country team lines up prior to the start of the Notre Dame Invitational. The Irish have won the women’s team title six times since the race was added to the Notre Dame Invitational in 1987.

UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME 94 National Catholic Championship Cross Country

For the 26th consecutive year, Notre Dame will play host to the Meet History National Catholic Cross Country Championship — Sept. 16, 2005, at the University of Notre Dame Golf Course. The race was conceived by current Irish coach Joe Piane and implemented in the fall of 1980. It features teams from prominent Catholic insti- tutions throughout the United States. The Notre Dame men will be looking for their 11th consecutive team victory in ’05, while the women’s team will seek to claim their 12th title in 14 years. Men's Champions Year Team Individual Time 1980 Marquette Rick Sayre (Walsh) 24:31.0 1981 Marquette John Gregorek (Georgetown) 24:09.1 1982 Marquette Dave Uhrich (Marquette) 23:42.0 1983 Notre Dame Keith Hanson (Marquette) 24:11.3 1984 Notre Dame Keith Hanson (Marquette) 23:44.3 1985 St. Thomas Keith Hanson (Marquette) 23:02.7 1986 St. Thomas Jose Rocha (Boston College) 24:12.0 1987 Loyola Ed Slowikowski (Loyola) 24:24.4 Notre Dame senior 1988 Notre Dame Garrett/Markezich (ND) 24:39.0 Tim Moore is back to 1989 Notre Dame Ed Slowikowski (Loyola) 24:34.4 defend his 1990 Notre Dame Mike O’Connor (ND) 24:59.7 individual title at the National Catholic 1991 Providence Jim Westphal (Loyola) 23:57.9 Championship. 1992 Notre Dame Mike McWilliams (ND) 25:02.5 Moore is out to 1993 Notre Dame Nate Ruder (ND) 25:01.0 become just the 1994 Boston College Chris Georgules (Boston College)24:54.7 fourth two-time 1995 Notre Dame Charles Mulinga (Lewis) 24:30.0 winner in the 1996 Notre Dame Jason Rexing (Notre Dame) 24:29 26-year history 1997 Notre Dame Ryan Shay (Notre Dame) 24:53 of the meet. 1998 Notre Dame Ryan Shay (Notre Dame) 23:46 1999 Notre Dame Ryan Shay (Notre Dame) 24:41 2000 Notre Dame Luke Watson (Notre Dame) 24:56 2001 Notre Dame Ryan Shay (Notre Dame) 24:03 2002 Notre Dame Todd Mobley (Notre Dame) 24:25 2003 Notre Dame Ryan Sheehan (St. Francis - PA) 24:37 2004 Notre Dame Tim Moore (Notre Dame) 24:58

Women's Champions Year Team Individual Time 1984 Holy Cross Mary McNaughton (Holy Cross) 17:48.9 1985 Villanova Lauren Searby (Villanova) 18:03.6 Irish senior 1986 Villanova (Villanova) 17:57.8 Stephanie Madia is 1987 Villanova Vicki Huber (Villanova) 17:24.1 the reigning titleist at 1988 Providence Gloria Kuiken (DePaul) 18:20.4 the National Catholic 1989 Providence Siobhan Gallagher (Providence) 18:14.0 Championship. 1990 Boston College Heather Whalen (Canisius) 17:54.6 Only one women’s runner 1991 Providence Sinead Delahunty (Providence) 16:56.4 Notre Dame’s 1992 Notre Dame Sarah Riley (Notre Dame) 17:56.9 JoAnna Deeter 1993 Notre Dame Emily Hood (Notre Dame) 17:50.7 (1996-99) — has 1994 Notre Dame Amy Lyman (Boston College) 18:06.2 claimed more than 1995 Marquette Magdalena Paszta (Lewis) 17:42.6 one individual crown 1996 Notre Dame JoAnna Deeter (Notre Dame) 16:39 at the event. 1997 Notre Dame JoAnna Deeter (Notre Dame) 17:39 1998 Notre Dame JoAnna Deeter (Notre Dame) 17:25 1999 Notre Dame JoAnna Deeter (Notre Dame) 16:52 2000 Notre Dame Megan Johnson (Notre Dame) 18:46 2001 Marquette Jennifer Handley (Notre Dame) 17:31 2002 Notre Dame Kim Hemstreet (Detroit Mercy) 18:00 2003 Notre Dame Kerry Meagher (Notre Dame) 17:45 2004 Notre Dame Stephanie Madia (Notre Dame)17:38

2005-06 CROSS COUNTRY/TRACK & FIELD 95 1941 1969 Track & Field Jim Delaney Shot Put (4th) Joe Brady Two-Mile Relay (2nd)

All-Americans John O’Rourke High Jump (3rd) Bill Hurd 100m (5th), 220y (2nd) 1942 Mike McCann Two-Mile Relay (2nd) Joe Quigley Two-Mile Relay (2nd) Men’s All-Americans Frank Conforti Mile (4th) Jim Delaney Shot Put (3rd) Rick Wohlhuter Two-Mile Relay (2nd) Notes: All finishes, if available, are Oliver Hunter Two-Mile (2nd) 1970 indicated in parentheses. The distance 1943 Rick Wohlhuter Indoor 600y (1st) medley relay, one mile run (after 1965), two Jim Delaney Shot Put (3rd), Discus (3rd) 1972 mile relay, 55 meters, 60 meters, 55-meter 1944 Tom McMannon 55m Hurdles (1st) hurdles, 60-meter hurdles and 3,000-meter Phil Anderson Pole Vault (t-1st) 1979 run are all indoor events only. All other Frank Burke 100m (4th) Chuck Aragon Two-Mile Relay (6th) indoor events are indicated - if no indoor Mike Keily Two-Mile (6th) Pete Burger Two-Mile Relay (6th) indication exists, the event is outdoor. Joe Kelly Shot Put (6th), Discus (2nd) Tim MacAuley Two-Mile Relay (6th) (y – yards; m – meters) Frank Martin Mile (3rd), Two-Mile (1st) Jay Miranda Two-Mile Relay (6th) 1921 George Sullivan Shot Put (3rd) 1981 Gus Desch Low Hurdles (1st) 1945 Chuck Aragon 1,500m (5th) Billy Hayes 100y (2nd), 220y (4th) Joe Kelly Shot Put (3rd), Discus (n/a) Johnny Murphy High Jump (1st) 1982 Dave Murphy 220y (3rd) Eugene Oberst Javelin (1st) Steve Dziabis Indoor 600y (6th) Bill O’Neil 120y High Hurdles (6th) Chet Wynne High Hurdles (4th) 1986 Ray Struble Pole Vault (4th) John McNelis Indoor 4x800m Relay (3rd) 1922 Bill Tully Mile (6th) Billy Hayes 100y (2nd), 220y (2nd) Robert Nobles Indoor 4x800m Relay (3rd) 1946 Eddie Hogan Pole Vault (t-3rd) Jim Tyler Indoor 4x800m Relay (3rd), Bud Gartiser 220y Low Hurdles (4th) Johnny Murphy High Jump (1st) 1,500m (8th) 1948 Jeff Van Wie Indoor 4x800m Relay (3rd) 1923 Jim Kittell Steeplechase (3rd) Tom Lieb Discus (1st) 1988 Bill Leonard 1,500m (5th) David Weeks High Jump (2nd) Dan Garrett 5,000m (10th) Bob Smith 200m (6th) 1924 1990 1950 Tom Lieb Discus (1st) Mike O’Connor Indoor 5,000m (5th), Bill Fleming 120y High Hurdles (2nd) 5,000m (12th) 1926 220y Low Hurdles (3rd) Paul Harrington Pole Vault (1st) 1991 1953 Charles Judge Mile (1st) Raghib Ismail 55m (2nd) Joe Springer Pole Vault (t-3rd) 1927 1992 1954 Joe Della Maria 220y (3rd) John Coyle Indoor 3,000m (8th) Jim Harrington Pole Vault (t-5th) 1929 1994 1955 Jack Elder 100y (5th) Randy Kinder Indoor 200m (10th) Bernie Allard High Jump (t-2nd) 1930 1995 1956 Brant Little 880y (3rd) John Cowan Steeplechase (11th) Bernie Allard High Jump (t-4th) Alex Wilson 400m (4th) Mike McWilliams 10,000m (14th) Aubrey Lewis 400m hurdles (1st) Allen Rossum 55m (7th) 1931 1957 Alex Wilson 400m (1st), 880y (2nd) 1996 Aubrey Lewis 400m hurdles (3rd) Jason Rexing 10,000m (13th) 1933 1964 Vincent Murphy High Jump (1st) 1997 Bill Boyle 400m (5th) Jeff Hojnacki Distance Medley Relay (8th) 1934 Pete Whitehouse 120y High Hurdles (2nd) Danny Payton Dist. Medley Relay (8th) George Meagher Long Jump (5th) 1965 Jason Rexing Dist. Medley Relay (8th) Vincent Murphy High Jump (t-4th) Bill Clark Two-Mile (2nd) Allen Rossum 55m (7th) 1935 Ed Dean Indoor Mile (4th), Mile (4th) Derek Seiling Dist. Medley Relay (8th) Don Elser Shot Put (2nd) 1966 1998 Vincent Murphy High Jump (t-2nd) Ed Dean Mile (3rd) Errol Williams 55m Hurdles (8th) 1936 Pete Farrell 880y (6th), Indoor 1,000y (4th) Errol Williams 110m Hurdles (3rd) Don Elser Shot Put (5th) 1967 1999 220y Low Hurdles (2nd) Pete Farrell Indoor 880y (6th) Antonio Arce Mile (10th) Joe McGrath 800m (4th) 1968 Michael Brown Indoor Pole Vault (6th) 1937 Ed Broderick High Jump (t-4th) Ryan Shay 10,000m (7th) Bill Faymonville Discus (6th) Pete Farrell Indoor 880y (6th) Marshaun West Indoor Long Jump (6th) Greg Rice Two-Mile (1st) Distance Medley Relay (n/a) 2000 1938 Bill Hurd 55m (6th) Chris Cochran Dist. Medley Relay (6th) William Clifford 100y (5th) 100m (4th) Tim Kober Dist. Medley Relay (6th) Bill Faymonville Discus (3rd) 200m (3rd) Phil Mishka Dist. Medley Relay (6th) John Francis 880y (2nd) Kevin O’Brien Dist. Medley Relay (n/a) Ryan Shay 10,000m (7th) Greg Rice Two-Mile (2nd) Bob Timm Distance Medley Relay (n/a) Luke Watson Dist. Medley Relay (6th) Marshaun West Long Jump (7th) 1939 Chuck Vehorn Dist. Medley Relay (n/a) Bill Faymonville Discus (5th) Greg Rice Mile (4th), Two-Mile (1st)

UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME 96 2001 Ryan Shay Indoor 5,000m (9th) Academic All-Americans Track & Field 5,000m (6th) All-Americans 10,000m (1st) Voted on by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA), the Academic 2002 All-America Program honors student-athletes Ryan Shay Indoor 5,000m (7th) who excel both on the track, field or cross 10,000m (2nd) country course as well as the classroom. (note: Luke Watson 3,000m (3rd) Steeplechase (7th) cross country and track had separate teams prior to 2002; all recipients were track 2003 honorees unless noted) Luke Watson Mile (3rd) 3,000 meters (11th) 5,000 meters (9th) 2005 Kurt Benninger Mile (4th) Distance Medley Relay (6th) Adam Currie Distance Medley Relay (6th) Tom Mick Trevor McClain-Duer 1988 (Third Team) Distance Medley Relay (6th) Eric Morrison Distance Medley Relay (6th) Theresa Rice 1989 (First Team - XC) Selim Nurudeen 60m hurdles (6th) Mike McWilliams 1995 (Second Team) 110m hurdles (7th) Jeff Hojnacki 1997 (Third Team) Jason Rexing 1997 (Third Team) Women’s All-Americans 1998 (Second Team) 1994 Errol Williams 1998 (First Team) Erica Peterson 400m Hurdles (7th) Mike Brown 1999 (Second Team) 1997 Alison Klemmer 1999 (Third Team) Dominqué Calloway 55m Hurdles (11th), 2000 (Second Team) 100m Hurdles (8th) Ryan Shay 2002 (Second Team) Jennifer Engelhardt Luke Watson 2002 (Second Team) Indoor High Jump (9th) 2003 (First Team) 1998 Lauren King 2004 (Second Team) Rich Wohlhuter won the 1970 NCAA indoor 600- Alison Klemmer 10,000m (8th) yard run title and eventually moved on to Todd Mobley 2004 (First Team) 1999 represent the United States at the 1972 Olympic 2005 (First Team) JoAnna Deeter Indoor 5,000m (6th), Games. 5,000m (4th) Stacey Cowan 2005 (Third Team) 10,000m (3rd) Sean O’Donnell 2005 (Third Team) Jennifer Engelhardt Indoor High Jump (12th) Notre Dame NCAA Alison Klemmer 10,000m (7th) Champions 2000 Jennifer Engelhardt High Jump (7th) Indoor Tameisha King Long Jump (9th) 1970 Rick Wohlhuter 600 Yards 1972 Tom McMannon 55-Meter hurdles 2001 Outdoor Liz Grow Indoor 400m (8th) 1921 Gus Desch 220-Yard LH 2002 1921 Johnny Murphy High Jump Ayesha Boyd 4x400m Relay (5th) 1921 Eugene Oberst Javelin Kristen Dodd 4x400m Relay (5th) 1922 Johnny Murphy High Jump Liz Grow Indoor 400m (4th) 1923 Tom Lieb Discus 400m (10th) 1924 Tom Lieb Discus 4x400m Relay (5th) 1926 Charles Judge 1,500 Meters Lauren King 1,500m (6th) 1926 Paul Harrington Pole Vault Tameisha King Indoor Long Jump (13th) 1931 Alex Wilson 400 Meters Kymia Love 4x400m Relay (5th) 1937 Greg Rice Two Miles 2003 1939 Greg Rice Two Miles Molly Huddle Indoor 3,000m (9th) 1944 Frank Martin Two Miles 5,000m (4th) 1944 Phil Anderson Pole Vault Lauren King Mile (7th) 1956 Aubrey Lewis 400-Meter IH Tameisha King Indoor Long Jump (6th) 2001 Ryan Shay 10,000 Meters Long Jump (3rd) 2004 Stacey Cowan Indoor High Jump (10th) Molly Huddle 3,000m (7th) Jennifer Engelhardt earned Indoor 5,000m (3rd) All-America honors in the 5,000m (3rd) high jump during the 1997, Kerry Meagher Mile (7th) 1999 and 2000 seasons, eventually finishing as high 1,500m (9th) as seventh overall. 2005 Stephanie Madia 5,000m (5th) Kerry Meagher 1,500m (10th)

2005-06 CROSS COUNTRY/TRACK & FIELD 97 TWO TIMES EIGHT TIMES All-America Berine Allard 1955 - High Jump; Luke Watson

Analysis 1956 - High Jump Track and Field 2000 - Dist. Medley Relay Chuck Aragon 1979 - Two-Mile Relay; 2001 - 3,000m, Steeplechase 1981 - 1,500m 2002 - Mile, 3,000m, 5,000m Kurt Benninger 2005 - Mile; Cross Country 2001 (7th); 2002 (5th) 2005 - Distance Medley Relay FIVE TIMES Aubrey Lewis 1956 - 400m Hurdles; Oliver Hunter 1957 - 400m Hurdles Track and Field 1942 - Two-Mile Tom Lieb 1923 - Discus; 1924 - Discus Cross Country 1940 (2nd); 1941 (2nd); Johnny Murphy 1921 - High Jump; 1942 (1st); 1943 (n/a) 1922 - High Jump Greg Rice Selim Nurudeen 2005 - 60m Hurdles; Track and Field 1938 - Two-Mile 2005 - 110m Hurdles 1939 - Mile, Two-Mile Jason Rexing 1996 - 10,000m; Cross Country 1938 (1st); 1939 (11th) 1997 - Distance Medley Relay Mike McWilliams Marshaun West 1999 - Indoor Long Jump; Track and Field 1995 - 10,000m 2000 - Long Jump Cross Country 1990 (25th); 1991 (17th); Errol Williams 1998 - 55m Hurdles, 1992 (24th); 1993 (18th) 110m Hurdles Rick Wohlhuter 1969 - Two-Mile Relay; Women Combined 1970 - Indoor 600y All-America Analysis SEVEN TIMES Women’s Multiple All-Americans Molly Huddle Pete Farrell earned five All-America honors FIVE TIMES Track and Field during the 1966, ‘67 and ‘68 track and field Molly Huddle 2003 - 3,000m, 5,000m seasons. 2003 - 3,000m, 5,000m 2004 - 3,000m, Indoor 5,000m, 2004 - 3,000m, Indoor 5,000m, 5,000m 5,000m Men’s Multiple All-Americans FOUR TIMES Cross Country 2002 (6th); 2003 (41st) SEVEN TIMES Liz Grow 2001 - Indoor 400m FIVE TIMES Ryan Shay 1999 - 10,000m; 2000 - 10,000m 2002 - Indoor 400m, 400m, 4x400m Relay JoAnna Deeter 2001 - Indoor 5,000m, 5,000m, 10,000m Tameisha King 2000 - Long Jump Track and Field 2002 - Indoor 5,000m, 10,000m 2002 - Indoor Long Jump 1999 - Indoor 5,000m, 5,000m, 10,000m SIX TIMES 2003 - Indoor Long Jump, Long Jump Cross Country 1996 (3rd); 1998 (14th) Lauren King Luke Watson 2000 - Dist. Medley Relay THREE TIMES Track and Field 2002 - 1,500m 2001 - 3,000m, Steeplechase JoAnna Deeter 1999 - Indoor 5,000m 2003 - Mile 2002 - Mile, 3,000m, 5,000m 1999 - 5,000m Cross Country 2001 (27th); FIVE TIMES 1999 - 10,000m 2002 (19th); 2003 (28th) Pete Farrell 1966 - 880y, Indoor 1000y Jennifer Engelhardt 1997 - Indoor High Jump 1967 - Indoor 880y 1999 - Indoor High Jump 1968 - Indoor 880y, Dist. Medley Relay 2000 - High Jump Bill Hurd 1968 - 55m, 100m, 200m Kerry Meagher 2004 - Mile 1969 - 100m, 220y 2004 - 1,500m FOUR TIMES 2005 - 1,500m Jim Delaney 1941 - Shot Put; 1942 - Shot Put; TWO TIMES 1943 - Shot Put, Discus Dominque Calloway 1997 - 55m Hurdles Billy Hayes 1921 - 100y, 220y; 1922- 110y, 220y 1997 - 100m Hurdles Joe Kelly 1944 - Shot Put, Discus; Lauren King 2002 - 1,500m 1945 - Shot Put, Discus 2003 - Mile THREE TIMES Alison Klemmer 1998 - 10,000m Ed Dean 1965 - Indoor Mile, Mile 1999 - 10,000m 1966 - Indoor Mile Don Elser 1935 - Shot Put; Men Combined 1936 - Shot Put, 220y Hurdles All-America Analysis Bill Faymonville 1937-38-39 - Discus All-America honors combined with cross country. Vincent Murphy 1933-34-35 - High Jump NINE TIMES Greg Rice 1938 - Two-Mile; Ryan Shay 1939 - Mile, Two-Mile Track and Field 1999 - 10,000m; 2000 - 10,000m 2001 - Indoor 5,000m, 5,000m, 10,000m Alex Wilson 1930 - 400m; 1931 - 400m, 880y Molly Huddle is the most decorated female athlete (in 2002 - Indoor 5,000m, 10,000m terms of All-America honors) in Notre Dame athletics Cross Country 1999 (12th); 2001 (6th) history, having earned seven citations during her career. She will enter her senior season with the Irish in 2005-06. UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME 98 Track & Field NCAA Results Men’s Indoor Results Distance Medley Relay Men’s Outdoor Results 1968 Pete Farrell 55 Meters (discontinued) Kevin O’Brien 100 Yards / 100 Meters 1968 Bill Hurd 6th Bob Timm 1921 Billy Hayes 2nd 1991 Raghib Ismail 2nd Chuck Vehorn 1922 Billy Hayes 2nd 1995 Allen Rossum 7th 1997 Derek Seiling 1929 Jack Elder 5th 1997 Allen Rossum 7th Danny Payton 1938 William Clifford 5th Jeff Hojnacki 1944 Frank Burke 4th (m) 55-Meter Hurdles Jason Rexing 8th (discontinued) 1968 Bill Hurd 4th (m) 2000 Chris Cochran 1969 Bill Hurd 5th 1972 Tom McMannon 1st (7.2) Tim Kober 1998 Errol Williams 8th Phil Mishka 120-Yard / 110-Meter HH 60-Meter Hurdles Luke Watson 6th 1921 Chet Wayne 4th 2003 Kevin Somok 1945 Bill O’Neil 6th 2004 Selim Nurudeen 15th 1950 Bill Fleming 2nd 2005 Selim Nurudeen 6th Ryan Postel Thomas Chamney 1964 Pete Whitehouse 2nd 200 Meters Eric Morrison 10th 1995 Errol Williams DNP 1992 Willie Clark DNP 2005 Eric Morrison 1997 Errol Williams DNP 1994 Randy Kinder 10th (22.54) Trevor McClain-Duer 1998 Errol Williams 3rd 600 Yards Adam Currie 2005 Selim Nurudeen 7th Kurt Benninger 6th 1970 Rick Wohlhuter 1st (1:09.5) 220 Yards / 200 Meters 1983 Steve Dziabis 6th High Jump 1921 Billy Hayes 4th 800 Meters 1993 Todd Herman 10th 1922 Billy Hayes 2nd 1927 Joe Della Maria 3rd 1995 Jeff Hojnacki DNP Long Jump 1945 Dave Murphy 3rd 1997 Jeff Hojnacki DNP 1999 Marshaun West 6th 1948 Bob Smith 6th (m) 880 Yards Pole Vault 1968 Bill Hurd 3rd (m) 1967 Pete Farrell 3rd 1999 Michael Brown 6th 1969 Bill Hurd 3rd 1968 Pete Farrell 6th Shot Put 220-Yard LH (discontinued) 1,000 Yards 1972 Greg Cortina DNP 1921 Gus Desch 1st (24.8) 1966 Pete Farrell 4th 1995 Mike Fleisch 13th 1936 Don Elser 2nd 1946 Bud Gartiser 4th Mile 1950 Bill Fleming 3rd 1965 Ed Dean 4th 440 Yards / 400 Meters 1966 Ed Dean 3rd 1999 Antonio Arce 10th 1930 Alex Wilson 4th (m) 2003 Luke Watson 3rd 1931 Alex Wilson 1st (48.0) 2005 Kurt Benninger 4th 1964 Bill Boyle 5th (m) Two Mile 400-Meter IH 1965 Bill Clark 2nd 1956 Aubrey Lewis 1st (51.0) 1957 Aubrey Lewis 3rd 3,000 Meters 880 Yards / 800 Meters 1992 John Coyle 8th 2002 Ryan Shay 18th 1930 Brant Little 3rd 2002 Luke Watson 3rd 1931 Alex Wilson 2nd 2003 Luke Watson 11th 1936 Joe McGrath 4th (m) 1938 John Francis 2nd 5,000 Meters 1966 Pete Farrell 6th 1990 Mike O’Connor 5th 1997 Jeff Hojnacki DNP 2001 Ryan Shay 9th 2000 Tim Kober DNP 2002 Ryan Shay 7th 2000 Phil Mishka DNP Two-Mile Relay / 4x800 Relay Mile / 1,500 Meters 1969 Mike McCann 1926 Charles Judge 1st (4:22.5) Joe Quigley 1937 Greg Rice 4th John Brady 1942 Frank Conforti 4th Rick Wohlhuter 2nd 1944 Frank Martin 3rd 1979 Tim Macauley 1945 Bill Tully 6th Pete Burger 1948 Bill Leonard 5th (m) Chuck Aragon 1965 Ed Dean 4th Jay Miranda 6th 1981 Chuck Aragon 5th (m) 1986 John McNelis 1986 Jim Tyler 8th (m) Robert Nobles 2004 Kevin Somok 22nd (m) Jeff Van Wie 2004 Kurt Benninger 25th (m) Jim Tyler 3rd 3,000-Meter Steeplechase 1989 Mark Lavery, Brian Peppard 1948 Jim Kittell 3rd Mike Rogan 1995 John Cowan 11th David Warth DNP Bill Hurd finished in the top five of both the indoor 55 2000 Luke Watson DNP meters and outdoor 100 meters at the NCAA 2002 Luke Watson 7th Championship in 1968.

2005-06 CROSS COUNTRY/TRACK & FIELD 99 Women’s Indoor Results Long Jump Track & Field 2002 Tameisha King 13th

NCAA Results 55-Meter Hurdles (discontinued) 2003 Tameisha King 6th 1997 Dominqué Calloway 11th Men’s Outdoor Results 200 Meters Women’s Outdoor Results (cont.) 2002 Ayesha Boyd 17th 5,000 Meters 100 Meters 400 Meters 1988 Dan Garrett 10th 2005 Maryann Erigha DNP 1990 Mike O’Connor 12th 1999 Liz Grow DNP 100-Meter Hurdles 2001 Liz Grow 8th 1993 Nate Ruder DNP 1997 Dominqué Calloway 8th 2001 Ryan Shay 6th 2002 Liz Grow 4th 2003 Luke Watson 9th 800 Meters 200 Meters 10,000 Meters 1996 Berit Junker DNP 1997 Dominqué Calloway DNP 2005 Maryann Erigha DNP 1992 Mike McWilliams 14th Mile 400 Meters 1995 Mike McWilliams 13th 2002 Lauren King DNP 1995 Joe Dunlop 15th 2003 Lauren King 7th 2000 Liz Grow DNP 1996 Jason Rexing 13th 2004 Kerry Meagher 7th 2001 Liz Grow DNP 1997 Jason Rexing 13th 2004 Lauren King 10th 2002 Liz Grow 10th 1998 Jason Rexing 14th 2005 Okechi Ogbuokiri DNP 3,000 Meters 1999 Ryan Shay 7th 400-Meter Hurdles 2000 Ryan Shay 7th 1998 JoAnna Deeter 15th 2001 Ryan Shay 1st 2003 Molly Huddle 9th 1994 Erica Peterson 7th 2002 Ryan Shay 2nd 2004 Molly Huddle 7th 1997 Nadia Schmiedt DNP 2005 Kaleb Van Ort 13th 2005 Stephanie Madia 12th 800 Meters Two Miles 5,000 Meters 1996 Berit Junker DNP 1937 Greg Rice 1st (9:14.2) 1999 JoAnna Deeter 6th 1,500 Meters 1938 Greg Rice 2nd 2004 Molly Huddle 3rd 2002 Lauren King 6th 1939 Greg Rice 1st (9:02.6) 4x400-Meter Relay 2003 Lauren King 20th 1942 Oliver Hunter 2nd 2002 Ayesha Boyd 2004 Kerry Meagher 9th 1944 Frank Martin 1st (9:38.4) 2005 Kerry Meagher 10th 1944 Mike Keily 6th Kristen Dodd Kymia Love 5,000 Meters High Jump Liz Grow 9th 1999 JoAnna Deeter 4th 1921 Johnny Murphy 1st (6-3) 2003 Tiffany Gunn 2002 Jennifer Handley 18th 1922 Johnny Murphy 1st (T at 6-2 1/2) Kristen Dodd 2003 Molly Huddle 4th 1923 David Weeks 2nd (tie) Ayesha Boyd 2003 Jennifer Handley 22nd 1933 Vincent Murphy 1st (T at 6-4) Kymia Love 9th 2004 Molly Huddle 3rd 1934 Vincent Murphy 4th (tie) Distance Medley Relay 2004 Stephanie Madia 22nd 1935 Vincent Murphy 2nd (tie) 2005 Stephanie Madia 5th 1941 John O’Rourke 3rd 2004 Lauren King 1955 Bernie Allard 2nd (tie) Kerry Meagher 10,000 Meters 1956 Bernie Allard 4th (tie) Kristen Dodd 1995 Kristi Kramer 18th 1968 Ed Broderick Megan Johnson 10th 1998 Alison Klemmer 8th Long Jump High Jump 1999 JoAnna Deeter 3rd 1999 Alison Klemmer 7th 1934 George Meagher 5th 1997 Jennifer Engelhardt 9th 2000 Alison Klemmer 20th 2000 Marshaun West 7th 1999 Jennifer Engelhardt 12th 2004 Stacey Cowan 10th 2005 Lauren King 12th Pole Vault 2005 Stacey Cowan 19th 4x100-Meter Relay 1922 Eddie Hogan 3rd (tie) 2002 Ayesha Boyd 1926 Paul Harrington 1st (13-0 3/4) Kristen Dodd 1944 Phil Anderson 1st (T at 13-6) Tameisha King 1945 Ray Struble 4th Liz Grow DNP 1953 Joe Springer 3rd (tie) 2003 Tameisha King 1954 Jim Harrington 5th (tie) Ayesha Boyd 1999 Michael Brown DNP Kristen Dodd Shot Put Kymia Love 10th 1935 Don Elser 2nd 4x400-Meter Relay 1936 Don Elser 5th 1941 Jim Delaney 4th 2002 Ayesha Boyd 1942 Jim Delaney 3rd Kristen Dodd 1943 Jim Delaney 3rd Kymia Love 1944 George Sullivan 3rd Liz Grow 5th 1944 Joe Kelly 6th 2003 Tiffany Gunn 1945 Joe Kelly 3rd Kristen Dodd Ayesha Boyd Discus Kymia Love 9th 1923 Tom Lieb 1st (144-2) High Jump 1924 Tom Lieb 1st (143-4) 1937 Bill Faymonville 6th 1999 Jennifer Engelhardt 19th 1938 Bill Faymonville 3rd 2000 Jennifer Engelhardt 7th 1939 Bill Faymonville 5th 2003 Stacey Cowan t-14th 1943 Jim Delaney 3rd 2005 Emily Loomis t-16th 1944 Joe Kelly 2nd Stacey Cowan 29th 1945 Joe Kelly N/A Long Jump Javelin Liz Grow became the first Notre Dame women’s 2000 Tameisha King 9th 1921 Eugene Oberst 1st (191-2) sprinter to earn All-America honors. Grow 2002 Tameisha King 7th eventually earned All-America honors in the 400 2003 Tameisha King 3rd (m) - metric distance meters in 2001 (8th) and 2002 (4th).

UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME 100 Men’s Indoor Records

Event Notre Dame Meyo Track Collegiate NCAA Meet 55 Meters Raghib Ismail Raghib Ismail (Notre Dame) Lee McRae (Pittsburgh) Lee McRae (Pittsburgh) 6.07 (1991) 6.20 (1991) 6.00 (1986) 6.00 (1986)

55-Meter Hurdles Errol Williams Pat McGhee (Iowa) Renaldo Nehemiah (Maryland) Allen Johnson (South Carolina) 7.26 (1998) 7.14 (1989) 6.89 (1979) 7.07 (1992)

60 Meters Allen Rossum Ernest Simms (Kentucky) Leonard Myles-Mills (BYU) Marcus Brunson (Arizona State) 6.68 (1997) 6.40 (2002) 6.45 (1999) 6.52 (1999)

60-Meter Hurdles Selim Nurudeen Ron Bramlett (Alabama) Reggie Torian (Wisconsin) Terrence Trammell (S. Carolina) 7.72 (2005) 7.55 (2002) 7.47 (1997) 7.52 (1999)

200 Meters Randy Kinder Kevin Braunskill (N.C. State) Wallace Spearman (Arkansas) Wallace Spearman (Arkansas) 21.11 (1994) 20.86 (1990) 20.10 (2005) 20.10 (2005)

400 Meters Ryan Postel Derek Mills (Georgia Tech) (Florida) Kerron Clement (Florida) 47.01 (2004) 45.75 (1993) 44.57 (2005) 44.57 (2005)

500 Meters Steve Dziabis Jon Shaffer (Marquette) Roddie Haley (Arkansas) Roddie Haley (Arkansas) 1:01.92 (1983) 1:02.70 (2005) 59.82 (1986) 59.82 (1986)

800 Meters Jeff Hojnacki Tommy Asinga (E. Michigan) Paul Ereng (Virginia) Patrick Nduwimana (Arizona) 1:47.50 (1997) 1:47.40 (1992) 1:44.84 (1989) 1:45.33 (2001)

1,000 Meters Phil Mishka Ryan McKenzie (Windsor) Freddie Williams (Abilene Chr.) Freddie Williams (Abilene Chr.) 2:22.22 (2000, 2001) 2:22.44 (2003) 2:18.74 (1986) 2:18.74 (1986)

1,500 Meters Mike Rogan Doug Peterson (UCTC) Sydney Maree (Villanova) Paul Donovan (Arkansas) 3:47.64 (1988) 3:45.25 (1988) 3:38.2 (1979) 3:43.48 (1985)

Mile Luke Watson Kevin Sullivan (Michigan) Tony Waldrop (North Carolina) Kevin Sullivan (Michigan) 3:57.83 (2003) 3:55.90 (1995) 3:55.0 (1974) 3:55.33 (1995)

3,000 Meters Luke Watson Nick Willis (Michigan) Alistair Cragg (Arkansas) Adam Goucher (Colorado) 7:54.02 (2002) 7:48.65 (2005) 7:38.59 (2004) 7:46.03 (1998)

5,000 Meters Ryan Shay Boaz Cheboiywo (Nike) Suleiman Nyambui (UTEP) Alistair Cragg (Arkansas) 13:46.80 (2002) 13:38.14 (2005) 13:20.4 (1981) 13:28.93 (2003)

4x400-Meter Relay Trevor McClain-Duer, Jordan Powell, Ryan Postel Selim Nurudeen Mississippi Florida Florida 3:09.87 (2004) 3:06.83 (2004) 3:03.51 (2005) 3:03.51 (2005)

4x800-Meter Relay John McNelis, Robert Nobles Jeff Van Wie, Jim Tyler Eastern Michigan Clemson discontinued 7:21.11 (1986) 7:18.71* (1990) 7:17.45 (1989)

Distance Medley Morrison, McClain-Duer, Relay Currie, Benninger Michigan Michigan Michigan 9:35.12 (2005) 9:28.12 (2005) 9:27.77 (2004) 9:27.77 (2004)

High Jump Lloyd Constable Brian Royce (unattached) Hollis Conway (SW Louisiana^) Hollis Conway (SW Louisiana^) 7-3 1/2 (2.22m) (1985) 7-7 (2.31m) (1997) 7-9 1/4 (2.37m) (1989) 7-9 1/4 (2.37m) (1989)

Long Jump Marshaun West Aarik Wilson (Indiana) Miguel Pate (Alabama) Carl Lewis (Houston) 25-6 3/4 (7.79m) (1999) 26-7 3/4 (8.12m) (2005) 28-2 1/4 (8.59m) (2002) 27-10 (8.48m) (1981)

Triple Jump Lamarr Justice Drexell Owusu (Rice) Charlie Simpkins (Baptist) Keith Connor (SMU) 51-6 3/4 (15.71m) (1996) 52-7 1/2 (17.26m) (1992) 57-5 (17.50m) (1986) 56-9 1/2 (17.31m) (1981)

Pole Vault Mike Brown Dave Volz (unattached) Jacob Davis (Texas) Jacob Davis (Texas) 17-10 1/2 (5.44m) (1999) 18-0 1/2 (5.50m) (1992) 19-2 1/4 (5.85m) (1999) 19-2 1/4 (5.85m) (1999)

Shot Put Greg Cortina Mark Parlin (unattached) Terry Albritton (Stanford) Carl Myerscough (Nebraska) 60-10 3/4 (18.56m) (1972) 63-9 (19.43m) (1997) 70-6 1/2 (21.50m) (1977) 70-6 1/4 (21.49m) (2003)

35-lb. Weight Matt Thompson Ryan Carey (DePaul) Scott Russell (Kansas) Libor Charfreitag (SMU) Throw 61-3 (18.67m) (2000) 73-3 1/2 (22.34m) (2002) 81-1 1/4 (24.72m) (2002) 78-9 3/4 (24.02m) (2001)

* - Converted from two-mile relay time (7:21.21) // ^ - School now known as Louisiana-Lafayette

2005-06 CROSS COUNTRY/TRACK & FIELD 101 Men’s Outdoor Records

Event Notre Dame Monogram Track Collegiate NCAA Meet 100 Meters Bill Hurd Craig First (Miami) Ato Boldon (UCLA) Ato Boldon (UCLA) 10.2 (1969) 10.10 (1998) 9.90 (1996) 9.92 (1996)

110-Meter Hurdles Errol Williams Keith Talley (W. Michigan) Renaldo Nehemiah (Maryland) Greg Foster (UCLA) 13.53 (1998) 13.74 (1984) 13.00 (1979) 13.22 (1978)

200 Meters Bill Hurd Nate Langlois (Western Michigan) Joe DeLoach (Houston) Daniel (Miss. St.)/Capel (Fla.) 20.4 (1969) 20.77 (1993) 19.75 (1988) 19.87 (1988, 1999)

400 Meters Dan Shannon Robert Lewis (Western Michigan) Quincy Watts (USC) Quincy Watts (USC) 46.09 (1984) 46.20 (1988) 43.50 (1992) 44.00 (1992)

400-Meter Hurdles Aubrey Lewis Paul Steele (Iowa) Samuel Matete (Auburn) Kerron Clement (Florida) 50.2 (1957) 50.52 (1988) 47.10 (1991) 47.56 (2005)

800 Meters Joe Quigley Jack McIntosh (Western Michigan) Joaquim Cruz (Oregon) Mark Everett (Florida) 1:47.50* (1969) 1:47.38 (1982) 1:41.77 (1984) 1:44.70 (1990)

1,500 Meters Chuck Aragon Paul McMullen (Eastern Michigan) (Washington St.) Sydney Maree (Villanova) 3:38.40 (1981) 3:44.01 (1993) 3:30.56 (1999) 3:35.30 (1981)

Mile Luke Watson no record Todd Harbour (Villanova) discontinued 4:00.68 (2002) 3:50.34 (1981)

3,000-Meter Luke Watson Mark Smith (Eastern Michigan) Henry Rono (Wash. St.) Henry Rono (Wash. St.) Steeplechase 8:37.61 (2002) 8:48.22 (1982) 8:05.4 (1978) 8:12.39 (1978)

5,000 Meters Kurt Benninger Jesse McGuire (Western Michigan) Henry Rono (Washington St.) Sydney Maree (Villanova) 13:33.05 (2005) 14:06.3 (1990) 13:08.4 (1978) 13:20.63 (1979)

10,000 Meters Ryan Shay Patrick Kearns (Notre Dame) Henry Rono (Washington St.) Suleiman Nyambui (UTEP) 28:26.91 (2000) 29:55.68 (1991) 27:22.47 (1978) 28:01.30 (1979)

4x100-Meter Relay T. Davey, C. Cochran, Notre Dame (2000) Texas Christian (1998) Texas Christian (1998) T. Gilbert, M. West 40.22 38.04 38.04 40.22 (2000)

4x400-Meter Relay R. Nobles, D. Shannon, Southern Illinois (1982) LSU (2005) LSU (2005) V. Pearcy, M. Van Eyken 3:05.2 2:59.59 2:59.59 3:08.11 (1985)

4x800-Meter Relay J. McNelis, R. Nobles no record Arizona State (1984) discontinued N. Sparks, J. Van Wie 7:08.96 7:20.11 (1985)

High Jump Lloyd Constable Vinton Bennett (W. Michigan) Hollis Conway (SW Louisiana^) Hollis Conway (SW La.^) 7-3 1/2 (2.22m) (1985) 7-2 1/2 (2.20m) (1991) 7-10 (2.39m) (1989) 7-9 3/4 (2.38m) (1989)

Long Jump Marshaun West Aaron Hopkins (Toledo) Erick Walder (Arkansas) Erick Walder (Arkansas) 25-8 (7.82m) (2000) 25-6 1/4 (7.78m) (1966) 28-8 1/4 (8.74m) (1994) 28-0 (8.53m) (1993)

Triple Jump Godwin Mbagwu Larry Kinney (Pittsburgh) James Beckford (Blinn) Keith Connor (SMU) 51-11 (15.82m) (2004) 52-3 (15.92m) (1979) 58-9 1/2 (17.92m) (1995) 57-7 3/4 (17.57m) (1982)

Pole Vault Mike Brown Jeff Ward (Miami) Lawrence Johnson (Tennessee) Lawrence Johnson (Tenn.) 17-5 1/2 (5.32m) (1999) 18-2 1/2 (5.55m) (1982) 19-7 1/2 (5.98m) (1996) 19-1 (5.82m) (1996)

