Shaylyn Blaney Senior • Midfielder • Captain Two-Time All-American 2011 NOTRE DAME W Lauren Fenlon Senior • Defense OMEN ’s l A C RO SS E Jackie Doherty Senior • Defense • Captain 2010 First Team All-American 2011 Women’s Lacrosse und.com Athletics by the numbers National Championships (11 in football, seven in fencing, three in 26 women’s soccer, two in men’s tennis, one in men’s golf, men’s cross country and women’s basketball) Conference championships won by 8 Irish teams in 2009-10 (BIG EAST, Midwest Fencing Conference) BIG EAST Conference championships 107 won by Notre Dame in 15 seasons of league play All-time Academic All-Americans, 216 second most of any school, including six in 2009-10 Academic All-America honorees since 90 2000; no school has more Irish programs which fi nished their 9 2009-10 campaign ranked Notre Dame teams (out of 22) with a 19 graduation rate of 100% Irish athletic teams that earned a perfect score of 1,000 in the NCAA’s 8 Academic Progress Rate report in 2009-10, second-most in the Football Bowl Subdivision Programs honored by the NCAA for 14 Academic Progress Rate scores in 2009 Irish athletes who received the BIG 3 EAST Scholar-Athlete Sport Excellence Award in 2009-10 Hours of community service complet- 5,631.25 ed by Notre Dame student-athletes during the 2009-10 school year TABLE OF CONTENTS THIS IS NOTRE DAME 2011 SEASON IN REVIEW Academic Excellence .....................................................................2-3 Review/Statistics ...................................................................... 62-63 Sports Medicine/Strength and Conditioning ............................4-5 Results ............................................................................................. 64 University of Notre Dame .............................................................6-7 Game Summaries .................................................................... 65-71 University Leadership ...................................................................8-9 Graduated Letterwinners ......................................................... 72-74 Facilities ......................................................................................10-11 Excellence on the Field ............................................................ 12-13 Student Welfare and Development ...............................................14 2011 OPPONENTS Notre Dame Monogram Club .........................................................15 Opponents ..................................................................................76-80 City of South Bend ......................................................................... 16 Notre Dame Rockne Scholarship ..................................................17 HISTORY AND RECORDS SEASON PREVIEW Year-by-Year Results ................................................................ 82-83 All-Americans ........................................................................... 84-86 Arlotta Stadium/Loftus Center ................................................18-19 NCAA Tournament History ....................................................... 87-91 2011 Season Notes ....................................................................21-24 All-time Roster ......................................................................... 92-93 2011 Season Preview .............................................................. 25-27 Records ............................................................................................ 94 2011 Roster .....................................................................................28 All-time Leaders ....................................................................... 95-96 Honors & Awards.......................................................................97-99 THE STUDENT-ATHLETES The Captains ............................................................................. 30-33 NOTRE DAME QUICK FACTS Seniors ........................................................................................34-38 Location ......................................................... Notre Dame, IN 46556 MEDIA INFORMATION. Juniors ........................................................................................39-45 Founded ..................................................................................... 1842 Sophomores ...............................................................................46-50 Enrollment .......................... 8,371 (undergraduate), 11,733 (total) The Notre Dame Sports Information offi ce is always Freshmen ....................................................................................51-54 Nickname ...................................................................... Fighting Irish interested in assisting members of the media in their Colors ........................................................................... Gold and Blue coverage of Irish women’s lacrosse. Publicity and media President ................................................. Rev. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C. information for Notre Dame women’s lacrosse are handled COACHING STAFF Provost .............................................................. Dr. Thomas G. Burish by assistant sports information director Tim Connor. Head Coach Tracy Coyne ...........................................................56-57 NCAA Faculty Representative ..................................... Patricia Bellia Photographs, feature ideas and results are always available Assistant Coaches/Support Staff ..............................................58-60 Athletic Director ......................................................... Jack Swarbrick from the Notre Dame Sports Information offi ce. For Ass’t. Athletic Dir./Sport Admin. ................................ Juli Schreiber information and interviews call Connor at (574) 631-7516, Athletic Department Web Site ............................... www.und.com e-mail him at [email protected] or view the offi cial website of the Notre Dame athletic department at www. 2011 Team Information und.com Head Coach ................................ Tracy Coyne (Ohio University ’83) Career Record/Years........................................................251-115/23 Women’s lacrosse begins its 12th season as Record at Notre Dame/Years ...........................................137-89/14 BIG EAST OUTLETS Coyne Offi ce Phone .................................................(574) 631-4719 the 20th sport sponsored by the BIG EAST The BIG EAST Conference maintains its presence on the web Coyne E-mail ............................................Teresa.A.Coyne.7@nd.edu Conference. Connecticut, Georgetown, at www.bigeast.org which contains current information on Asst. Coach .........................................Crysti Foote (Notre Dame ‘06) Rutgers and Syracuse, along with Notre all facets of the BIG EAST Conference. Standings, notes, Asst. Coach .............................................. Nick Williams (Towson ‘08) Dame, began conference play in the spring of schedules, results and statistics are updated on a daily basis. Volunteer Assistant ............................ Kassen Delano (Notre Dame ‘04) 2001. Loyola (MD) began its fi rst season as Foote Offi ce Phone ..................................................(574) 631-8753 an associate member in 2006. In 2009, the Foote E-mail ...............................................................cfoote@nd.edu CREDITS conference welcomed Cincinnati and Williams Offi ce Phone ............................................(574) 631-8352 Louisville as they began full-time play. The Simon E-mail .................................................Williams.490@nd.edu The 2011 Notre Dame Women’s Lacrosse Guide was Villanova Wildcats brought the league’s ros- Coaches’ Fax ..............................................................(574) 631-9690 written and edited by associate media relations director Tim ter to nine teams in 2010. Starters Returning/Lost ...............................................................10/2 Connor. Editorial assistance provided by Brent Henningfeld The teams will play a round-robin sched- Monogram Winners Returning/Lost .........................................18/3 and Sarah Rodts. ule against each of the other eight teams. The 2010 Record .................................................................................11-7 Photographic contributions by Matt Cashore, Mike Bennett BIG EAST Tournament will be played for the 2010 BIG EAST Record/Finish ...............................................6-2/2nd and Lighthouse Imaging, Vanessa Gempis, Kaitlyn Kiely, fi fth time this spring with Georgetown serv- Home Fields ............................................... Arlotta Stadium (2,000) Heather Gollatz, Mitchell Layton, Jeff rey A. Camarati, ing as host. The tournament winner receives ...................................................Loftus Indoor Sports Center (1,000) Tom Ciszek, Brother Charles McBride, Joe Raymond, the automatic bid into the NCAA Tournament. John Strohsacker, Beverly Shaefer, Marcus Snowden, Lael O’Shaughnessy, T.D. Paulius/Midwest-Lacrosse Notre Dame has competed in the BIG EAST SPORTS INFORMATION Photography, Pellerin Photography, Lena Zentgraf, Kateri Conference since 1995-96 in most of its 26 Address ...................................Sports Information,112 Joyce Center Linville. sports. Notre Dame, IN 46556-5678 Graphic design and page layout by John R. Carson of Ave Ass’t. AD/Media Relations Director ...................Bernadette