Shot Put Mike Fleisch Jeff Braun (Wisconsin) John Godina (UCLA) John Godina (UCLA) 59-10 3/4 (18.25m) (1997) 62-0 (18.89) (1979) 72-2 1/4 (22.00m) (1995) 72-2 1/4 (22.00m) (1995)

Discus Paul Gill Paul Gill (Notre Dame) Hannes Hopley (SMU) Kamy Keshmiri (Nevada) 191-7 3/4 (58.41m) (1970) 191-7 3/4 (58.41m) (1970) 222-0 (67.66m) (2004) 220-0 (67.06m)(1992)

Hammer Tom Mick Dale Cowper (Western Michigan) Balazs Kiss (USC) Balazs Kiss (USC) 199-11 (60.94m) (1988) 198-3 (60.42m) (2001) 270-10 (82.56m) (1995) 265-3 (80.86m) (1996)

Javelin Ryan Mihalko Brian Keane (Western Michigan) Patrik Boden (Texas) Esko Mikkola (Arizona) 222-8 (67.86m) (1990) 232-2 (70.76m) (1993) 292-4 (89.10m) (1990) 268-7 (81.86m) (1998)

Decathalon Paul Doyle no record Tom Pappas (Tennessee) Brian Brophy (Tennessee) 7,774 points (1982) 8,463 points (1999) 8,276 points (1992)

* Converted from 880-yard time // ^ School now known as Louisiana-Lafayette

UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME 102 Women’s Indoor Records

Event Notre Dame Meyo Track Collegiate NCAA Meet 55 Meters Dominqué Calloway Maria Brown (Michigan) Gwen Torrance (Georgia) Gwen Torrance (Georgia) 7.04 (1997) 6.89 (1997) 6.56 (1987) 6.56 (1987)

55-Meter Dominqué Calloway Katie Anderson (unattached) Michelle Freeman (Florida) Michelle Freeman (Florida) Hurdles 7.64 (1997) 7.44 (1997) 7.34 (1992) 7.41 (1992)

60 Meters Ayesha Boyd (Miami, Fla.) Angela Williams (USC) Angela Williams (USC) 7.44 (2002) 7.29 (2003) 7.09 (2001) 7.13 (2002)

60-Meter Dominqué Calloway Tonya Lawson (FILA) Perdita Felicien (Illinois) Perdita Felicien (Illinois) Hurdles 8.28 (1997) 8.08 (2000) 7.90 (2002) 7.90 (2002)

200 Meters A. Boyd/M. Erigha Lauryn Williams (Miami, Fla.) Veronica Campbell (Arkansas) Veronica Campbell (Arkansas) 23.60 (2002, 2005) 23.53 (2003) 22.43 (2004) 22.43 (2004)

400 Meters Liz Grow Ginou Etienne (Miami, Fla.) Sanya Richards (Texas) Sanya Richards (Texas) 52.14 (2002) 52.67 (2005) 50.82 (2004) 50.82 (2004)

800 Meters Erica Peterson Michelle Bennett (Vill.) Nicole Cook (Tennessee) Hazel Clark (Florida) 2:10.13 (1993) Katie Erdman (Mich.) 2:00.75 (2005) 2:01.77 (1999) 2:05.38 (1991, 2004)

1,000 Meters Kerry Meagher Becky Lyne (Butler) Teena Colebrook (Cal Poly SLO) Trena Hull (UNLV) 2:52.43 (2003) 2:48.84 (2003) 2:41.56 (1989) 2:41.08 (1989)

Mile Lauren King Lindsey Gallo (Michigan) Vicki Huber (Villanova) Suzy Favor (Wisconsin) 4:38.37 (2003) 4:37.97 (2005) 4:28.31 (1988) 4:30.63 (1989)

3,000 Meters Molly Huddle Collette Liss (Ind. Invaders) Kim Smith (Providence) Kim Smith (Providence) 9:08.60 (2004) 8:58.47 (2000) 8:49.18 (2004) 8:49.18 (2004)

5,000 Meters Molly Huddle Molly McLimon (Michigan) Kim Smith (Providence) Kim Smith (Providence) 15:57.22 (2004) 16:08.59 15:14.18 (2004) 15:14.18 (2004)

4x400-Meter Ayesha Boyd, Tiffany Gunn Relay Kristen Dodd, Kymia Love Miami (Fla.) Texas Texas 3:35.26 (2003) 3:33.47* (2003) 3:27.66 (2003) 3:27.66 (2003)

4x800-Meter La. King, M. Johnson Relay K. DeRusso, K. Meagher Baylor Villanova discontinued 8:59.26 (2004) 8:51.03** (1991) 8:24.72 (1987)

Distance Medley La. King, K. Dodd Relay K. Meagher, M. Huddle Michigan Villanova UCLA 11:07.94 (2004) 11:05.33 (2005) 10:54.34 (1988) 10:58.19 (2002)

High Jump Stacey Cowan Chaunte Howard (Ga. Tech) Four athletes — most recently: (UCLA) 5-11 1/2 (1.82m) (2004) 6-1 1/4 (1.86m) (2004) Dora Gyorffy (Harvard) 6-5 1/2 (1.97m) (1995) 6-5 1/2 (1.97m) (2000)

Long Jump Tameisha King Tameisha King (unattached) Elva Goulbourne (Auburn) Elva Goulbourne (Auburn) 20-8 1/2 (6.31m) (2003) 21-0 (6.40m) (2004) 22-8 (6.91m) (2002) 22-4 1/4 (6.81m) (2003)

Triple Jump Petra Dankova Colleen Ramharak (Kent St.) Suzette Lee (LSU) Suzette Lee (LSU) 41-7 (12.67m) (2003) 43-10 3/4 (13.38m) (2005) 46-9 (14.25m) (1997) 46-9 (14.25m) (1997)

Pole Vault Jaime Volkmer Erica Bolden (Texas A&M) Amy Linnen (Arizona) Amy Linnen (Arizona) 13-1 1/2 (4.00m) (2003) 13-3 3/4 (4.06m) 14-10 (4.53m) (2002) 14-10 (4.53m) (2002)

Shot Put Meghan Horn Valeyta Althouse (unattached) Laura Gerraughty (UNC) Laura Gerraughty (UNC) 48-8 3/4 (14.85m) (2005) 60-7 1/4 (18.47m) (1997) 62-10 (19.15m) (2004) 62-10 (19.15m) (2004)

Weight Throw Dore DeBartolo Kimberli Barrett (Miami, Fla.) Candice Scott (Florida) Candice Scott (Florida) 56-0 1/2 (17.08m) (2000) 68-9 3/4 (20.97m) (2005) 79-3 3/4 (24.17m) (2005) 79-3 3/4 (24.17m) (2005)

* - Converted from 4x440-yard relay time (3:34.57) // ** - Converted from 4x880-yard relay time (8:53.53)

2005-06 CROSS COUNTRY/TRACK & FIELD 103 Women’s Outdoor Records Event Notre Dame Monogram Track Collegiate NCAA Meet 100 Meters Maryann Erigha Smith (Miami)/Bailey(Central Mich.) Dawn Sowell (LSU) Dawn Sowell (LSU) 11.28 (2005) 11.95 (1998, 2004) 10.78 (1989) 10.78 (1989)

100-Meter Dominqué Calloway Chelsea Humphrey (Western Mich.) Perdita Felicien (Illinois) Perdita Felicien (Illinois) Hurdles 13.13 (1997) 13.88 (2004) 12.53 (2003) 12.68 (2003)

200 Meters Dominqué Calloway Liz Grow (Notre Dame) Dawn Sowell (LSU) Dawn Sowell (LSU) 23.25 (1997) 23.84 (2002) 22.04 (1989) 22.04 (1989)

400 Meters Liz Grow Liz Grow (Notre Dame) Sanya Richards (Texas) (UCLA) 52.05 (2002) 54.16 (2000) 49.89 (2004) 50.10 (2005)

400-Meter Erica Peterson Erica Peterson (Notre Dame) (South Carolina) Sheena Johnson (UCLA) Hurdles 58.25 (1994) 59.24 (1993) 53.43 (2004) 53.54 (2004)

800 Meters Berit Junker Megan Johnson (Notre Dame) Claudette Groenendaal (Oregon) Suzy Favor (Wisconsin) 2:05.68 (1996) 2:10.95 (2002) 1:58.33 (1985) 1:59.11 (1990)

1,500 Meters Lauren King Tricia Roddy (Miami) Sonja O’Sullivan (Villanova) Tiffany McWilliams (Miss. St.) 4:14.72 (2003) 4:32.44 (1999) 4:05.81 (1991) 4:06.75 (2004)

3,000 Meters JoAnna Deeter Stephanie Madia (Notre Dame) Vicki Huber (Villanova) Vicki Huber (Villanova) 9:18.31 (1999) 9:52.94 (2004) 8:37.25 (1988) 8:47.35 (1988)

3,000-Meter Katie DeRusso Megan Johnson (Notre Dame) Elizabeth Jackson (BYU) Kassi Anderson (BYU) Steeplechase 10:41.49 (2005) 10:54.70 (2004) 9:41.94 (2001) 9:44.95 (2004)

5,000 Meters Molly Huddle Karla Burds (Drake) Cathy Easker (Wisconsin) (Stanford) 15:32.55 (2004) 19:06.1 (1991) 15:07.56 (1985) 15:24.06 (2004)

10,000 Meters JoAnna Deeter no record Alicia Craig (Stanford) Sylvia Mosqueda 33:28.01 (1999) 32:19.97 (2004) (CS-Los Angeles) 32:28.57 (1988)

4x100-Meter Tameisha King, Liz Grow Notre Dame LSU LSU Relay Kristen Dodd, Ayesha Boyd 44.74 (2001) 42.50 (1989) 42.50 (1989) 44.30 (2002)

4x400-Meter Liz Grow, Kristen Dodd Miami Texas South Carolina Relay Ayesha Boyd, Kymia Love 3:48.2 (1998) 3:23.75 (2004) 3:26.46 (2002) 3:32.12 (2002)

High Jump Jennifer Engelhardt Jennifer Engelhardt (Notre Dame) Amy Acuff (UCLA) Amy Acuff (UCLA) 6-0 3/4 (1.85m) (1999) 5-8 3/4 (1.75m) (2000) 6-6 3/4 (2.00m) (1997) 6-5 (1.96m) 1995

Long Jump Tameisha King Tameisha King (Notre Dame) Jackie Joyner (UCLA) Sheila Echols (LSU) 21-8 1/4 (6.61m) (2003) 20-1 (6.12m) (2001) 23-9 (7.24m) (1985) 22-9 3/4 (6.94m) (1987)

Triple Jump Petra Dankova Jackie Smart (Central Mich.) Trecia Smith (Pittsburgh) Candice Baucham (UCLA) 41-6 (12.65m) (2004) 40-10 1/2 (12.46m) (2004) 46-8 (14.22m) (1997) 46-2 (14.07m) (2005)

Pole Vault Jaime Volkmer Jaime Volkmer (Notre Dame) Chelsea Johnson (UCLA) (Oregon) 12-6 (3.81m) (2001) 12-0 (3.66m) (2002) 15-0 (4.57m) (2004) 14-5 1/2 (4.41m) (2004)

Shot Put Dore DeBartolo Dore DeBartolo (Notre Dame) Meg Ritchie (Arizona) Tressa Thompson (Nebraska) 47-8 (14.46m) (2000) 46-6 (14.17m) (2001) 62-3 3/4 (18.99m) (1983) 61-2 1/4 (18.65m) (1998)

Discus Dore DeBartolo Sonja Fitts (St. John’s) Meg Ritchie (Arizona) Seilala Sua (UCLA) 171-1 (52.16m) (1999) 159-3 (48.54m) (1991) 221-5 (67.48m) (1981) 210-10 (64.26m) (1999)

Hammer Dore DeBartolo Dore DeBartolo (Notre Dame) Loree Smith (Colorado State) Candice Scott (Florida) 182-10 (55.72m) (2000) 182-2 (55.52m) (2001) 229-9 (70.03m) (2005) 228-11 1/2 (69.79m) (2004)

Javelin Kate Duman Jamie Strieter (Western Michigan) Irina Kharun (Indiana) Irina Kharun (Indiana) 141-2 (43.07m) (2004) 152-5 (46.46m) (1998) 202-10 (61.82m) (2004) 202-10 (61.82m) (2004)

Heptathlon Stacey Cowan —— Diane Guthrie-Gresham Diane Guthrie-Gresham 4,576 points (2004) (George Mason) (George Mason) 6,527 points (1995) 6,527 points (1995)

UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME 104 Men’s Meet Records

The Loftus Center on Notre Dame’s campus plays host to several indoor track and field meets during the season. The Irish track and field program boasts one of the top indoor facilities in the nation, including an elevated long jump pit (on the left) and pole vault pit (on the right). Notre Dame also hosts two of the more prestigious meets of the indoor track and field season - the Meyo and Alex Wilson Invitationals.

BIG EAST Indoor Championship Meyo Invitational 60 Meters 6.73 2005 Aulton Kohn Syracuse 60 Meters 6.56 2005 Johnie Drake C. Michigan 60-Meter Hurdles 7.72 2005 Selim Nurudeen Notre Dame 60-Meter Hurdles 7.63 2002 Ron Bramlett Alabama 200 Meters 21.15 1995 Kevin Lyles Seton Hall 200 Meters 20.97 2004 Arkansas 400 Meters 46.44 1986 Edwin Modibedi Villanova 300 Meters 33.1 1988 Greg Towner Purdue 500 Meters 1:01.60 1986 Charles Jenkins Villanova 400 Meters 46.39 2004 Terry Gatson Arkansas 800 Meters 1:49.75 1989 Paul Rowbotham Villanova 500 Meters 1:02.70 2005 Jon Shaffer Marquette 1,000 Meters 2:21.50 1980 Ross Donoghue St. John's 800 Meters 1:47.4 1992 Tommy Asinga E. Michigan Mile Run 4:00.57 1992 Steve Holman Georgetown 1,000 Meters 2:22.44 2003 Ryan McKenzie Windsor 3,000 Meters 8:01.56 1995 Mark Carroll Providence Mile Run 4:06.1 1988 Ed Slowikowski Loyola 5,000 Meters 13:52.84 1991 John Trautmann Georgetown Meyo Mile 3:55.90 1995 Kevin Sullivan Michigan 4x400-Meter Relay 3:11.15 1992 Seton Hall 3,000 Meters 7:48.65 2005 Nick Willis Michigan 4x800-Meter Relay 7:26.94 1987 Pittsburgh 5,000 Meters 13:38.14 2005 Boaz Cheboiywo Unattached Distance Medley Relay 9:38.38 1984 Villanova 4x400-Meter Relay 3:08.09 2005 Northern Iowa High Jump 2.20m 1983 Jim Hopson Connecticut 4x800-Meter Relay 7:27.87* 1989 Notre Dame Long Jump 7.89m 1988 Ray Humphery Georgetown Distance Medley Relay 9:36.03 2005 Michigan Triple Jump 16.24m 1986 Ray Humphrey Georgetown High Jump 2.31m 1997 Brian Brown Unattached Pole Vault 5.51m 1993 William Deering Miami Long Jump 7.72m 1988 Percy Knox Arizona Shot Put 18.84m 1999 Ray Wilks Connecticut Triple Jump 16.19m 2005 Aarik Wilson Indiana 35-Pound Weight 21.72m 2003 Spyridon Jullien Virginia Tech Pole Vault 5.50m 1992 Dave Volz Unattached Heptathlon 5,410 points 2004 Will Thomas Connecticut Shot Put 18.72m 2004 Steve Manz Michigan State 35-Pound Weight 21.32m 2002 Missouri BIG EAST Outdoor Championship * - time converted from 4x880-yard relay 100 Meters 10.28 1997 Rob Dennis West Virginia 110-Meter Hurdles 13.50 2000 Adrian Woodley Syracuse Alex Wilson Invitational 200 Meters 20.70 1987 Lee McRae Pittsburgh 60 Meters 6.40 2002 Ernest Simms Kentucky 400 Meters 44.89 1987 Seton Hall 60-Meter High Hurdles 7.75 2004 Selim Nurudeen Notre Dame 400-Meter Hurdles 49.43 1998 Kareem Archer Georgetown 200 Meters 20.86 1991 Kevin Braunskill N.C. State 800 Meters 1:47.21 1987 Tracey Baskin Seton Hall 300 Meters 34.9 1988 Peter DeMeo Notre Dame 1,500 Meters 3:40.62 1987 Gerry O'Reilly Villanova 400 Meters 45.97 1997 Derek Mills Unattached 3,000-Meter Steeplechase 8:33.3(h) 1983 Brendan Quinn Providence 500 Meters 1:03.18 1990 Yan Searcy Notre Dame 5,000 Meters 13:46.46 1982 James O'Connell Syracuse 800 Meters 1:49.06 2001 Jeff Ellis North Carolina 10,000 Meters 28:41.3 1983 Geoff Smith Providence Alex Wilson 800 1:47.50 1997 Jeff Hojnacki Notre Dame 4x100-Meter Relay 40.40 2001 Miami 1,000 Meters 2:26.44 1995 Eugene Kornilov Mount Union 4x400-Meter Relay 3:06.57 1985 Villanova Mile Run 4:00.17 2005 Nathan Robison BYU 4x800-Meter Relay 7:23.40 1987 Villanova 1,500 Meters 3:45.25 1988 Doug Peterson Unattached High Jump 2.16m 1982 Jim Hopson Connecticut 3,000 Meters 7:54.55 1994 Jim Spivey Unattached Long Jump 7.98m 2000 Santana Moss Miami 5,000 Meters 13:46.16 1994 Jim Westphall Unattached Triple Jump 16.44m 2001 Josh Rollins Georgetown 4x400-Meter Relay 3:06.83 2004 Mississippi Pole Vault 5.36m 1992 Bill Deering Miami 4x800-Meter Relay 7:18.71* 1990 E. Michigan Shot Put 18.81m 2005 Sam Segond Rutgers Distance Medley Relay 9:28.12 2005 Michigan Discus 60.71m 2005 Sam Segond Rutgers High Jump 2.18m 2004 Michael Massey Georgia Tech Hammer 72.60m 1995 Kevin McMahon Georgetown Long Jump 8.12m 2005 Aarik Wilson Indiana Javelin 71.10m 2003 Paul Pisano Connecticut Triple Jump 15.93m 1989 Rich Thompson Georgia Tech Decathlon 7,819 points 2003 Will Thomas Connecticut Pole Vault 5.43m 2005 Paul Gensic Air Force Shot Put 19.88m 1997 John Royce Unattached 35-Pound Weight 22.34m 2002 Carey Ryan DePaul * - time converted from 4x880-yard relay

2005-06 CROSS COUNTRY/TRACK & FIELD 105 Women’s Meet Records Meyo Invitational 60 Meters 7.30 2004 Veronica Campbell Arkansas 60-Meter Hurdles 8.26 2001 Le’gretta Smith Ind. Invaders 200 Meters 23.68 2003 Peta-Gaye Dowdie Puma 400 Meters 53.22 2000 Foye Williams ETOBCOKE 500 Meters 1:12.68 1998 Nadia Schmiedt Notre Dame 800 Meters 2:05.38 2004 Katie Erdman Michigan 1,000 Meters 2:47.23 2000 Beth Bayser Nike AA Mile 4:37.97 2005 Lindsey Gallo Michigan 3,000 Meters 8:58.47 2000 Collette Liss Ind. Invaders 5,000 Meters 16:08.59 1994 Molly McLimon Michigan 4x400-Meter Relay 3:37.48* 2002 Notre Dame 4x800-Meter Relay 9:19.02** 1992 Notre Dame Distance Medley Relay 11:05.33 2005 Michigan High Jump 1.86m 2004 Chaunte Howard Georgia Tech Long Jump 6.40m 2004 Tameisha King Unattached Triple Jump 13.19m 2004 Simidele Adeagbo Kentucky Pole Vault 3.95m three times (most recently: 2005 Jacey Hughes Louisville) Shot Put 15.65m 2003 April Phillips Michigan 15.65m 2005 Janae Strickland Unattached Weight Throw 19.70m 2002 Ruth Kura Maryland * - time converted from 4x440-yard relay // ** - time converted from 4x880-yard relay Jaime Volkmer (2000-03) holds the BIG EAST indoor BIG EAST Indoor Championship pole vault record after clearing 4.00m to win the 60 Meters 7.30 2000 Erica Broomfield Seton Hall 2003 conference title. 60-Meter Hurdles 8.04 1999 Yolanda McCray Miami 200 Meters 23.44 1994 Flirtisha Harris Seton Hall 400 Meters 53.50 1993 Flirtisha Harris Seton Hall 500 Meters 1:10.55 2001 Sasha Spencer Georgetown Alex Wilson Invitational 800 Meters 2:06.91 1988 Michelle DiMuro Villanova 60 Meters 7.39 2005 Andriane Lapsley Georgia Tech 1,000 Meters 2:43.99 2000 Chantee Earl Pittsburgh 60-Meter Hurdles 8.21 2002 Priscilla Lopes Unattached Mile Run 4:39.84 1999 Kate Vermeulen West Virginia 8.21 2005 Dana Rogers Georgia Tech 3,000 Meters 8:55.88 2004 Kim Smith Providence 200 Meters 23.53 2003 Lauryn Williams Miami (Fla.) 5,000 Meters 15:57.22 2004 Molly Huddle Notre Dame 400 Meters 52.67 2005 Ginou Etienne Miami (Fla.) 4x400-Meter Relay 3:38.32 2003 Miami (Fla.) 800 Meters 2:05.31 2004 Nikeya Green Wake Forest 4x800-Meter Relay 8:37.02 1991 Villanova 1,000 Meters 2:57.03 1991 Lisa Wigfield Unattached Distance Medley Relay 11:24.45 2003 Notre Dame Mile Run 4:38.34 2003 Marina Muncan Villanova High Jump 1.84m 2003 Deidre Mullen Connecticut 3,000 Meters 9:09.99 2003 Carmen Douma Unattached Long Jump 6.43m 2002 Nolle Graham Seton Hall 5,000 Meters 16:15.06 2003 Anne Bersagel Wake Forest Triple Jump 13.29m 1999 Trecia Smith Pittsburgh 4x400-Meter Relay 3:33.47* 2003 Miami (Fla.) Pole Vault 4.00m 2003 Jaime Volkmer Notre Dame 4x800-Meter Relay 8:51.03** 1991 Baylor Shot Put 16.67m 2005 Amanda Walker Pittsburgh Distance Medley Relay 11:14.63 2005 Arizona State Weight Throw 21.12m 2005 Amanda Walker Pittsburgh High Jump 1.80m 2003 Krystal Moss Florida Pentathlon 4,295 points 1995 Najuma Fletcher Pittsburgh Long Jump 6.32m 2005 Charisse Bacchus Kansas Triple Jump 13.38m 2005 Colleen Ramharak Kent State Pole Vault 4.15m 2004 Ibby Metzinger Unattached Shot Put 18.47m 1997 Valeyta Althouse Unattached Weight Throw 20.97m 2005 Kimberli Barrett Miami (Fla.) * - time converted from 4x440-yard relay // ** - time converted from 4x880-yard relay

BIG EAST Outdoor Championship 100 Meters 11:30 2000 Wylleshia Myrick Miami (Fla.) 100-Meter Hurdles 13.01 2000 Charmaine Walker Villanova 200 Meters 23.18 2003 Charlette Greggs Miami (Fla.) 400 Meters 52.05 2002 Liz Grow Notre Dame 400-Meter Hurdles 57.43 1998 Patrina Allen Miami 800 Meters 2:04.53 1985 Veronica McIntosh Villanova 1,500 Meters 4:18.43 1997 Krestena Sullivan Villanova 3,000 Meters 9:10.09 1988 Vicki Huber Villanova 3000-Meter Steeplechase 9:58.26 2003 Roisin McGettigan Providence 5,000 Meters 15:45.86 1984 Suzanne Girard Georgetown 10,000 Meters 33:09.67 1991 Carole Zajac Villanova 4x100-Meter Relay 44.58 2003 Miami (Fla.) Kristen Dodd (2001-04) 4x400-Meter Relay 3:33.38 2003 Miami (Fla.) played a part in Notre 4x800-Meter Relay 8:41.04 1991 Villanova Dame’s 4x440-yard relay High Jump 1.83m 2005 Deidre Mullen Connecticut record setting team at the Long Jump 6.63m 1993 Shana Williams Seton Hall 2002 Meyo Invitational. Triple Jump 13.42m 2004 Tabia Charles Miami (Fla.) Pole Vault 3.95m 2002 Erin Nett West Virginia Shot Put 16.59m 2000 Cheree Hicks Syracuse Discus 56.30m 2000 Cheree Hicks Syracuse Hammer 61.59m 2004 Johvonne Hernandez Syracuse Javelin 53.10m 2002 Denise O’Connell Virginia Tech Heptathlon 5,407 points 2005 Tamara McGill Pittsburgh UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME 106 Individual Finishes Men’s BIG EAST Indoor Results Team Finishes Second Place 55 Meters 2005 1st 182 points Allen Rossum 1997 6.23 2004 2nd 153 points 60 Meters 2003 1st 114 points Dwight Ellick 2005 6.78 2002 3rd 101.75 points 60-Meter Hurdles 2001 3rd 83 points Selim Nurudeen 2003 7.97 2000 2nd 125 points 200 Meters 1999 2nd 101 points Marshaun West 2000 21.52 1998 2nd 127 points Marshaun West 1998 21.66 1997 2nd 81 points 400 Meters 1996 3rd 83 points Bobby Brown 1998 47.39 500 Meters Danny Payton 1998 1:02.92 BIG EAST Awards 800 Meters Tim Kober 2001 1:52.13 1998 Jason Rexing, Tim Kober 2000 1:52.13 Outstanding Track Performer 1,000 Meters 2003 Coaching Staff of the Year Phil Mishka 2001 2:22.22 2005 Selim Nurudeen, Phil Mishka 2000 2:22.22 Outstanding Track Performer Mile 2005 Coaching Staff of the Year Kurt Benninger 2004 4:08.74 3,000 Meters * Note – In addition to individual champions in Tim Moore 2005 8:17.04 each event, finishes in the top-three at the Luke Watson 2003 8:15.55 conference meet earn all-BIG EAST honors. Luke Watson 2002 8:12.44 Notre Dame head coach Joe Piane and his Ryan Shay 2001 8:10.21 assistants were named the 2005 BIG EAST BIG EAST Champions Jason Rexing 1997 8:13.56 Conference Men’s Indoor Track Coaching Staff of 55-Meter Hurdles 5,000 Meters the Year after guiding the Irish to their second Errol Williams 1998 7.26 Kaleb Van Ort 2004 14:25.90 league title in three years. 60 Meters Ryan Shay 1999 14:18.70 Mile Chris Cochran 2000 6.79 Matt Althoff 1997 14:39.66 Eric Morrison 2004 4:09.16 60-Meter Hurdles 4x400-Meter Relay Eric Morrison 2003 4:14.71 Selim Nurudeen 2005 7.72 Trevor McClain–Duer, Jordan Powell, Luke Watson 2002 4:07.15 Selim Nurudeen 2004 7.78 Ryan Postel, Selim Nurudeen Luke Watson 2000 4:11.59 200 Meters 2004 3:13.71 Jason Rexing 1998 4:13.02 Selim Nurudeen 2005 21.38 Ryan Postel, Trevor McClain-Duer, Mike Conway 1997 4:11.99 Marshaun West 1999 21.42 Ryan Hurd, Mark Barber 3,000 Meters 400 Meters 2003 3:15.85 Kaleb Van Ort 2004 8:18.90 Chris Cochran 2000 47.76 Notre Dame 1997 3:15.62 Tim Moore 2003 8:16.83 1,000 Meters 4x800-Meter Relay 5,000 Meters Jeff Hojnacki 1997 2:26.66 Eric Morrison, Adam Currie, Tim Moore 2005 14:27.25 Jeff Hojnacki 1996 2:27.39 Todd Ptacek, Brett Adams John Keane 2003 14:34.99 Mile 2005 7:38.09 David Alber 2002 14:21.45 Kurt Benninger 2005 4:12.14 High Jump 4x400-Meter Relay Luke Watson 2003 4:12.85 Chris Staron 2004 6-9 (2.06m) Trevor McClain-Duer, Jordan Powell, 3,000 Meters Long Jump Robert Kueny, Austin Weaver Kurt Benninger 2005 8:15.22 Tom Gilbert 2002 23-5 1/2 (7.15m) 2005 3:18.16 Ryan Shay 2002 8:09.42 Tom Gilbert 2000 23-10 (7.26m) 4x800-Meter Relay Ryan Shay 1999 8:20.38 Marshaun West 1999 24-1 1/2 (7.35m) Kevin Somok, Colin Quinn, Jason Rexing 1998 8:21.06 Triple Jump Thomas Chamney, Eric Morrison 5,000 Meters Godwin Mbagwu 2004 49-9 (15.16m) 2003 7:39.61 Tim Moore 2003 14:26.78 Godwin Mbagwu 2001 48-2 3/4 (14.70m) Notre Dame 2000 7:38.15 Ryan Shay 2002 14:15.57 Lamarr Justice 1996 51-2 1/4 (15.60m) Notre Dame 1997 7:34.61 Ryan Shay 2001 14:10.00 Pole Vault Distance Medley Relay Jason Rexing 1998 14:24.31 Josh Heck 2001 15-9 (4.80m) Vinnie Ambrico, Ryan Postel, Jason Rexing 1997 14:37.80 Dave Gerrity 1997 16-2 3/4 (4.95m) Kevin Somok, Eric Morrison Jason Rexing 1996 14:17.99 Dave Gerrity 1996 16-2 3/4 (4.95m) 2003 10:00.55 Distance Medley Relay 35-Pound Weight Throw Notre Dame 1996 9:59.28 Brett Adams, Jordan Powell, Juan Alba 2004 18.06m (59-3) High Jump Jamal Afridi, Sean O’Donnell Chris Staron 2005 6-7 1/2 (2.02m) 2005 10:00.17 Third Place Chris Staron 2002 6-7 1/4 (2.01m) Notre Dame 1997 9:52.08 60 Meters Quill Redwine 2002 6-7 1/4 (2.01m) High Jump Terrail Lambert 2005 6.82 Long Jump Andrew Cooper 2001 6-9 (2.06m) 60-Meter Hurdles Marshaun West 1997 24-5 (7.44m) Long Jump Selim Nurudeen 2002 8.08 Triple Jump Christopher Jacques 2005 23-8 3/4 (7.23m) 200 Meters Quill Redwine 2000 47-0 1/4 (14.33m) Marshaun West 2000 24-7 (7.49m) Dwight Ellick 2004 21.86 Pole Vault Pole Vault Dwight Ellick 2002 21.61 Mike Brown 1996 16-2 3/4 (4.95m) Mike Brown 1999 16-2 3/4 (4.95m) 500 Meters 35-Pound Weight Throw Mike Brown 1998 17-1 1/2 (5.22m) Trevor McClain-Duer 2005 1:03.24 Chip Roberts 2005 56-7 1/2 (17.26m) Mike Brown 1997 16-2 3/4 (4.95m) Tim Kober 2000 1:03.76 Matt Thompson 2000 58-11 1/2 (17.97m) Shot Put 800 Meters Mike Fleisch 1996 59-6 1/4 (18.14m) Tim Kober 1999 1:53.15

2005-06 CROSS COUNTRY/TRACK & FIELD 107 Men’s BIG EAST Outdoor Results Triple Jump Team Finishes Godwin Mbagwu 2003 50-3 1/4 (15.32m) 2005 2nd 143.5 points Lamarr Justice 1996 50-6 3/4 (15.41m) 2004 1st 172.5 points Pole Vault 2003 1st 139 points Mike Brown 1999 16-4 3/4 (5.00m) 2002 3rd 99 points Mike Brown 1997 16-4 3/4 (5.00m) 2001 6th 63 points Dave Gerrity 1996 16-10 3/4 (5.15m) Hammer Throw 2000 1st 164 points Chip Roberts 2005 177-5 (54.09m) 1999 2nd 136 points 1998 3rd 94 points Second Place 1997 2nd 137 points 1996 3rd 77 points 100 Meters Marshaun West 1999 10.72 200 Meters Selim Nurudeen 2005 21.11 BIG EAST Awards Selim Nurudeen 2004 21.48 Chris Cochran 1999 21.54 1996 Jason Rexing 400 Meters Outstanding Track Performer Chris Cochran 2000 47.80 1999 Coaching Staff of the Year 400-Meter Hurdles 1999 Marshaun West Napolean Suarez 2004 53.18 Outstanding Track Performer 800 Meters 2000 Coaching Staff of the Year Phil Mishka 2000 1:50.76 2002 Luke Watson Phil Mishka 1999 1:50.62 Outstanding Track Performer Jeff Hojnacki 1997 1:49.65 Godwin Mbagwu was named the 2004 BIG EAST 2003 Coaching Staff of the Year 1,500 Meters Outdoor Most Outstanding Field Performer after winning 2004 Godwin Mbagwu Kurt Benninger 2004 3:50.03 the long jump and finishing second in the triple jump. Outstanding Field Performer Antonio Arce 1999 3:51.60 3.000-Meter Steeplechase 1,500 Meters Jake Watson 2005 9:04.60 * Note – In addition to individual champions in Eric Morrison 2003 3:50.65 5,000 Meters each event, finishes in the top-three at the 3,000-Meter Steeplechase Ryan Shay 2002 14:05.36 Todd Ptacek 2005 9:06.12 conference meet earn each all-BIG EAST Jason Rexing 1997 14:22.01 5,000 Meters honors. 10,000 Meters Ryan Shay 1999 14:19.82 Todd Mobley 2004 30:46.50 Luke Watson 2000 14:50.97 Mike Griewe 2000 31:20.98 10,000 Meters BIG EAST Champions Ryan Shay 1999 30:06.66 Kaleb Van Ort 2005 30:26.01 110-Meter Hurdles Jason Rexing 1998 30:12.14 Kaleb Van Ort 2004 30:58.93 Selim Nurdueen 2005 13.65 Matt Althoff 1997 31:06.44 Tim Moore 2003 30:31.13 Selim Nurdueen 2004 13.91 4x100-Meter Relay Todd Mobley 2002 30:28.57 Selim Nurudeen 2003 13.95 Selim Nurudeen, Ryan Postel, 4x100-Meter Relay Selim Nurudeen 2002 14.31 Ryan Hurd, Tommie Lee Selim Nurudeen, Ryan Postel 200 Meters 2004 41.20 Ryan Hurd, Mark Barber Marshaun West 1999 21.53 4x400-Meter Relay 2003 41.31 400 Meters Trevor McClain-Duer, Jordan Powell, Notre Dame 1998 41.18 Ryan Postel 2004 47.22 Selim Nurudeen, Ryan Postel Notre Dame 1997 41.49 Chris Cochran 1999 46.86 2004 3:10.52 4x400-Meter Relay Errol Williams 1998 13.69 4x800-Meter Relay Notre Dame 1999 3:11.67 3,000 Meters Eric Morrison, Kevin Somok, Notre Dame 1997 3:12.15 Luke Watson 2002 8:37.61 Kurt Benninger, Thomas Chamney 4x800-Meter Relay 3,000-Meter Steeplechase 2004 7:28.48 Thomas Chamney, Eric Morrison Ryan Johnson 2005 9:04.21 High Jump Kevin Somok, Vinnie Ambrico Ryan Johnson 2004 9:08.64 Quill Redwine 2001 6-10 3/4 (2.10m) 2003 7:30.63 Luke Watson 2003 8:49.45 Triple Jump Notre Dame 1997 7:33.24 Luke Watson 2000 9:00.25 Godwin Mbagwu 2004 49-10 1/2 (15.20m) High Jump Derek Seiling 1997 9:08.90 Pole Vault Chris Staron 2004 6-9 1/2 (2.07m) 5,000 Meters Mike Brown 1998 16-4 3/4 (5.00m) Chris Staron 2003 6-9 1/2 (2.07m) Luke Watson 2003 14:14.14 Shot Put Long Jump Luke Watson 2002 13:59.38 Derek Dyer 2000 52-10 1/4 (16.11m) Marshaun West 2000 25-8 (7.82m) Ryan Shay 2000 14:42.91 Mike Fleisch 1997 56-11 1/4 (17.35m) Pole Vault Jason Rexing 1998 14:22.39 Discus Josh Heck 2001 15-9 (4.80m) Jason Rexing 1996 14:28.47 Derek Dyer 2001 167-1 (50.92m) Dave Gerrity 1997 16-4 3/4 (5.00m) 10,000 Meters Matt Thompson 2000 176-10 (53.90m) Mike Brown 1996 15-11 (4.85m) Ryan Shay 2002 28:55.67 Hammer Shot Put Ryan Shay 2001 29:17.61 Jay Hofner 1999 185-1 (56.42m) Matt Thompson 2000 51-9 (15.77m) Ryan Shay 2000 31:06.29 Jay Hofner 1998 177-3 (54.04m) Jason Rexing 1997 31:05.33 Discus Jason Rexing 1996 30:49.35 Juan Alba 2003 166-2 (50.66m) 4x100-Meter Relay Third Place Derek Dyer 2000 170-11 (52.10m) Travis Davey, Chris Cochran 200 Meters Derek Dyer 2000 166-2 (50.64m) Tom Gilbert, Marshaun West Marshaun West 2000 21.29 Hammer 2000 40.54 Errol Williams 1997 21.38 Kyle Annen 2005 172-9 (52.66m) Long Jump 400-Meter Hurdles Jason Davis 2004 176-6 (53.79m) Godwin Mbagwu 2004 25-2 1/2 (7.68m) Napolean Suarez 2003 53.15 Javelin Chris Smith 1998 198-0 (60.36m) Chris Smith 1997 183-1 (55.80m) Chris Smith 1996 191-9 (58.46m) UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME 108 Women’s BIG EAST Indoor Results Distance Medley Relay Lauren King, Tricia Floyd, Megan Johnson, Molly Huddle 2003 11:24.45 Pole Vault Jaime Volkmer 2003 13-1 1/2 (4.00m)

Second Place 55-Meter Hurdles Dominqué Calloway 1997 7.75 60 Meters Maryann Erigha 2005 7.52 200 Meters Maryann Erigha 2005 24.09 Ayesha Boyd 2002 24.00 400 Meters Kristen Dodd 2004 54.76 Kymia Love 2003 54.79 Kymia Love 2002 55.58 Liz Grow 2001 54.57 Liz Grow 1999 55.56 500 Meters Liz Grow 2002 1:11.65 Berit Junker 1996 1:13.19 Mile Stephanie Madia 2005 4:52.28 Megan Johnson 2004 4:55.57 3,000 Meters Lauren King ended up with two BIG EAST Championships Stephanie Madia 2005 9:25.12 at the indoor meet in '03. She won the mile run in Molly Huddle 2003 9:18.24 4:46.90, then helped the distance medley relay team JoAnna Deeter 1999 9:32.48 place first in a meet-record 11:24.45. 5,000 Meters Molly Huddle 2005 16:12.17 Okechi Ogbuokiri won her first BIG EAST title in 4x800-Meter Relay 2005, taking first place in the indoor 400 Notre Dame 1996 9:05.56 meters. Team Finishes Distance Medley Relay 2005 2nd 140 points Stephanie Madia, Crysta Swayzer, 2004 2nd 111 points Brianne Schmidt, Sunni Olding 400 Meters 2003 2nd 120 points 2005 11:32.29 Alison Howard 1997 55.86 2002 1st 112 points Lauren King, Okechi Ogbuokiri, 1,000 Meters 2001 7th 57.5 points Megan Johnson, Kerry Meagher Jennifer Pavela 1999 2:57.55 2000 6th 68.5 points 2004 11:32.95 Mile 1999 3rd 100 points Patty Rice 1999 4:52.51 1998 9th 43 points High Jump 3,000 Meters 1997 6th 59 points Stacey Cowan 2005 5-9 3/4 (1.77m) 1996 11th 30 points Stacey Cowan 2004 5-11 1/2 (1.82m) Sunni Olding 2005 9:36.13 Emily Loomis 2003 5-10 1/2 (1.79m) Molly Huddle 2004 9:09.34 Jennifer Engelhardt 2000 5-9 3/4 (1.77m) JoAnna Deeter 1998 9:38.61 BIG EAST Awards Jennifer Engelhardt 1999 5-10 3/4 (1.80m) 4x400-Meter Relay 2002 Coaching Staff of the Year Jennifer Engelhardt 1998 5-8 (1.73m) Tiffany Gunn, Crysta Swayzer, Jennifer Engelhardt 1997 5-8 (1.73m) Maryann Erigha, Okechi Ogbuokiri * Note - In addition to individual champions in Long Jump 2005 3:47.99 each event, finishes in the top-three at the Notre Dame 2002 3:41.19 conference meet earn all-BIG EAST honors. Tameisha King 2000 20-4 1/2 (6.21m) Triple Jump 4x800-Meter Relay Petra Dankova 2005 41-3 3/4 (12.59m) Notre Dame 1999 9:09.42 BIG EAST Champions Pole Vault High Jump 60-Meter Hurdles Jaime Volkmer 2002 12-5 3/4 (3.80m) Emily Loomis 2002 5-8 1/4 (1.73m) Tameisha King 2003 8.39 Jaime Volkmer 2001 12-1 1/2 (3.70m) Kelle Saxen 1998 5-8 (1.73m) 400 Meters Jaime Volkmer 2000 11-3 3/4 (3.45m) Kelle Saxen 1997 5-8 (1.73m) Okechi Ogbuokiri 2005 54.99 Natalie Hallett 1999 10-0 (3.05m) Long Jump Liz Grow 2000 55.27 Shot Put Petra Dankova 2005 19-3 1/2 (5.88m) 500 Meters Meghan Horn 2005 48-8 3/4 (14.85m) Tameisha King 2001 19-11 (6.07m) Tiffany Gunn 2005 1:13.44 Triple Jump Mile Petra Dankova 2003 41-7 (12.67m) Third Place Lauren King 2004 4:53.95 Shot Put 60 Meters Lauren King 2003 4:46.90 Dore DeBartolo 1999 44-5 1/4 (13.54m) Ayesha Boyd 2002 7.44 5,000 Meters Pentathlon 200 Meters JoAnna Deeter 1999 16:22.64 Stacey Cowan 2005 3,554 points Dominqué Calloway 1997 24.26 4x400-Meter Relay Betsy Lazzeri 2002 3,510 points Tiffany Gunn, Kristen Dodd, Emily Bienko 1999 3,391 points Okechi Ogbuokiri, Tricia Floyd 2004 3:45.23

2005-06 CROSS COUNTRY/TRACK & FIELD 109 Women’s BIG EAST Outdoor Results Team Finishes 2005 2nd 113.5 points 2004 3rd 87 points 2003 2nd 126 points 2002 2nd 110 points 2001 3rd 83 points 2000 3rd 93 points 1999 3rd 103.5 points 1998 12th 33.5 points Kate Duman 1997 6th 58.5 points earned all-BIG 1996 13th 23.5 points EAST honors for the first time in her career with a BIG EAST Awards third-place finish in the javelin at 2002 Liz Grow the 2005 BIG Outstanding Track Performer EAST Outdoor Championship. * Note - In addition to individual champions in each event, finishes in the top-three at the conference meet earn all-BIG EAST honors.

BIG EAST Champions 100 Meters Maryann Erigha 2005 11.69 400 Meters Liz Grow 2002 52.05 Liz Grow 2001 53.17 Alison Howard 1997 53.81 5,000 Meters 800 Meters 200 Meters Molly Huddle 2004 16:21.20 Berit Junker 1996 2:07.53 Liz Grow 1999 24.33 Molly Huddle 2003 15:58.51 1,500 Meters 400 Meters 10,000 Meters Lauren King 2003 4:18.85 Kymia Love 2002 53.74 Alison Klemmer 1999 34:56.63 Lauren King 2002 4:21.10 1,500 Meters 4x100-Meter Relay 3,000 Meters Kerry Meagher 2004 4:25.18 Notre Dame 2002 44.77 JoAnna Deeter 1999 9:18.31 5,000 Meters Notre Dame 2001 45.37 5,000 Meters Stephanie Madia 2005 16:39.30 High Jump Jennifer Handley 2001 16:40.36 Stephanie Madia 2004 16:37.35 Emily Loomis 2003 5-8 3/4 (1.75m) JoAnna Deeter 1999 16:22.46 10,000 Meters Jennifer Engelhardt 2000 5-11 1/2 (1.82m) 10,000 Meters Alison Klemmer 1998 35:17.7 Jennifer Engelhardt 1999 5-11 1/4 (1.81m) Lauren King 2005 35:57.74 4x100-Meter Relay Jennifer Engelhardt 1998 5-10 (1.78m) Jennifer Handley 2003 35:54.96 Ayesha Boyd, Kristen Dodd, Long Jump 4x100-Meter Relay Maryann Erigha, Tricia Floyd Tameisha King 2003 21-8 1/4 (6.61m) Domenique Manning, Maryann Erigha, 2004 46.19 Pole Vault Brienne Davis, Okechi Ogbuokiri Tanya Cheatham, Kristen Dodd, Laura Huarte 2004 12-3 1/2 (3.75m) 2005 46.46 Ayesha Boyd, Kymia Love Jaime Volkmer 2000 11-9 3/4 (3.60m) High Jump 2003 45.80 Stacey Cowan 2005 5-8 3/4 (1.75m) Notre Dame 2000 46.00 Second Place Long Jump High Jump 100-Meter Hurdles Tameisha King 2000 21-1 1/2 (6.44m) Stacey Cowan 2004 5-9 1/4 (1.76m) Dominqué Calloway 1997 13.34 Pole Vault Emily Loomis 2002 5-7 (1.70m) 200 Meters Jaime Volkmer 2003 12-5 1/2 (3.80m) Jennifer Engelhardt 1997 5-6 (1.68m) Maryann Erigha 2005 24.10 Jaime Volkmer 2002 12-5 3/4 (3.81m) Pole Vault Liz Grow 2001 24.20 Jaime Volkmer 2001 11-11 3/4 (3.65m) Bethany Wilson 1999 10-2 (3.10m) Dominqué Calloway 1997 23.88 Shot Put Shot Put Alison Howard 1997 24.01 Dore DeBartolo 2000 47-5 1/4 (14.46m) Meghan Horn 2005 47-5 1/4 (14.46m) 400 Meters Discus Discus Okechi Ogbuokiri 2005 53.80 Dore DeBartolo 1999 146-6 (44.66m) Meghan Horn 2005 149-11 (45.69m) Liz Grow 1999 53.38 Dore DeBartolo 2001 148-11 (45.38m) 400-Meter Hurdles Third Place Javelin Nadia Schmiedt 1999 58.6 100 Meters Kate Duman 2005 139-0 (42.38m) Nadia Schmiedt 1997 59.37 Ayesha Boyd 2002 11.65 Heptathlon Nadia Schmiedt 1996 1:00.05 Ayesha Boyd 2001 11.86 Stacey Cowan 2003 4,675 points 110-Meter Hurdles Emily Bienko 1999 4,390 points Tameisha King 2003 13.64

UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME 110 Track & Field All-BIG EAST Honors Men’s All-BIG EAST Honor Breakdown Women’s All-BIG EAST Honor Breakdown Most Indoor Honors Most Indoor Honors 6 – Selim Nurudeen, Jason Rexing, Ryan Shay, Marshaun West 4 – Jennifer Engelhardt, Liz Grow, Molly Huddle, Lauren King, Okechi 5 – Eric Morrison, Luke Watson Ogbuokiri, Jaime Volkmer 4 – Mike Brown, Tim Kober, Trevor McClain-Duer, Tim Moore 3 – Stacey Cowan, Petra Dankova, JoAnna Deeter, Maryann Erigha, 3 – Kurt Benninger, Dwight Ellick, Ryan Postel, Jordan Powell, Tiffany Gunn, Megan Johnson, Tameisha King, Stephanie Madia Chris Staron 2 – Ayesha Boyd, Dominique Calloway, Kristen Dodd, Tricia Floyd, 2 – Brett Adams, Chris Cochran, Dave Gerrity, Tom Gilbert, Emily Loomis, Kymia Love, Sunni Olding, Kelle Saxen, Crysta Jeff Hojnacki, Godwin Mbagwu, Phil Mishka, Quill Swayzer Redwine, Kevin Somok, Kaleb Van Ort 1 – Emily Bienko, Dore DeBartolo, Natalie Hallett, Meghan Horn, Alison 1 – Jamal Afridi, Juan Alba, David Alber, Matt Althoff, Vinny Howard, Berit Junker, Betsy Lazzeri, Kerry Meagher, Jennifer Pavela, Ambrico, Mark Barber, Bobby Brown, Thomas Chamney, Patti Rice, Brianne Schmidt Mike Conway, Andrew Cooper, Adam Currie, Mike Fleisch, Most Outdoor Honors Josh Heck, Ryan Hurd, Christopher Jacques, Lamarr Justice, 5 – Liz Grow John Keane, Robert Kueny, Terrail Lambert, Sean O’Donnell, 4 – Ayesha Boyd, Jennifer Engelhardt, Maryann Erigha, Jaime Volkmer Danny Payton, Todd Ptacek, Colin Quinn, Chip Roberts, 3 – Stacey Cowan, Dore DeBartolo, Lauren King, Tameisha King, Nadia Allen Rossum, Matt Thompson, Austin Weaver, Errol Schmiedt Williams 2 – Dominique Calloway, JoAnna Deeter, Kristen Dodd, Jennifer Most Outdoor Honors Handley, Meghan Horn, Alison Howard, Molly Huddle, Alison 9 – Selim Nurudeen Klemmer, Emily Loomis, Kymia Love, Stephanie Madia, Okechi 7 – Ryan Shay Ogbuokiri 6 – Jason Rexing, Luke Watson 1 – Emily Bienko, Tanya Cheatham, Brienne Davis, Kate Duman, Tricia 5 – Marshaun West Floyd, Laura Huarte, Berit Junker, Domenique Manning, Kerry 4 – Mike Brown, Chris Cochran, Derek Dyer, Ryan Postel Meagher, Bethany Wilson 3 – Godwin Mbagwu, Eric Morrison, Chris Smith Most Combined Indoor/Outdoor 2 – Kurt Benninger, Thomas Chamney, Dave Gerrity, Jay 9 – Liz Grow Hofner, Ryan Hurd, Ryan Johnson, Phil Mishka, Todd 8 – Jennifer Engelhardt, Jaime Volkmer Mobley, Kevin Somok, Chris Staron, Napolean Suarez, Matt 7 – Maryann Erigha, Lauren King Thompson, Kaleb Van Ort, Errol Williams 6 – Stacey Cowan, Molly Huddle, Okechi Ogbuokiri 1 – Juan Alba, Vinny Ambrico, Kyle Annen, Antonio Arce, Matt 5 – JoAnna Deeter, Tameisha King, Stephanie Madia Althoff, Travis Davey, Jason Davis, Mike Fleisch, Tom Most Combined Indoor/Outdoor/Cross Country Gilbert, Mike Griewe, Josh Heck, Jeff Hojnacki, Lamarr 9 – Molly Huddle, Lauren King Justice, Garet Koxlien, Tommie Lee, Trevor McClain-Duer, 7 – JoAnna Deeter Tim Moore, Todd Ptacek, Jordan Powell, Quill Redwine, 6 – Stephanie Madia Chip Roberts, Derek Seiling, Jake Watson 5 – Jennifer Handley Most Combined Indoor/Outdoor Most BIG EAST Titles (individual and relays) 15 – Selim Nurudeen 3 – Jennifer Engelhardt, Liz Grow, Molly Huddle, Lauren King* 13 – Ryan Shay 2 – Tiffany Gunn, Tameisha King, Jaime Volkmer 12 – Jason Rexing 1 – JoAnna Deeter, Kristen Dodd, Maryann Erigha, Tricia Floyd, Alison 11 – Luke Watson, Marshaun West Howard, Laura Huarte, Megan Johnson, Alison Klemmer, Emily 8 – Mike Brown, Eric Morrison Loomis, Okechi Ogbuokiri Most Combined Indoor/Outdoor/Cross Country * - Lauren King also won the BIG EAST individual title in cross country during the 16 – Ryan Shay 2002 season - giving her four BIG EAST titles. 15 – Selim Nurudeen/Luke Watson 14 – Jason Rexing Most BIG EAST Titles (individual and relays) 8 – Ryan Shay, Jason Rexing 7 – Selim Nurudeen Combined with cross 6 – Luke Watson country, Lauren King 5 – Mike Brown won four individual 4 – Chris Cochran, Marshaun West BIG EAST titles — the most 2 – Kurt Benninger, Jeff Hojnacki, Ryan Johnson, by any Irish female runner — Godwin Mbagwu, Errol Williams during her career from 1 – Brett Adams, Jamal Afridi, Andrew Cooper,Travis 2001-05. Davey, Mike Fleisch, Dave Gerrity, Tom Gilbert, Christopher Jacques, Lamarr Justice, Tim Moore, Sean O’Donnell, Ryan Postel, Jordan Powell, Chip Roberts, Derek Seiling

Selim Nurudeen holds the Notre Dame record for career combined all-BIG EAST Conference track honors, having earned 15 citations in a storied career from 2001-05.

2005-06 CROSS COUNTRY/TRACK & FIELD 111 Distance Medley Relay Men’s 1. 2005 (Alex Wilson)...... 9:35.12

Indoor Bests Eric Morrison, Trevor McClain-Duer, Adam Currie, Kurt Benninger 60 Meters (since 1999) 1,000 Meters 2. 2005 (NCAA) ...... 9:36.67 3. 2002 (adidas Boston)...... 9:37.50 1. Chris Cochran, 2000 (BIG EAST) ...... 6.79 1. Phil Mishka, 2000 (BIG EAST) ...... 2:22.22 Kevin Somok, James Bracken, 2. Chris Cochran, 2000 (BIG EAST) ...... 6.81 Phil Mishka, 2001 (BIG EAST) ...... 2:22.22 Eric Morrison, Luke Watson Dwight Ellick, 2005 (Windsor)...... 6.81 3. David Warth, 1987 ...... 2:23.56 4. 2000 (NCAA) ...... 9:38.82 4. Chris Cochran, 2000 (BIG EAST) ...... 6.82 4. Joe Royer, 1995 (IC4A)...... 2:24.81 Chris Cochran, Tim Kober, Terrail Lambert, 2005 (BIG EAST) ...... 6.82 5. David Warth, 1987 ...... 2:24.77 Phil Mishka, Luke Watson 6. Dwight Ellick, 2002 (Alex Wilson) ...... 6.83 6. Kevin Somok, 2004 (BIG EAST) ...... 2:25.78 5. 2003 (Alex Wilson)...... 9:38.40 Selim Nurudeen, 2005 (BIG EAST)...... 6.83 7. Joe Royer, 1995 (Western Mich./Marquette) ....2:25.79 Luke Watson, Ryan Postel, 8. Terrail Lambert, 2005 (Windsor)...... 6.84 8. Jake Watson, 2005 (Meyo) ...... 2:25.98 Thomas Chamney, Eric Morrison 9. Selim Nurudeen, three times ...... 6.85 9. Todd Ptacek, 2005 (BIG EAST) ...... 2:26.29 6. 1997 (Silverston)...... 9:39.39 (most recently: Notre Dame Invitational, 2005) 10. Mark Lavery, 1989 ...... 2:26.31 Dwight Ellick, 2002 (Meyo)...... 6.85 7. 2000 (Alex Wilson) ...... 9:39.40 1,500 Meters 8. 1983 (Centrals) ...... 9:43.10 60-Meter Hurdles (since 1999) 1. Mike Rogan, 1988 (Alex Wilson) ...... 3:47.64 9. 2000 (Meyo) ...... 9:43.78 1. Selim Nurudeen, 2005 (BIG EAST)...... 7.72 2. Rick Mulvey, 1989 (Notre Dame Invitational) 3:55.31 10. 1998 (Butler Last Chance) ...... 9:43.84 2. Selim Nurudeen, 2004 (Alex Wilson) ...... 7.75 3. Matt Ronzone, 1988 (Alex Wilson) ...... 3:56.26 High Jump 3. Selim Nurudeen, 2005 (NCAA) ...... 7.77 4. Tom Macken, 1989 (Alex Wilson) ...... 3:56.79 1. Lloyd Constable, 1985 (DePaul) ...... 7-3 1/2 (2.22m) 4. Selim Nurudeen, three times ...... 7.78 5. Matt Ronzone, 1989 (Alex Wilson) ...... 3:57.57 2. Todd Herman, 1993 (Alex Wilson)...... 7-3 (2.21m) (most recently: NCAA, 2005) 6. Shawn Schneider, 1990 (Alex Wilson)...... 3:58.63 3. Todd Herman, 1993 (Meyo) ...... 7-2 1/2 (2.20m) 7. Selim Nurudeen, 2004 (Meyo) ...... 7.79 7. Greg Soroka, 1989 (Alex Wilson) ...... 3:58.98 4. Todd Herman, 1993 (NCAA) ...... 7-2 (2.18m) 8. Selim Nurudeen, twice...... 7.81 8. Kevin Keegan, 1989 (Alex Wilson) ...... 4:00.00 Lloyd Constable, 1985 (Iowa) ...... 7-2 (2.18m) (most recently: BIG EAST, 2005) 9. Tom Macken, 1989 (Notre Dame Invit.) ...... 4:00.82 6. Todd Herman, 1992 (IC4A)...... 7-1 1/2 (2.17m) 10. Selim Nurudeen, 2004 (Alex Wilson) ...... 7.82 10. Greg Soroka, 1990 (Alex Wilson) ...... 4:01.24 7. Todd Herman, 1992 (Alex Wilson)...... 7-1 (2.16m) Kevin Keegan, 1990 (Alex Wilson) ...... 4:01.24 200 Meters (since 1988) Todd Herman, 1994 (Purdue Quad)...... 7-1 (2.16m) 1. Randy Kinder, 1994 (Drake Dual)...... 21.11 Mile Run 9. Lloyd Constable, 1985 (IC4A)...... 7-0 1/2 (2.15m) 2. Marshaun West, 1999 (Meyo) ...... 21.16 1. Luke Watson, 2002 (Meyo)...... 3:57.83 Todd Herman, 1994 (Meyo) ...... 7-0 1/2 (2.15m) 3. Marshaun West, 1999 (Indiana) ...... 21.17 2. Kurt Benninger, 2005 (Meyo)...... 3:58.75 Long Jump 4. Randy Kinder, 1994 (Meyo) ...... 21.19 3. Chuck Aragon, 1981 (Illini)...... 3:59.90 1. Marshaun West, 1999 (Red Simmons)..25-6 3/4 (7.79m) 5. Randy Kinder, 1994 (Alex Wilson) ...... 21.22 4. Luke Watson, 2002 (Alex Wilson) ...... 4:01.1 2. James Patterson, 1985 (IC4A) ...... 25-5 (7.74m) 6. Willie Clark, 1991 (Wilson) ...... 21.26 5. Eric Morrison, 2003 (Meyo) ...... 4:01.90 3. Marshaun West, 2000 (Quad) ...... 25-4 1/2 (7.73m) Chris Cochran, 2000 (Quad) ...... 21.26 6. Kurt Benninger, 2005 (NCAA)...... 4:02.24 4. Marshaun West, 1998 (Central)...... 25-1 1/4 (7.65m) 8. Marshaun West, 1999 (BIG EAST)...... 21.28 7. Antonio Arce, 1999 (Alex Wilson) ...... 4:02.48 5. Marshaun West, 1999 (Indiana)...... 25-0 (7.62m) 9. Chris Cochran, 2000 (Cannon IV) ...... 21.30 8. Eric Morrison, 2004 (Meyo) ...... 4:02.80 6. Marshaun West, 1999 (A. Wilson) ....24-11 3/4 (7.61m) 10. Dwight Ellick, 2002 (Alex Wilson) ...... 21.32 9. Chuck Aragon, 1981 (Indiana Intercoll.)...... 4:03.11 7. Marshaun West, 1999 (NCAA) ...... 24-10 (7.57m) 10. Kurt Benninger, 2004 (Meyo)...... 4:03.67 400 Meters (y = 440 Yards) 8. Marshaun West, 1997 (Red Simmons) 24-9 1/4 (7.55m) 1. Ryan Postel, 2004 (Alex Wilson)...... 47.01 3,000 Meters 9. James Patterson, 1985 (Western Mich.) ..24-9 (7.54m) 2. Ryan Postel, 2004 (Meyo) ...... 47.33 1. Luke Watson, 2002 (Meyo)...... 7:54.02 10. Marshaun West, 2000 (BIG EAST) ...... 24-7 (7.49m) 3. Bobby Brown, 1998 (BIG EAST)...... 47.39 2. Luke Waston, 2003 (adidas-Boston) ...... 7:55.78 Triple Jump 4. Chris Cochran, 2000 (Meyo) ...... 47.41 3. Ryan Shay, 2002 (Meyo) ...... 7:58.73 1. Lamarr Justice, 1996 (Butler)...... 51-6 3/4 (15.71m) 5. Bill Boyle, 1964...... 47.9y (47.6) 4. Mike O’Connor, 1990 (IC4A) ...... 7:59.19 2. Godwin Mbagwu, 2004 (A. Wilson) ....51-4 1/4 (15.65m) Steve Dziabis, 1983...... 47.9y (47.6) 5. Kurt Benninger, 2005 (Notre Dame Invit.)...... 7:59.39 3. L. Justice, 1996 (BIG EAST) ...... 51-2 1/4 (15.60m) 7. Ryan Postel, 2004 (BIG EAST) ...... 47.66 6. Luke Watson, 2002 (NCAA)...... 8:02.18 4. Godwin Mbagwu, 2001 ...... 50-4 3/4 (15.36m) Terry Wray, 2000 (Alex Wilson) ...... 47.66 7. Ryan Shay, 2001 (Alex Wilson) ...... 8:05.44 5. Godwin Mbagwu, 2004 (Meyo) ...... 50-2 3/4 (15.31m) 9. Danny Payton, 1995 (Western Mich./Marq.) ...... 47.73 8. Ryan Cahill, 1991 (Alex Wilson) ...... 8:06.11 6. G. Mbagwu, 2004 (BIG EAST) ...... 49-9 (15.16m) 10. Chris Cochran, 2000 (BIG EAST) ...... 47.76 9. Ryan Shay, 2002 (vs. Michigan State) ...... 8:07.06 7. James Patterson, 1985 ...... 49-7 3/4 (15.13m) 10. Ryan Cahill, 1991 (Meyo) ...... 8:07.50 500 Meters (since 1991) 8. Godwin Mbagwu, 2004 (CMU)...... 49-7 (15.11m) 1. Steve Dziabis, 1983 ...... 1:01.92 5,000 Meters 9. G. Mbagwu, 2004 (Indoor Opener) ...... 49-5 (15.06m) 2. Danny Payton, 1998 ...... 1:02.79 1. Ryan Shay, 2002 (Meyo)...... 13:46.80 10. Mike McMannon, 1969 ...... 49-5 1/2 (15.07m) 3. Danny Payton, 1998 ...... 1:02.92 2. Ryan Shay, 2001 (Meyo)...... 13:52.66 Pole Vault 4. Terry Wray, 2000 (Meyo)...... 1:03.11 3. Mike O’Connor, 1990 (NCAA)...... 13:56.46 1. Mike Brown, 1999 (NCAA) ...... 17-10 1/2 (5.45m) 5. Trevor McClain-Duer, 2005 (BIG EAST)...... 1:03.24 4. Mike O’Connor, 1990 (Alex Wilson) ...... 13:57.38 2. Mike Brown, 1999 (Alex Wilson) ...... 17-6 1/4 (5.34m) 6. Terry Wray, 1998...... 1:03.28 5. John Coyle, 1992 (Alex Wilson) ...... 14:00.3 3. Mike Brown, 1998 (Red Simmons)...... 17-5 3/4 (5.33m) 7. Trevor McClain-Duer, 2004 (Ind. Open) ...... 1:03.29 6. Ryan Shay, 2001 (NCAA) ...... 14:02.35 4. Mike Brown, 1999 (Meyo)...... 17-2 3/4 (5.25m) 8. Brian McQuaid, 1995 ...... 1:03.39 7. Ryan Shay, 2002 (NCAA) ...... 14:02.97 5. Mike Brown, 1998 (Silverston) ...... 17-1 1/2 (5.22m) 9. Tim Kober, 2000 (Meyo) ...... 1:03.49 8. Ryan Shay, 2000 (Alex Wilson) ...... 14:08.31 Mike Brown, 1999 (Purdue) ...... 17-1 1/2 (5.22m) Trevor McClain-Duer, 2004 (BIG EAST)...... 1:03.49 9. Ryan Shay, 2001 (BIG EAST)...... 14:10.00 7. Paul Doyle, 1982 (Centrals) ...... 16-8 3/4 (5.10m) 10. Sean O’Donnell, 2005 (Alex Wilson) ...... 14:11.12 600 Meters (since 1991) 8. D. Grenough, 1995 (WMU/Marquette) ....16-6 (5.03m) 1. Jeff Hojnacki, 1997 (R. Simmons)...... 1:18.65 4 x 400-Meter Relay Mike Brown, 1998 (BIG EAST)...... 16-6 (5.03m) 2. Phil Miska, 2000 (Indiana) ...... 1:18.81 1 2004 (Alex Wilson)...... 3:09.87 Mike Brown, 1999 (Wolverine Ind.) ...... 16-6 (5.03m) 3. Phil Mishka, 1999 (Indiana) ...... 1:19.17 Trevor McClain Duer, Jordan Powell, Shot Put 4. Tim Kober, 2000 (Quad) ...... 1:19.88 Ryan Postel, Selim Nurudeen ...... 1. Greg Cortina, 1972 (NCAA) ...... 60-10 3/4 (18.86m) 5. Danny Payton, 1998 (Red Simmons) ...... 1:20.67 2. 1994 (Alex Wilson)...... 3:11.64 (3:12.89y) 2. Greg Cortina, 1972 (Centrals) ...... 60-10 (18.84m) 6. Trevor McClain-Duer, 2005 (Windsor) ...... 1:20.79 3. 1994 (Drake Dual) ...... 3:12.09 (3:13.34y) 3. Mike Fleisch, 1996 (Meyo)...... 59-9 1/4 (18.21m) 7. Danny Payton, 1998 (Indiana/Tennessee) ...... 1:20.80 4. 2004 (Meyo Invitational) ...... 3:12.23 4. Greg Cortina, 1972 (Miami) ...... 59-8 (18.18m) 8. Jeff Hojnacki, 1997 (Indiana) ...... 1:20.87 Trevor McClain-Duer, Jordan Powell, 5. Mike Fleisch, 1996 (BIG EAST)...... 59-6 1/4 (18.14m) 9. Terry Wray, 1998 (Red Simmons) ...... 1:21.14 Ryan Postel, Selim Nurudeen 6. Mike Fleisch, 1996 (Centrals)...... 57-1 1/2 (17.41m) 10. Joe Curran, 1995 (Central Collegiates)...... 1:21.22 5. 1986 (Indiana Invitation) ...... 3:13.07 (3:14.2y) 7. Mike Fleisch, 1996 (Butler Open) ...... 57-0 (17.37m) 6. 2004 (BIG EAST) ...... 3:13.71 800 Meters (y = 880 Yards) 8. Elio Polselli, 1971 (Ohio State)...... 56-9 3/4 (17.31m) Trevor McClain-Duer, Jordan Powell, 1. Jeff Hojnacki, 1997 (Wilson) ...... 1:47.50 9. Tom Kraus, 1988 ...... 56-7 (17.24m) Ryan Postel, Selim Nurudeen 2. Phil Mishka, 2000 (Alex Wilson) ...... 1:48.44 10. Carl Ludecke, 1963 ...... 55-11 3/4 (17.06m) 7. 1998 (Indiana & Tennesee) ...... 3:14.11 3. Phil Mishka, 2000 (Meyo) ...... 1:48.57 8. 1989 (Alex Wilson)...... 3:14.56 (3:15.7y) 35-Pound Weight Throw 4. Tim Kober, 2000 (Wilson) ...... 1:48.97 9. 2005 (Meyo) ...... 3:14.61 5. Jeff Hojnacki, 1997 (Cannon IV)...... 1:49.48 1. M. Thompson, 2000 (Alex Wilson) ...... 61-3 (18.56m) 10. 1986 (Centrals) ...... 3:15.58 (3:16.72y) 6. Phil Mishka, 2000 (Quad) ...... 1:49.69 2. Juan Alba, 2004 (BIG EAST)...... 59-3 (18.06m) 7. Pete Farrell, 1967 ...... 1:49.3y (1:48.60) 4 x 800-Meter Relay 4. Juan Alba, 2004 (Alex Wilson) ...... 59-0 (17.98m) 5. M. Thompson, 2000 (BIG EAST) ...... 58-11 1/2 (17.92m) 8. Jeff Hojnacki, 1994 ...... 1:49.72 1. 1986 (Indiana Invitational) ...... 7:21.11 6. M. Thompson, 1999 (BIG EAST) ...... 58-3 1/4 (17.76m) 9. Ron Gregory, 1960 ...... 1:50.5y (1:49.80) 2. 1989 (Alex Wilson)...... 7:21.12 (7:24.70y) M. Thompson, 2000 (Indiana) ...... 58-3 1/4 (17.76m) 10. Jeff Hojnacki, 1996 (NCAA) ...... 1:49.96 3. 1980 (Illini) ...... 7:25.94 (7:28.54y) 8. Juan Alba, 2004 (Notre Dame Invit.) ...... 58-3 (17.75m) 4. 1989 (Meyo) ...... 7:27.76 9. M. Thompson, 2000 (Quad) ...... 58-2 (17.73m) 5. 1987 (Orange) ...... 7:28.41 (7:31.03y) 10. Chip Roberts, 2005 (Alex Wilson) ....57-9 3/4 (17.62m) 6. 1986 (Western Michigan)...... 7:29.01 10. M. Thompson, 2000 (Meyo) ...... 57-9 1/2 (17.61m) 7. 1987 (Centrals) ...... 7:31.55 8. 1983 (Centrals) ...... 7:32.38 9. 1981 (Knights) ...... 7:33.36 (7:36.0y) 10. 1980 (Knights) ...... 7:33.74 (7:36.39y)

UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME 112 100 Meters 1. Bill Hurd, 1969 (NCAA) ...... 9.3y (10.2) Men’s 2. Raghib Ismail, 1991 (Quad)...... 10.34 Outdoor Bests 3. Dean Lytle, 1994 (Indiana Intercollegiate) ...... 10.52 4. Ryan Postel, 2004 (Spring Opener) ...... 10.57 Triple Jump Travis Davey, 2000 (BIG EAST) ...... 10.57 5,000 Meters 6. Willie Clark, 1991 (Rice) ...... 10.60 1. Kurt Benninger, 2005 (Stanford) ...... 13:33.05 1. G. Mbagwu, 2004 (BIG EAST)...... 51-11 (15.82m) Dean Lytle, 1994 (Western Michigan)...... 10.60 2. Luke Watson, 2002 (Mount SAC)...... 13:35.08 1. Lamarr Justice, 1995 (Miami OH) ...... 50-8 (15.44m) 8. Randy Kinder, 1994 (IC4A) ...... 10.63 3. Luke Watson, 2003 (Mount SAC)...... 13:38.73 2. J. Patterson, 1985 (Centrals) ...... 50-7 1/2 (15.43m) 9. Willie Clark, 1991 (Quad)...... 10.64 4. Luke Watson, 2002 (Stanford)...... 13:44.92 3. James Patterson, 1985...... 50-7 (15.41m) Phil Gilmore, 1986 (Indiana Intercollegiate) ....10.64 5. Ryan Shay, 2001 (NCAA) ...... 13:52.45 4. L. Justice, 1996 (BIG EAST) ...... 50-6 1/2 (15.39m) Randy Kinder, 1994 (Illinois) ...... 10.64 6. Dan Garrett, 1988 ...... 13:53.52 5. G. Mbagwu, 2003 (BIG EAST)...... 50-3 1/4 (15.32m) 110-Meter Hurdles (y = 120 Yards) 7. Ryan Shay, 2001 (Mount SAC) ...... 13:54.77 6. L. Justice, 1994 (Centrals) ...... 50-0 3/4 (15.26m) 8. Antonio Arce, 1999 (Stanford) ...... 13:55.98 7. J. Patterson, 1985 (Drake)...... 50-0 1/2 (15.25m) 1. Tom McMannon, 1971 ...... 13.5y (13.50) 9. Mike O’Connor, 1988 (Stanford) ...... 13:58.84 8. G. Mbagwu, 2003 (NCAA Mideast) ....49-11 1/4 (15.22m) 2. Errol Williams, 1998 (NCAA) ...... 13.53 10. Luke Watson, 2002 (BIG EAST) ...... 13:59.38 9. L. Justice, 1995 (Illinois TF) ...... 49-11 1/4 (15.22m) 3. Selim Nurudeen, 2004 (NCAA Mideast Reg.)....13.57 10,000 Meters 10. G. Mbagwu, 2004 (Tom Botts)...... 49-10 1/2 (15.20m) 4. Errol Williams, 1995 (Illinois TF) ...... 13.60 Pole Vault 5. Selim Nurudeen, 2004 (NCAA) ...... 13.61 1. Ryan Shay, 2000 (Mount SAC) ...... 28:26.91 6. Errol Williams, 1998 (Miami Invitational)...... 13.65 2. Ryan Shay, 2002 (Stanford)...... 28:39.43 1. Mike Brown, 1999 (Purdue) ...... 17-5 1/2 (5.32m) 7. Errol Williams, 1998 (Billy Hayes) ...... 13.67 3. Ryan Shay, 2001 (Stanford)...... 28:40.03 2. Mike Brown, 1999 (Mount SAC) ...... 17-5 1/4 (5.31m) 8. Errol Williams, 1998 (BIG EAST) ...... 13.69 4. Ron Markezich, 1989...... 28:44.91 3. Mike Brown, 1997 (Mount SAC) ...... 17-3 (5.26m) 9. Arnie Gough, 1979 ...... 13.74* 5. Ryan Shay, 2000 (Stanford)...... 28:50.73 Mike Brown, 1998 (Boilermaker) ...... 17-3 (5.26m) 10. Selim Nurudeen, 2004 (Georgia Tech) ...... 13.76 6. Ryan Shay, 2002 (BIG EAST)...... 28:55.67 5. Mike Brown, 1997 (IC4A) ...... 17-0 1/4 (5.19m) * = wind-aided 7. Kaleb Van Ort, 2005 (Stanford) ...... 28:59.35 6. Dave Gerrity, 1997 (Pomona-Pitzer) ...... 17-0 (5.18m) 200 Meters (y = 220 Yards) 8. Ryan Shay, 1999 (Stanford)...... 29:01.59 7. Mike Brown, 1998 (Mount SAC) ...... 17-0 (5.18m) 9. Ryan Shay, 2002 (NCAA) ...... 29:02.92 8. Mike Brown, 1997 (Purdue) ...... 16-11 1/2 (5.17m) 1. Bill Hurd, 1969...... 20.5y (20.4) 10. Tim Moore, 2005 (Stanford)...... 29:03.43 9. David Gerrity, 1996 (BIG EAST)...... 16-10 3/4 (5.15m) 2. Willie Clark, 1991 (Rice) ...... 20.92 4 x 100-Meter Relay 10. David Gerrity, 1996 (IC4A)...... 16-8 3/4 (5.05m) 3. Tim Brown, 1987 ...... 20.98 Shot Put 4. Joe Foreman, 1956 ...... 21.0y (20.9) 1. 2000 (Spring Opener) ...... 40.22 5. Ole Skarstein, 1969 ...... 21.2y (21.1) 2. 2000 (BIG EAST) ...... 40.54 1. Mike Fleisch, 1997 (Butler/Miami) 59-10 3/4 (18.25m) 6. Selim Nurudeen, 2005 (BIG EAST)...... 21.11 3. 2000 (Indy Relays)...... 40.59 2. Mike Fleisch, 1997 (Cal Poly)...... 59-7 3/4 (18.18m) 7. Marshaun West, 1999 (Pomona-Pitzer)...... 21.16 4. 1991 (Rice) ...... 40.68 3. Greg Cortina, 1972 (Penn Relays) ..59-5 3/4 (18.13m) 8. Selim Nurudeen, 2004 (BIG EAST)...... 21.18 5. 1994 (IC4A) ...... 40.86 4. Greg Cortina, 1972 (Miami) ...... 59-4 1/4 (18.09m) 9. Marshaun West, 2000 (BIG EAST) ...... 21.27 6. 2000 (Baldy Castillo) ...... 40.93 5. Mike Fleisch, 1997 (B. Castillo) ...... 58-2 1/2 (18.04m) Chris Cochran, 2000 (BIG EAST) ...... 21.27 7. 1994 (IC4A) ...... 40.98 6. Mike Fleisch, 1997 (Alabama) ...... 57-8 1/2 (17.59m) 400 Meters (y = 440 Yards) 8. 1999 (Purdue) ...... 41.00 Mike Fleisch, 1997 (Miami)...... 57-8 1/2 (17.59m) 9. 2000 (Drake) ...... 41.06 8. Mike Fleisch, 1997 (BIG EAST)...... 56-11 1/4 (17.35m) 1. Dan Shannon, 1984 ...... 46.09 10. 1998 (Miami Classic) ...... 41.07 9. Mike Fleisch, 1997 (Butler/Miami) 56-10 3/4 (17.34m) 2. Bill Boyle, 1964 ...... 46.5y (46.2) 4 x 400-Meter Relay 10. Elio Polselli, 1972...... 56-3 1/4 (17.15m) 3. Steve Dziabis, 1982 (Centrals) ...... 46.60 Discus 4. Ryan Postel, 2004 (BIG EAST) ...... 46.63 1. 1985 ...... 3:08.11 5. Dan Shannon, 1985 (Centrals) ...... 46.81 2. 2004 (NCAA Mideast Regional)...... 3:09.65 1. Paul Gill, 1970 (Michigan State) ....191-7 3/4 (58.40m) 6. Chris Cochran, 1999 (BIG EAST) ...... 46.86 Trevor McClain-Duer, Jordan Powell, 2. Elio Polselli, 1970 (Michigan St.)....183-8 1/2 (55.98m) 7. Alex Wilson, 1932 ...... 47.4y (47.1) Selim Nurudeen, Ryan Postel 3. Paul Gill, 1970 (Army)...... 182-9 (55.70m) 8. Ryan Postel, 2004 (BIG EAST) ...... 47.22 3. 1982 (Drake)...... 3:10.4 4. Paul Gill, 1970 (Centrals) ...... 180-3 (54.94m) 9. Van Pearcy, 1983 ...... 47.26 1982 (Centrals) ...... 3:10.4 5. Matt Thompson, 2000 (Billy Hayes) ....180-2 (54.92m) 10. Chris Cochran, 2000 (Baldy Castillo)...... 47.40 5. 2004 (BIG EAST) ...... 3:10.52 6. Derek Dyer, 2001 (Spring Opener) ...... 179-5 (54.68m) 400-Meter Hurdles (y = 440-yard HH) Trevor McClain-Duer, Jordan Powell, 7. Elio Polselli, 1972 (Quad)...... 178-8 (54.46m) Selim Nurudeen, Ryan Postel 8. Paul Gill, 1970 (Drake) ...... 177-9 (54.18m) 1. Aubrey Lewis, 1957 ...... 50.5y (50.20) 6. 1994 (IC4A)...... 3:11.25 9. Matt Thompson, 2000 (BIG EAST) ...... 176-10 (53.90m) 2. Tom Bernier, 1980...... 53.0y (52.70) 7. 1982 (IC4A)...... 3:11.51 10. Derek Dyer, 2000 (Billy Hayes) ...... 175-7 (53.52m) 3. Napolean Suarez, 2003 (BIG EAST) ...... 52.55 8. 1999 (BIG EAST) ...... 3:11.67 Hammer Throw 4. Errol Williams, 1997 (Alabama) ...... 52.86 9. 1988 (IC4A)...... 3:11.78 1. Tom Mick, 1988 (1C4A) ...... 199-11 (60.94m) 5. Mark Barber, 2003 (BIG EAST)...... 53.03 10. 1985 (Indiana Intercollegiate) ...... 3:11.84 6. Dean McFarlane, 1983 ...... 53.09 2. Greg Moretti, 1996 (Miami) ...... 192-10 (58.78m) 7. Gus Desch, 1921...... 53.4y (53.10) 4 x 800-Meter Relay (since 1985) 3. Tom Mick, 1988 ...... 192-7 (58.70m) 8. Chris Lilly, 1994 (Eastern Illinois) ...... 53.11 1. 1985 ...... 7:20.11 4. Greg Moretti, 1996 (Big East) ...... 191-3 (58.30m) 9. Roberto Garcia, 2003 (Tom Botts)...... 53.12 2. 1999 (Drake)...... 7:25.91 5. Tom Mick, 1988 (Indiana Intercoll.) ....190-4 (58.02m) 10. Napolean Suarez, 2003 (BIG EAST) ...... 53.15 3. 2004 (BIG EAST) ...... 7:28.48 6. Tom Mick, 1988 (Cent. Collegiates) ..187-11 (57.28m) 800 Meters (y = 880 Yards) Eric Morrison, Kevin Somok 7. Jay Hofner, 1999 (BIG EAST) ...... 185-1 (56.42m) Kurt Benninger, Thomas Chamney 8. Chip Roberts, 2005 (NCAA Mideast) ..184-0 (56.08m) 1. Joe Quigley, 1969 ...... 1:48.2y (1.47.5) 3. 2003 (BIG EAST) ...... 7:30.63 9. Kyle Annen, 2005 (Hillsdale) ...... 183-6 (55.94m) 2. Pete Farrell, 1966 ...... 1:48.7y (1:48.0) Thomas Chamney, Eric Morrison, 10. Greg Moretti, 1996 (Drake Relays) ...... 183-2 (55.84m) 3. Phil Miska, 2000 (Baldy Castillo) ...... 1:48.01 Kevin Somok, Vinnie Ambrico Javelin 4. Tim Kober, 2000 (NCAA)...... 1:48.12 4. 1998 (BIG EAST) ...... 7:33.07 1. Ryan Mihalko, 1990 (IC4A) ...... 222-8 (67.88m) 5. Jeff Hojnacki, 1997 (Mount SAC) ...... 1:48.19 5. 1998 ...... 7:33.24 2. Ryan Mihalko, 1991 (Quad)...... 215-5 (65.66m) 6. Jay Miranda, 1977 ...... 1:48.21 6. 1999 (BIG EAST) ...... 7:37.59 Jeff Hojnacki, 1997 (Drake) ...... 1:48.21 3. Ryan Mihalko, 1988 (IC4A) ...... 213-8 (65.12m) 8. Tim Kober, 2000 (Drake) ...... 1:48.48 High Jump 4. Ryan Mihalko, 1992 (Alabama) ...... 207-9 (63.32m) 9. Robert Nobles, 1985 (Centrals)/(NCAA) ...... 1:48.78 1. Lloyd Constable, 1985 (Centrals) ...... 7-3 1/2 (2.22m) 5. Ryan Mihalko, 1990 (Rice) ...... 207-5 (63.22m) 10. Phil Mishka, 1999 (Mount SAC)...... 1:48.94 2. Lloyd Constable, 1982 ...... 7-2 (2.19m) 6. Ryan Mihalko, 1991 (Centrals)...... 206-9 (63.02m) 1,500 Meters 3. Todd Herman, 1994 (CCC)...... 7-1 3/4 (2.18m) 7. Ryan Mihalko, 1991 (Rice) ...... 206-1 (62.82m) 4. Todd Herman, 1994 (IC4A)...... 7-1 1/2 (2.17m) 8. Ryan Mihalko, 1990 (Stanford)...... 203-5 (62.00m) 1. Chuck Aragon, 1981 (NCAA) ...... 3:38.40 5. Todd Herman, 1993 (Nat’l Invit.) ...... 7-1 1/4 (2.16m) 9. Ryan Mihalko, 1990 (Centrals)...... 203-2 (61.94m) 2. Kurt Benninger, 2004 (Georgia Tech)...... 3:41.95 Todd Herman, 1993 (Centrals) ...... 7-0 (2.135m) 10. Ryan Mihalko, 1990 (Snowshoe) ...... 202-9 (61.80m) 3. Jim Tyler, 1986 (NCAA) ...... 3:42.16 7. Lloyd Constable, 1982 (Centrals) ...... 7-0) Derek Goguen, 2004 (Ga. Tech) ...... 202-9 (61.80m) 4. Kevin Somok, 2004 (Georgia Tech)...... 3:42.26 Todd Herman, 1992 (Texas) ...... 7-0) 5. Jim Tyler, 1986...... 3:42.60 Todd Herman, 1994 (Eastern Ky./Hillsdale) ...... 7-0 6. Kevin O’Brien, 1968...... 3:43.00 10. Tom Mescall, 1993 (Centrals)...... 6-11 3/4 (2.13m) 7. Chuck Aragon, 1981 (IC4A)...... 3:43.34 John Cole, 1988...... 6-11 3/4 (2.13m) 8. Eric Morrison, 2003 (Stanford) ...... 3:44.16 Paul Maloney, 1990 (IC4A) ...... 6-11 3/4 (2.13m) 9. Eric Morrison, 2004 (Georgia Tech) ...... 3:44.92 10. Chuck Aragon, 1981 (Indiana Intercoll.)...... 3:45.06 Long Jump 3,000-Meter Steeplechase 1. Marshaun West, 2000 (BIG EAST) ...... 25-8 (7.82m) 2. James Patterson, 1985 (Centrals) ...... 25-5 1/2 (7.76m) 1. Luke Watson, 2002 (BIG EAST) ...... 8:37.61 3. James Patterson, 1985 (IC4A) ...... 25-5 1/4 (7.75m) 2. Luke Watson, 2002 (Mount SAC)...... 8:38.20 4. James Patterson, 1985 (Drake) ...... 25-4 3/4 (7.74m) 3. Luke Watson, 2002 (NCAA)...... 8:39.12 5. Jeff Smith, 1988 ...... 25-3 1/2 (7.71m) 4. Luke Watson, 2002 (USATF) ...... 8:41.66 6. Marshaun West, 2000 (NCAA) ...... 25-2 3/4 (7.69m) 5. Luke Watson, 2000 (Gatorade)...... 8:46.77 7. G. Mbagwu, 2004 (BIG EAST)...... 25-2 1/2 (7.68m) 6. Luke Watson, 2000 (Stanford)...... 8:46.98 8. Mike McMannon, 1969 ...... 25-2 (7.67m) 7. Rick Mulvey, 1988 ...... 8:47.32 9. James Patterson, 1984...... 25-2 (7.67m) 8. Luke Watson, 2003 (BIG EAST) ...... 8:49.45 10. J. Patterson, 1985 (National) ...... 25-1 3/4 (7.66m) 9. John Cowan, 1995 (Centrals) ...... 8:49.65 10. Dennis Vanderkraats, 1978...... 8:50.00

2005-06 CROSS COUNTRY/TRACK & FIELD 113 Women’s Indoor Bests

60 Meters (since 1999) 6. Jennifer Pavela, 1999 (Meyo)...... 2:53.57 Distance Medley Relay 1. Ayesha Boyd, 2002 (BIG EAST) ...... 7.44 7. Megan Johnson, 2004 (Meyo)...... 2:54.07 1. 2004 (Meyo)...... 11:07.94 2. Maryann Erigha, three times ...... 7.47 8. Kerry Meagher, 2004 (BIG EAST) ...... 2:54.22 Lauren King, Kristen Dodd (most recently: Alex Wilson, 2005) 9. Ana Morales, 2003 (Meyo) ...... 2:54.40 Kerry Meagher, Molly Huddle 5. Maryann Erigha, 2005 (Meyo) ...... 7.48 10. Emily Husted, 1995 (WMU/Marquette) ...... 2:54.66 2. 2004 (NCAA) ...... 11:22.33 6. Maryann Erigha, 2005 (Meyo) ...... 7.49 Mile Run La. King, K. Dodd, K. Meagher, Megan Johnson 7. Maryann Erigha, 2005 (Notre Dame Inv.) ...... 7.50 1. Lauren King, 2003 (Alex Wilson) ...... 4:38.37 3. Notre Dame, 2003 (BIG EAST) ...... 11:24.45 8. Ayesha Boyd, 2002 (Meyo)...... 7.51 2. Kerry Meagher, 2004 (NCAA) ...... 4:40.67 La. King, Tricia Floyd, M. Johnson, M. Huddle Kymia Love, 2003 (vs. Ball State/WMU) ...... 7.51 3. Lauren King, 2004 (NCAA) ...... 4:41.06 4. Notre Dame, 2002 (Alex Wilson)...... 11:26.92 Maryann Erigha, 2005 (C. Mich. Opener)...... 7.51 4. Lauren King, 2004 (Alex Wilson) ...... 4:41.15 5. Notre Dame, 2003 (Meyo) ...... 11:28.59 60-Meter Hurdles (since 1999) 5. Kerry Meagher, 2004 (NCAA-Prelim) ...... 4:41.18 La. King, T. Floyd, M. Johnson, M. Huddle 6. 2005 (BIG EAST)...... 11:32.29 1. Tameisha King, 2003 (BIG EAST) ...... 8.39 6. Molly Huddle, 2004 (Alex Wilson) ...... 4:41.91 Stephanie Madia, Crysta Swayzer, 2. Tameisha King, 2002 (Meyo) ...... 8.48 7. Molly Huddle, 2003 (Alex Wilson) ...... 4:42.60 Brianne Schmidt, Sunni Olding 3. Tameisha King, 2001 (BIG EAST) ...... 8.49 8. Lauren King, 2004 (Meyo)...... 4:42.98 7. 2004 (BIG EAST)...... 11:32.95 4. Tameisha King, 2002 (BIG EAST) ...... 8.53 9. Kerry Meagher, 2004 (Alex Wilson)...... 4:43.47 Lauren King, Okechi Ogbuokiri, 5. Tameisha King, 2003 (Windsor)...... 8.54 10. Lauren King, 2002 (Alex Wilson) ...... 4:44.60 Megan Johnson, Kerry Meagher 6. Tameisha King, 2002 (BIG EAST) ...... 8.55 3,000 Meters 8. Notre Dame, 2001 (Meyo) ...... 11:49.16 7. Tameisha King, 2001 (Windsor)...... 8.56 1. Molly Huddle, 2004 (Meyo)...... 9:08.60 9. Notre Dame, 1999 (BIG EAST) ...... 11:49.57 Tameisha King, 2003 (vs. BSU/WMU)...... 8.56 2. Molly Huddle, 2004 (BIG EAST) ...... 9:09.43 10. Notre Dame, 2000 (BIG EAST) ...... 11:52.74 9. Tameisha King, 2003 (Alex Wilson) ...... 8.57 3. Molly Huddle, 2004 (NCAA)...... 9:13.67 10. Tameisha King, 2001 (Alex Wilson) ...... 8.58 4. Molly Huddle, 2004 (Notre Dame Invit.)....9:14.13 High Jump 200 Meters 5. Molly Huddle, 2003 (Meyo)...... 9:14.33 1. Stacey Cowan, 2004 (BIG EAST) 5-11 1/2 (1.82m) 2. Jen Engelhardt, 1997 (Wilson)...... 5-10 3/4 (1.80m) 1. Maryann Erigha, 2005 (Alex Wilson)...... 23.60 6. Molly Huddle, 2003 (BIG EAST) ...... 9:18.24 Jen Engelhardt, 1999 (BIG EAST) 5-10 3/4 (1.80m) 2. Maryann Erigha, 2005 (Meyo) ...... 23.85 7. Lauren King, 2003 (Meyo)...... 9:19.52 Stacey Cowan, 2005 (N.D. Invite) 5-10 3/4 (1.80m) 3. Kymia Love, 2003 (vs. Ball State/WMU) ...... 23.88 8. Molly Huddle, 2003 (NCAA)...... 9:20.30 5. Emily Loomis, 2003 (Meyo)...... 5-10 1/2 (1.79m) 4. Liz Grow, 2001 (Alex Wilson) ...... 24.00 9. Stephanie Madia, 2005 (Alex Wilson) ...... 9:22.50 6. Stacey Cowan, 2004 (Cent. Mich.) ....5-10 (1.78m) Ayesha Boyd, 2002 (BIG EAST) ...... 24.00 10. Stephanie Madia, 2005 (BIG EAST)...... 9:25.12 Jen Engelhardt, 2000 (Quad) ...... 5-10 (1.78m) 6. Ayesha Boyd, 2002 (Alex Wilson) ...... 24.02 5,000 Meters 8. Stacey Cowan, 2004 (NCAA) ...... 5-9 3/4 (1.77m) 7. Ayesha Boyd, 2002 (NCAA) ...... 24.04 1. Molly Huddle, 2004 (BIG EAST) ...... 15:57.22 Jen Engelhardt, five times ...... 5-9 3/4 (1.77m) 8. Maryann Erigha, 2005 (N.D. Opener)...... 24.09 2. Molly Huddle, 2004 (NCAA)...... 15:58.42 (most recently: Alex Wilson Invitational, 2000) Maryann Erigha, 2005 (BIG EAST) ...... 24.09 3. JoAnna Deeter, 1999 (NCAA) ...... 16:10.16 10. Dominqué Calloway, 1997 (Meyo) ...... 24.10 4. Molly Huddle, 2005 (BIG EAST) ...... 16:12.17 Long Jump 400 Meters 5. JoAnna Deeter, 1999 (BIG EAST) ...... 16:22.64 1. Tameisha King, 2003 (CMU Open)....20-8 1/2 (6.31m) 2. Tameisha King, 2002 (Meyo) ...... 20-7 (6.27m) 1. Liz Grow, 2002 (NCAA-Preliminaries) ...... 52.73 6. JoAnna Deeter, 1998 (BIG EAST) ...... 16:42.14 3. Tameisha King, 2003 (NCAA) ...... 20-6 1/4 (6.25m) 2. Liz Grow, 2002 (NCAA-Final) ...... 52.88 7. JoAnna Deeter, 1997 (Meyo)...... 16:50.84 4. Tameisha King, 2000 (BIG EAST)20-4 1/2 (6.21m) 3. Liz Grow, 2002 (Alex Wilson) ...... 53.1 8. Jennifer Handley, 2002 (BIG EAST) ...... 17:01.74 5. Tameisha King, 2002 (A. Wilson) 20-3 3/4 (6.19m) 4. Liz Grow, 2001 (Meyo)...... 53.30 9. Alison Klemmer, 2000 (BIG EAST) ...... 17:02.12 6. Tameisha King, 2001 (Alex Wilson) ..20-3 1/2 (6.18m) 5. Liz Grow, 2001 (NCAA-Final) ...... 53.42 4 x 400-Meter Relay 7. Tameisha King, 2003 (Meyo) ...... 20-3 (6.17m) 6. Liz Grow, 2001 (NCAA-Preliminaries) ...... 53.73 1. 2003 (Alex Wilson) ...... 3:35.26 8. Tameisha King, 2002 (BIG EAST)20-2 1/2 (6.16m) 7. Liz Grow, 2002 (Meyo)...... 53.89 Tiffany Gunn, Ayesha Boyd, 9. Tameisha King, three times ...... 20-1 1/2 (6.13m) 8. Okechi Ogbuokiri, 2005 (Alex Wilson) ...... 54.03 Kristen Dodd, Kymia Love (most recently: BIG EAST, 2003) 9. Liz Grow, 1999 (Alex Wilson) ...... 54.05 2. 2002 (Alex Wilson) ...... 3:35.59 10. Kymia Love, 2002 (Meyo)...... 54.23 K. Love, K. Dodd, A. Boyd, Liz Grow Triple Jump 500 Meters 3. 2003 (NCAA) ...... 3:38.28 1. Petra Dankova, 2003 (BIG EAST) ....41-7 (12.67m) 2. Petra Dankova, 2005 (BIG EAST)41-3 3/4(12.59m) 1. Liz Grow, 2002 (BIG EAST) ...... 1:11.65 T. Gunn, A. Boyd, K. Dodd, K. Love 3. Jaime Volkmer 2003 (BIG EAST) 40-2 1/4 (12.25m) 2. Liz Grow, 2002 (BIG EAST) ...... 1:12.35 4. 2004 (Alex Wilson) ...... 3:38.56 Jaime Volkmer, 2003 (CMU Open) ..40-2 1/4 (12.25m) 3. Tiffany Gunn, 2005 (Notre Dame Invit.) ....1:12.45 T. Gunn, K. Dodd, A. Boyd, Okechi Ogbuokiri 5. Petra Dankova, 2005 (Meyo) ...... 40-0 1/2 (12.20m) 4. Liz Grow, 2002 (Tri Meet)...... 1:12.61 5. 2002 (Meyo)...... 3:38.58 6. J. Volkmer, 2003 (vs. BSU/WMU) 39-8 3/4 (12.11m) 5. Nadia Schmiedt, 1998 (Meyo) ...... 1:12.68 K. Love, K. Dodd, A. Boyd, L. Grow 7. Jaime Volkmer, 2000 (BIG EAST)...... 39-8 (12.09m) 6. Kymia Love, 2002 (vs. Michigan State) ....1:13.03 6. 2002 (NCAA) ...... 3:38.99 8. Jaime Volkmer, 2003 (vs. MSU) ..39-6 3/4 (12.06m) 7. Tiffany Gunn, 2005 (N.D. Opener) ...... 1:13.25 K. Love, K. Dodd, A. Boyd, L. Grow 9. Jaime Volkmer, 2000 (Quad) ...... 39-3 1/2 (11.97m) 8. Tiffany Gunn, 2004 (Notre Dame Invit.) ....1:13.37 7. 2001 (Alex Wilson) ...... 3:40.21 Petra Dankova, 2005 (N.D. Open) . .39-3 1/2 (11.97m) 9. Tiffany Gunn, 2004 (Indoor Opener) ...... 1:13.41 K. Love, K. Dodd, A. Boyd, L. Grow 10. Tiffany Gunn, 2005 (BIG EAST)...... 1:13.44 8. 2002 (BIG EAST)...... 3:41.19 Pole Vault K. Love, K. Dodd, A. Boyd, L. Grow 600 Meters 1. Jaime Volkmer, 2003 (BIG EAST)..13-1 1/2 (4.00m) 9. 2004 (Meyo)...... 3:41.75 2. Jaime Volkmer, 2003 (A. Wilson)12-11 1/2 (3.95m) 1. Nadia Schmiedt, 1998 (Red Simmons) ...... 1:32.72 Tiffany Gunn, Kristen Dodd, 3. Jaime Volkmer, 2003 (vs. MSU) ....12-9 1/2 (3.90m) 2. Erica Peterson, 1993 (Purdue Relays)...... 1:33.05 Ayesha Boyd, Okechi Ogbuokiri 4. Jaime Volkmer, 2003 (Meyo)...... 12-7 1/2 (3.85m) 3. Nadia Schmiedt, 1997 (Indiana)...... 1:33.07 10. 2005 (Meyo)...... 3:42.67 5. Jaime Volkmer, 2002 (BIG EAST)..12-5 3/4 (3.81m) 4. Erica Peterson, 1994 (MSU Quad) ...... 1:33.17 4 x 800-Meter Relay 6. Jaime Volkmer, 2003 (Windsor) ....12-5 1/2 (3.80m) 5. Nadia Schmiedt, 1998 (Purdue Open) ...... 1:33.30 7. Jaime Volkmer, 2001 (BIG EAST) 12-1 1/2 (3.70m) 6. Amanda Alvarez, 2002 (Windsor) ...... 1:35.97 1. 2004 (BIG EAST)...... 8:59.26 Lauren King, Megan Johnson 8. Jill VanWeelden, 2003 (vs. BSU/WMU) ....12-0 (3.66m) 800 Meters Katie DeRusso, Kerry Meagher ...... Laura Huarte, 2003 (vs. BSU/WMU) ..12-0 (3.66m) 1. Erica Peterson, 1993 (Nebraska) ...... 2:10.13 2. 2002 (BIG EAST)...... 8:59.82 Jaime Volkmer, 2003 (vs. BSU/WMU) ...... 12-0 (3.66m) 2. Erica Peterson, 1995 (Wilson) ...... 2:10.40 M. Johnson, La. King, Ana Morales, K. Meagher Jaime Volkmer, 2001 (Meyo) ...... 12-0 (3.66m) 3. Erica Peterson, 1993 (Ball State) ...... 2:10.42 3. 2005 (BIG EAST) ...... 9:07.30 Shot Put 4. Kerry Meagher, 2003 (Alex Wilson) ...... 2:10.78 Brianne Schmidt, Rachel Heneghan, 1. Meghan Horn, 2005 (BIG EAST) 48-8 3/4 (14.85m) 5. Berit Junker, 1998 (BIG EAST) ...... 2:11.50 Katie DeRusso, Jacqueline Carter 2. Karen Harris, 1993 (Alex Wilson) ....48-1 (14.65m) 6. Erica Peterson, 1995 (Meyo)...... 2:11.53 4. 1999 (BIG EAST)...... 9:09.42 3. Karen Harris, 1993 (Meyo) ...... 45-11 (13.99m) 7. Stephanie Madia, 2005 (Notre Dame Inv.)..2:11.58 5. 2003 (BIG EAST)...... 9:09.62 4. Karen Harris, 1993 (Ball St.)...... 45-10 1/2 (13.98m) 8. Kerry Meagher, 2002 (Alex Wilson)...... 2:12.76 Kerry Meagher, Ana Morales, 5. Meghan Horn, 2005 (Meyo)...... 45-10 (13.97m) 9. Brianne Schmidt, 2005 (Alex Wilson) ...... 2:12.95 Elizabeth Webster, n/a 6. Rachel Kavanaugh, 1993 (Ball St.)..45-9 (13.94m) 10. Kerry Meagher, 2004 (Notre Dame Inv.) ....2:13.03 6. 1997 (BIG EAST)...... 9:10.11 7. Meghan Horn, 2003 (vs. BSU/WMU) ..45-8 1/2 (13.93m) 1,000 Meters 7. 2001 (BIG EAST)...... 9:13.08 8. Meghan Horn, 2005 (N.D. Opener) ..45-8 (13.92m) 1. Kerry Meagher, 2003 (BIG EAST-Final) ....2:52.43 Leanne Brady, Kristen Flood, 9. Karen Harris, 1992 (Alex Wilson) ....45-7 1/4 (13.90m) 2. Amy Siegel, 1995 (WMU/Marquette)...... 2:52.87 Rachel Endress, Megan Johnson 10. Meghan Horn, 2005 (N.D. Invite)45-6 1/4 (13.87m) 8. 1992 (Meyo)...... 9:21.52 3. Kerry Meagher, 2003 (BIG EAST-Prelim) ..2:52.90 Weight Throw 4. Brianne Schmidt, 2005 (Meyo) ...... 2:53.25 9. 1992 (Purdue Invitational) ...... 9:24.89 1. Dore DeBartolo, 2000 (Meyo) ...... 56-0 1/2 (17.08m) 5. Kerry Meagher, 2003 (Meyo) ...... 2:53.40 2. Dore DeBartolo, 1999 (Meyo) ...... 54-7 1/4 (16.64m) 3. Dore DeBartolo, 1999 (Indiana)..54-6 3/4 (16.63m) 4. Dore DeBartolo, 2000 (Alex Wilson)54-1 (16.48m) 5. Meghan Horn, 2005 (N.D. Open)51-3 3/4 (15.64m) 6. Dore DeBartolo, 1999 (Purdue) ..51-3 1/4 (15.62m) UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME 114 Women’s Outdoor Bests

100 Meters 3,000-Meter Steeplechase Long Jump 1. Maryann Erigha, 2005 (Mount SAC) ...... 11.28 1. Katie DeRusso, 2005 (NCAA Mideast Reg.)..10:41.49 1. Tameisha King, 2003 (BIG EAST) 21-8 1/4 (6.61m) 2. Maryann Erigha, 2005 (Dr. Pepper) ...... 11.47 2. Katie DeRusso, 2005 (Stanford) ...... 10:51.41 2. Tameisha King, 2002 (Georgia Tech) ...... 21-4 (6.50m) 3. Dominqué Calloway, 1997 (Miami) ...... 11.48 3. Megan Johnson, 2004 (Spring Opener) ..10:54.70 3. Tameisha King, 2000 (BIG EAST)21-1 1/2 (6.44m) 4. Dominqué Calloway, 1997 (Billy Hayes) ....11.52 4. Katie DeRusso, 2005 (BIG EAST) ...... 10:55.06 4. Tameisha King, 2003 (Tom Botts) ....20-10 3/4 (6.37m) 5. Maryann Erigha, 2005 (NCAA Mideast Reg.) ..11.56 5. Katie DeRusso, 2005 (Georgia Tech)...... 10:56.30 5. Tameisha King, 2000 (Georgia Tech) ....20-10 (6.35m) 6. Maryann Erigha, 2005 (Georgia Tech) ...... 11.60 5,000 Meters 6. Tameisha King, 2003 (NCAA) ...... 20-9 3/4 (6.34m) 7. Maryann Erigha, 2005 (Georgia Tech) ...... 11.62 7. Tameisha King, 2000 (Billy Hayes) ..20-9 1/4 (6.33m) 1. Molly Huddle, 2004 (Mount SAC)...... 15:32.55 8. Maryann Erigha, 2005 (Hillsdale)...... 11.64 8. Tameisha King, 2003 (NCAA Mideast ) . .20-9 (6.32m) 2. Molly Huddle, 2003 (Mount SAC)...... 15:36.95 9. Ayesha Boyd, 2002 (BIG EAST) ...... 11.65 9. Tameisha King, 2002 (Fla. Relays)..20-8 1/2 (6.31m) 3. Molly Huddle, 2004 (Oly. Trials-Final) ....15:37.92 10. Maryann Erigha, 2005 (BIG EAST) ...... 11.69 Tameisha King, 2002 (NCAA) ...... 20-8 1/2 (6.31m) 4. Molly Huddle, 2004 (Oly. Trials-Pre) ...... 15:47.15 100-Meter Hurdles 5. Stephanie Madia, 2005 (Mount SAC) ...... 15:53.11 Triple Jump 1. Dominqué Calloway, 1997 (B. Hayes) ...... 13.13 6. Molly Huddle, 2003 (BIG EAST) ...... 15:58.51 1. Petra Dankova, 2004 (BIG EAST) ....41-6 (12.65m) 2. Dominqué Calloway, 1997 (Carolina)...... 13.18 7. JoAnna Deeter, 1999 (Mount SAC) ...... 16:04.41 2. Jaime Volkmer, 2003 (BIG EAST) 41-4 1/2 (12.61m) 3. Dominque Calloway, 1997 (NCAA-Final)....13.28 8. Molly Huddle, 2004 (NCAA Mideast Reg.)....16:12.42 3. Jaime Volkmer, 2001 (Woodland) ....41-0 1/2 (12.51m) 4. Dominqué Calloway, 1997 (NCAA-Prelim) 13.29 9. Molly Huddle, 2003 (NCAA Mideast Reg.)....16:12.81 4. Petra Dankova, 2004 (NCAAMideast) 40-11 1/2 (12.48m) 5. Dominqué Calloway, 1997 (Carolina)...... 13.33 10. Stephanie Madia, 2005 (Stanford)...... 16:14.30 5. Petra Dankova, 2003 (BIG EAST) ....40-7 (12.37m) 6. Petra Dankova, 2003 (Ga. Tech) 40-6 1/4 (12.35m) 6. Tameisha King, 2003 (BIG EAST-Prelim) ....13.52 10,000 Meters 7. Tameisha King, 2003 (Tom Botts) ...... 13.61 7. P. Dankova, 2003 (Indy Relays)..40-2 1/4 (12.25m) 1. JoAnna Deeter, 1999 (Stanford)...... 33:28.01 8. Tameisha King, 2003 (BIG EAST-Final)...... 13.64 8. P. Dankova, 2004 (Tom Botts)...... 40-0 3/4 (12.21m) 2. Lauren King, 2005 (NCAA) ...... 33:56.95 9. Tameisha King, 2002 (BIG EAST) ...... 13.81 9. Jaime Volkmer, 2000 (Quad) ....39-10 3/4 (12.16m) 3. JoAnna Deeter, 1999 (NCAA) ...... 34:05.89 10. Tameisha King, 2002 (Arizona State)...... 14.15 Jaime Volkmer, 2002 (BIG EAST)....39-10 3/4 (12.16m) 4. Lauren King, 2005 (Mount SAC)...... 34:11.78 Pole Vault 200 Meters 5. Alison Klemmer, 1999 (Stanford) ...... 34:19.19 1. Dominqué Calloway, 1997 (Billy Hayes) ....23.25 6. Alison Klemmer, 1999 (NCAA) ...... 34:26.74 1. Jaime Volkmer, 2003 (Baldy Castillo) ..12-9 1/2 (3.90m) 2. Jaime Volkmer, 2003 (Tom Botts)...... 12-6 (3.81m) 2. Maryann Erigha, 2005 (Mount SAC) ...... 23.28 7. Alison Klemmer, 2000 (Stanford) ...... 34:30.16 Jaime Volkmer, 2001 (Boiler Open)....12-6 (3.81m) 3. Dominqué Calloway, 1997 (NCAA-Prelim) ..23.39 4 x 100-Meter Relay 4. Jaime Volkmer, 2002 (BIG EAST)...... 12-5 3/4 4. Maryann Erigha, 2005 (Dr. Pepper) ...... 23.48 1. 2002 (Mount SAC) ...... 44.30 5. Jaime Volkmer, 2003 (BIG EAST)..12-5 1/2 (3.80m) 5. Ayesha Boyd, 2002 (Arizona State)...... 23.60 Tameisha King, Liz Grow, Jaime Volkmer, 2001 (Billy Hayes) ....12-5 1/2 (3.80m) Ayesha Boyd, 2002 (Florida Relays)...... 23.60 Ayesha Boyd, Kymia Love 7. Laura Huarte, 2004 (BIG EAST)....12-3 1/2 (3.75m) 7. Maryann Erigha, 2005 (NCAA Mideast Reg.) ..23.61 2. 2003 (NCAA-Preliminary) ...... 44.32 Laura Huarte, 2004 (Purdue Invite) ..12-3 /12 (3.75m) 8. Maryann Erigha, 2005 (Willie Williams) ....23.67 3. 2001 (Georgia Tech Invitational) ...... 44.45 9. Jaime Volkmer, 2001 (Woodland) ...... 12-0 (3.66m) 9. Maryann Erigha, 2004 (NCAA Mideast Reg.) ..23.70 4. 2002 (NCAA) ...... 44.67 Jaime Volkmer, 2002 (Spring Open)..12-0 (3.66m) 10. Dominqué Calloway, 1997 (NCAA semi.)....23.72 5. 2002 (Florida Relays) ...... 44.70 Shot Put 400-Meter Hurdles 6. 2003 (Baldy Castillo)...... 44.73 1. Dore DeBartolo, 2001 (Tom Botts) ....47-5 3/4 (14.47m) 1. Erica Peterson, 1994 (Georgia Tech) ...... 58.25 7. 2002 (Tom Botts) ...... 44.73 2. Dore DeBartolo, 2000 (BIG EAST) ...... 47-5 1/4 (14.46m) 2. Nadia Schmidt, 1999 (Georgia Tech) ...... 58.27 Tameisha King, Liz Grow, Meghan Horn, 2005 (BIG EAST) ...... 47-5 1/4 (14.46m) 3. Nadia Schmidt, 1999 (Pomona Pitzer) ...... 58.30 Ayesha Boyd, Kymia Love 4. Meghan Horn, 2005 (Hillsdale) ...... 47-1 (14.35m) 4. Erica Peterson, 1993 (National Inv.) ...... 58.31 9. 2001 (Spring Opener) ...... 44.74 5. Dore DeBartolo, 2001 (Spring Opener) ....46-6 (14.17m) 5. Nadia Schmidt, 1999 (BIG EAST) ...... 58.60 10. 2002 (BIG EAST) ...... 44.77 6. Meghan Horn, 2005 (Cent. Colleg.) ....46-1 1/4 (14.05m) 400 Meters Tameisha King, Liz Grow, 7. Meghan Horn, 2005 (Indy Relays) ...... 45-9 3/4 (13.96m) Ayesha Boyd, Kristen Dodd 1. Liz Grow, 2001 (BIG EAST-Preliminary) ...... 52.40 8. Meghan Horn, 2005 (Willie Williams)...... 45-9 (13.94m) 11. 2002 (Pomona-Pitzer) ...... 44.82 2. Liz Grow, 2002 (NCAA) ...... 52.50 9. Dore DeBartolo, 2001 (Purdue Open)...... 45-8 (13.92m) 3. Liz Grow, 2002 (Pomona-Pitzer) ...... 52.61 4 x 400-Meter Relay 10. Dore DeBartolo, 2001 (BIG EAST) ...... 45-6 1/2 (13.88m) 4. Liz Grow, 2000 (Georgia Tech) ...... 53.10 1. 2002 (NCAA-Final) ...... 3:32.12 Discus 5. Liz Grow, 2002 (Tom Botts)...... 53.14 Liz Grow, Kristen Dodd, 1. Dore DeBartolo, 1999 (Georgia Tech) ..171-1(52.14m) 6. Liz Grow, 2001 (BIG EAST) ...... 53.17 Ayesha Boyd, Kymia Love 2. Dore DeBartolo, 2000 (Billy Hayes) 169-2 (51.56m) 7. Alison Howard, 1997 (Billy Hayes) ...... 53.24 2. 2002 (NCAA-Preliminary)...... 3:33.34 3. Dore DeBartolo, 1999 (Spring Open) ..156-3 (47.64m) 8. Liz Grow, 2001 (NCAA) ...... 53.28 Liz Grow, Kristen Dodd, 4. Dore DeBartolo, 1999 (Purdue) ...... 150-2 (45.78m) 800 Meters Ayesha Boyd, Kymia Love 5. Meghan Horn, 2005 (BIGEAST) 149-10 1/2 (45.69m) 3. 2003 (NCAA-Preliminary)...... 3:33.53 1. Berit Junker, 1996 (Georgia Tech)...... 2:05.68 6. Meghan Horn, 2005 (Hillsdale) ...... 149-9 (45.64m) 4. 2000 (Georgia Tech) ...... 3:35.43 2. Berit Junker, 1996 (BIG EAST) ...... 2:07.53 7. Meghan Horn, 2004 (BIG EAST) ....149-6 (45.59m) 5. 2002 (Drake Relays) ...... 3:36.62 8. Dore DeBartolo, 2001 (BIG EAST) 148-11 (45.38m) 3. Berit Junker, 1996 (NCAA)...... 2:07.89 6. 2002 (Mount SAC) ...... 3:36.99 9. Meghan Horn, 2004 (Indy Relays) 148-2 (45.16m) 4. Berit Junker, 1995 (National Invit.)...... 2:08.62 Liz Grow, Kristen Dodd, 5. Berit Junker, 1995 (Miami Invit.) ...... 2:09.78 Hammer Throw Ayesha Boyd, Kymia Love 6. Lauren King, 2002 (Tom Botts) ...... 2:10.22 1. Dore DeBartolo, 2000 (Miami) ...... 182-10 (55.74m) 7. 2001 (Drake Relays) ...... 3:37.06 7. Megan Johnson, 2002 (Spring Opener) ....2:10.95 2. Dore DeBartolo, 2001 (Spring Opener) ..182-2 (55.52m) 8. Kerry Meagher, 2004 (Georgia Tech) ...... 2:10.96 4 x 800-Meter Relay 3. Dore DeBartolo, 2000 (Baldy Castillo) 181-11 (55.46m) 9. Lauren King, 2002 (Spring Opener) ...... 2:12.50 1. 2002 (BIG EAST)...... 8:53.76 4. Dore DeBartolo, 2001 (Billy Hayes) 179-8 (54.76m) 10. Jacqueline Carter, 2005 (Stanford) ...... 2:13.57 Lauren King, Megan Johnson, 5. Dore DeBartolo, 2001 (BIG EAST) ..178-5 (54.38m) 1,500 Meters Kerry Meagher, Melissa Webb Javelin 2. 2003 (BIG EAST)...... 8:56.43 1. Lauren King, 2003 (Georgia Tech) ...... 4:14.72 1. Kate Duman, 2005 (Dr. Pepper) ....142-11 (43.56m) Lauren King, Kerry Meagher, 2. Kerry Meagher, 2005 (NCAA) ...... 4:16.37 2. K. Duman, 2005 (NCAA Mideast)..142-0 1/2 (43.29m) Elizabeth Webster, Stephanie Madia 3. Lauren King, 2003 (Mount SAC) ...... 4:16.43 3. Kate Duman, 2004 (Tom Botts)...... 141-3 (43.07m) 3. 1995 (Drake Relays) ...... 9:00.46 4. Lauren King, 2002 (NCAA-Final) ...... 4:16.51 4. Laura Huarte, 2004 (BIG EAST)...... 139-9 (42.59m) 4. 1999 (Drake Relays) ...... 9:03.93 5. Kerry Meagher, 2004 (Georgia Tech) ...... 4:16.88 5. Kate Duman, 2005 (BIG EAST)...... 139-0 (42.38m) 5. 2004 (BIG EAST)...... 9:05.36 6. Lauren King, 2002 (NCAA-Prelim.) ...... 4:17.01 6. Kate Duman, 2004 (Indy Relays) ..138-7 (42.24m) Kerry Meagher, Brianne Schmidt 7. Lauren King, 2002 (Georgia Tech) ...... 4:17.33 7. Kate Duman, 2005 (Indy) ...... 137-8 1/2 (41.97m) Elizabeth Webster, Katie DeRusso 8. Kerry Meagher, 2004 (NCAA Mideast Reg.) ..4:18.16 8. Kate Duman, 2005 (Williams) ..137-5 1/2 (41.91m) 6. 2000 (BIG EAST)...... 9:07.61 9. Kerry Meagher, 2004 (NCAA-Prelim) ...... 4:18.23 9. Kate Duman, 2004 (Spring Op.) ....136-1 (41.48m) 7. 1996 (BIG EAST)...... 9:12.37 10. Lauren King, 2003 (NCAA Mideast Reg.) ....4:19.02 10. Kate Duman, 2004 (Baldy Cast.)....132-5 (40.37m) 3,000 Meters High Jump Heptathlon 1. Jen Engelhardt, 1999 (Mt. SAC)...... 6-0 3/4 (1.85m) 1. JoAnna Deeter, 1999 (BIG EAST) ...... 9:18.31 1. Stacey Cowan, 2003 (BIG EAST) ...... 4,675 2. Jen Engelhardt, 2000 (Billy Hayes)...... 6-0 (1.83m) 2. Molly Huddle, 2003 (USATF-Jr.’s) ...... 9:19.52 2. Stacey Cowan, 2004 (BIG EAST) ...... 4,576 3. Jen Engelhardt, 2000 (BIG EAST) 5-11 1/2 (1.82m) 3. JoAnna Deeter, 1998 (Butler) ...... 9:30.82 2. Betsy Lazzeri, 2002 (BIG EAST) ...... 4,489 4. Jen Engelhardt, 1999 (BIG EAST) 5-11 1/4 (1.81m) 4. JoAnna Deeter, 1999 (Purdue) ...... 9:35.41 3. Betsy Lazzeri, 2002 (Florida Relays)...... 4,463 5. Stacey Cowan, twice...... 5-10 (1.78m) 5. Stefanie Jensen, 1993 (National Inv.) ...... 9:39.26 4. Emily Bienko, 1999 (BIG EAST) ...... 4,390 (most recently: Stanford Invitational, 2005) 6. Stefanie Jensen, 1993 (Sea Ray)...... 9:42.64 5. Betsy Lazzeri, 2001 (BIG EAST) ...... 4,354 Jen Engelhardt, three times...... 5-10 (1.78m) 6. Stacey Cowan, 2004 (Tom Botts) ...... 4,287 (most recently: Drake Relays, 1998) 7. Susan Maher, 1992 (Ball State) ...... 3,712 10. Emily Loomis, 2005 (NCAA) ...... 5-9 3/4 (1.77m)

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Alber, David ...... 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003 Dunlop, Joe...... 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996 Alt, Anthony ...... 1997 Dudley, John ...... 1999 Althoff, Matt...... 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996 Engelhardt, Tim...... 1996, 1998 Ambrico, Vinny ...... 2004 Farrell, Pete ...... 1965, 1966, 1967 Andrassy, A.J...... 2003, 2004 Fern, Robert ...... 1988 Arce, Antonio ...... 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2000 Filosa, John...... 1979, 1980 Aragon, Chuck ...... 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980 Fox, Charles...... 1977, 1979 Bartolini, Aldo ...... 1979 Gallasso, Dale...... 1961, 1962 Bartrand, Tim ...... 1982 Garrett, Dan...... 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988 Benninger, Kurt ...... 2003, 2004 Grace, Scott ...... 1996, 1997 Bergan, Don ...... 1964, 1965 Gregory, Ron ...... 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960 Biccicchi, Carl ...... 1979, 1980 Griewe, Ray ...... 1999 Bird, Mario ...... 2001 Hatherly, Tony ...... 1978, 1979 Boivin, Mark ...... 1974 Higgins, Ted ...... 1997, 1998 Burke, James ...... 1989, 1991 Holleran, Pete ...... 1969, 1970 Cahill, Ryan...... 1987, 1988, 1990 Hoover, Bob...... 1961, 1962 One of the most accomplished cross country runners Cannon, Tim ...... 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984 Horgan, Dan ...... 1976, 1977 in Notre Dame history, Luke Watson earned four Caron, Ralph ...... 1980, 1982 Housley, Michael ...... 1972, 1973, 1974 monograms from 1998-2001. Carver, Frank...... 1961, 1962, 1963 Hojnacki, Jeff ...... 1993, 1994 Cato, Matt ...... 1979 Howard, Ken ...... 1965, 1966, 1967 Maxfield, Craig ...... 1983 Cawley, Galen ...... 1957, 1958, 1959 Hurt, James ...... 1974, 1975 Maxwell, Ryan ...... 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999 Clark, Bill ...... 1962, 1963, 1964 Johnson, Ryan ...... 2002, 2004 McIntosh, Pete ...... 1961, 1962 Clark, Will...... 1994 Johnston, Dennis...... 1958, 1959, 1960 McManus, Sean ...... 1996, 1998, 1999 Coffey, Mike ...... 1963, 1964, 1965 Juba, Ed ...... 1983 McWilliams, Mike ...... 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993 Collins, Mike ...... 1967, 1968, 1969 Keane, John ...... 2000, 2001, 2002 Meloro, J.R...... 1992, 1993, 1994 Collins, Mike ...... 1983, 1984 Kearns, Patrick ...... 1987, 1989, 1990, 1991 Mertens, David ...... 2000 Conway, Mike ...... 1995, 1996, 1997 Keegan, Kevin ...... 1991 Miranda, Jay...... 1975 Conway, Patrick ...... 1999, 2000, 2001 Kenny, Kevin...... 1976 Mobley, Todd...... 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003 Cotton, Dae ...... 1957, 1958, 1959 Kerwin, Brian ...... 2001, 2002, 2003 Monahan, Chris ...... 1958, 1959, 1960 Courtney, Bill...... 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984 Kunth, Nate...... 1993 Moore, Tim...... 2002, 2003, 2004 Cowan, John ...... 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 Latting, Chris ...... 1978 Morgan, Daniel ...... 1976, 1977, 1978 Coyle, John...... 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992 Lavelle, Ed ...... 1990 Morrison, Eric ...... 2002 Curran, Dan ...... 2004 Leahy, Bill...... 1965, 1966, 1967 Mulvey, Rick...... 1986, 1988 Dauphinais, Bill ...... 1989, 1990 Lennon, Tom ...... 2000 Novak, Marc ...... 1976 Dean, Ed ...... 1963, 1964, 1965 Lopez, Antonio ...... 1999 O’Brien, Dan...... 1961, 1962 Dempsey, Tom ...... 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961 Lunney, Steve...... 1986, 1987 O’Connor, Mike...... 1986, 1987, 1989, 1990 Diamond, Tim...... 1985 Macken, Tom ...... 1987 O’Donnell, Sean ...... 2002, 2003, 2004 Dillon, Andy ...... 1980, 1982, 1983 Magill, John ...... 1984, 1985 O’Flaherty, Shane...... 1986 Dirnberger, Larry ...... 1964, 1965 Malligan, John...... 1961, 1962 O’Rourke, Tom...... 1986, 1988, 1989 Drake, Mike ...... 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991 Markezich, Ron ...... 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988 Quaderer, Joe ...... 1968, 1969 DuBois, Shane ...... 1992, 1993, 1994 Martisus, Derek...... 1994, 1995 Radkewich, Nick...... 1990, 1991, 1992 Reamer, Dick ...... 1964, 1965 Reinhart, James ...... 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976 Rexing, Jason...... 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997 Riely, John ...... 1980 Ronzone, Matt ...... 1988 Rorke, Dan ...... 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960 Ruder, Nate ...... 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 Saracino, Dan ...... 1968, 1969 Seiling, Derek ...... 1992, 1993, 1995, 1996 Shay, Ryan ...... 1997, 1998, 1999, 2001 Smedley, Mike ...... 1995 Smoran, Mike ...... 1987 Spiro, Harold ...... 1965, 1966 Stepan, Fred ...... 1976 Striowski, Marc ...... 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001 Strohman, Joseph ...... 1977, 1978 Sullivan, Patrick ...... 1977, 1978, 1979 Timm, Bob ...... 1965, 1966 Trautmann, Jim ...... 1992 Tyler, Jim ...... 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984 Van Ort, Kaleb ...... 2003, 2004 Watson, Luke ...... 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001 Weaver, Austin ...... 2003, 2004 Zanderson, Sean ...... 2000, 2001 The 1963 cross country team which finished third at the NCAA Championship: Kneeling (left to right) team captain Frank Carver, Bill Clark. Standing (left to right) Rich Fennelly, Mike Coffey, Larry Dirmberger, Ed Dean and head coach Alex Wilson. Bold indicates 2005 returnees.

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Alfieri, Becky ...... 1991, 1992, 1994 Filar, Linda...... 1986, 1987, 1988 Nelsen, Maggie ...... 2003, 2004 Arnerich, Christi...... 2001 Flood, Eva ...... 1991, 1992 Nusrala, Lucy...... 1988, 1989 Bakula, Denise...... 1996 Gorski, Lisa ...... 1990, 1991, 1992 O’Brien, Bridget...... 1997, 1998, 1999 Blaising, Amy ...... 1989, 1990 Guyer, Laura ...... 1993 Olding, Sunni ...... 2004 Boulware, Kala ...... 1991 Handley, Jennifer ...... 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 Olson, Erin ...... 1998, 1999 Bradley, Diana...... 1989, 1990, 1991 Hood, Emily ...... 1993, 1994 Pavela, Jennifer ...... 1998 Burn, Hilary...... 2000 Huddle, Molly ...... 2002, 2003, 2004 Peterson, Kelly...... 1996, 1997 Deeter, JoAnna...... 1996, 1997, 1998 Husted, Emily ...... 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 Reichenbach, Heidi ...... 1996 DeRusso, Katie ...... 2004 Jensen, Stefanie ...... 1991, 1992 Rice, Patti ...... 1997, 1998, 1999 Dodds, Emily ...... 1995 Johnson, Megan...... 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003 Rice, Theresa...... 1986, 1987, 1988 Dudas, Kristen...... 1993, 1994, 1995 Kaptur, Renee ...... 1988, 1989, 1990 Riley, Sarah ...... 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 Dutton, Lindsay ...... 1995 Kelly, Maureen ...... 1993, 1994, 1995 Ryan, Kevaleen ...... 1988 Eaton, Kari ...... 1999, 2000 Kibelstis, Teresa ...... 1986, 1987, 1988 Schmidt, Julia ...... 2001 Endress, Rachel...... 2000, 2001 Kiley, Janel ...... 1996, 1997 Schmidt, Melissa ...... 2000, 2001 Esterline, Sarah...... 1990 King, Lauren ...... 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 Seigel, Amy ...... 1993, 1994, 1995 Fibuch, Jennifer...... 2000, 2001, 2002 King, Loryn ...... 2002 Siqueira, Valerie ...... 1998 Klemmer, Alison ...... 1997, 1998, 1999 Villarreal, Patty ...... 1990 Kramer, Kristine ...... 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 Volland, Mary...... 1995 Kuenster, Chrissy ...... 1999, 2000 Wales, Katie...... 2002, 2003 LaSelle, Nicole...... 1996, 1999 Walsh, Mieke ...... 1997 Lavigne, Michelle ...... 1995 Webster, Elizabeth ...... 2003, 2004 Ledrick, Jennifer ...... 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990 Lemanski, Terese ...... 1988, 1989, 1990 Bold indicates 2005 returnees Lehman, Kathleen ...... 1986, 1987 Long, Carolyn ...... 1993 Loughlin, Nancy ...... 1986 Luby, Erin ...... 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999 Madia, Stephanie ...... 2002, 2003, 2004 Marinangeli, Jean ...... 2003, 2004 Meagher, Kerry ...... 2002, 2003, 2004 Merkel, Julia...... 1986, 1987 McGrath, Anne ...... 2000 Morales, Ana ...... 2002 Murray, Wendy ...... 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989

Wendy Murray was one of the first women’s cross country runners to earn a monogram at Notre Dame in 1986. She eventually earned four such awards, the first women’s Irish harrier to earn that distinction.

Bridget O’Brien was a three- time cross country monogram winner from 1997-99.

For the second time in three seasons, Notre Dame earned a spot on the awards podium at the NCAA Cross Country Championships with a fourth-place finish in 2004 (from left to right: head coach Tim Connelly, Elizabeth Webster, Jean Marinangeli, Molly Huddle, Maggie Nelsen, Katie DeRusso, Lauren King, Kerry Meagher, Stephanie Madia and Sunni Olding).

2005-06 CROSS COUNTRY/TRACK & FIELD 117 Men’s Track & Field Monogram Winners

Barron, Emmett ...... 1925, 1926, 1927 C-C-C-C Baumer, Frederick ...... 1922 Caffrey, Robert ...... 1978 Beams, Byron ...... 1955, 1956 Cahill, Nathan...... 2000, 2001 Behrman, Harry ...... 1932 Cahill, Ryan...... 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991 Beinor, J. Edward ...... 1937, 1938, 1939 Call, Charles ...... 1917, 1918 Bell, Dave ...... 1971, 1972 Callan, Daniel ...... 1982 Bell, Greg ...... 1981, 1982 Cameron, Alexander ...... 1922 Bennett, Brad ...... 1944, 1948 Campagnone, John...... 1952 Bennett, Geoff ...... 2004, 2005 Cannon, Niall...... 1999, 2000 Benninger, Kurt ...... 2004, 2005 Cannon, Timothy ...... 1982, 1985 Bensberg, William J...... 1913 Cantwell, Brian ...... 1965, 1966 Benson, William ...... 1963 Carey, Robert ...... 1925, 1926 Bereolos, Hercules ...... 1940 Caron, Ralph ...... 1982, 1983, 1984 Bergan, Donald ...... 1965, 1966, 1967 Carver, Francis ...... 1962, 1964 Bergman, Alfred ...... 1911, 1912, 1914, 1915 Casey, Charles ...... 1923, 1924, 1925 Bergman, Arthur ...... 1916 Caspar, Philip ...... 1991, 1992 Bergtold, Joseph...... 1946 Casper, Ed ...... 1997 Bernard, Edgar...... 1938 Cato, Matt ...... 1980 Bernard, Robert...... 1934, 1935, 1936 Cavanagh, John ...... 1935, 1936, 1937 Bernards, David ...... 1979, 1980, 1981 Cawley, Galen ...... 1958, 1959, 1960 Bernier, Thomas ...... 1979, 1980 Chamney, Tom...... 2003, 2004 Betlach, David ...... 1976, 1978 Chaput, Michael...... 1965, 1966, 1967 Bicicchi, Carl ...... 1983 Charters, Robert ...... 1949 Birder, Cecil ...... 1913 Chevraux, Thomas ...... 1964 Blakeslee, Hal ...... 1956 Christian, Craig ...... 1994 Blaney, Ryan...... 1999 Christian, James...... 1979, 1980, 1982 Boagni, Kenneth ...... 1929, 1930 Christman, Norbert...... 1932 Boland, Joseph ...... 1926 Cividin, Glen ...... 1959, 1960 Bollas, James ...... 1949, 1950, 1951 Clark, William ...... 1963, 1964 Mike Brown earned four monograms from Borgos, Michael...... 1992 Clark, Will ...... 1995 1996-1999 and won five BIG EAST indoor and Bov, Thomas ...... 1926, 1927, 1928 Clifford, William...... 1936, 1937, 1938 outdoor pole vault championships. Bowdren, James...... 1933, 1934 Clouse, James ...... 1974 Bowers, Ralph ...... 1933 Clynes, Martin...... 1957, 1958, 1959 Boyle, Edward ...... 1935, 1936, 1937 Cochran, Chris ...... 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000 A-A-A-A Boyle, Hugh...... 1905 Coffey, Michael ...... 1964, 1965, 1966 Boyle, William ...... 1963, 1964 Cole, John ...... 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991 Abbott, Joseph ...... 1927, 1928, 1930 Boyne, Robert...... 1949, 1950 Colgan, Alexander ...... 1921 Abernathy, John ...... 1930 Bracken, James ...... 2001, 2003 Collins, Kenneth ...... 1939, 1940 Adams, Brett ...... 2005 Bradley, John W...... 1930 Collins, Richard...... 1926 Afridi, Jamal ...... 2005 Bradley, Keith...... 1964 Componovo, William...... 1988 Alexander, John...... 1952, 1953, 1954 Brady, John ...... 1969 Conforti, Francis...... 1941, 1942, 1943 Alba, Juan ...... 2001, 2002, 2003 Brady, Raymond ...... 1923, 1924 Conley, Arthur ...... 1933, 1934 Alber, David ...... 2002, 2003 Branigan, John ...... 1990 Conlin, John ...... 1928, 1929 Allard, Bernard ...... 1954, 1956 Brantfort, Chauncey...... 1931 Connelly, Timothy...... 1984 Allmendinger, William ...... 1976, 1978 Brehmer, Walter...... 1943 Connor, Michael ...... 1899, 1900 Almaguer, Benjamin ...... 1950, 1951, 1952 Breitenbach, Michael...... 1959 Conroy, J. Patrick...... 1963 Althoff, Matt ...... 1995, 1996, 1997 Brennan, Michael ...... 1984 Constable, Lloyd ...... 1982, 1983, 1985 Ambrico, Vincent...... 1969, 1970 Brennan, Robert...... 1929 Conway, Mike ...... 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998 Ambrico, Vinny ...... 2003, 2004, 2005 Breunlin, Douglas ...... 1967, 1968, 1969 Conway, Miquez ...... 1992 Amitie, Daniel ...... 1994 Brill, Martin...... 1930 Conway, Patrick ...... 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 Anderson, Jeffrey ...... 1976, 1979 Broderick, Edwin ...... 1967, 1968, 1969 Cooper, Andrew ...... 1999, 2000 Anderson, Phil ...... 1944 Brosey, H. Clifford...... 1940, 1946 Cooper, Charles...... 1924 Andrulonis, Nate ...... 2001 Brown, Bobby...... 1997, 1998, 1999 Copeland, William...... 1954, 1955 Annen, Kyle ...... 2005 Brown, John...... 1928, 1929 Corcoran, Patrick J...... 1898, 1899, 1900, 1901 Antoine, Richard ...... 1995 Brown, Michael...... 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999 Cortina, Greg ...... 1972 Aragon, Charles...... 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981 Brown, Tim ...... 1987 Costantini, William ...... 1969 Arce, Antonio ...... 1995, 1999, 2000 Brown, William ...... 1927, 1928, 1929 Cote, Jack ...... 1956, 1957, 1958 Archer, Clyde W...... 1940 Bruch, James...... 1963, 1964 Cotton, David...... 1958, 1959, 1960 Autry, Joel ...... 1984, 1985, 1987 Bryson, Newton ...... 1973, 1974 Coughlin, Bernard ...... 1925, 1926 B-B-B-B Buckley, Thomas ...... 1969 Coughlin, Stephen ...... 1938, 1939 Buenger, William ...... 1940, 1941 Bachman, Charles ...... 1915, 1916, 1917 Courtney, William ...... 1982, 1983, 1984. 1985 Buhrfiend, Kevin ...... 1991 Bailey, Edward ...... 1920 Cowan, John ...... 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995 Burger, Peter ...... 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980 Bailie, Roy...... 1929, 1930, 1931 Cox, Wayne ...... 1923, 1924, 1925 Burke, Frank ...... 1944 Baker, James ...... 1952, 1954, 1955 Coyle, John...... 1990, 1991, 1993, 1994 Burke, James...... 1991, 1992 Balistrieri, Joseph ...... 1961 Crawford, Andrew ...... 1958 Burke, William ...... 1920 Barber, Mark ...... 2002, 2003, 2004 Creehan, Donald...... 1971, 1972 Burns, Andrew ...... 1994, 1995 Barber, Thomas ...... 1922, 1924 Cripe, Clarence ...... 1905, 1908 Burns, Edward ...... 1974 Barr, William ...... 1923, 1924, 1925 Croker, William ...... 2002 Burns, John ...... 1957, 1958 Barrett, Ordo...... 1902 Cronin, Carl ...... 1930 Burns, Michael ...... 1988 Cronin, Michael ...... 1960, 1961 Butler, Timothy...... 1965, 1966 Cullen, James...... 1928 UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME 118 Men’s Track & Field Monogram Winners

Culp, Richard...... 1988, 1989 E-E-E-E Cummings, Roger...... 1930 Eady, Jacques ...... 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982 Cunningham, John...... 1952, 1954 Eaton, Wilbur ...... 1924 Cunningham, Raymond ...... 1925 Edgren, Paul ...... 1916 Curley, Charles ...... 1986 Edwards, Howard ...... 1909 Curran, Joe ...... 1993, 1995 Edwards, John ...... 1933, 1934, 1935 Currie, Adam ...... 2005 Egan, Joseph...... 1932 Currie, Donald ...... 1943 Eggeman, John W...... 1898, 1899, 1900, 1901 D-D-D-D Eichenlaub, Ray ...... 1913, 1915 Eichner, Jeffrey...... 1973 DaDamio, Anthony ...... 1949 Elder, Jack ...... 1927, 1929 Daly, James...... 1954, 1955, 1956 Ellick, Dwight ...... 2002, 2004, 2005 Daly, Walter ...... 1903 Elser, Donald ...... 1934, 1935, 1936 Dana, Fred ...... 1908, 1909, 1910 Engelhardt, Tim...... 1999 Daniels, Bernard ...... 1908 English, Robert ...... 1952 Dant, Philip ...... 1920, 1921 Enright, Paul...... 1928 Darling, Robert ...... 1931, 1932 Entrikin, Frank ...... 1945 Dauphinais, WIlliam ...... 1990 Espenan, Ray ...... 1948 Davey, Frank...... 1903 Evans, John ...... 1991 Davey, Travis...... 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001 Ewart, Barclay ...... 1957, 1958 Davis, Jason ...... 2004 Ewing, Joseph...... 1932 DeAngelis, Matthew ...... 1989, 1990 Ewing, Paul ...... 1951, 1952 DeMeo, Peter ...... 1988, 1989 Dean, Edward ...... 1964, 1965, 1966 F-F-F-F Bill Faymonville took home three monograms from Dean, John ...... 1938, 1939, 1940 Fagan, James ...... 1933, 1934 DeHoughe, Wilbur ...... 1924 1937-39 and earned All-America honors in the Faley, Donald...... 1956, 1957, 1958 dicus all three seasons as well. Delaney, F. James ...... 1941, 1942, 1943 Farley, John F...... 1898 Della Maria, Joseph...... 1925, 1926, 1927 Farrell, Allan G...... 1934 Dempsey, Thomas ...... 1960, 1961, 1962 Farrell, Peter ...... 1965, 1968 G-G-G-G Desch, August ...... 1921, 1922, 1923 Fasano, Erik ...... 1993 Gaffney, George A...... 1899, 1900 Devanny, Patrick ...... 1991 Faymonville, William ...... 1937, 1938, 1939 Gahagan, Michael...... 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975 Devine, John F...... 1908, 1910, 1911 Fehlig, Eugene ...... 1941, 1942, 1943 Garcia, Roberto ...... 2003, 2005 Dewey, Matt ...... 1998 Fehring, Nick ...... 1998, 2001 Garrett, Daniel ...... 1985, 1987, 1988, 1989 DeWolf, Roger...... 1944 Feiler, Robert ...... 1950, 1951, 1952 Gartiser, Madill ...... 1946 Dierks, Mike ...... 1993 Feltes, Norman ...... 1951, 1952, 1953 Gearin, Walter ...... 1901, 1902 Dietrich, Tom ...... 1997 Fennelly, Richard ...... 1963, 1964 Gebhardt, U.J...... 1924, 1925 DiCamillo, Richard ...... 1956, 1957, 1958 Ferenc, Thomas ...... 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979 Genao, Jose ...... 2005 Dilling, Leo ...... 1933 Ficks, Albert ...... 1921 Genovese, Anthony ...... 1953, 1954 Dillon, Andrew ...... 1981, 1982, 1983. 1984 Filosa, John ...... 1980 George, William ...... 1973, 1974, 1975 Dillon, Victor...... 1958 Finkel, Charles A...... 1932, 1933 Geremia, Frank ...... 1958 Dillon, William ...... 1941, 1942, 1943 Fischer, Robert...... 1911, 1912 Gerrity, David ...... 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997 Dimick, Ralph ...... 1909, 1910 Fishleigh, Kenneth...... 1929, 1930 Gerwe, John ...... 1973, 1974 Dirnberger, Lawrence ...... 1964 FitzGerald, Robert ...... 1990 Giacinto, Joseph ...... 1964 Disney, Francis ...... 1923 Fitzmaurice, Shaun ...... 1963 Giacinto, Michael...... 1960, 1961, 1962 Doan, Franklin...... 1927, 1929 Fitzpatrick, Jerry ...... 1959, 1960, 1961 Gibbs, Daniel ...... 1936, 1937, 1938 Dolmage, George ...... 1926 Fleisch, Mike ...... 1995, 1996, 1997 Gibson, Jay ...... 1941, 1942 Donnelly, Michael...... 1969 Fleming, Bill ...... 1946, 1948, 1949, 1950 Gilbert, Tom ...... 2000, 2001, 2002 2003 Donnelly, WIlliam...... 1938, 1939 Fletcher, Forest ...... 1909, 1910, 1911, 1912 Gilfillian, Earl ...... 1918, 1919 Dornbach, Steve ...... 1957, 1958, 1959 Flynn, John R...... 1921, 1922, 1923 Gilfoil, James ...... 1933, 1934 Douglas, Walter ...... 1917, 1919, 1920 Foley, Charles ...... 1920 Gilhooly, Thomas ...... 1970 Dovidio, Chip ...... 1999 Foote, John...... 1958 Gill, Paul...... 1968, 1969, 1970 Doyle, Paul ...... 1981, 1982, 1983 Foreman, Joseph...... 1956, 1957, 1958 Gilmore, Philip ...... 1984, 1986 Draper, William ...... 1903, 1904, 1905 Fortunato, Alex ...... 2004 Gits, John ...... 1955 Dreznes, Mike...... 1999 Fox, Charles ...... 1980 Glynn, Ralph ...... 1899, 1901 Driscoll, Brian ...... 1985, 1986, 1987 Foy, David ...... 1952, 1953 Goguen, Derek ...... 2003, 2004, 2005 Driscoll, Dan...... 2004 Francis, John ...... 1936, 1937, 1938 Gorman, Pat ...... 1996 Driscoll, David ...... 1967 Frawley, John ...... 1934, 1935, 1936 Gormley, Eugene ...... 1937, 1938 Duane, Joseph ...... 1899 Frericks, Thomas ...... 1974, 1975 Gott, Arch ...... 1935, 1937 Duarte, Rolando...... 1945 Freschi, WIlliam ...... 1933 Gough, Arnold...... 1977, 1978, 1979 DuBois, Shane ...... 1995 Freund, Albert ...... 1916 Gough, Edward...... 1931, 1932, 1933 Ducasa, Salvador ...... 1934, 1935 Frigo, Dan ...... 1997, 1998 Gough, Paul ...... 1967 Dudley, John ...... 1999, 2000 Fritch, Louis C...... 1916 Grady, William P...... 1899 Duffy, John ...... 1973 Froelke, Frank ...... 1961, 1962 Duke, Norman ...... 1934 Grace, Scott...... 1997 Dunlop, Joe ...... 1993, 1994, 1995 Graham, Stewart ...... 1905 Dunne, Daniel ...... 1971, 1972, 1973 Gregory, Ron ...... 1959, 1960, 1961 Dunnigan, John ...... 1955 Grenough, Dan ...... 1993, 1994, 1995 DuVair, Paul ...... 1988 Griewe, Ray ...... 1999, 2000 Dyer, Derek...... 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 Dziabis, Steven ...... 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983

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Hernon, James A...... 1953 Kelly, Charles ...... 1931, 1932 Hester, Curtis...... 1938, 1939, 1940 Kelly, Edward...... 1962, 1963, 1964 Hickman, William...... 1959 Kelly, James ...... 1946, 1948, 1949, 1950 Higgins, Luke ...... 1947 Kelly, Joseph ...... 1944 Hill, R. Martin ...... 1971, 1973, 1974 Kelly, Thomas ...... 1927, 1928, 1929 Hinkes, Thomas...... 1951 Kelly, William ...... 1942 Hoar, Gerald ...... 1919, 1920, 1921 Kennedy, David ...... 1962 Hobbs, William ...... 1990 Kennedy, Paul ...... 1922, 1923, 1924 Hoffmann, F. Nordhoff ...... 1929, 1930, 1931 Kenny, Brian ...... 1968 Hofner, Jay ...... 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999 Kenny, Kevin ...... 1977, 1980 Hogan, Edward ...... 1921, 1922, 1923 Kenny, Patrick ...... 1946, 1948, 1949 Hogan, Michael ...... 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976 Kenny, Pat ...... 1997 Hogan, William ...... 1911 Kerr, Mike ...... 2001 Hogue, Rolly ...... 1942 Kilburg, William ...... 1953, 1954 Hojnacki, Jeff ...... 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997 Kinder, Randy...... 1994 Holinka, Brian ...... 1998, 1999, 2000 King, Francis ...... 1919 Holleran, Patrick ...... 1970 King, Frank ...... 1917 Hoover, Harry ...... 1898 King, Edward...... 1932, 1933, 1934 Hoover, Robert...... 1962, 1963, 1964 King, Thomas ...... 1916 Horgan, Daniel ...... 1976, 1977, 1978 Kirby, Harley ...... 1901, 1902 Housley, Michael ...... 1973, 1974 Kirkland, Frank...... 1915, 1916, 1917 Howard, Charles...... 1933, 1934 Kittell, C. James...... 1949, 1950 Howard, Kenneth ...... 1965, 1966, 1957, 1968 Knott, Daniel...... 1974 Howrey, Eugene ...... 1930, 1931, 1932 Knuth, Nathan ...... 1994 Hunter, Jack ...... 1946, 1947 Kober, Tim...... 1998, 1999, 2000 Hunter, III, Oliver ...... 1941, 1942, 1943 Kohanowich, Albert ...... 1951, 1953 Hurd, William ...... 1967, 1968, 1969 Koxlien, Garet ...... 2005 Hurd, Ryan ...... 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 Krass, Jonathan ...... 1997 Hurt, James ...... 1974, 1976 Kraus, Thomas...... 1987 Hyde, Ronald ...... 1982 Krause, Edward ...... 1933 Ryan Hurd followed in his father’s (Bill) Krider, William...... 1925 footsteps as a sprinter for the Irish during the I-I-I-I Kubicki, Brian...... 1994 2001-04 seasons. Bill earned his monograms Irby, Adrian ...... 1999 Kueny, Robert ...... 2005 from 1967-69. Ismail, Raghib ...... 1989, 1990 1991 Kuhn, J. Regis...... 1930, 1931, 1932 Griffin, Joseph ...... 1926, 1927, 1928 J-J-J-J Kuzan, John...... 1980, 1981 Gringer, Paul ...... 1920 Jacobs, Jack...... 1944 L-L-L-L Gross, George ...... 1950 Jacques, Christopher ...... 2004, 2005 LaFramboise, Paul ...... 1934 Groves, John ...... 1932 Jewett, Harry ...... 1890 Lahey, John ...... 1927, 1928 Gutschenritter, David ...... 1977 Johnson, Clint...... 1994 Lambert, Terrail...... 2005 Gyulai, Marton...... 2001 Johnson, Gerald ...... 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950 Lang, George ...... 1978, 1979 H-H-H-H Johnson, John ...... 1924 Langdon, John ...... 1984 Johnson, John ...... 1947 Hall, Frank ...... 1956, 1957 Langevine, Troy...... 1994, 1997 Johnson, Ryan ...... 2004, 2005 Halpin, Joseph...... 1938, 1939, 1940 Langton, Harold ...... 1936, 1937, 1938 Johnston, Dennis...... 1960, 1961 Hamling, John ...... 1924, 1925 Lavelle, John ...... 1927, 1928 Johnston, Ralph ...... 1930, 1931 Hammill, Michael ...... 1926 Lavery, Mark ...... 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991 Johnston, Todd...... 1994, 1995, 1996 Hanrahan, Robert ...... 1952 Lawrence, Robert ...... 1938, 1939, 1940 Jones, Austin ...... 1942, 1943 Hardy, Russell ...... 1915, 1916 Layden, Elmer ...... 1923, 1924, 1925 Jones, Fred ...... 1944, 1945, 1946 Harrington, James ...... 1952, 1953, 1954 Layden, Francis...... 1934, 1935 Jordan, Charles...... 1934, 1935, 1936, 1937 Harrington, Paul ...... 1924, 1925, 1926 LeKander, Gary ...... 1985, 1986 Jorgensen, Paul ...... 1981 Harris, Rick ...... 1972 Leahy, William ...... 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968 Juba, Edward ...... 1983, 1984 Harris, Robert ...... 1988 Lee, Tommie ...... 2004, 2005 Judge, Charles...... 1925, 1926, 1927 Hassenger, Thomas...... 1951, 1952, 1953 Lehner, James...... 1968 Justice, Lamarr ...... 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996 Hastings, John ...... 1951 Lennon, Tom ...... 2002 Hatherly, Tony ...... 1979, 1980 K-K-K-K Leonard, William ...... 1943, 1947, 1948, 1949 Leonas, Theodore...... 1938, 1939, 1940 Haverty, Michael...... 1957, 1958, 1959 Kania, Jan ...... 1983 Hayes, Arthur T...... 1899 Lepry, Louis...... 1949, 1951 Kardok, Timothy ...... 1976, 1977 Levicki, John...... 1935, 1936, 1937 Hayes, William ...... 1921, 1922 Kasper, Thomas...... 1920, 1921 Headrick, Brian...... 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995 Lewis, Aubrey ...... 1956, 1957 Kauffman, Francis M...... 1955, 1956, 1957 Lewis, Paul ...... 2000 Heck, Josh ...... 1999, 2001, 2002 Kazimi, A. J...... 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980 Hedinger, Keith ...... 1980 Lieb, Thomas ...... 1922, 1923 Keach, Leroy ...... 1908 Lilly, Christopher ...... 1993, 1994 Heffernan, John ...... 1922 Keane, John...... 2003 Helfenstein, George ...... 1952 Linehan, John ...... 1956 Kearns, Michael ...... 1957 Link, H. Carl ...... 1934, 1935 Helwig, Joseph...... 1950 Kearns, Patrick ...... 1988, 1990, 1991, 1992 Helwig, John...... 1948, 1949, 1950 Little, Brant ...... 1930, 1931 Kearney, Peter E...... 1898 Livergood, Bernard ...... 1923, 1924 Hemphill, Frank ...... 1960 Keefe, James ...... 1905 Henehan, Martin ...... 1913, 1914 Lloyd, Richard ...... 1926 Keegan, WIlliam...... 1955, 1956, 1957 Lucas, Louis ...... 1963 Herbert, Martin B...... 1899, 1900, 1901, 1902 Keenan, Larry...... 1947 Herman, Todd ...... 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 Lucey, Christopher ...... 1989 Keily, Michael...... 1944 Ludecke, Carl ...... 1961, 1962, 1963 Kelley, Scott ...... 2000, 2001 Lujack, John...... 1944

UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME 120 Men’s Track & Field Monogram Winners

Lundergan, Charles...... 1943, 1944 McWilliams, Michael ...... 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995 Lynch, James...... 1963 Meagher, George ...... 1934, 1935, 1936 Lynch, W. Ken...... 1977, 1979 Meehan, Edward ...... 1917, 1919, 1920 Lyons, John ...... 1944, 1947 Meloro, J.R...... 1992, 1993, 1994 Lytle, Dean ...... 1994 Mercer, Gene ...... 1971, 1972 M-M-M-M Meredith, George ...... 1920, 1921 Mescall, Tom...... 1993 Macauley, Timothy ...... 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982 Metrailer, Frank...... 1929 MacBeth, Jr., Frederick ...... 1931, 1932, 1933 Meyer, Michael ...... 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978 Mack, John...... 1940 Michno, John ...... 1955, 1956, 1957 Mackey, Jeff...... 1995 Michuta, John...... 1935, 1936 Madden, John ...... 1967 Mick, Thomas...... 1987, 1988 Madigan, Michael ...... 2001, 2002 Mihalko, Ryan...... 1988, 1990, 1991, 1992 Mahoney, Peter ...... 1964 Milbauer, Frank ...... 1924, 1925 Mahoney, William ...... 1936, 1937, 1938 Miller, Creighton...... 1943 Malec, Dennis ...... 1954 Miller, James ...... 1948, 1949, 1950 Maloney, Anthony ...... 1941, 1942, 1943 Miller, John ...... 1915, 1916, 1917 Maloney, Paul ...... 1990, 1991 Mills, Rupert F...... 1915 Maney, Michael...... 1979, 1981 Mineburg, Ryan ...... 2002, 2003, 2004 Manning, Michael...... 2005 Miranda, Jay ...... 1976, 1978, 1979, 1980 Mansour, Mike...... 2000, 2001, 2002 Mishka, Phil...... 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000 Manville, Keith ...... 1965, 1966 Mobley, Todd ...... 2002, 2004, 2005 Markezich, Ronald ...... 1986, 1988, 1989 Moes, Leon...... 1920, 1921, 1922, 1923, 1926 Martin, Frank ...... 1944 Mohar, John ...... 1950, 1951, 1952 Martin, John ...... 1940 Monohan, Christopher ...... 1959 Martin, William ...... 1910, 1911 Monjeau, Richard ...... 1959, 1960 1961 Martuscello, Paul ...... 1974, 1975 Monnelly, Edward...... 1956, 1958 Masloski, Jesse ...... 1999 Montabon, Frank...... 1991 Masterson, Frank ...... 1925, 1927 Montague, John...... 1920, 1922, 1923 Matsomoto, Jeff ...... 1994 Moore, Tim...... 2003, 2005 Matt, Marshall ...... 1977 Moran, Edward ...... 1934 Matteo, Christopher...... 1985, 1987 Mike McMannon earned four monograms from Morando, Michael ...... 1957, 1958, 1959 Matteo, George ...... 1975, 1977, 1978 1969-72. Moretti, Greg ...... 1993, 1995, 1996 Matteo, Gregory ...... 1991 Morgan, Donald ...... 1937, 1939 Maxwell, Ryan...... 1999 Morgan, Peter...... 1929 Mayer, Frank ...... 1926 Moriarty, Michael ...... 1908, 1909 Norton, Joseph ...... 1927 Mbagwu, Godwin ...... 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 Morris, Roy ...... 1952 Novak, Marc...... 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980 McAuliffe, Brian ...... 1979, 1980, 1981 Morrison, Eric ...... 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005 Nulty, Joseph...... 1926 McAuliffe, Kevin...... 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972 Mortensen, Walter ...... 1930 Nurudeen, Selim ...... 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005 McCann, Michael ...... 1969, 1970 Moyar, James ...... 1981, 1984 McCarthy, William ...... 1935, 1936 O-O-O-O Muench, Richard ...... 1987 McCauley, Frank...... 1944 O’Brien, Daniel ...... 1962 Mulcahy, Harold ...... 1921 McClain-Duer, Trevor ...... 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005 O’Brien, James ...... 1975, 1976 Mullaley, Patrick...... 1969, 1970 McCloughan, John...... 1979, 1981, 1982, 1983 O’Brien, John J...... 1929, 1930, 1931 Mulligan, Frank ...... 1917 1918, 1919 McConnville, Donald...... 1930 O’Brien, Keith ...... 1993 Mulrooney, John ...... 1961. 1926, 1963 McCormick, WIlliam ...... 1930, 1931, 1932 O’Brien, Kevin ...... 1968, 1969 Mulrooney, Neil ...... 1992 McCullough, Ernest...... 1946, 1947, 1948 O’Brien, Matt ...... 1999, 2001 Mulvey, Richard ...... 1985, 1986, 1988 McCullough, Gilbert ...... 1902 O’Brien, William ...... 1899, 1900 Murphy, Charles ...... 1942, 1943 McDavid, Robert...... 1947, 1948, 1949 O’Connor, Jerry ...... 1962, 1963, 1964 Murphy, David...... 1944, 1945, 1947 McDonald, Chester ...... 1925, 1927 O’Connor, John ...... 1951, 1953 Murphy, Francis A...... 1933 McDonald, Robert...... 1929, 1930 O’Connor, Lawrence ...... 1938 Murphy, Frank ...... 1920 McDonough, Andrew...... 1915, 1916 O’Connor, Michael...... 1987, 1988, 1990, 1991 Murphy, Henry T...... 1904 McDonough, Harry F...... 1908 O’Donnell, Sean ...... 2003, 2004, 2005 Murphy, James ...... 1946, 1947, 1948, 1949 McDonough, Justin ...... 1952 O’Hare, Russell ...... 1924 Murphy, John A...... 1943, 1948, 1949, 1950 1951 McDougall, Natt ...... 1900 O’Keeffe, Richard ...... 1953, 1955 Murphy, John F...... 1901 McFarlane, Leo ...... 1934, 1935, 1936 O’Leary, James ...... 1905, 1908 Murphy, John L...... 1921, 1922 McGauley, Edward ...... 1927 O’Neil, William ...... 1944, 1945, 1946 Murphy, John W...... 1908 McGinnis, Joseph ...... 1917 O’Neill, Terrence ...... 1912 Murphy, Vincent ...... 1933, 1934, 1935 McGrath, Joseph ...... 1935, 1936 O’Reilly, Thomas...... 1939 Murray, Thomas J...... 1900 McGuire, James ...... 1987 O’Rourke, J. Keith ...... 1941, 1942 Muscato, Valentine ...... 1949, 1950, 1951 McKenna, John...... 1935, 1936 O’Rourke, Thomas ...... 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990 Musial, Richard ...... 1961 McKillip, Leo ...... 1949, 1950 O’Shaughnessy, Martin ...... 1899, 1900 McMannon, Michael ...... 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972 N-N-N-N Obergfall, Rudolph...... 1932 McMannon, Thomas ...... 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973 Newning, Harry ...... 1914 Oberst, Eugene ...... 1923, 1924 McManus, Sean ...... 2000 Newquist, Harvey...... 1952, 1953, 1954 Olbrys, Joseph ...... 1940, 1941 McNamee, David...... 1964 Nichols, John...... 1930 Oppel, Justin ...... 2004, 2005 McNelis, John ...... 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986 Nicholson, WIlliam ...... 1941, 1943 McSweeney, Edward ...... 1928 Nobles, Robert...... 1985, 1986, 1987 McTernan, Leo ...... 1923, 1924 Noland, Michael ...... 1979, 1981 McQuaid, Brian ...... 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996 Noonan, William ...... 1917

2005-06 CROSS COUNTRY/TRACK & FIELD 121 Men’s Track & Field Monogram Winners

Scarbrough, Kenneth ...... 1958, 1959, 1960 Provost, Steve ...... 1945, 1947, 1948, 1949 Scarpelli, Michael...... 1946 Ptacek, Todd ...... 2004, 2005 Schargen, Scott ...... 1999 Puma, Jeff ...... 1998 Schielke, Aaron ...... 1996 Purcell, Robert...... 1943, 1944, 1946 Schiewe, George ...... 1940, 1941, 1942 Q-Q-Q-Q Schirmer, Bob ...... 1945 Quaderer, Joseph ...... 1969, 1970 Schmitt, William ...... 1908 Quinn, Colin ...... 2001, 2002, 2003 Schneider, Shawn...... 1990, 1992 Quigley, Joseph ...... 1929, 1930 Schoenig, Alfred ...... 1953, 1954, 1955 Quigley, Joseph ...... 1969 Schott, Robert...... 1973, 1974 Quigley, Thomas ...... 1927, 1928, 1929 Schubert, Mike ...... 2005 Schwartz, Steve ...... 1960, 1961 R-R-R-R Schwetschenau, Paul...... 1948, 1949,1950 Rademaker, Theodore...... 1917, 1918, 1919 Scolaro, John ...... 2000, 2001 Radkewich, Nick ...... 1990, 1991 Seaman, Gabe ...... 1998 Ragunas, Anthony ...... 1986, 1987, 1988 Searcy, Yan...... 1987, 1988, 1990 Redmond, James ...... 1955 Seiling, Derek ...... 1994, 1996, 1997 Redwine, Quill ...... 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 Seipel, Chuck ...... 1996 Regnery , Ronald...... 1989 Seth, J. Cabot ...... 1974 Reher, Kevin...... 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998 Sexton, Michael...... 1977 Reichert, Thomas ...... 1958, 1959, 1960 Shafer, Kirby L...... 1929, 1930, 1931 Reid, John ...... 1967, 1968 Shannon, Daniel ...... 1984, 1985 Reidy, David...... 1938, 1939, 1940 Shaw, Lawrence ...... 1920, 1921 Reilly, Jim...... 1968 Shay, John ...... 1952, 1953 Reilly, John ...... 1927 Shay, Ryan ...... 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 Reinhart, James ...... 1976 Sheehan, Joseph ...... 1924 Repetti, Joseph ...... 1926, 1927, 1928 Sheehan, Peter ...... 1936, 1938 Rexing, Jason ...... 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998 Sheeler, James ...... 1961 Reynolds, John ...... 1916 Sheets, Francis ...... 1940, 1941 Ribera, Ernest...... 1975 Sheils, James ...... 1933, 1935 Kevin Somok earned four monograms from Ribera, William...... 1979, 1982 Sheptak, Peter ...... 1959 2001-04 and capped his career by appearing Rice, J. Gregory ...... 1937, 1938, 1939 Sikorsky, William ...... 1967, 1968 in the 2004 NCAA outdoor championship. Richon, Alfred J...... 1901 Simmons, Floyd ...... 1946, 1947, 1948 Riely, Frank...... 1983 Skarstein, Ole ...... 1967, 1968, 1969 Slattery, James...... 1929, 1930 P-P-P-P Riley, Charley ...... 1926, 1927 Riley, Joseph ...... 1950 Slattery, Jim...... 1979 Pacilio, Anthony ...... 1959 Rigney, J.J...... 1924 Small, Keith ...... 1965, 1966 Painter, Jack ...... 1946 Rigney, James S...... 1930 Smedley, Mike ...... 1994, 1995 Pantea, Victor ...... 1974 Riordan, Wilbur ...... 1941 Smerek, Jonathan...... 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 Parker, Ronald ...... 1957 Roach, John ...... 1908 Smith, Anthony ...... 1990, 1991 Parsons, James ...... 1935, 1936, 1937 Roberts, Chip...... 2003, 2004, 2005 Smith, Chris ...... 1986, 1987, 1988 Patterson, Dillon ...... 1918 Roberts, Clyde...... 1932, 1933, 1934 Smith, Ezra ...... 1941 Patterson, James...... 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985 Rockne, Knute ...... 1912, 1913, 1914 Smith, Jeffrey...... 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991 Payton, Danny...... 1995, 1997, 1998 Rogan, Michael...... 1988, 1989, 1990 Smith, John ...... 1946, 1947, 1948 Pearcy, Van...... 1982, 1983, 1985, 1986 Rogers, Richard ...... 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982 Smith, Robert...... 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950 Penick, Eric ...... 1972 Rohrbach, Robert ...... 1932 Smith, Timothy ...... 1986, 1988 Peppard, Brian ...... 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992 Rorke, Daniel ...... 1959, 1960 Smithson, Forrest ...... 1905 Perry, Thomas...... 1938 Ross, Christopher ...... 1992, 1994 Snyder, Harry ...... 1952, 1953 Pestrichella, Alexander ...... 1954, 1955 Rossum, Allen ...... 1995, 1997 Sobota, Raymond...... 1946, 1947, 1948, 1949 Philbrook, George ...... 1909, 1910, 1911, 1912 Roth, Jesse...... 1908, 1909 Somok, Kevin...... 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 Pick, Edwin C...... 1900 Rourke, John T...... 1929 Soranno, John...... 1952, 1954 Pick, John B...... 1900 Roy, Raymond ...... 1940, 1941, 1942 Soroka, Gregory ...... 1992 Pilla, Jim...... 1997 Royer, Joe ...... 1992, 1994, 1995 Sparks, Nicholas...... 1985, 1987 Pitcavage, James ...... 1953, 1955 Rubly, Paul ...... 1934, 1935, 1936 Spieler, Kurt ...... 1977, 1979 Plant, John ...... 1912,l913, 1914 Ruder, Nate...... 1992, 1994, 1995 Spiro, Harold ...... 1965, 1966 Pogue, Joseph...... 1946 Rudziewicz, Geoff ...... 2003 Springer, Joseph ...... 1952, 1953, 1954 Pohland, Ralph ...... 1944 Rush, Paul ...... 1910, 1911 Squires, William ...... 1954, 1956 Pokigo, Frank ...... 1972 Stace, Vincent...... 1928 Polselli, Elio ...... 1969,1970, 1971, 1972 S-S-S-S Stack, James...... 1925, 1926 Poreden, George ...... 1932 Saggau, Robert J...... 1939, 1940 Stany, Mike ...... 1998 Porter, Albert ...... 1955, 1956, 1957 Salsich, Peter ...... 1958 Staples, E. Douglas ...... 1901, 1902 Postel, Ryan...... 2003, 2004 Salzmann, John ...... 1964 Starrett, Morris...... 1916, 1917 Powell, Edward ...... 1952, 1953 Samar, Jack...... 1969, 1970 Staron, Chris ...... 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005 Powell, Jordan ...... 2004, 2005 Sanfacon, Thomas ...... 1956, 1958 Steele, Franklin ...... 1900, 1902 Powers, J. Fred ...... 1898, 1999 Saracco, Nick ...... 2002 Steers, Fred L...... 1909, 1910, 1911 Powers, John ...... 1918, 1919, 1920 Saracino, Daniel ...... 1967 Stephan, Joseph...... 1928 Pritchard, Edwin ...... 1913 Saykally, David ...... 1969 Stevenson, Jr., Harry ...... 1939 Prokop, Joseph ...... 1940, 1941 Scales, John J...... 1905, 1908 Stevenson, John ...... 1955 Prosche, Bob ...... 1945 Scanlan, John...... 1931, 1932 Stewart, Jon ...... 1989, 1990

UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME 122 Men’s Track & Field Monogram Winners V-V-V-V Vaichulis, John ...... 1929 Vallicelli, Richard...... 1970, 1971, 1972 VandenBerg, Dale ...... 1956, 1957, 1958 Vandenberg, Scott...... 1991 VanderKraats, Dennis...... 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979 VanEyken, Mitch...... 1982, 1984, 1985 Van Ort, Kaleb ...... 2003, 2004, 2005 VanWie, Jeffrey ...... 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987 VanWonterghen, A...... 1918, 1919 Varga, James ...... 1989, 1990 Vehorn, Charles ...... 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968 Vejar, Lawrence ...... 1931 Vettel, Louis...... 1932 Vicars, Robert...... 1941, 1942 Victor, Xavier ...... 1987, 1989 Viken, Dave ...... 2004, 2005 Voelkers, John J...... 1916 Vogel, Leo ...... 1916, 1917 Vosburg, Robert ...... 1945 Vuyosevich, John ...... 1967 Joseph Young took home four monograms from W-W-W-W 1932-34 and served as the track and field team captain in 1934. Waage, George ...... 1915 Wagner, Earl ...... 1900 Walsh, Adam ...... 1923, 1924 Weaver, Austin...... 2004 Marshaun West was one of Notre Dame’s best all- Walsh, John ...... 1967 Weber, E. James...... 1961, 1962 around athletes in the late 90’s, earning all-BIG EAST Walsh, Kevin...... 1962 Wechter, Austin ...... 2005 honors in both sprints and horizontal jumps. Walsh, Luke ...... 1923, 1924 Weeks, David ...... 1923 Walsh, Mark ...... 1967 Weiler, Tom ...... 2004 Walsh, Robert...... 1929 Welch, Frank ...... 1915 Stickler, David ...... 1970 Walsh, Robert J...... 1968 Welch, Steve G...... 1977, 1978, 1979 Stow, Perry ...... 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980 Walsh, Thomas ...... 1945 Welch, William ...... 1963, 1964 Striowski, Marc ...... 1999, 2000, 2003 Wares, Dale...... 1944 Welchons, Daniel ...... 1928, 1929 Strohman, Joseph ...... 1977, 1978 1979 Warth, David ...... 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989 Welty, Daniel ...... 1967 Struble, Ray ...... 1945, 1946, 194748 Warth, Thomas ...... 1984, 1985, 1986 Wendland, John...... 1923, 1924, 1925 Styers, Cornelius ...... 1946, 1947, 1948 Wasson, James ...... 1909, 1910, 1911, 1912, 1913 West, Marshaun ...... 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000 Suarez, Napolean...... 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 Waters, Fred ...... 1898 Whelan, John ...... 1990 Sullivan, Edward ...... 1940 Watson, Glenn...... 1987, 1990 Whelan, Kevin ...... 1989 Sullivan, George ...... 1944, 1945, 1947, 1948 Watson, Jake ...... 2005 White, James ...... 1943 Sullivan, Joseph G...... 1934 Watson, Luke...... 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003 Whitehouse, Peter ...... 1962, 1963, 1964 Sullivan, Joseph J...... 1900, 1901 Watson, Robert ...... 1968, 1969 Wholey, John...... 1965, 1966 Sullivan, Mark ...... 1975 Widdifield, Alvie...... 1965, 1967 Sullivan, Patrick ...... 1981 Wiethoff, John ...... 1941, 1942, 1943 Sweeeny, Walter ...... 1918, 1919, 1920 Wilcox, Hughes ...... 1952 Szumachowski, Stephen ...... 1937, 1938 Williams, Errol ...... 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998 T-T-T-T Williams, Fred ...... 1911, 1912 Wills, Charles ...... 1975, 1976, 1977 Terry, Michael ...... 1960, 1961 Wilson, Alexander ...... 1930, 1931, 1932 Tetrault, Conrad ...... 1950, 1951, 1952 Wohlhuter, Richard ...... 1969, 1970 Thomas, Michael...... 1988 Wolf, Adam ...... 1937 Thompson, Frazier ...... 1945, 1946 Wood, Fay F...... 1905, 1908 Thompson, Matt ...... 1998, 1999, 2000 Worthington, John ...... 1949, 1950, 1951 Thornburg, Brian...... 2001, 2002 Wozniak, Mark...... 1983, 1984 Timm, Robert ...... 1965, 1967, 1968 Wray, Terry...... 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001 Toneff, Robert ...... 1951 Wynne, Chester ...... 1921 Torribio, John A ...... 1936 Tracy, Louis ...... 1946, 1947, 1948, 1949 Y-Y-Y-Y Trautmann, James ...... 1992, 1994 Yaley, William ...... 1961, 1962, 1963 Troy, Raymond ...... 1933 Yonaker, John ...... 1943, 1944 Tully, William ...... 1944, 1945, 1946, 1947 Young, Eugene...... 1925, 1926 Tuohy, Albert...... 1931 Young, Joseph ...... 1932, 1933, 1934 Tupta, Richard ...... 1941, 1943 Twardzik, Timothy ...... 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981 Z-Z-Z-Z Tyler, James ...... 1982, 1983, 1984, 1986 Zajeski, Benedict...... 1954, 1955 Tyner, Stuart ...... 1993, 1994 Zanderson, Sean...... 2000, 2001, 2002 U-U-U-U Zilly, John ...... 1947 Utz, Joseph...... 1969, 1970 Bold indicates 2005-06 returnees. Uffendell, William ...... 1901, 1902 Errol Williams was a two-time All-American in the hurdles and earned four monograms from 1995-98.

2005-06 CROSS COUNTRY/TRACK & FIELD 123 Women’s Track & Field O-O-O-O O’Brien, Bridget ...... 2001 Monogram Winners Ogbuokiri, Okechi ...... 2004, 2005 F-F-F-F Olding, Sunni ...... 2005 Olson, Erin...... 1999 Fibuch, Jennifer ...... 2001, 2002 Opet, Julianne...... 2005 Flood, Eva ...... 1992, 1993 Flood, Kristin ...... 2001 P-P-P-P Floyd, Tricia ...... 2003, 2004 Patrizio, Angela ...... 1999, 2000 G-G-G-G Pavela, Jennifer ...... 1999 Peterson, Erica...... 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996 Gorski, Lisa ...... 1991, 1992, 1993 Peterson, Megan ...... 2001 Grow, Liz ...... 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 Philipp, Elizabeth ...... 2005 Gulick, Carrie...... 1998 Price, Ashea ...... 1991 Gullickson, Cassie ...... 2004, 2005 Gunn, Tiffany...... 2002, 2003, 2004 R-R-R-R H-H-H-H Reklau, Janelle ...... 1998 Hallett, Natalie ...... 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 Rice, Patty ...... 1997, 1999, 2000 Handley, Jennifer ...... 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003 Riley, Sarah ...... 1992, 1993, 1995 Harris, Karen ...... 1991, 1992, 1993 Rosenbach, Kate ...... 1996 Henze, Katherine ...... 2000 S-S-S-S Hessler, Angela ...... 1995 Hood, Emily...... 1994 Saxen, Kelle ...... 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999 Horn, Meghan...... 2003, 2004, 2005 Schmidt, Brianne...... 2004, 2005 Howard, Alison ...... 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997 Schmiedt, Nadia ...... 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999 Ayesha Boyd is one of 19 four-year monogram Huarte, Laura ...... 2003, 2004 Showman, Emily...... 2002, 2003 winners in the history of the Notre Dame Huddle, Molly ...... 2003, 2004, 2005 Siegel, Amy ...... 1994, 1995, 1996 women’s track and field program. Husted, Emily...... 1993, 1994, 1995 Steele, Latasha ...... 2003, 2004 J-J-J-J Stoveall, Kristin ...... 1992 A-A-A-A Swayzer, Crysta ...... 2005 Jensen, Stephanie ...... 1992, 1993 Altman, Heidi ...... 1994, 1995 T-T-T-T Alfieri, Becky...... 1992 Johnson, Megan ...... 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 Joseph, Tricia ...... 1993 Alvarez, Amanda ...... 1999, 2000, 2001 Tatum, Tiffani ...... 1999 Junck, Lisa...... 1992, 1994, 1995 Arnerich, Christi ...... 2002 Tutko, Kelly ...... 2000 Junker, Berit ...... 1995, 1996, 1998 B-B-B-B V-V-V-V K-K-K-K Bienko, Emily ...... 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000 VanWeelden, Jill...... 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 Kavanaugh, Rachel ...... 1993 Boulware, Kala...... 1992 Volkmer, Jaime...... 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003 Kearney, Jennifer ...... 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 Boyd, Ayesha...... 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 Kelly, Maureen...... 1994, 1995 W-W-W-W Brady, Leanne ...... 1999, 2000, 2001 King, Lauren ...... 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005 Wales, Katie ...... 2002 Bradley, Diana ...... 1991, 1992 King, Tameisha ...... 2000, 2003 Waters, Latrice ...... 1991 Bryant, Dee Anna (Dee Dee)...... 2004, 2005 Kramer, Kristi ...... 1992, 1993, 1995 Webster, Elizabeth ...... 2003, 2004, 2005 Burn, Hilary...... 1999, 2000 Klemmer, Alison ...... 1998, 1999, 2000 Weiher, Gretchen...... 1997 Kohlmeier, Amy ...... 2005 C-C-C-C Wicks, Kelsey ...... 2003 Kuenster, Chrissy ...... 2000, 2001 Calloway, Dominqué ...... 1997 Wilson, Bethany ...... 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001 Carter, Jacqueline ...... 2005 L-L-L-L Cheatham, Tanya ...... 2003 LaSelle, Nicole ...... 1998, 1999, 2000 Bold indicates 2005-06 returnees. Cowan, Stacey ...... 2003, 2004, 2005 Lazzeri, Betsy...... 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003 Cox, Monica ...... 1992, 1994, 1995 Ledrick, Jenny...... 1991 Creary, Susie ...... 2003 Lenz, Carri ...... 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001 Long, Carolyn ...... 1994, 1996, 1997 D-D-D-D Lopienski, Sarah ...... 1997, 1998 Dankova, Petra ...... 2003, 2004, 2005 Loomis, Emily ...... 2002, 2003, 2005 Davis, Brienne...... 2005 Love, Kymia ...... 2000, 2002, 2003 DeBartolo, Dore ...... 1999, 2000, 2001 Luby, Erin...... 1997, 1998 Deeter, JoAnna ...... 1997, 1989, 1999 M-M-M-M DeRusso, Katie...... 2004, 2005 Madia, Stephanie ...... 2003, 2004, 2005 Dodd, Kristen...... 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 Maher, Susan ...... 1992, 1993 Dorsey, Tye ...... 1993 Manning, Domenique ...... 2005 Dudas, Kristen ...... 1995, 1996 Marinangeli, Jean ...... 2003, 2004, 2005 Duman, Kate ...... 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005 Meagher, Kerry ...... 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005 Duplechain, Andre ...... 2003 McCarthy, Keri ...... 2003 Dutton, Lindsay ...... 1995 Morales, Ana ...... 2000, 2002, 2003 E-E-E-E Motter, Cara ...... 1997, 1998 Edwards, Emily ...... 1999 N-N-N-N Engelhardt, Jennifer...... 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000 Nacol, Kelly...... 1998 Erigha, Maryann ...... 2004, 2005 Newman, Erin...... 1999

Jennifer Handley earned four monograms in both track and field and cross country during her career from 1999-2000 through 2002-03.

UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME 124 Four-Year Monogram Winners Dziabis, Steven ...... 1980-1983 • 1982 indoor 600 yards All-American and holds school record in the indoor 500 meters Eady, Jacques ...... 1979-1982 Eggeman, John ...... 1898-1901 Ferenc, Thomas ...... 1976-1979 Fleming, Bill ...... 1946-1950 • 1950 120-yard and 220-yard hurdles All-American Fletcher, Forest...... 1909-1912 • Captain of the 1912 track and field team and a member of the ‘12 U.S. Olympic Team. Gahagan, Michael ...... 1972-1975 • Co-captain of the 1975 track and field team Garrett, Daniel ...... 1985-1989 • 1988 5,000 meters All-American Gerrity, David ...... 1994-1997 • 1996 BIG EAST outdoor pole vault champion Gilbert, Tom...... 2000-2003 • 2001 and 2002 BIG EAST indoor long jump runner-up Headrick, Brian ...... 1992-1995 Herbert, Martin...... 1899-1902 Herman, Todd ...... 1991-1994 • Appeared in the 1993 NCAA indoor high jump Hofner, Jay ...... 1996-1999 • 1998 and 1999 BIG EAST hammer throw champion Derek Dyer earned four monograms from 1999- Pat Conway earned four monograms in track and field Hogan, Michael...... 1973-1976 2002 and was Notre Dame’s top men’s thrower while also earning All-America honors on the 2000 cross during his time on campus. country squad. Hojnacki, Jeff ...... 1994-1997 • 1997 All-American (DMR) and school record holder in the indoor 800 meters (1:47.50), also won two BIG EAST 1,000-meter titles Johnson, Gerald ...... 1947-1950 Howard, Kenneth ...... 1965-1968 Aragon, Chuck ...... 1978-1981 Jordan, Charles...... 1934-1937 • Ran the first sub-four minute mile in Notre Dame track Hurd, Ryan ...... 2001-2004 • Captain of the 1937 track and field team and field history durign the 1981 season Justice, Lamarr ...... 1993-1996 Bergman, Alfred...... 1911-1915 • Also played basketball at Notre Dame, 1996 BIG EAST • Captain of the 1915 Notre Dame track and field team outdoor triple jump champion also competed in football, basketball and baseball for Kazimi, A.J...... 1977-1980 the Irish Kearns, Patrick...... 1988-1992 Brown, Mike ...... 1996-1999 Kelly, James ...... 1946-1950 • Owns both the indoor and outdoor pole vault school records, also five-time BIG EAST Champion Lavery, Mark...... 1988-1991 Burger, Peter ...... 1977-1980 Leonard, William ...... 1943-1949 • 1979 indoor 4x800 relay All-American • 1948 Mile All-American Cahill, Ryan...... 1988-1991 Macauley, Timothy ...... 1979-1982 • Participated in the 3,000 meters at the 1991 NCAA Mbagwu, Godwin ...... 2001-2004 Indoor Championship • Won 2003 BIG EAST outdoor title for the Irish men’s Cochran, Chris ...... 1997-2000 team on final jump of the competition - two time BIG • Won three individual BIG EAST titles (60 meters, EAST individual champion indoor 400 meters, outdoor 400 meters), also an All- McAuliffe, Kevin...... 1969-1972 American on the ‘00 Distance Medley Relay team McClain-Duer, Trevor...... 2002-2005 (finished sixth at NCAA Championship) • 2005 distance medley relay All-American Cole, John ...... 1988-1991 McCloughan, John ...... 1979-1983 Conway, Mike ...... 1995-1998 McMannon, Michael ...... 1969-1972 • One of 18 recipients of the prestigious “Building Successful Futures” award presented by the Army McMannon, Thomas ...... 1970-1973 ROTC and The Sporting News in 1999 • 1972 All-American (indoor hurdles) Conway, Patrick ...... 1999-2002 McNelis, John ...... 1983-1986 • 2000 Cross Country All-American • 1986 indoor 4x800-meter relay All-American Courtney, William ...... 1982-1985 McQuaid, Brian...... 1993-1996 Cowan, John ...... 1992-1995 McWilliams, Michael...... 1992-1995 • 1995 Steeplechase All-American • Four-time cross country All-American Coyle, John ...... 1990-1994 Meyer, Michael ...... 1975-1978 • 1992 indoor 3,000 meters All-American • Co-captain of the 1977 and 1978 track and field team Davey, Travis ...... 1998-2001 Phil Mishka played a key role in Notre Dame’s middle distance group during the late 90’s while also earning Dillon, Andrew ...... 1981-1984 All-America honors on the distance medley relay team in Dyer, Derek...... 1999-2002 2000. • Two-time all-BIG EAST in the discus

2005-06 CROSS COUNTRY/TRACK & FIELD 125 Sobata, Raymond ...... 1946-1949 Four-Year Somok, Kevin ...... 2001-2004 Monogram Winners • Competed in the 2004 NCAA outdoor championship in the 1,500 meters Staron, Chris ...... 2002-2005 • Five-time all-BIG EAST pick (indoor/outdoor) Stow, Perry ...... 1977-1980 • Former assistant track and field coach at Notre Dame Struble, Ray ...... 1945-1948 • 1948 Pole Vault All-American Suarez, Napolean...... 2001-2004 Sullivan, George...... 1944-1948 • 1944 Shot Put All-American Tracy, Louis ...... 1946-1949 • 1948 Cross Country All-American Tully, William ...... 1944-1947 • 1945 Cross Country All-American Twardzik, Timothy ...... 1978-1981 Tyler, James...... 1982-1986 • 1986 two-time All-American in the mile and indoor 4x800-meter relay VanWie, Jeffrey ...... 1984-1987 VanderKraats, Dennis ...... 1976-1979 Vehorn, Charles ...... 1965-1968 Track and field is the second-oldest sport at Notre Dame behind football and has been competed outdoor • 1968 Distance Medley Relay All-American in relatively the same spot since the program began in 1889. The old track on Cartier Field (also the football practice field) is pictured here with Notre Dame Stadium in the background. Warth, David ...... 1986-1989 • Participated in the 4x800-meter relay at teh 1989 NCAA Indoor Championship Mihalko, Ryan...... 1988-1992 Rexing, Jason ...... 1995-1998 • Fullback on Irish football team holds school javelin • Great distance runner won seven individual BIG Wasson, James ...... 1909-1913 record EAST titles and was named the Most Outstanding Watson, Luke ...... 1999-2003 Miranda, Jay ...... 1976-1980 Performer at the 1998 BIG EAST Indoor Championship • Three-time track and field All-American, holds • 1979 4x800-meter relay All-American after winning the 3,000 and 5,000 meters school records in the indoor mile, 3,000 meters, outdoor mile, 3,000-meter steeplechase and 5,000 meters Mishka, Phil...... 1997-2000 Rogers, Richard ...... 1979-1982 • 2000 All-American (DMR); earned all-BIG EAST Shay, Ryan ...... 1999-2002 West, Marshaun...... 1997-2000 honors in the 800 meters as well • Most decorated track and field athlete in school • 1999 indoor long jump and 2000 outdoor long jump Moes, Leon ...... 1920-1923, 1926 history, won the NCAA Championship in the 10,000 All-American, also won the indoor 200 meters at the 1999 BIG EAST Championship Morrison, Eric ...... 2002-2005 meters, eight-time BIG EAST Champion, moved on to • 2005 distance medley relay All-American; also eight- win the U.S. Marathon National Championship as a Williams, Errol ...... 1995-1998 time all-BIG EAST honoree professional in 2003 • 1998 55-meter hurdles and 110-meter hurdles All- Murphy, James ...... 1946-1949 Smerek, Jonathan...... 1991-1994 American, also won the 1998 BIG EAST 55-meter hurdle title • 1948 Cross Country All-American Smith, Jeffrey ...... 1988-1991 Wray, Terry ...... 1998-2001 Murphy, John A...... 1943-1951 Smith, Robert ...... 1947-1950 Novak, Marc ...... 1977-1980 • 1948 200 meters All-American Nurudeen, Selim...... 2002-2005 • Two-time All-American in 2005 (60m hurdles/110m hurdles); also seven-time BIG EAST champion and 15- time all-BIG EAST selection (indoor/outdoor combined) O’Connor, Michael ...... 1987-1991 • 1990 5,000 meter All-American (indoor and outdoor) O’Rourke, Thomas ...... 1987-1990 Patterson, James ...... 1982-1985 Pearcy, Van ...... 1982-1986 • Also competed in football at Notre Dame Peppard, Brian ...... 1989-1992 • Co-captain of the 1992 track and field team Philbrook, George ...... 1909-1912 • Member of the 1912 U.S. Olympic Team Polselli, Elio...... 1969-1972 Provost, Steve ...... 1945-1949 Redwine, Quill...... 1999-2002 • Competed in both horizontal and vertical jumps, earning all-BIG EAST honors in the triple jump (2000) and high jump (2002) Reher, Kevin ...... 1995-1998

The 1969 two-mile relay team which finished second at the NCAA Championship: (left to right) Rick Wohlhuter, Jack Brody, Joe Quigley and Mike McCann.

UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME 126 Men’s Cross Country O’Connor, Mike ...... 1986-1990 Four-Year Monogram Winners • 1989 All-American and winner of the 1990 National Four-Year Catholic Monogram Winners Alber, David ...... 2000-2003 Reinhart, James ...... 1973-1976 Althoff, Matt ...... 1993-1996 Rexing, Jason ...... 1994-1997 • 1996 all-BIG EAST finisher • 1996 All-American, two-time All-BIGE AST finisher Arce, Antonio ...... 1995-2000 and two-time NCAA participant • 1997 all-BIG EAST finisher Rorke, Dan ...... 1957-1960 Aragaon, Chuck ...... 1977-1980 Ruder, Nate ...... 1991-1994 Cannon, Tim ...... 1981-1984 • 1993 National Catholic Champion • Helped Irish win the 1984 Notre Dame Invitational Seiling, Derek ...... 1992-1996 and two-consecutive National Catholic Meets (1983-84) • 1995 and 1996 All-American Courtney, Bill ...... 1981-1984 Shay, Ryan ...... 1997-1999, 2001 • Co-captain of the 1984 cross country team • 1999 and 2001 All-American, three-time all-BIG EAST Cowan, John ...... 1991-1994 finisher, 1999 Notre Dame Invitational champion and four-time National Catholic champion Coyle, John ...... 1989-1992 • 1990 All-American Striowski, Marc ...... 1998-2001 • Three-time all-BIG EAST finisher Dempsey, Tom ...... 1958-1961 Tyler, Jim ...... 1981-1984 Drake, Mike...... 1988-1991 • Member of two Notre Dame Invitational winning Watson, Luke ...... 1998-2001 teams (1990-91) and three National Catholic winning • 2000 and 2001 All-American, four-time all-BIG EAST squads (1988-90) finisher, 2000 and 2001 Notre Dame Invitational champion, 2000 National Catholic champion Dunlop, Joe ...... 1993-1996 Garrett, Dan ...... 1984-1988 • 1987 and 1988 All-American, co-champion of the 1988 Women’s Track & Field National Catholic Four-Year Monogram Winners Gregory, Ron...... 1957-1960 Kearns, Patrick...... 1987-1991 Boyd, Ayesha ...... 2001-2004 • 2002 4x400-meter relay All-American and 2002 NCAA Markezich, Ron...... 1984-1988 participant in the 200 meters Maxwell, Ryan...... 1996-1999 Dodd, Kristen ...... 2001-2004 • 1997 and 1999 All-BIG EAST Finisher • 2002 4x400-meter relay All-American McWilliams, Mike ...... 1990-1993 Duman, Kate ...... 2002-2005 • Four-time All-American and champion of the 1992 • School-record holder and 2005 all-BIG EAST selection Lauren King is arguably the most-decorated National Catholic in javelin cross country runner in Notre Dame history, with Mobley, Todd...... 2000-2003 Engelhardt, Jennifer ...... 1997-2000 three All-America honors, two all-BIG EAST • Two-time All-American (2001, 2003) and Academic • 1999 indoor and 2000 outdoor high jump All- citations and the 2002 BIG EAST individual title All-American in ‘03 American, holds high jump record at BIG EAST to her credit. Outdoor Championship Hallett, Natalie ...... 1999-2002 • Runner up in the indoor pole vault at the 1999 BIG Saxen, Kelle ...... 1996-1999 EAST Championship • Two-time all-BIG EAST finisher in the indoor high Handley, Jennifer...... 2000-2003 jump • 2002 and 2003 NCAA participant in the outdoor 5,000 Schmiedt, Nadia ...... 1996-1999 meters • Hold Meyo Invitational 500-meter record Howard, Alison ...... 1994-1997 VanWeelden, Jill ...... 2001-2004 • 1997 400 meter BIG EAST champion (outdoor) Volkmer, Jaime ...... 2000-2003 Johnson, Megan ...... 2001-2004 • Hold BIG EAST Championship record in the indoor • Runner-up in the mile at the 2004 BIG EAST Indoor pole vault Championship Wilson, Bethany ...... 1998-2001 Kearney, Jennifer...... 2001-2004 King, Lauren...... 2002-2005 • Two-time All-American (2002 - 1,500m; 2003 - mile); Women’s Cross Country also seven-time all-BIG EAST honoree with three BIG Four-Year Monogram Winners EAST titles (indoor/outdoor) Lazzeri, Betsy ...... 2000-2003 Handley, Jennifer...... 1999-2002 • Finished third in the pentathlon at the 2002 BIG EAST • Three-time all-BIG EAST Indoor Championship Johnson, Megan ...... 2000-2003 Lenz, Carri ...... 1998-2001 • 2001 all-BIG EAST, 2000 National Catholic Champion Meagher, Kerry ...... 2002-2005 King, Lauren...... 2001-2004 • Three-time All-American - twice in 1,500m (2004, 2005) • Three-time All-American, two-time all-BIG EAST and once in mile (2004) Kramer, Kristine...... 1991-1994 Peterson, Erica ...... 1993-1996 Ledrick, Jennifer ...... 1987-1990 • 1994 400-meter hurdles All-American Luby, Erin ...... 1996-1999 Murray, Wendy ...... 1986-1989 Riley, Sarah...... 1991-1994 Marc Striowski earned four cross country monograms at • 1993 All-American and 1992 National Catholic Notre Dame and posted three all-BIG EAST finishes. Champion

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University of Notre Dame The elusive problems of intellectual development would have to wait.” University If Notre Dame in its infancy was otre Dame’s founding can the child of Sorin’s vision and will, perhaps best be character- its subsequent growth and devel- Nized as an outburst of mis- opment were the products of large sionary zeal. How else can one and powerful social and historical describe the action of Father Edward forces. Just as the University was Sorin, the 28-year-old French priest of being established, the first waves the Congregation of Holy Cross who of European immigrants, over- — with $310 cash and three log build- whelmingly Catholic, were reach- ings in various stages of disrepair in ing America’s shores, and Notre the middle of the northern Indiana Dame’s location — though seem- frontier — had the temerity to christen ingly remote — in fact put it his enterprise the University of Notre within easy reach of cities like Dame du Lac? Chicago, Detroit and St. Louis, all Notre Dame at its founding was a name in of which soon would have large search of, or perhaps in anticipation of, a uni- immigrant Catholic populations. versity. The wonder is not so much what the The immigrant experience and University become more than a century and a the growth of the University of half later, but that it survived at all in those Notre Dame would be inextricably early years of beginning almost literally from linked. nothing. A number of forces were at In his book, The University of Notre Dame: A work in this relationship. The Portrait of Its History and Campus, historian “American Dream” was coming into being, ties. Notre Dame should strive to become the Thomas Schlereth of the American studies and with it the hope and expectation that, University that its charter claimed it was.” department has described the odds the through hard work and education, children Zahm was not without evidence to support University was up against: “Only nine other would enjoy greater opportunities than their his faith in Notre Dame’s potential. On this Catholic colleges existed when Notre Dame parents. At the same time, anti-immigrant and campus in 1899, Jerome Green, a young Notre was founded, but that number had grown to anti-Catholic sentiments were open and per- Dame scientist, became the first American to 51 by 1861. Presently only seven of these ante- vasive in American society, creating barriers transmit a wireless message. At about the bellum institutions still exist. One historian to immigrant Catholic students. Equally same time, Albert Zahm, Father John’s estimates a mortality rate of approximately strong sentiments among many Catholics younger brother, was designing the first suc- 80 percent among Notre Dame’s contemporary regarded public schools at any level as dan- cessful helicopter and first wind tunnel and secular institutions. Yet Notre Dame survived gerous places where young people might lose was launching the first man-carrying glider …” their faith. For all these reasons, education — from the roof of a building on campus. The The University’s survival of those early primary, secondary and higher education — University also had established the nation’s years is a tribute not only to the faith of Father became a centerpiece of American first architecture, law and engineering Sorin, but also to his pragmatism and wit. In Catholicism. schools under Catholic auspices. the beginning, his institution’s only admis- Though it may not have seemed so at the The debate over Notre Dame’s future was sions requirement was the ability to pay — time, this great historical movement of peo- effectively ended in the two decades follow- some payment, at least, and not necessarily in ples and the creation of the American melting ing the First World War. In 1919, the currency or coin; livestock or the services of a pot dramatically enhanced the odds of Notre University installed its first president to tradesman or some other “in-kind” payment Dame’s survival. What still had to be decided, have earned a Ph.D., Father James Burns, also were cheerfully accepted. Nor were however, was precisely the C.S.C., and the changes he admissions limited by religious preference. type of institution Notre Dame 2004 NCAA initiated were as dramatic Father Sorin’s mission and inspiration were would become. How could Graduation Rates as they were far-reaching. thoroughly and indisputably Catholic, but this small Midwestern school The elementary, preparatory from the beginning he made it clear that without endowment and with- All Student-Athletes and manual-labor programs would-be students of any religious persuasion out ranks of well-to-do alumni 1. Duke 90% were scrapped; the were welcome; indeed, that Notre Dame’s stu- hope to compete with firmly- 2. Notre Dame 87 University’s first board of lay dent body eventually would become over- established private universi- Northwestern 87 advisors was established whelmingly Catholic was more a reflection of ties and public-supported Stanford 87 with the goal of creating a American culture than of parochialism on the state institutions? As in 4. Rice 82 $1-million endowment, with University’s part. Sorin’s day, the fact that the Virginia 82 a national campaign con- Sorin was equally flexible when it came to University pursued this lofty 6. Boston College 81 ducted to achieve that goal; his University’s academic offerings. While a and ambitious vision of its and the first annual giving classical collegiate curriculum was estab- future was testimony to the Male Student-Athletes program for alumni was lished early on, so too were elementary and faith of its leaders — leaders 1. Duke 88% launched. With this impetus preparatory programs as well as a manual- such as Father John Zahm, 2. Stanford 84 established, between 1919 labor school, and for several decades the colle- C.S.C. 3. Notre Dame 82 and 1933 the University 4. Northwestern 81 giate program never attracted more than a As Schlereth describes it: would erect 15 new build- 5. Rice 78 dozen students in any year. As Notre Dame’s “Zahm … envisioned Notre ings and triple the numbers Dame as potentially ‘the intel- of both its students and its chronicler, Father Arthur Hope, C.S.C., has writ- Female Student-Athletes ten, “If (Sorin) was to begin at all, the head of lectual center of the American faculty. 1. Northwestern 96% this new college had to be mightily concerned West’; an institution with Also during this period, a 2. Duke 95 about frostbite and empty stomachs. The more large undergraduate, gradu- new and utterly unantici- 3. Notre Dame 94 ate, and professional schools pated element was added to 4. Virginia 92 equipped with laboratories, the ethos of Notre Dame, and 5. Stanford 91 libraries, and research facili- the University forever after

UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME 130 Irish Athletic Programs Excel Under NCAA’s New APR Standard The All 22 athletics programs at Notre Dame an APR score of 925 or better will be barred from University exceeded the new academic performance replacing a scholarship athlete who leaves the his arrival in this country. The tan- standard introduced in February of 2004 by the institution while academically ineligible. gible barriers faced then by NCAA, and 13 Irish teams scored a perfect 1,000. Programs with chronically poor academic Catholic students and scholars The Academic Process Rate (APR) uses a records based upon a rolling four-year rate have largely been removed, and series of formulas related to student-athlete ultimately will be barred from postseason today one may find such students retention and eligibility to measure the competition, in addition to losing their and scholars at Harvard and academic performance of all participants who scholarships. Stanford and Duke, as well as at receive a grant-in-aid on every team at every Notre Dame registered an overal APR of 979, Notre Dame. American Catholics NCAA Division I college and university. It and among Division I-A schools it had the third- are firmly implanted in the replaced the annual graduation rates report highest percentage of teams with perfect scores. American mainstream. that previously was issued by the NCAA. The national average for Division I-A institutions At the same time, the seculariza- Beginning in 2005-06, programs that fail to earn was 944. tion of contemporary American society is an undisputed fact, and with that transformation would be a national institution. That new more than 190, the student body is among has come a weakening of common values, an element was, of course, the game of football. the most selective in the nation — with a antipathy to belief, and a resistance to the But for Notre Dame and for its legions of eth- third of entering freshmen ranking among very notion of underlying truths. One expres- nic American loyalists — most, but not all, the top five students in their high school sion of this viewpoint is the contention that a Catholic — the cliché was true: Football was graduating classes — and the graduation Catholic university is a contradiction in more than a game. Through its academic pro- rate annually is among the four or five high- terms, that reason and belief are somehow gram, Notre Dame already was part of the est in the nation. The University’s endow- mutually exclusive. The Catholic intellectual striving of ethnic Americans to earn a place ment, now more than $3 billion, is the tradition and the Western university tradition in the American mainstream. Now, even for 18th-largest in American higher education itself stand in opposition to this contention, as those who had never and would never attend and campus additions have included: new does Notre Dame. Notre Dame, the University became a sym- research laboratories; a graduate-student It is a telling act that throughout Notre bol, so much so that its attraction persists lit- housing complex; residence halls for under- Dame’s history, and increasingly in recent erally to this day. graduate women (who now comprise more years, many eminent scholars of various faith The national recognition football brought than 45 percent of the student body); traditions have made the University their to Notre Dame was a mixed blessing at those DeBartolo Hall, one of the most technologi- home simply because they have preferred to times when it tended to overshadow the cally-advanced teaching facilities in higher work in a community of learning where belief University’s growing academic distinction, education; a 153,000-square-foot complex for is not merely tolerated, but in fact is cele- but overall it has been an almost incalculable the Mendoza College of Business; and the brated. boon to public awareness of, interest in, and new DeBartolo Center for the Performing Father Sorin’s dream was predicated on his support of Notre Dame. It may be amusing to Arts. conviction that a university would be a pow- speculate how the University’s history might The question for Notre Dame today is, hav- erful force for good in this land that he have been different without the phenomenon ing become a distinguished American uni- embraced as his own. For the University of of football, but the University is happy to versity, to what should it now aspire? Notre Dame, Sorin’s conviction remains the accept this legacy as is. Some goals are self-evident. The inspiration, the mission and the driving force. If the post-World War I era saw Notre University must strive at all times to bring Dame’s first flowering as a true University, new vigor to its teaching and to enhance both U.S. News & World Report the six decades since the Second World War the breadth and the depth of the education it 2005 Top 20 Rankings of have seen the vision of John Zahm reach full offers students. At the same time, it must National Universities fruition. Father John Cavanaugh, C.S.C., strengthen significantly its graduate pro- began the process after the war by toughen- grams and faculty research to make ever- 1. Harvard ing Notre Dame’s entrance requirements, greater contributions in the quest for new Princeton increasing faculty hiring, and establishing knowledge. 3. Yale But the institutional mission of Notre Dame the Notre Dame Foundation to expand the 4. Pennsylvania University’s development capabilities. Then, reaches beyond these goals. 5. Duke during the 35-year tenure of Father Theodore The higher aspiration of the University of Hesburgh, C.S.C., Notre Dame’s enrollment, Notre Dame is to seek out and assume leader- Massachusetts Institute of faculty and degrees awarded all doubled; ship roles through which students and Technology library volumes increased five-fold; endow- alumni, faculty, interdisciplinary institutes, Stanford ment catapulted from less than $10 million to and professional programs can bring their 8. Cal Tech more than $400 million; campus physical accomplishments to bear on the most basic 9. Columbia facilities grew from 48 to 88 buildings; faculty and pressing needs of humanity — for peace Dartmouth compensation increased ten-fold; and and social justice, for human rights and dig- 11. Northwestern research funding grew more than twenty- nity, for ethical conduct in business, science Washington University (St. Louis) fold. In addition, two defining moments and the professions, for a renewal of values in 13. Brown occurred during this period: the transference interpersonal and societal relationships, and 14. Cornell of University governance in 1967 from the for a more-enlightened stewardship of the Johns Hopkins environment, to name but a few of the chal- Congregation of Holy Cross to a predomi- Chicago nantly lay board of trustees and the admis- lenges. 17. Rice sion of women to undergraduate studies in This aspiration is incumbent upon Notre 1972. Dame as a Catholic university. Today, as 18. NOTRE DAME During the 18-year presidency of Father throughout its history, Notre Dame’s position Vanderbilt Edward Malloy (which ended in 2005), the in American culture mirrors that of the 20. Emory University continued to grow in stature. Catholic Church. The world is very different Endowed faculty positions now number from the one encountered by Father Sorin on

2005-06 CROSS COUNTRY/TRACK & FIELD 131 Director of The Kevin White Athletics Administrative File Kevin White, one of the most progressive and talented Year School Assignment administrators in the intercollegiate 1982-85 Loras College Director of Athletics athletics ranks, quickly has attached 1985-86 Loras College Vice President for his signature as director of athletics at Student Development, the University of Notre Dame. Director of Athletics White previously had been athletic director at Arizona State University, 1986-87 Loras College Vice President for Tulane University, the University of College Advancement, Maine, and Loras College. He brought a Director of Athletics combined 18 years (1982-83 to 1999-2000) 1987-91 University of Maine Director of Athletics of experience in those positions with him to his 1991-96 Tulane University Director of Athletics assignment at Notre Dame. Appointed March 13, 2000, White agreed to an 1996-2000 Arizona State University Director of Athletics original five-year contract as well as a five-year 2000-present University of Notre Dame Director of Athletics extension, then in December ‘02 saw his commitment extended an additional two years to 2012. White's first five years at Notre Dame saw including soccer star Vanessa Pruzinsky, formerly the association's highest governing unprecedented across-the-board achievement who also earned an NCAA Post-Graduate body, as well as currently serving as president on Irish fields of play: Scholarship after graduating with a perfect of the Division I-A Athletic Directors' • Notre Dame finished 11th, 13th, 13th, 19th 4.0 average in chemical engineering. Six Association and second vice president of and 16th, respectively, in the National more Academic All-Americans were added NACDA. Association of Collegiate Directors of to the list in 2004-05. During his coaching career, White served as Athletics (NACDA) Directors' Cup all-sports • The American Football Coaches head track and field coach at Southeast ratings in those five years, its best-ever five- Association awarded its Academic Missouri State (1981-82) and assistant cross year run in that competition. Achievement Award for 2001 to Notre Dame country and track and field coach at Central • On nine occasions Irish teams have earned based on its 100 percent graduation rate. Michigan (1976-80). He began his coaching number-one national rankings. The University received a 2002 USA career at Gulf High School in New Port Richey, • The Irish claimed the '01 national Today/NCAA Academic Achievement Fla., coaching cross country and track and championship in women's basketball, the Award for graduating 90 percent of its assisting in football and wrestling. White also ’03 and ’05 NCAA titles in fencing and the ’04 student-athletes who enrolled in 1995 – and spent a year (1980-81) as district administrator crown in women’s soccer. it also received the 2003 award for highest for athletics and special projects for the Mt. • A record 37 Notre Dame athletes earned All- overall student-athlete graduation rate (92 Morris Consolidated School District in Mt. America honors in 2001-02. percent of those who enrolled in 1996). When Morris, Mich. • In 2003-04, an unprecedented 22 teams the NCAA first issued its Academic Born Sept. 25, 1950, in Amityville, N.Y., White qualified for NCAA competition, including Performance Rate numbers in 2005, Irish earned his Ph.D. from Southern Illinois two (hockey and women’s golf) that teams excelled, with 13 earning perfect University in 1983 with an emphasis on higher- accomplished that for the first time and a scores of 1,000. education administration. In 1985, he completed third (men’s golf) that made the field for the • The NCAA Division I-A Athletic Directors' postdoctoral work at Harvard University's first time in 38 years. Association gave one of its four 2000 awards Institute for Educational Management. He • Notre Dame won the BIG EAST Conference of excellence to Notre Dame's CHAMPS/Life earned his master's degree in athletics Commissioner's Trophy for overall athletic Skills Program. administration from Central Michigan success in league play for both men and • He renewed Notre Dame's NBC Sports University in 1976 and his bachelor's degree in women in 2001, ’02 and ‘03 – after which the contract for televising of home football business administration in 1972 from St. award was no longer presented. In 2004-05, games for five more years (through 2010) Joseph's College in Rensselaer, Ind., where he 13 Irish squads won either the BIG EAST and its Westwood One contract for football also competed as a sprinter in track and field. regular-season crown or tournament (or radio broadcasts for five more years White and his wife Jane (she also has degrees both). (through 2007). from St. Joseph’s and Central Michigan) have His five years on the job at Notre Dame have • He oversaw the University’s NCAA re- five children – Maureen, Michael, Danny (a featured a handful of other noteworthy certification process in 2004, as Notre Dame Notre Dame graduate), Brian (a senior at Notre accomplishments: went through that self-study and peer Dame) and Mariah. • He helped the Irish athletic program toward review process for the first time since 1997. its goal of becoming a top-five program in The University’s the NACDA Directors' Cup all-sports athletic program competition by championing the was recertified University's plan to add 64 grants-in-aid in without conditions. order to give all 26 varsity sports the full With a Ph.D. in NCAA complement of scholarships. education, White • He emphasized the need to remain currently is a concurrent competitive on the facilities front by associate professor in commissioning a facilities master plan that the management now provides a long-term plan for department of the upgrading Notre Dame's athletic physical Mendoza College of plant. Business, teaching as • On the academic front, in 2001-02, 25 teams part of Notre Dame's achieved GPAs of 3.0 or higher, including MBA program during eight Academic All-Americans. In 2002-03, spring semesters (he three Irish student-athletes earned teaches a sports recognition as both All-Americans on the business course). field and Academic All-Americans in the White has served on classroom. In 2003-04, Irish teams produced numerous NCAA six more Academic All-Americans, committees, including the NCAA Council,

UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME 132 Academic Services

such topics as stress management, socialization to college life, adjust- ing to physical trauma and conflict management. At the end of each academic year, the office hosts an Academic Excellence Dinner for student-ath- letes who have achieved excellence in the classroom. The University president, deans of each college, members of the Faculty Board on Athletics and coaches also attend. Students with 4.0 semester GPAs, the individual student with the highest GPA in each sport, the top senior student-athlete and the team with the highest GPA receive special awards.

Most Academic All-Americans Rk. University/College No. The Morse Center opened in 2001 through a generous gift by Notre Dame football alumnus Jim Morse and his wife Leah Rae. 1. Nebraska 222 2. NOTRE DAME 158 3. Massachusetts Institute 120 The University’s Academic Services for As soon as student-athletes begin classes, of Technology Student-Athletes Office is designed to help Academic Services monitors their progress 4. Penn State 114 Notre Dame fulfill its commitment to each through surveys of their professors. These 5. Augustana 112 student-athlete in his or her pursuit of a col- surveys ask professors to comment on the stu- 6. Bucknell 109 lege degree and academic excellence. In dents’ work level, attendance and any need 7. Illinois Wesleyan 101 8. Stanford 99 order to achieve these goals, Academic for tutorial help. If either a professor or a stu- 9. UCLA 96 Services has four major aims: to maintain the dent-athlete feels there is a need for addi- 10. Nebraska Wesleyan 86 academic integrity of the University, to com- tional help, Academic Services provides ply with all University and NCAA rules and tutors to student-athletes. *Number of Academic All-Americans through 2004-05 school year. regulations, to maintain the academic good In addition to this interaction with the fac- standing of every student-athlete, and to ulty, the members of the Academic Services assist every student-athlete to graduate in Office meet with student-athletes to develop 2004-05 Academic four years. The four objectives of Academic a personal relationship. These sessions help All-Americans Services all work together and are aimed at student-athletes to develop both semester- teaching student-athletes to be responsible long and career-long academic goals. Erika Bohn – Junior Discussions at this meeting may include Women’s Soccer for themselves academically. Brookfield, Connecticut such topics as summer-school attendance, To do so, Academic Services provides stu- 3.63, Art Design dent-athletes many services which begin as class scheduling and career possibilities. soon as freshmen arrive on campus and con- In 2001, the Academic-Services department Annie Schefter – Junior tinue through graduation. The office pro- received a new home through a generous Women’s Soccer vides consistent counseling and appropriate donation by football alumnus Jim Morse (’57) Yakima, Washington interventions regarding academic matters and his wife, Leah Rae, when the Coleman- 3.73, Pre-Professional Studies/Psychology and refers student-athletes to campus offices Morse Center was completed. A $14-million to meet regularly with their professors and to building, the James and Leah Rae Morse Kelli Barton – Senior Center for Academic Services houses Notre Women’s Swimming and Diving use support services provided by the various Scottsdale, Arizona Dame’s First Year of Studies Program and colleges and departments. 3.941, Theology/Political Science Academic Services for Student- Athletes. It also contains the Stacey Cowan – Junior University Writing Center, a satellite Women’s Track and Field office for the Center for Social Ferndale, Washington Concerns, classrooms, staff offices, a 3.78, Science/Pre-Professional Studies tutoring center, a computer cluster, workrooms and a lounge. Todd Mobley – Senior Working with the athletic depart- Men’s Cross Country/Track and Field Bloomfield, Michigan ment’s Student Welfare and 3.854, Business (MBA) Development office, Academic Services helps coordinate numerous Sean O’Donnell – Senior workshops and speakers to assist Men’s Cross Country/Track and Field student-athletes with post-gradua- Kansas City, Missouri tion planning and transition into pro- 3.854, Engineering Mary Ann Spence, shown here with volleyball player Lauren fessional careers. Offered in Brewster, and the rest of the Academic Services for Student-Athletes staff are assigned to specific sports, overseeing members of those conjunction with the University programs in their academic pursuits. Counseling Center, workshops cover 2005-06 CROSS COUNTRY/TRACK & FIELD 133 Known as a ground-breaking researcher, award- most respected and influential corporate trial Notre Dame winning teacher and gifted leader, Burish exemplifies lawyers, he currently is Jones Day's senior partner, Leaders the excellence and humanity to which Notre Dame is concentrating on appellate litigation and corporate dedicated. Through his work, he has helped “tens of governance. Rev. John I. thousands of cancer patients better cope with the A 1956 graduate of Notre Dame, Mr. McCartan Jenkins, C.S.C., took emotional and physical pain of this disease,” earned his law degree from the University in 1959. office as the 17th according to John R. Seffrin, chief executive officer of Before joining Jones Day, he served as law clerk to president of the the American Cancer Society. Burish currently serves Supreme Court justice Charles Evans Whittaker. University of Notre as chair of the American Cancer Society's national Dame on July 1, 2005. board of directors. Fernand N. Dutile, He was elected by the A native of Peshtigo, Wis., Burish was graduated affectionately known as University’s Board of from Notre Dame, summa cum laude, with a “Tex,” was appointed chair of Trustees to a five-year term bachelor's degree in psychology in 1972. He earned the University’s Faculty Board April 30, 2004. his master's degree in psychology from the University on Athletics in 2000. Dutile An associate professor of of Kansas in 1975 and a doctorate in clinical also is Notre Dame’s Athletic Rev. John I. Jenkins, philosophy and member of C.S.C. psychology from Kansas a year later. Faculty Representative to the Notre Dame’s faculty since University President While at Kansas, Burish received the David NCAA. 1990, Father Jenkins had Shulman Memorial Award of Excellence in Clinical A 1965 graduate of the served from July 2000 until becoming president as a Psychology. He moved in 1976 to Vanderbilt, becoming Notre Dame Law School and a vice president and associate provost at the a full professor in 1986. He won Vanderbilt’s member of the faculty since University. prestigious Madison Sarratt Prize for Excellence in 1971, Dutile previously served Tex Dutile NCAA Faculty Prior to his service in the provost’s office, Father Undergraduate Teaching in 1980 and served as chair on the Faculty Board from Representative Jenkins had been religious superior of the Holy Cross of the department of psychology from 1984 to 1986. 1991-98. He has served 25 priests and brothers at Notre Dame for three years. As Burish became Vanderbilt’s provost in 1993. He is the years on the University's Academic Council, religious superior, he was a Fellow and Trustee of the co-author or co-editor of four books, and has including 10 years on its executive committee, and University, but he relinquished those posts to assume contributed to more than 16 other books and written also was a member of the Provost's Advisory his duties in the provost's office. more than 60 journal articles. Committee and the search committees for the Father Jenkins specializes in the areas of ancient University's two most-recent provosts. He served as philosophy, medieval philosophy and the philosophy John Affleck-Graves acting dean of the Law School from 1991-93 and was of religion. He is the author of Knowledge and Faith was elected the first lay an associate dean from 1988-91 and from 1993-99. in Thomas Aquinas, published by Cambridge executive vice president of Dutile has served on numerous University and University Press in 1997. Notre Dame in April 2004. A Law School committees and is a member of the Father Jenkins earned degrees in philosophy from vice president and associate editorial board of the Notre Dame Press. He received Oxford University in 1987 and 1989. He earned his provost the previous three the 2001 James E. Armstrong Award, which is master of divinity degree and licentiate in sacred years, he also holds the Notre presented annually by the Notre Dame Alumni theology from the Jesuit School of Theology in Dame Chair in Finance in the Association for outstanding service to the University Berkeley, Calif., in 1988. Prior to entering the Mendoza College of Business. by an employee. Congregation of Holy Cross, he earned bachelor’s Dr. Affleck-Graves, the fifth and master’s degrees in philosophy from Notre Dame person to serve as executive Dr. John in 1976 and 1978, respectively. vice president, administers the Affleck-Graves Notre Dame Administration Father Jenkins was ordained a priest in Notre University’s annual operating Executive Dame’s Basilica of the Sacred Heart in 1983. He served budget of more than $700 Vice President President as director of the Old College program for Notre million and an endowment of Rev. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C. Dame undergraduate candidates for the more than $3 billion. He oversees human-resource Provost activities for a work force of more than 4,000 Congregation of Holy Cross from 1991 to 1993. Thomas G. Burish A native of Omaha, Neb., Father Jenkins was born employees – the largest in St. Joseph County – and Executive Vice President Dec. 17, 1953. directs the University’s construction program. A native of South Africa and a naturalized U.S. John Affleck-Graves Thomas G. Burish, citizen, Dr. Affleck-Graves specializes in the study of Vice President and Associate Provost formerly president at initial public offerings, valuation and asset pricing Christine Maziar Washington and Lee, models, and shareholder value-added methodology. Vice President and Associate Provost He is the author of more than 50 refereed publications University in Lexington, Va., Jean Ann Linney and a 1972 Notre Dame and the recipient of numerous teaching awards. alumnus, was elected provost Dr. Affleck-Graves joined the Notre Dame faculty in Vice President and Associate Provost on July 21, 2005. As provost 1986 after teaching and conducting research for the Dennis Jacobs and second-ranking officer of previous 11 years at his alma mater, the University of Vice President for Student Affairs the University, he exercises Cape Town, where he earned bachleor’s, master’s and Rev. Mark L. Poorman, C.S.C. responsibility for all academic doctoral degrees. Vice President for University Relations matters. He is the fourth Louis M. Nanni Thomas G. Burish person to hold the office since Patrick F. McCartan Provost it was established in 1970. was elected the fifth chair of Vice President for Graduate Studies/Research Burish succeeded Nathan O. Hatch, who became Notre Dame’s Board of Jeffrey C. Kantor president of Wake Forest University. In addition, Trustees in May 2000. He has Vice President and General Counsel Burish also was appointed a professor of psychology. been a Notre Dame trustee Carol Colby Kaesebier Burish had been president of one of the nation’s since 1989 and also is a Fellow Vice President for Business Operations top liberal-arts colleges since July 2002. Prior to of the University. James J. Lyphout joining Washington and Lee and prior to being Mr. McCartan served from named president was the longest-serving provost in 1993 through 2002 as Vice President and Chief Investment Officer the history of Vanderbilt University. He served as managing partner of Jones, Scott C. Malpass provost at the nationally-renowned research Patrick F. McCartan Day, Reavis & Pogue, an Vice President for Public Affairs, Communication university from 1993 to 2002. Chair of the Notre international law firm Hillary Crnkovich headquartered in Cleveland. Dame Board of Vice President for Finance Trustees Cited by The National Law Journal as one of the country's John A. Sejdinaj

UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME 134 Student Development

Student-Athlete Handbook/Planner, facilitating ‘An Evening at Shamrock Hills’ team dinners, serving as the primary advisors to the Student- Athlete Advisory Council, coordinating the Student-Athlete Leadership Institute and the athletic department’s annual year-end celebration, the O.S.C.A.R.S. – Outstanding Students Celebrating Achievements & Recognition Showcase. The Department of Athletics Student Development Program, which has been in existence since 1996, continues to grow and evolve in an effort to meet the needs of student- athletes, so as to ensure that when they Junior cornerback Ambrose Wooden helps out a youngster at the football team’s annual ‘Tackle the Arts’ function. graduate from the University, they are prepared for another transition. It is the mission of the The Department of Athletics Student administrators and coaches to request student-development staff that all Notre Dame Development Program is committed to the total coordination of workshops, events and student-athletes are fully prepared to development of Notre Dame student-athletes. activities) and essential services (student- successfully meet the challenges of life. The program fosters the cultivation of skills athletes participate in a series of that encourage student-athletes to reach their required skill-building and full potential. developmental work-shops and Not designed to replace existing on-campus activities). student services, the program acknowledges The many services offered by the unique needs and demands of student- the Student Development athletes. The Notre Dame Student Development Program include the following: program was one of four recognized in 2000 (the • Academic support by others were at Arizona State, Iowa and working in coordination with the Michigan State were the others) and given a Office of Academic Services for Program of Excellence Award by the NCAA Student-Athletes. Division I-A Athletic Directors’ Association. • Athletic success support The program also has been twice named to the with discussion topics on NSCA Outreach and Community Service Honor performance enhance-ment, Roll. leadership, nutrition, agents The Student Development Program and amateurism and sports implements events and activities that are conduct. designed to facilitate learning within five key • Preparing for post- areas: academic excellence, athletic success, graduation by working closely career preparation, community involvement with the Notre Dame Career and personal development. Center. The program has three components: elective • Bringing Notre Dame and services (community service, leadership, social the community together through Senior volleyball All-American Lauren Brewster participates in student development activities. events), complementary services (encourages specific relationships with local area hospitals, community The 2004-05 academic year was another that centers and outreach saw participation by Notre Dame student- agencies to provide athletes in student-development programs ongoing and reliable increase on virtually every front. In all, five volunteer opportunities. participation records were broken, spanning • An orientation across nearly all the programming program for freshman components: participation in community student-athletes to service (above 90%), teams completing service familiarize and identify projects (21 of 24), overall attendance for the the challenges and Student-Athlete and Parent Orientation, juniors opportunities that are registered with Go Irish (123), and students unique to them as both performing live during the O.S.C.A.R.S. Notre students and athletes. Dame also was named to the NCAS Outreach Student Development is and Community Service Honor Roll for the also responsible for second time in three years, while Derek Curry managing the was the third Irish football player in the last scholarship textbook five years named to the AFCA Good Works process, designing and Team. producing the annual Senior wide receiver Rhema McKnight poses for a picture with a friend at ‘Tackle the Arts.’

2005-06 CROSS COUNTRY/TRACK & FIELD 135 Dos and Don’ts for representatives in Dos NCAA regards to a current student-athlete: You may:

Compliance (The following lists of examples are not all-inclusive. As • forward information about prospective student- always, ask before you act!) athletes to the appropriate coaching staff. Thank you for your tremendous support of our Dos • have telephone contact with a prospect regarding entire athletics program. Our 800+ student- You may: permissible pre-enrollment activities such as summer athletes, coaches and administrative staff are • contact a current student-athlete regarding employment, provided the prospect has graduated very appreciative of your spirit and affinity for employment opportunities. However, no contact may be from high school and signed a National Letter of Intent. Notre Dame, in particular its intercollegiate made without approval from the Compliance Office. Also, you must contact the Compliance Office to make athletics. • provide a student-athlete, not his/her family and them aware that you are making these employment With that, your adherence to all applicable friends, an occasional (once a semester) meal at your arrangements. NCAA rules and regulations is essential as we home. • have a telephone conversation with a prospect only if strive to maintain and enhance our national the prospect initiates the call. Such a call may not be athletic prominence while protecting the Don’ts prearranged by an institutional staff member, and you University’s tradition of integrity and values. You may not: are not permitted to have a recruiting conversation, but Our Compliance Office staff stands prepared • provide a currently-enrolled student-athlete, his/her may exhibit normal civility. You must refer any to assist you with your questions and concerns parents or friends any benefit or special arrangement questions about our athletics programs to an athletics- regarding NCAA regulations. Please contact us without prior approval from the Compliance Office. department staff member/coach. immediately should you have concern regarding • pay for or arrange for payment of room, board or any • view a prospect’s athletic contest at your own initiative any situation. Your attention to these matters will type of transportation for a student-athlete or his/her provided you do not contact the prospect or his/her ensure that the eligibility of both prospective family or friends. parents. In addition, you may not contact a prospect’s student-athletes (“recruits”) and enrolled student- • entertain student-athletes or their family and friends. coach, principal, or counselor in an attempt to evaluate athletes is protected and maintained. Again, (Exception: NCAA rules do permit institutional staff the prospect. many thanks for your cooperation in this matter members and athletics representatives to provide • continue established family relationships with friends and your ongoing support. student-athletes [not including their family and friends] and neighbors. Contacts with sons and daughters of Go Fighting Irish! with an occasional meal [defined as once a semester] these families are permitted so long as they are not The Compliance Staff provided the meal is at the staff member’s or athletic made for recruiting purposes or encouraged by Notre (574) 631-8090 representative’s home and not at a restaurant.) Dame coaches. • use the name, picture or appearance of an enrolled student-athlete to advertise, recommend or promote Don’ts Who is a Representative of sales or use of a commercial product or service of any You may not: Notre Dame’s Athletics Interests? kind. Any use of a student-athlete’s name, picture or • write, e-mail or telephone a prospective student-athlete (The following lists of examples are not all-inclusive. As appearance must receive authorization from the or his/her parents in an effort to recruit them to Notre always, ask before you act!) Compliance Office. Dame. You are if: • provide any payment of expense or loan of an • become involved in making arrangements to provide money, financial aid or a benefit of any kind to a • you are an enrolled student or graduate of the automobile for a student-athlete to return home or to prospect or the prospect’s family and friends. University. travel to any other location. • make contact with a prospective student-athlete or • you have ever participated in or are a member of any • provide awards or gifts to a student-athlete for any his/her parents when the prospect is on-campus for an organization promoting Notre Dame’s athletics reason. All awards provided to student-athletes must official or unofficial recruiting visit. program (The former Quarterback Club, The 3-Pt. Club, first be approved by the Compliance Office and meet • contact a prospect to congratulate him/her on signing a The Fast-Break Club, etc.). all NCAA regulations. National Letter of Intent to attend the University. • you have ever made financial contributions to the • provide an honorarium to a student-athlete for a • transport, pay or arrange for payment of transportation University of Notre Dame athletics department. speaking engagement. All speaking engagements costs for a prospect or his/her relatives or friends to visit • you have ever helped to arrange employment of or must be approved in advance by the Compliance campus (or elsewhere). provided any benefits to prospective or enrolled Office. • pay or arrange for payment of summer-camp student-athletes. • allow a student-athlete or his/her relatives or friends to registration fees for a prospect. • you have ever been a season ticket holder in any sport. use your telephone to make free calls. • provide ANYTHING to a prospect, the prospect’s family • you have ever promoted the athletics programs at the • provide free or reduced-cost lodging in your home to a or friends without prior approval from the Compliance University of Notre Dame. student-athlete or a student-athlete’s family or friends. Office. The support of our alumni and friends is welcomed and According to NCAA rules, once an individual has been Prospective Student-Athlete appreciated. We ask, however, that you also help to keep identified as an institutional “representative of athletics A prospective student-athlete is any student who has Notre Dame’s tradition of athletics integrity intact by interests” the individual retains that title for life. The started classes for the ninth grade. Any student younger following the NCAA regulations. Your assistance will help University of Notre Dame is ultimately responsible for the who receives any benefits from an institution or athletics ensure that the eligibility of both prospective and currently- behavior of all its athletics representatives in relation to representative would become a prospective student-athlete. enrolled student-athletes is protected and preserved. Your NCAA rules and regulations. Violations of NCAA In addition, student-athletes enrolled in preparatory school efforts to know and follow the NCAA legislation are greatly regulations by an athletics representative could result in or two-year colleges are considered prospective student- appreciated because violations could affect the eligibility of the loss of eligibility for involved student-athletes (e.g. no athletes. * Note: An individual is considered a prospect involved prospects or student-athletes and/or result in participation in competitions) and/or severe sanctions (whether or not they have signed a National Letter of Intent) NCAA penalties being imposed on the University. against the University (e.g. loss of scholarships, television until the first day of initial collegiate enrollment or the first To that end, it should be our goal, as the best alumni and and post-season bans). day they report for practice, whichever is earliest. Therefore, all NCAA regulations concerning contact with a prospective fans in the country, to preserve and protect each and every Current Student-Athlete student-athlete are applicable until that time. student-athlete’s eligibility. All NCAA legislation cannot be covered in a limited space such as this page. Therefore, any A student-athlete is any Notre Dame student who is a additional questions should be forwarded to the member of a varsity athletics team. Dos and Don’ts for representatives in Compliance Office in the department of athletics. Please NCAA regulations apply to all student-athletes, not just regards to a prospective student-athlete: remember to ask before you act! those student-athletes who were recruited or who receive an (The following lists of examples are not all-inclusive. As athletics scholarship. *Note: NCAA regulations concerning always, ask before you act!) Mike Karwoski, Associate Director of Athletics enrolled student-athletes remain in effect throughout the (574) 631-4107 or [email protected] entire year (including summer break). If a student-athlete has completed his/her final season of eligibility, all NCAA Lisa Deibler, Assistant Director of Athletics regulations must be adhered to until he/she graduates or (574) 631-8090 or [email protected] leaves school. Allen Greene, Coordinator of Compliance Information (574) 631-7358 or [email protected]

God Bless! Go Fighting Irish!

UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME 136 The Notre Dame Alumni Association was established ceived by local communities. The Alumni Association in 1868, some 26 years after the University’s founding. helps coordinate activities of 214 domestic alumni clubs Alumni Father Neal Gillespie, C.S.C., was elected the first pres- and 56 international chapters. Organizations ident of the Notre Dame Alumni Association, then com- Reunion Weekend — Traditionally held the first prised of just a few hundred graduates — while the weekend in June, Alumni Reunion is the largest cam- (next to the Hammes Bookstore), offers a current membership reaches nearly 110,000. pus program sponsored by the Alumni Association. meeting and resting place for visitors, in Leadership — Several Alumni Association staff are Each five-year class is invited to participate. The pro- addition to providing a summary of the former Notre Dame student-athletes, led by executive gram offers exciting and rewarding events for some University's history. Display cases line the director Chuck Lennon (a catcher with the Irish base- 3,500 alumni and their spouses. walls of the center, featuring University ball team in the early 1960s) and another former Irish Notre Dame Magazine — This publication, distrib- information and artifacts. A lighted aerial baseball player, Scott Siler (’82), who serves as the uted four times a year, is sent to all alumni as well as map gives a visual overview of campus Association’s director of information technology. parents of current students. News contributed by class and interactive kiosks allow visitors to take Membership — Any person who holds a graduate officers is featured in the section entitled, “The a virtual tour of the campus. A number of or undergraduate degree from Notre Dame and any Classes.” sculptures are on display, including the person who has matriculated at the University and is The Alumni Newsletter — This publication is distrib- work of the late world-renowned artist and approved for membership by the Alumni Board of uted three times a year and highlights people, pro- Notre Dame professor Ivan Mestrovic. An Directors shall be a regular member of the Alumni grams and events that are related to the Alumni auditorium offers a DVD movie that chroni- Association. Association, including local alumni activities. cles Notre Dame's tradition and excellence Alumni Clubs — An alumni club is one of the most Visitors’ Center — The Eck Visitors' Center, located in academics and athletics and its commit- viable channels through which the University is per- on the south end of campus on Notre Dame Avenue ment to spirituality.

Notre Dame Monogram Club: “Bridging the Gap Between Legend and Legacy”

The Notre Dame Monogram Club is comprised of some bilia, pictures of individuals and teams, trophies of vari- 3,500 individuals who have earned the University’s var- ous awards and other interesting objects detailing the sity athletic insignia for their athletic or team-support history of Notre Dame athletics. An interactive web-based endeavors or who have been honorary-monogram recip- kiosk recently has been added to the Heritage Hall, with ients. The club supports the primary goal of the the kiosk’s offerings including data on every all-time University: the spiritual, intellectual and physical devel- Notre Dame monogram winner and an elaborate search- opment of its students and alumni. By providing its mem- ing mechanism that can sort monogram winners based bers the opportunity to foster and maintain relationships on a wide variety of biographical categories. across different sports, generations and geographical The Monogram Club’s ever-growing list of events and locations, the Monogram Club aspires to contribute – projects included the following activities during 2004-05: through the common bond of sport – to the social and pro- • Sponsorship of student-athletes who participated in fessional enrichment of its members while providing a various domestic and international summer-service proj- means for ongoing association with the University. As an ects, as coordinated by Notre Dame’s Center for Social integral part of the Notre Dame family, the Monogram Concerns Club endeavors to uphold and enrich the great tradition • Funding aid for the Notre Dame men’s golf invita- of Notre Dame athletics. tional and foreign trips by the women’s soccer team One of the organization’s primary functions continues (Brazil) and the men’s swimming and diving team to be providing aid to children of Monogram Club mem- (Ireland) bers to attend Notre Dame, through the Brennan-Boland- • Continuing financial assistance ($100,000 in ’04-’05) to Monogram Club members annually greet the Notre Riehle Scholarship Fund. The fund is named in honor of programs benefiting current student-athletes, via the stu- Dame football team as it takes the field prior to the final Joe Boland, Rev. Thomas Brennan, C.S.C., and Rev. James dent welfare initiative (in conjunction with the athletic home game. Riehle, C.S.C. Monogram Club members donate to the department’s student welfare/life skills programs) fund, and the University handles the principal funds, • An expanded student-athlete outreach and education • Expanded offerings and unique content on the official with interest providing scholarship money. The fund has program that includes the continued sponsorship of the Monogram Club website at www.ndmonogramclub.com grown to approximately $3 million, making it one of Notre annual “OSCARS” all-sports banquet (with specific fund- (also linked via und.com) Dame’s largest endowments. ing for the popular multi-segment, all-sports highlight • An ever-increasing list of member benefits, including Since the fund’s inception in 1979, there have been 131 video), an informative brochure targeted to student-ath- the quarterly Inside Irish newsletter (now available via e- recipients whose combined scholarship allocations are letes and continued sponsorship of the varsity monogram mail, in PDF format) nearly $2 million – including 45 sons and daughters of awards program (letter jackets, blazers, blankets, rings, • And the traditional awarding of honorary monograms Monogram Club members who attended Notre Dame in and watches) – presented on an annual basis to a select group of indi- 2004-05. • The continuing program of providing laptop comput- viduals who have demonstrated exceptional service to In 1976, at a meeting called by 1949 Heisman Trophy ers to the Academic Services for Student-Athletes, with Notre Dame – in conjunction with the announcement of winner Leon Hart, the Monogram Club developed its student-athletes able to check out these computers for use the Monogram Club’s annual Moose Krause bylaws, recommending that the purpose of the club was during official team travel; and ongoing funding and Distinguished Service Award to foster all the principles of the University in its aca- presentation of BIG EAST-championship rings and The Monogram Club of today is comprised of some demic, athletic, religious and social endeavors along NCAA-participation awards for Notre Dame teams and 3,500 dues-paying members and current student-athletes with promoting camaraderie between former athletes individuals who are awarded the block ND with a jacket or blazer. and alumni. Other recent Monogram Club projects have included: Yearly dues entitle members to a variety of benefits: During the Monogram Club presidency of Harvey • A joint effort with the network of local Notre Dame annual golf outing and dinner; membership card; the Foster in 1981, he recommended that an endowment fund alumni clubs, providing 13 team hosting events (such as Inside Irish publication, with first-class mailing; mem- be started for the express purpose of aiding the receptions and cultural events) in ’04-’05 for Notre Dame bers’ children eligible for Brennan-Boland-Riehle scholar- University in continuing non-revenue sports. During the varsity programs as they travel throughout the country ship at Notre Dame; and ticket applications for home next 15 months, nearly $8 million was pledged and paid • The return of a series of football-weekend receptions football games. The Club’s annual golf outing, mass for into the endowment fund. Endowment contributions still for Monogram Club members and their guests, held in the deceased members, dinner and meeting typically is held are accepted but more recently the Monogram Club’s Joyce Center prior to each home football game (the final in early June on the Thursday of the Notre Dame Alumni efforts have been directed to increasing the Brennan- home game also typically includes a unique thrill for all Reunion Weekend. Boland-Riehle Fund. former monogram winners in attendance, who form the Assistant athletic director Jim Fraleigh has served as In 1984, during the presidency of Jim Lynch, the club pregame tunnel as the Irish team takes the field) the Monogram Club’s executive director since the fall of received permission to construct a Sports Heritage Hall • Continuing an expanded sponsorship of the annual 2004 while the current president is former volleyball in the concourse of the Joyce Center. The first phase was Blue-Gold Football Alumni Weekend that includes the player Julie Pierson Doyle (the first female president in to provide a ring of gold which names each monogram alumni flag-football game and an interactive Friday- the history of the Monogram Club). The second vice-pres- winner, alphabetically by decade, with those plans night dinner (attended by 500-plus) with the program’s ident is former basketball player Marc Kelly while former reaching fruition in 1987 when some 4,300 names were current players and coaches Academic All-America football player Joe Restic has placed in gold letters on the oak panels (nearly 1,700 • The organization of several popular events, including joined the officer rotation as second vice-president. names later were added in 2001, honoring monogram the third annual Football Fantasy Camp, the second winners from the 1990s). Adult Tennis Camp and the annual Monogram Club golf The second phase of the Heritage Hall involved build- outing (held during reunion weekend) ing display cases showing various pieces of memora- 2005-06 CROSS COUNTRY/TRACK & FIELD 137 Statement of Principles

Throughout its long and proud history, the University of Notre Dame has embraced the philosophy that a well-rounded athletics program — including club, intramural and intercollegiate competition — comprises an integral part of Notre Dame’s educational mission. This philosophy reflects the importance of operating an intercollegiate athletics program that fully comports with the University’s aspirations as a Catholic institution. Notre Dame therefore dedicates itself to the pursuit of excellence in intercollegiate athletics within the framework of an academic community committed to the University’s educational and religious objectives. Notre Dame also commits itself to the unquestioned integrity of its athletics programs. All individuals involved, directly or indirectly, in the athletics enterprise must maintain and foster the values and goals associated with the University’s mission as a Catholic institution of higher education. As a Catholic university, Notre Dame espouses institutional support for student-athletes. In Basic Principles Christian values and principles. These include the addition, the Board sets guidelines for the approval 1. Any student hoping to succeed at the University development of the human person — spirit as well of all student petitions for fifth years of eligibility for needs a significant level of ability and preparation. as body — in addition to the pursuit of excellence in athletics and votes on each such petition. The Board Therefore, the Office of Undergraduate Admissions all endeavors, the nurturing of Christian character, establishes guidelines for all intercollegiate will accept into the University only those student- and the call to personal integrity and responsibility. athletics schedules and qualifications for captaincy athletes who demonstrate, on the basis of the best By providing a general description of the structures of all University teams, and it votes on all proposed available academic and character-based that support these endeavors, this document schedules and captaincy nominations. The Board information, the capacity to complete a degree at articulates the central values and expectations that also assesses and revises procedures for resolving Notre Dame. guide the University of Notre Dame’s participation prospective conflicts between final examinations 2. Even for individuals manifestly well-suited for in intercollegiate athletics. and post-season championship events. Notre Dame, the adjustments to the rigors of In its role as a liaison to the broader faculty, the academic and athletic life in a highly-competitive PRESIDENTIAL CONTROL Faculty Board disseminates appropriate, non- university present difficulties. The University Notre Dame adheres to the principle of confidential information and initiates discussions recognizes its responsibility to provide appropriate presidential control over intercollegiate athletics. on educational issues regarding intercollegiate assistance to enable student-athletes to meet the The director of athletics reports to the president, athletics and the related concerns of the faculty and demands of both academic and athletic competition. who exercises ultimate responsibility for the administration. To this end, the University affords its student- conduct of the University’s intercollegiate athletics 2. The faculty athletics representative champions athletes suitable academic counsel and support, program. The Faculty Board on Athletics serves as academic integrity, promotes the welfare of student- primarily under the auspices of the provost’s office. the principal advisory group to the president on athletes, and helps ensure institutional control of Other sources of support, both academic and educational issues related to intercollegiate intercollegiate athletics. More specifically, the personal, include the faculty, academic advisors, the athletics. The chair of the Faculty Board on Athletics faculty athletics representative works with the residence-hall staff, coaches, athletics also serves as the NCAA-mandated faculty president and the director of athletics to maintain administrators and the Student Development athletics representative. appropriate University oversight of intercollegiate Program. athletics; assists the president and director of 3. The University strives to schedule practices and Basic Principles athletics in determining institutional positions on competitions so as to minimize conflicts with class 1. The Faculty Board on Athletics nurtures Notre proposed NCAA and conference legislation; serves periods and other academic assignments of student- Dame’s commitment to academic integrity within on search committees for senior athletics athletes. In this regard, the rhythm of the academic the athletics program, strives to ensure that the administrators and head coaches; oversees year and the particular importance of final University’s athletics program operates in decisions regarding eligibility of student-athletes; examinations warrant special attention. All playing consonance with Notre Dame’s educational remains visible and available to student-athletes; schedules remain subject to the approval of the mission, and actively promotes the welfare and and actively participates in all investigations and Faculty Board on Athletics. educational success of the University’s student- reports of possible NCAA violations. 4. Notre Dame expects its student-athletes to athletes. The Board also functions as a formal maintain the appropriate sequence and number of liaison between the faculty and the athletics ACADEMICS courses and the grade-point-average necessary to department. Notre Dame dedicates itself to providing to all of complete a degree within the usual time (normally In carrying out its charge, the Board reviews its students an outstanding education. The four years), including summer classes when policies, procedures and practices that affect the University commits itself to developing in its appropriate. Any exception to this policy remains educational experience of student-athletes and students those disciplined habits of mind, body and subject to the approval of the Faculty Board on advises the president of its findings and spirit that characterize educated, skilled and free Athletics. deliberations. The Board systematically ascertains human beings. Notre Dame calls its students to the views and concerns of student-athletes. The pursue the wisdom of our culture and religious STUDENT LIFE Board reviews data on admissions of student- heritage and to experience the human family’s Like other students, student-athletes should have athletes and on their academic performance, diversity and interdependence. To accomplish these the opportunity to pursue fully the University’s progress towards degrees, and graduation rates. objectives, the University provides to its students, academic, cultural and spiritual resources. The The Board assesses the effectiveness of on an equitable basis, ongoing opportunities to University holds student-athletes not only to the cultivate their moral, intellectual and physical well- same standard of conduct that applies to other being. students, but also to that higher level of behavior appropriate to their visibility. UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME 138 Basic Principles in residence halls; exceptions to this policy remain 1. Student-athletes must comply with all subject to the approval of the Faculty Board on Statement of

University rules and guidelines, including those set Athletics. Moreover, Notre Dame provides no Principles out in both the student handbook, du Lac, and in the separate residence halls or sections of residence Student-Athlete Handbook. The Office of Residence halls for student-athletes. standards and reports such violations Life and Housing enforces the University-wide rules 3. The University lists among its primary according to the applicable conference or according to procedures applicable to all student concerns the physical and mental health of all NCAA procedures. disciplinary matters. members of the Notre Dame community. Because of 2. The University strives to integrate student- the dangers inherent in athletic competition, the ADMINISTRATION OF THE athletes into the student body so that all students prevention of injuries and the provision of medical DEPARTMENT OF may take full advantage of the educational and care for student-athletes demand particular concern ATHLETICS other opportunities afforded by campus and hall and deserve constant attention. The appropriate The director of athletics and the other life. Given the centrality of residential life to the sports-medicine and athletics-training personnel administrators in the department of University’s mission, student-athletes normally live alone determine whether injury or illness precludes athletics supervise all activities of the a student-athlete from practicing or competing. athletics program at the University. All 4. Because of the harm that illicit drug use causes aspects of the program must accord with Chronology of Varsity and the pressure on student-athletes to use the principles of justice and fairness. In addition, performance-enhancing drugs, drug-related Notre Dame expects the personal and professional Sports at Notre Dame education and counseling require particular lives of its athletics administrators to reflect the emphasis. As a preventive measure, all student- highest standards of behavior. Athletics 1880s athletes remain subject to regular, random, and administrators also must adhere to the policies and unannounced drug testing according to the procedures of the University, its conferences and 1887 — Football becomes first men’s sport, University’s established drug-testing protocol. the NCAA. The University treats all violations of awards 14 monograms University Health Services decides the timing of such policies and procedures seriously. 1889 — Track & field becomes men’s sport drug tests, determines whom to test and administers 1890s the tests. The drug-testing protocol prescribes the Basic Principles treatment of test results and the consequences of a 1. The University maintains full and direct 1891 — Baseball becomes men’s sport positive test. control of the financial operations of the athletics 1897 — Basketball becomes men’s sport 5. Notre Dame regularly provides chaplains for department, including all revenues. The operating budget and the ongoing financial activities of the 1920s athletics teams. Chaplains’ duties include pastoral care and liturgical services for student-athletes, athletics department remain subject to the same 1923 — Cross country becomes men’s sport, coaches and staff. approval process as all other units of the University. with Knute Rockne as coach 2. Historically, Notre Dame’s athletics program 1923 — Tennis becomes men’s sport COACHING STAFFS has generated funds sufficient to cover its The University strives to maintain a staff of expenses, as well as to provide funds for the 1930s coaches who represent the best in athletic University’s general operating budget. The 1930 — Golf becomes men’s sport instruction, who possess the ability to motivate and generation of revenue must always take into consideration Notre Dame’s integrity and priorities. 1934 — Fencing becomes men’s sport inspire, and who take responsibility for the full development of the student-athletes within their 3. The University commits itself to the principle 1950s charge as students, athletes and persons. Coaches, of racial, ethnic and gender diversity in the composition of its coaching and administrative 1955 — Wrestling becomes men’s sport who after all are primarily teachers, share with members of the faculty and other University staffs. Notre Dame will make every reasonable 1958 — Swimming & diving becomes men’s personnel the obligation to educate, train and effort to promote this commitment as positions are sport otherwise assist in the formation of students created or vacated. 4. Consistent with its overall academic mission 1960s entrusted to them. Furthermore, Notre Dame recognizes the important role each coach plays in and program, its financial resources and the 1968 — Ice hockey becomes men’s sport the University’s overall educational mission and athletic interests of its student body, the University 1970s makes this aspect an important part of both the will provide a full and stable athletics program for coach’s position description and periodic both sexes. Notre Dame embraces the principle of 1976 — Tennis and fencing become first evaluation. Because of the public nature of their gender equity and will continue to monitor its women’s sports work, coaches represent Notre Dame in a highly- intercollegiate programs in accord with this 1977 — Basketball becomes women’s sport visible manner. Their words and actions should principle. 5. In considering conference affiliations, the 1977 — Soccer becomes men’s sport therefore reflect the University’s values and principles. University will assess the extent to which the other 1978 — Field hockey becomes women’s sport institutions involved share Notre Dame’s 1980s Basic Principles educational philosophies and goals, as well as its 1. Notre Dame expects the personal and commitment to integrity in intercollegiate athletics. 1980 — Volleyball becomes women’s sport professional lives of its coaches to reflect highest 1981 — Lacrosse becomes men’s sport standards of behavior. Coaches’ actions must CONCLUSION 1981 — Swimming & diving becomes demonstrate that athletic success may not Notre Dame endeavors to maintain a highly- competitive athletics program consistent with its women’s sport jeopardize institutional or personal integrity or student-athlete welfare. tradition, heritage and overall mission as a 1986 — Cross country becomes women’s sport 2. Notre Dame expects its coaches to appreciate Catholic university. It will attempt to excel in 1986 — Field hockey discontinued as the primacy of academic life at Notre Dame and to intercollegiate athletics, but always in conformity women’s sport emphasize that primacy during the recruitment and with its primary role as an educator and moral guide. Notre Dame will conduct its intercollegiate 1988 — Soccer and golf become education of student-athletes and their participation athletics program so as to support the University’s women’s sports in intercollegiate athletics. 3. Notre Dame requires its coaches to adhere to commitment to education, as well as the letter and 1989 — Softball becomes women’s sport the policies and procedures of the University, its spirit of the policies and procedures of the University, its conferences and the NCAA. 1990s conferences and the NCAA. To that end, Notre Dame provides a comprehensive orientation to new 1991 — Track & field becomes women’s sport coaches and suitable continuing education to other 1992 — Wrestling discontinued as men’s sport coaches. The University treats seriously all 1996 — Lacrosse becomes women’s sport violations of University, conference or NCAA 1998 — Rowing becomes women’s sport 2005-06 CROSS COUNTRY/TRACK & FIELD 139 Noteworthy Alumni

Many observers often are surprised to discover that Notre Dame’s total enrollment encompasses fewer than 12,000 students per year. That surprise is due in part to the University’s national appeal, but it also is due to the many noteworthy Notre Dame Condoleezza Rice Robert Galvin Edmond Haggar Nicholas Sparks Mark Shields Regis Philbin alumni who have gone on to distinguish themselves Legal Careers in a wide variety of fields. Other Government Notables David Hoppe (’73) – chief of staff to Sen. Trent Lott Kathleen Blatz (’76) – chief justice, Minnesota Supreme Court Listings on this page are simply a sampling of the John Keane (’55) – former director of U.S. Census Bureau Quin Denvir (’62) – public defender, Sacramento, Calif. many noteworthy individuals who have spent their Joe Kernan (’68) – former governor of Indiana Emilio Garza (’69, ’70) – judge, U.S. Court of Appeals, 5th Circuit formative years in academia at Notre Dame. A more detailed John Sears (’61) – Pres. Ronald Reagan campaign manager Paul Kelly, Jr. (’63) – judge, U.S. Court of Appeals, 10th Circuit list can be found at www.nd.edu (follow the alumni link), and Frank Walker (’07) – postmaster general and Diana Lewis (’74, ’82) – circuit judge, 15th Judicial Circuit, some additional noteworthy alums are included on the ath- advisor to President Franklin D. Roosevelt (deceased) West Palm Beach letic heritage page later in this section. Patrick McCartan (’56) – senior partner, Jones Day Corporation Presidents, Chairs and CEOs *Kevin O’Connor (’89) – U.S. attorney (Conn.) Current University Presidents Kathleen Andrews (’62) – CEO, Andrews McMeel Publishing *Alan Page (’67) – judge, Minnesota Supreme Court Warren Baker (’60, ’62) – Cal Poly James Berges (’69) – president, Emerson Electric Ann Williams (’75) – judge, U.S. Court of Appeals, 7th Circuit Rev. E. William Beauchamp (’75, ‘81) – Portland Paul Charron (’64) – chair/CEO, Liz Claiborne *Bill Zloch (’66) – U.S. district judge (South Fla.) John Cavanaugh (’77, ‘78) – West Florida Al DeCrane (’53) – retired CEO, Texaco Thomas Chema (’68, ‘71) – Hiram (Ohio) College Cyrus Freidheim, Jr. (’57) – retired chairman and CEO, Clergy Steven Cramer (’85) – Bethel College (Ind.) Chiquita Brands International Archbishop William Borders (’47) – of Baltimore (retired) James Creagan (’62) – John Cabot University Robert Galvin (’44) – retired chairman, Motorola Rev. William Corby, C.S.C. (1854) – Civil War chaplain with John Dempsey (’67) – Sandhills College Edmond Haggar (’38), deceased and Joe Haggar (’45) – former the Irish Brigade (deceased) Thomas Dillon (’72, ’77) – Thomas Aquinas chairs of Haggar Company Rev. William Dorwart, C.S.C. (’76) – former provincial Charles Dougherty (’73, ’75) – Duquesne Joe Haggar, III (’73) – chair/CEO, Haggar Co. superior, Indiana Province of Holy Cross Glen Gabert (’68) – Hudson County College Bernard Hank, Jr. (’51) – former CEO of Montgomery Elevator Archbishop Raymond Hunthausen (’53) – of Seattle (retired) Phillip Glotzbach (’72) – Skidmore John Kinsella (’50) – former chairman of Leo Burnett Archbishop Alfredo Mendez-Gonzalez (’33) – of Puerto Rico Thomas Gordon (’63) – Avila University (Mo.) Advertising Agency (deceased) Robert Helmer (’82) – Lourdes College Andrew McKenna (’51) – chair, president and CEO of Schwarz Archbishop John Cardinal O’Hara (‘11) – of Philadelphia *Rev. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C. (’76, ‘78) – University of (paper company); share of McDonald’s Corp. (deceased) Notre Dame John McMeel (’57) – co-founder and president of Universal Bishop Daniel Jenky (’70, ’73) – of Peoria, Ill. Stephen Kopp (’73) – Marshall Press Syndicate; chair/pres. of Andrews McMeel Universal Rev. David Tyson, C.S.C. (’70, ’74) – provincial superior, Arthur Lendo (’68) – Peirce College (Pa.) Tom Mendoza (’73) – president, Network Appliance Indiana Province of Holy Cross Stanley Liberty (’65, ‘68, ‘71) – Kettering Lucio Noto (’59) – retired president/CEO, Mobil Corp. Medicine Brother Michael McGinniss, F.S.C. (’78, ‘81) – La Salle Michael Pasquale (’69) – executive V.P./CEO, Hershey Foods James Curran (’66) – AIDS researcher; dean of public health Joseph McGowan (’66, ‘68) – Bellarmine Corp. school, Emory University William Medland (’66) – Viterbo University *Karl Peterson (’92) – former owner/CEO, Hotwire.com Dr. Tom Dooley (’48) – noted humanitaraian in Southeast Carol Ann Mooney (‘77) – Saint Mary’s College (Ind.) Philip Purcell (’64) – former chair/CEO, Morgan Stanley Asia (deceased) Rev. Thomas O’Hara (’77) – King’s College (Pa.) William Shaw (’67) – president and CEO, Marriott *Dr. Carol Lally Shields (‘79) – nationally-renowned oncolo- Lisa Porsche-Burke (’81, 83) – Phillips Grad. Inst. (Calif.) International gist and ophthalmologist Kevin Reilly (’71) – University of Wisconsin system John Shiely (’74) – president, chair and CEO of Briggs & *Dr. Bill Hurd (’69) – eye surgeon; jazz saxophonist Peter Sampo (’60, ’68) – Thomas More Stratton Dr. James Muller (’65) – co-founder of Physicians for the Judson Shaver (’79, ‘84) – Marymont Manhattan Robert Welsh (’56) – president/CEO, Welsh, Inc. Sister Diane Steele (’93, ‘01) – University of Saint Mary (Kan.) Prevention of Nuclear War (1985 Nobel Peace Prize) Eugene Trani (’61) – Virginia Commonwealth Authors *Dr. Dennis Nigro (’69) – reconstructive surgeon Robert Sam Anson (’67) – journalist and author Stephen Weber (’69) – San Diego State Inventors Michael Collins (’87, ‘91) – author of The Keepers of Truth, The Donald Wharton (’65) – Plymouth State Rev. Julius Nieuwland, C.S.C. (1899) – scientist and inventor Resurrectionists and Exodus of synthetic rubber (deceased) U.S. Congressmen Daniel Coyle (’87) – author of Hardball: A Season in the Hubert Schlafly (’41) – patented the TelePromTer Michael Ferguson (’92) – congressman (R, N.J.) Projects Albert Zahm (1885) – prominent in early flight (deceased) Peter King (’68) – congressman (R, N.Y.) Barry Lopez (’66, ’68) – award-winning author, including Arctic Daniel Lungren (’68) – congressman (R, Calif.) Dreams and Of Wolves and Men Others of Note Ron Mazzoli (’54) – former congressman (D, Ky.) *Nicholas Sparks (’88) – novelist of bestsellers The Notebook, General Patrick Brady (’72) – U.S. Army (retired) Joe McDade (’53) – former congressman (R, Pa.) Message in a Bottle and A Walk to Remember John Burgee (’56) – renowned architect *Ron Mottl (’56) – former congressman (D, Ohio) Anthony Walton (’82) – author of Mississippi: An American Michael Hawes (’78) – NASA deputy associate administrator Tim Roemer (’81, ’85) – former congressman (D, Ind.) Journey for international space station Mark Souder (’74) – congressman (R, Ind.) *Michael Oriard (’70) – author; professor of English, Oregon Television and Film Producers Peter Visclosky (’73) – congressman (D, Ind.) State University Tom Bettag (’66, ’67) – executive producer, “Nightline” James Wetherbee (’74) – space-shuttle astronaut White House Cabinet Members Tony Bill (’62) – film producer, including Frank Sinatra’s debut Eric Wieschaus (’69) – Nobel laureate, Princeton Richard Allen (’57, ’58) – former national security advisor “Come Blow Your Horn” and movies such as “The Sting” Bruce Babbitt (’60) – former secretary of the interior; former and “My Bodyguard” governor of Arizona Sandra Hodge (’84) – filmmaker, with directing Condoleezza Rice (’75) – secretary of state credits including the award-winning documentary “The Foreign Ambassadors Truth, The Pain, The Sacrifice: An Actor’s Reality” Gary Cooper (’58) – former U.S. ambassador to Jamaica News Correspondents *Michael Wadsworth (’66) – former Canadian ambassador to Dr. Bob Arnot (’70) – NBC medical correspondent Ireland (deceased) William Pfaff (’49) – political commentator, Paris James Creagan (’62) – former U.S. ambassador to Honduras Mark Shields (’59) – political analyst with “The Capital Gang” World Leaders and “Novak, Hunt & Shields” Alan Page Eric Wieschaus Ernestos Perez Balladares (’67, ’69) – former president of Anne Thompson (’79) – correspondent, “NBC Nightly News” Jose Napolean Duarte Panama Ken Woodward (’57) – senior writer and religion editor, Jose Napolean Duarte (’48) – former president of El Salvador Newsweek (deceased) Television Personalities * Several of the above were student-athletes at Notre Dame *Pedro Rosselló (’66) – former governor of Puerto Rico Jimmy Brogan (’70) – former writer for “The Tonight Show” (noted by asterisks): baseball’s Joe Kernan and Ron Mottl, Phil Donahue (’57) – former television talk show host tennis players Pedro Rosselló and Dennis Nigro, Kevin Regis Philbin (’53) – television talk show host O’Connor (lacrosse), basketball’s Carol Lally, track and field’s Nicholas Sparks and Bill Hurd, swimmer Karl Peterson and football players Michael Wadsworth, Alan Page, Bill Zloch and Mike Oriard.

UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME 140 DIRECTORS' CUP STANDINGS After peaking at a program-best first, Notre NACDA

Dame finished 16th in the final standings Directors’ Cup released in the 2004-05 United States Sports Academy Division I Directors’ Cup all-sports Women’s soccer is next, having con- competition sponsored by the National tributed 751.5 points, highlighted by Association of Collegiate Directors of seven national-semifinal appear- Athletics (formerly known as Sears Directors’ ances and a pair of titles (’95, ’04). It Cup). also stands as one of two teams – Notre Dame was among 12 schools to earn along with women’s volleyball – to a top-20 finish for the fifth straight year. Irish have scored points in the NACDA programs finished 11th in 2000-01, 13th in ’01- Cup in all 12 years. Ten of Notre ’02 and ’02-’03, and 19th in ’03-’04. The other Dame’s sports have contributed schools with that distinction include five points on 10 or more occasions, from the Pacific-10 Conference (Stanford, while 17 have scored in at least half UCLA, California, Arizona State and Arizona) of the NACDA-Cup competitions. and two each from the Big Ten (Michigan and The Directors’ Cup competition Ohio State) and Southeastern (Florida and honors institutions that maintain Georgia) conferences, plus Big-12 team Texas athletic programs that seek to and North Carolina of the Atlantic Coast achieve success in many sports, Conference. both men’s and women’s. Begun in 1993-94 for FALL Division I by NACDA and USA Today, the pro- Fall NCAA competition earned the Irish 337 gram was expanded in 1995-96 to include points based on their NCAA title in women's Divisions II, III, and the NAIA. Each institu- soccer (100 points), their fourth-place finish in tion is awarded points in a pre-determined women's cross country (80 points), their 11th- number of sports for men and women (10 place finish in men's cross country (57 points) each in Division I). The overall champion is and their second-round NCAA appearances the institution that records the highest num- in both men's soccer and volleyball (50 points ber of points in their division’s United States each). Sports Academy Division I Directors’ Cup standings. Notre Dame finished the fall seasons in first Notre Dame placed 16th in the 2004-05 NACDA place – marking the first time in the 12-year Directors’ Cup competition. history of the program that Notre Dame ranked The 2004-05 Final number one. The highest ranking for the Irish prior to 2004-05 had been third in the final fall WINTER NACDA Directors’ Cup standings in both 1996-97 and 2002-03. Winter competition netted Notre Dame 203 Standings points – based on its NCAA combined men's and women's championship in fencing (50 1. Stanford 1,238.75 points), a 24th-place NCAA finish in women's 2. Texas 1,074 swimming and diving (49.5 points), a 20th- place NCAA finish in men's indoor track and 3. UCLA 1,067 field (53.5 points) and a second-round NCAA 4. Michigan 1,064.25 appearance in women's basketball (50 points). 5. Duke 1,021.25 SPRING 6. Florida 979.25 Spring sports play netted 248 points, thanks to NCAA participation in baseball (tied for 7. Georgia 970 17th, 50 points based on regional runner-up 8. Tennessee 960.25 finish), women’s golf (52nd, 21 points), men’s golf (tied for 37th, 35 points), softball (tied for 9. North Carolina 940.5 17th, 50 points based on regional appear- 10. Southern California 902.25 ance), women’s tennis (tied for 17th, 50 points), men’s tennis (tied for 33rd, 25 points) 11. Arizona State 838.25 and women’s track and field (55th, 17 points). 12. Ohio State 834.25 HISTORICAL PERFORMANCE 13. Virginia 808.5 In previous years in which the Directors’ Cup competition has been held, Notre Dame 14. Washington 797.25 has finished 11th in 1993-94, 30th in 1994-95, 15. California 792.5 11th in 1995-96, 14th in 1996-97, tied for 31st in 1997-98, 25th in 1998-99, 21st in 1999-2000, 11th 16. Notre Dame 788 in 2000-01, 13th in 2001-02, tied for 13th in 2002- 17. Auburn 781 03 and 19th in 2003-04. Twenty-four of Notre Dame’s 26 varsity 18. Arizona 739 sports have scored points for the Irish in the 19. Wisconsin 686.75 NACDA Cup. Leading the way are the men’s and women’s fencing programs, which have 20. Penn State 657.25 Current senior Molly Huddle has earned All-America used 10 consecutive top-three finishes at the accolades on seven occasions. NCAAs to contribute 766 points since fencing was added to the NACDA Cup in 1995-96.

2005-06 CROSS COUNTRY/TRACK & FIELD 141 Michael Yergler and Dr. Sports Chris Balint tend to the Medicine orthopedic needs of the Fighting Irish. A host of From the days of Knute Rockne, when medical consultants is Eugene “Scrap Iron” Young began also available for specific providing care to student-athletes, the needs ranging from Notre Dame athletic training department cardiology to has evolved into a fully-staffed sports dermatology. medicine team with three state-of-the-art The Notre Dame facilities. student-athlete has Head athletic trainer and physical access to three state-of- therapist Jim Russ oversees a staff of the-art sports-medicine three associate and seven assistant athletic facilities, in addition to trainers that is responsible for the more than 750 the 24-hour University student-athletes at the University. The entire Health Center. The sports medicine staff is certified by the National original athletic-training Athletic Trainers’ Association and boasts more room is located in the than 150 years of collective experience. Joyce Center. Notre Dame Each staff member is responsible for the health Football Stadium is home Irish athletics receive the finest in sports medicine care from the team of athletic care of at least two of Notre Dame’s varsity to the 3,300-square-foot trainers and physicians. athletic teams. Duties in that role include athletic training room, evaluating and assessing athletic injuries, and the newest addition to the sports-medicine administering first aid, making medical referrals, department is located in the new Guglielmino The sports medicine team of athletic trainers establishing treatment and rehabilitation of Athletics Center. The facility opened in August of and team physicians is committed to providing athletic injuries and educating student-athletes 2005 and is more than 8,500 square feet of cutting- the most comprehensive and safest health care on nutrition and injury prevention. edge sports-medicine technology. Through these possible. Evaluations, treatments and The athletic training department is under the facilities all student-athletes have access to the rehabilitation are established for each individual, direct supervision of several sports medicine most-modern sports medicine, including the latest with the goal of returning the student-athletes to physicians. University directors of sports in physical therapy modalities and rehabilitation competitive status in the safest and quickest medicine Dr. Willard Yergler and Dr. Jim Moriarity equipment, which includes two 3,500-gallon manner possible. serve as the student-athletes’ primary care therapy pools. A full x-ray unit and an MRI physicians, while Dr. Becky Moskwinski, Dr. David machine make up the majority of the department’s Bankoff, Dr. Fred Ferlic, Dr. Robert Clemency, Dr. diagnostic equipment. Strength & Conditioning

The Notre Dame strength and The Haggar Fitness Complex conditioning program is designed to features 25,000 square feet of work provide each student-athlete with the out space with a three-lane speed most productive, effective and efficient development track (40 yards in means of sport-specific physical training. length), a state-of-the-art sound Led by director of strength and system with 28 speakers and four conditioning Ruben Mendoza, the Irish sub woofers, six giant plasma strength and conditioning staff has a screen televisions, a 45 x 18 yard simple philosophy that combines a “no Prestige Turf plyometric agility nonsense” approach with an “old school” area and a Gatorade hydration attitude. station. The staff offers a well-balanced, well- The Notre Dame strength and rounded program by incorporating a conditioning staff has seven full- variety of training methods from time coaches and four intern conjugate training to Olympic-style coaches – Mendoza, assistant movements. Everything the staff does is director Tony Rolinski, assistants geared toward developing speed, power Lon Record, Mike Joseph, Lisa and strength. Shall, Kelly Howe, Kyle Bourber, The staff wants to teach Notre Dame Brian Herzog, Harold Swanagan, student-athletes work ethic, discipline nutritionist Mandy Clark, and and pride with a relentless attitude to speed/skill development coach strive for, and win, championships. Shawn Gaunt – providing a large When entering the Haggar Fitness enough group to meet student- Complex (shared by the Loftus Sports athlete needs. The staff has Center and the Guglielmino Athletics One of the eye-catching features of the Haggar Fitness Complex, a 25,000 square developed an environment where Complex) student-athletes are quickly foot facility shared by the Guglielmino Athletics Complex and the Loftus Center, are student-athletes want to come to reminded of the “roll-up-your-sleeves” two variable weight sleds installed in the summer of 2005. get better, so they can achieve and “get-to-work” mentality that athletic success. Mendoza and his staff inspires.

UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME 142 The BIG EAST Conference moves into 2005-06 The BIG EAST continues to thrive in the bas- with an emphasis on the word “Big” as the ketball arena. In 2003-04, Connecticut became league becomes the largest Division I-A con- the first school in NCAA history to win the men’s BIG EAST Conference ference in the nation with 16 outstanding aca- and women’s NCAA titles in the same season. demic and athletic institutions. The goal of the With the Syracuse men and the UConn women BIG EAST always has been to compete at the grabbing NCAA crowns the previous year, the Championship in Madison Square highest level and to do so with integrity and BIG EAST also became the first conference in Garden – attendance figures also are sportsmanship. NCAA history to win the men’s and women’s significant at BIG EAST soccer, In 2005-06, the league welcomes five new titles in consecutive seasons. In fact, the BIG women’s basketball and baseball members: the University of Cincinnati, DePaul EAST has won five of the last six women’s bas- games. University, the University of Louisville, ketball crowns and three of the last seven men’s More than 500 BIG EAST athletes have earned All-America recognition, Marquette University and the University of titles. the BIG EAST has been well-repre- South Florida. sented in U.S. and foreign BIG EAST institutions reside in nine national and Olympic teams. of the nation’s 33 largest media mar- Several athletes earned gold kets, including New York, Chicago, medals in each of the last Philadelphia, Washington, Tampa, five summer Olympiads. Pittsburgh, Hartford, Milwaukee The BIG EAST has its headquarters and Cincinnati. With the incom- in Providence, where the conference ing members, the BIG EAST mar- administers to more than 5,500 ath- Whether it’s the student-athletes or the league kets will contain almost one fourth of all letes in 23 sports. television households in the U.S. as a whole, moving proactively has been a con- Since opening its doors in 1979, the league sistent strategy for the conference that was has won 25 national championships in six dif- formed in 1979. The BIG EAST has continually ferent sports, and 123 student-athletes have turned challenges into opportunities to bolster Notre Dame BIG EAST Titles its strength. won individual national titles. Last year, Since joining the BIG EAST in 1995-96, Providence’s Kim Smith won the NCAA In the spring of 2001, the BIG EAST added women’s lacrosse to its growing list of sports. Notre Dame has won more conference women’s cross country championship, and the The inaugural women’s golf championship was championship titles (67) than any other Notre Dame women’s soccer team took the 2004 held in the spring of 2003, followed by the first school: national title. women’s rowing championship in ‘05. The BIG EAST always has been able to boast Baseball The BIG EAST became a reality on May 31, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005 that some of its best students are also some of 1979, following a meeting of athletic directors its best athletes. More than 300 student-ath- from Providence College and St. John’s, Women’s Cross Country letes have earned Academic All-America hon- Georgetown and Syracuse Universities. Seton 2002, 2003 ors. Hall, Connecticut and Boston College com- Men’s Cross Country In 2003-04, three BIG EAST student-athletes pleted the original seven-school alliance. 1997, 1999, 2001, 2004 were named the national scholar-athletes of While the membership has both increased the year in their respective sports – and changed, the focus of the BIG EAST has not Women’s Golf Connecticut’s Emeka Okafor in men’s basket- wavered. The conference reflects a tradition of 2003, 2004 ball, Notre Dame’s Vanessa Pruzinsky in broad-based programs, led by administrators Men’s Golf women’s soccer and St. John’s Chris Wingert in and coaches who place a constant emphasis on 1995, 1996, 1997, 2004, 2005 men’s soccer academic integrity. The BIG EAST Conference BIG EAST student-athletes also have contin- Rowing has enjoyed a leadership role nationally. Its 2004, 2005 ued their success after leaving the classrooms student-athletes own significantly-high gradu- and playing fields. Former Connecticut ation rates, and their record of scholastic Women’s Soccer women’s basketball standout Dr. Leigh Curl achievement notably shows a balance between 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, was inducted into the Academic All-America intercollegiate athletics and academics. 1999, 2000, 2001 Hall of Fame in 1999. Former Georgetown Any successful organization needs outstand- Men’s Soccer men’s basketball star was ing leadership. Michael Tranghese, the league’s 1996, 2003 named a winner of the President’s Service first full-time employee, and for 11 years the associate to Dave Gavitt, moved into the com- Softball Award, the highest honor in the U.S. for volun- 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003 teer service. missioner’s chair in 1990. In his first year, he administered the forma- Women’s Swimming & Diving tion of The BIG EAST 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, Football Conference. 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005 The league has long been considered a Men’s Swimming & Diving leader in innovative con- 2005 cepts in promotion and Women’s Tennis publicity, particularly 1996, 1997, 1999, 2001, 2003, 2005 regarding television. Men’s Tennis Those efforts have 1996, 1999, 2002, 2004, 2005 resulted in unparalleled visibility for BIG EAST Women’s Indoor Track & Field student-athletes. The 2002 conference has enjoyed Men’s Indoor Track & Field long-standing relation- 2003, 2005 ships with CBS, ESPN, Inc. and ABC. Men’s Outdoor Track & Field While BIG EAST bas- 2000, 2003, 2004 ketball games are regu- Volleyball lar sellouts at campus 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2000, and major public arenas 2001, 2002, 2004 – including the Kurt Benninger (428), Tim Moore (434) and Sean O'Donnell (partially hidden) helped annual BIG EAST Notre Dame win the 2004 BIG EAST Cross Country Championship.

2005-06 CROSS COUNTRY/TRACK & FIELD 143 Athletic Noteworthy Notre Dame Alumni in Athletics

Heritage Professional Sports Administrators Sportswriters BEST OF BOTH WORLDS – The Notre Dame Greg Aiello (’74) – NFL V.P. of public relations Larry Burke (’87) – senior editor, Sports Illustrated athletic department continues to emerge as one Tom Ambrose (’70) – senior V.P. of community relations Marty Burns (’88) – senior writer, Sports of the highest-rated in the nation … a 2004 report for NBA’s Illustrated by the National Collegiate Scouting Association *Tim Andree (’83) – NBA senior vice president of commu- George Dohrmann (’95) – writer, Sports nications listed Notre Dame third (behind Stanford and Illustrated *Austin Carr (’71) – dir. of business, community develop- Bill Dwyre (’66) – sports editor, Los Angeles Duke) in Division I-A rankings for schools with the ment for NBA’s Times top combination of academics and athletics, Beth Colleton (’91) – NFL dir. of community affairs Red Smith (’27) – Pulitzer Prize author and based on student-athlete graduation rates, the Mike Crowley (’85) – president of MLB’s Oakland sports columnist for New York Herald U.S. News and World Report rankings (academic) Athletics Tribune and New York Times (deceased) Red Smith and the annual Directors’ Cup all-sports stand- Eddie DeBartolo (’32) and Eddie DeBartolo, Jr. (’68) – for- John Walters (’88) – writer, Sports Illustrated ings. mer professional sports owners Arch Ward (’25) – former Chicago Tribune sports editor; A SPORTY CAMPUS – A Sports Illustrated fea- Larry Dolan (’54) – owner and CEO of MLB’s Cleveland introduced all-star games; helped develop Golden ture on “America’s Top Jock Schools” crowned UCLA No. 1, Indians Gloves boxing (deceased) with Notre Dame a close runner-up … the profile cited the Paul Dolan (’83) – president of MLB’s Cleveland Indians *Hall-of-Fame Coaches (beyond ND) Bengal Bouts campus-wide boxing tournament that bene- James Fitzgerald (’47) – former owner of NBA’s (’49) – Hall-of-Fame fencing coach (retired) and Mike DeCicco fits the Holy Cross Mission, Bookstore Basketball (the Ray Meyer (’38) – Hall-of-Fame basketball coach at *Tim Frank (’93) – NBA senior director of communications world’s largest five-on-five basketball tournament) and DePaul (retired) intramural football in full pads (with the title game in Notre Joe Garagiola, Jr. (’72) – vice president and general man- Dame Stadium) – plus the fact that 75 percent of Notre ager of MLB’s Arizona Diamondbacks *Current Pro and Division I College Head Coaches Dame undergrads lettered in high-school sports. Jim Gates (’81) – library director, Baseball Hall of Fame Marcie Bomhack (’02) – Loyola Chicago volleyball *Tommy Hawkins (‘59) – vice president of external affairs (’88) – Wisconsin-Milwaukee basketball ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE – The success of Notre Dame Sandy Botham for MLB’s Los Angeles Dodgers (retired) Tim Connelly (’83) – Notre Dame cross country athletics extends to the classroom: *John McHale, Jr. (’71) – Major League Baseball vice Kathy Cunningham-Litzau (’90) – Wisconsin-Milwaukee * All 22 athletics programs at Notre Dame exceeded the president of administration volleyball NCAA’s new academic performance standard introduced Vince Naimoli (’59) – owner and CEO of MLB’s Tampa Brian Kalbas (’89) – North Carolina women’s tennis in 2005, with 13 Irish teams scoring a perfect 1,000 … the Bay Devil Rays Bill Laimbeer (’79) – Detroit Shock (WNBA) Academic Progress Rate (APR) uses a series of formulas Brian O’Gara (’89) – Major League Baseball director of Don Lucia (’81) – Minnesota men’s ice hockey related to student-athlete retention and eligibility … Notre special events Cory Mee (’92) – Toledo baseball Dame registered an overall APR of 979 and had the third- *John Paxson (’83) – of NBA’s Chicago Beth Morgan-Cunningham (’97) – Virginia highest percentage of teams with perfect scores (the Bulls Commonwealth basketball national average APR for Division I-A institutions was 944) Ted Phillips (’79) – president/CEO of NFL’s Chicago Carrie Nixon (’02) – Notre Dame women’s swimming … the APRs would be substantially higher if Notre Dame Bears Billy Taylor (’95) – Lehigh basketball certified eligibility using the NCAA process rather than its John York (’71) – director and owners representative of NFL’s San Francisco 49ers *Olympic Games Medalists own, more stringent, standard that certifies academic Shannon Boxx (‘99) – gold, soccer (‘04, Athens) records on a semester-by-semester basis … if Notre Dame Division I Athletic Directors/Commissioners Adrian Dantley (‘78) – gold, basketball certified student-athletes at mid-year using only the six- *Mike Bobinski (’79) – Xavier (Ohio) associate V.P. for (’76, Montreal) hour requirement, its overall APR would increase to better development (former Xavier A.D.) Jim Delaney (‘43) – silver, shot put (’48, London) than 990. Tom Bowen (’83) – San Jose State A.D. August "Gus" Desch (‘23) – bronze, 400-meter hurdles * In the previous format of the NCAA graduation-rate Dan Coonan (’84) – Santa Clara A.D. (’20, Antwerp; deceased) report (last released in Nov., 2004), Notre Dame ranked sec- Bubba Cunningham (’84) – Ball State A.D. Tom Lieb (‘23) – bronze, discus (’24, Paris; deceased) ond in the survey covering student-athletes who enrolled *Rick Chryst (’83) – Mid-American Conf. Ruth Riley (‘02) – gold, basketball (‘04, Athens) between ’94-’97, based on the raw percentage of those who commissioner Kate Sobrero Markgraf (’98) – silver, soccer entered and graduated within six years (those who left or Ken Kavanagh (’87) – Bradley A.D. (’00, Sydney); gold, (‘04 Athens) transferred were considered non-graduates) … ND’s 87% Joel Maturi (’67) – Minnesota A.D. Alex Wilson (’32) – bronze, 1,600-meter relay graduation rate ranked behind only Duke and was well *Steve Orsini (’78) – Central Florida A.D. Gene (’28, Amsterdam); silver in 800 meters and *Gene Smith (’77) – Ohio State A.D. above the national average (61%) … among those who bronze in 400 (’32, Los Angeles) with native *Larry Williams (’85) – Portland A.D. Smith Canada (deceased) entered between ’94-’97 and completed four years of eligi- Rick Wohlhuter (’71) – bronze, 800 meters (’76, bility at Notre Dame, 99% earned their degrees. Television Executives and Sportscasters Kate Montreal) George Blaha (’66) – longtime radio play-by-play voice of * Notre Dame student-athletes combined to post a 4.0 Mariel Zagunis (‘08) – gold, sabre (‘04, Athens) Sobrero semester GPA 24 times in the 2004 spring and fall semesters NBA’s Markgraf … those of note who posted 4.0s in 2004 included baseball Don Criqui (’62) – longtime radio and TV sportscaster for *Other Notable Professional Athletes All-American Steve Sollmann, women’s soccer player variety of worldwide events Tim Brown (’88) – nine-time all-pro (Oakland Raiders), Ashley Jones, volleyball players Kim Fletcher and Jessica *Mike Golic (’85) – co-host of ESPN Radio’s “Mike and among NFL all-time receiving leaders Mike in the Morning” show Kinder and swimmers Kelli Barton and Lisa Garcia. Dave Casper (’74) – NFL Hall-of-Famer, Academic All- Don Ohlmeyer (’66) – Emmy-winning TV producer America Hall-of-Famer, NCAA Silver Anniversary SPANNING THE GLOBE – Similar to the composition of (“Monday Night Football,” NBC’s coverage of 1978 Award the Notre Dame student body, the 25 current varsity teams Olympics, among others) Craig Counsell (’92) – World Series champ with Florida include student-athletes from nearly every state … Notre Terry O'Neil (’71) – Emmy-winning TV producer Marlins, Arizona Diamondbacks Dame’s 2004-05 varsity rosters included some 700 student- (“Monday Night Football,” CBS special events, ESPN’s Joe Montana (’79) – NFL Hall-of-Famer, four-time Super athletes who hailed from 44 states (all but Hawaii, Maine, “Sports Reporters,” among others) Bowl champ (San Francisco 49ers) Mississippi, Utah, West Virginia and Wyoming), plus six Ted Robinson (’78) – New York Mets radio play-by-play Todd Rassas (’98) – USA National Lacrosse Team captain Canadian provinces and 19 other foreign countries: (formerly San Francisco Giants, Minnesota Twins); TV Austria, Cayman Islands, Colombia, Czech Republic, El sportscaster for worldwide events *Individuals noted by asterisks also were student-athletes Salvador, England, Finland, Germany, Guatemala, Hong Tim Ryan (’60) – Emmy-nominated sportscaster for vari- at Notre Dame, primarily in the same sport with which Kong, Iceland, Ireland, Jamaica, Korea, Luxembourg, ety of worldwide sporting events they now are affiliated (Tommy Hawkins played basket- Mexico, Poland, Singapore and South Africa. Hannah Storm (’83) – former NBC sportscaster and studio ball with the Irish; Mike Golic, Gene Smith, Steve Orsini A TRADITION OF SUCCESS host; co-host of “The Early Show” (CBS) and Larry Williams were football players and Mike * Notre Dame has claimed 25 all-time NCAA team titles: *Joe Theismann (’71) – NFL analyst (ESPN) Bobinski and Rick Chryst were baseball players). 11 in football (’24, ’29, ’30, ’43, ’46, ’47, ’49, ’66, ’73, ‘ 77, ’88), seven in fencing (men in ’77, ’78 and ’86, women in ’87, com- bined in ’94, ’03, ’05), two in women’s soccer (’95, ’04) and men’s tennis (’44, ’59), and one each in men’s golf (’44), unprecedented 10 official BIG EAST championships (based dented 13 Notre Dame teams (out of 21 that participate in the men’s cross country (’57) and women’s basketball (’01) … on tournament finish or regular-season standings) in 2004- BIG EAST) won a BIG EAST regular-season and/or tourna- the 2004-05 academic year saw Notre Dame win two 05, besting the nine titles won by the Irish in ’02-’03 and ’03- ment title in 2004-05, with men’s soccer, women’s soccer, vol- NCAA titles (women’s soccer and combined fencing) for ’04 as the most ever by one school in a single academic leyball and softball capturing regular-season crowns … a the third time in the athletic department’s history (also year ... Notre Dame’s official BIG EAST titles in ’04-‘05 total of 18 Notre Dame teams (out of 21) finished first or sec- men’s golf and men’s tennis in ’43-’44 and football and included six men’s sports (cross country, swimming and ond in 2004-05 BIG EAST play, men’s fencing in ’77-’78). diving, indoor track and field, golf, tennis and baseball) * Notre Dame’s total of nearly 900 All-Americans includes * Notre Dame’s decade-long domination as a member of plus women’s volleyball, swimming and diving, rowing 24 who have been four-year All-Americans and 44 who the BIG EAST Conference has included winning an and tennis … when including regular-season titles in sports have coupled All-America and Academic All-America that also sponsor a postseason tournament, an unprece- honors in the same season.

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Okechi Ogbuokiri JUNIOR, 2005 BIG EAST CHAMPION

Kurt Benninger JUNIOR, TWO-TIME ALL-AMERICAN

Maryann Erigha JUNIOR, 2005 BIG EAST CHAMPION

Molly Huddle Stephanie Madia SENIOR, SEVEN-TIME ALL-AMERICAN SENIOR, TWO-TIME ALL-AMERICAN