AleXia ClaY SENIOR UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME 2010 2010 SOFTBALL SCHEDULE February 12 (Fri.) (1) vs. Creighton Tempe, Ariz. 9:00 a.m. Softball (1) vs. Oregon Tempe, Ariz. 11:30 a.m. February 13 (Sat.) (1) vs. Auburn Tempe, Ariz. 4:30 p.m. (1) vs. Oregon State Tempe, Ariz. 7:00 p.m. February 14 (Sun.) (1) vs. Washington Tempe, Ariz. 10:30 a.m. February 20 (Sat.) (2) vs. Louisiana Tech Hattiesburg, Miss. 2:00 p.m. (2) at Southern Miss Hattiesburg, Miss. 7:00 p.m. February 21 (Sun.) (2) vs. Stephen F. Austin Hattiesburg, Miss. 9:00 a.m. (2) vs. Alcorn State Hattiesburg, Miss. 2:00 p.m. February 26 (Fri.) (3) vs. Lehigh Charlottesville, Va. 9:00 a.m. (3) vs. Ohio Charlottesville, Va. 11:30 a.m. February 27 (Sat.) (3) at Virginia Charlottesville, Va. 4:30 p.m. (3) vs. George Washington Charlottesville, Va. 7:00 p.m. February 28 (Sun.) (3) vs. Lehigh Charlottesville, Va. 11:30 a.m. March 6 (Sat.) (4) vs. Ohio State Riverside, Calif. 9:00 a.m. SOFTBALL DAME 2010 NOTRE (4) vs. East Tennessee State Riverside, Calif. 11:30 a.m. March 7 (Sun.) (4) at UC Riverside Riverside, Calif. 11:30 a.m. March 10 (Wed.) at Cal State Northridge Northridge, Calif. -- Katie FLEURY March 12 (Fri.) (5) vs. Buffalo Lakewood, Calif. 9:00 a.m. Junior • Team CapTain (5) vs. San Diego Lakewood, Calif. 11:15 a.m. March 13 (Sat.) (5) vs. UNLV Lakewood, Calif. 3:45 p.m. 2008 Third Team all-BiG EAST (5) vs. Long Beach State Lakewood, Calif. 6:00 p.m. March 14 (Sun.) (5) vs. Purdue Lakewood, Calif. 9:00 a.m. March 18 (Thurs.) at Western Michigan Kalamazoo, Mich. 5:00 p.m. March 23 (Tues.) vs. Eastern Michigan Notre Dame, Ind. 4:00 p.m. March 24 (Wed.) vs. Toledo (DH) Notre Dame, Ind. 4:00 p.m. March 27 (Sat.) at Seton Hall* (DH) South Orange, N.J. 12:00 p.m. March 28 (Sun.) at Seton Hall* South Orange, N.J. 11:00 a.m. CHRISTINE LUX March 30 (Tues.) at Loyola-Chicago Chicago, Ill. 4:00 p.m. Senior • Team CapTain April 1 (Thurs.) vs. Rutgers* Notre Dame, Ind. 6:00 p.m. 2009 nFCa all-ameriCan April 3 (Sat.) vs. Rutgers* (DH) Notre Dame, Ind. 11:00 a.m. April 7 (Wed.) vs. Bowling Green (DH) Notre Dame, Ind. 4:00 p.m. 2009 nFCa all-reGion April 10 (Sat.) vs. USF* (DH) Notre Dame, Ind. 12:00 p.m. 2009 First Team all-BiG EAST April 11 (Sun.) vs. USF* Notre Dame, Ind. 12:00 a.m. 2009 BiG EAST ChampionShip all-TournamenT Team April 14 (Wed.) vs. Georgetown* (DH) Notre Dame, Ind. 4:00 p.m. 2009 eSPN The maGazine aCademiC all-district April 15 (Thurs.) vs. Cleveland State Notre Dame, Ind. 4:00 p.m. April 17 (Sat.) at Louisville* (DH) Louisville, Ky. 12:00 p.m. Heather JOHNSON April 18 (Sun.) at Louisville* Louisville, Ky. 11:00 a.m. Senior • Team CapTain April 21 (Wed.) vs. Valparaiso Notre Dame, Ind. 4:00 p.m. 2009 BiG EAST ChampionShip all-TournamenT Team April 22 (Thurs.) at DePaul* (DH) Chicago, Ill. 1:00 p.m. April 24 (Sat.) vs. Villanova* (DH) Notre Dame, Ind. 12:00 p.m. April 25 (Sun.) vs. Villanova* Notre Dame, Ind. 11:00 a.m. April 29 (Thurs.) vs. Wisconsin Notre Dame, Ind. 4:00 p.m. (1) Kajikawa Classic – Tempe, Ariz. May 8 (Sat.) at St. John’s* (DH) Jamaica, N.Y. 12:00 p.m. (2) Southern Miss Mizuno Classic – Hattiesburg, Miss. May 9 (Sun.) at St. John’s* Jamaica, N.Y. 11:00 a.m. (3) UVA Invitational – Charlottesville, Va. May 13 – 15 BIG EAST Championship Louisville, Ky. -- (4) UC Riverside Aten Construction Tournament – Riverside, Calif. May 20 – 22 NCAA Regionals Campus sites -- (5) Long Beach State Invitational – Lakewood, Calif. May 27 – 29 NCAA Super Regionals Campus sites -- *BIG EAST Conference game May 31 – June 6 NCAA World Series Oklahoma City, Okla. -- All times local to site 2009 BIG EAST toURNAMENT CHAMPIONS www.und.com Athletics by the numbers National Championships (11 in football, seven in fencing, two in women’s soccer, two in 25 men’s tennis and one in men’s golf, men’s cross country and women’s basketball) Conference championships won by Irish teams in 2008-09 (BIG EAST, Central Collegiate 10 Hockey Association and Great Western Lacrosse League) BIG EAST Conference championships won by 101 Notre Dame in 14 seasons of conference play All-time Academic All-Americans, second most 210 of any university Academic All-Americans since 2000, more than 84 any other school UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME NCAA postgraduate scholarship recipients since History Students Service 1964, including four in 2008-09 • The University of Notre Dame du Lac • Graduate and undergraduate students • Community service is a hallmark of 48 was founded in 1842 by Father Edward at the University come from all 50 states Notre Dame. About 80 percent of Notre Irish programs which finished their 2008-09 Sorin. Adjacent to South Bend, Ind., and more than 100 countries worldwide. Dame students engage in some form of and nestled next to Saint Mary’s and voluntary community service during • Notre Dame’s graduation rate of 95 season nationally ranked Saint Joseph’s Lakes, the University was their years at the University, and at least 13 percent is exceeded by only Harvard and started with $310 in cash and three log 10 percent devote a year or more after Princeton. Notre Dame teams (out of 22) with a gradua- buildings in disrepair. graduation to service in the United States • Notre Dame’s 98 percent retention rate and around the world. • Notre Dame would establish many tion rate of 100% between the freshman and sophomore 19 firsts for Catholic institutions of higher • The University’s Alliance for Catholic years is among the highest in the country, learning, including the first Catholic law Education (ACE) annually sends 180 Irish athletic teams that earned a perfect score thanks in large part to the University’s school, the first Catholic engineering recent graduates to teach in some 100 unique First Year of Studies Program. 9 of 1,000 in the NCAA’s Academic Progress Rate school and the first student residence understaffed Catholic schools in the report in 2008-09 with private rooms, Sorin Hall. • Notre Dame has one of the highest southern, southeastern and southwestern undergraduate residential concentrations United States and in South Bend. A Programs honored by the NCAA for Academic Academics of any national university, with 80 percent national model, ACE has received the 14 Progress Rate scores in 2009 • The University is organized into four of its students living in 27 residence Higher Education Award from the colleges - Arts and Letters, Science, halls. Corporation for National Service for Hours of community service completed by Engineering and the Mendoza College leadership in using national service of Business - the School of Architecture, resources through AmeriCorps. 5,500 Notre Dame student-athletes during the 2008- the Law School, the Graduate School, 09 school year six major research institutes, more than Alumni 40 centers and special programs and the • The University’s network of 270 alumni University library system. clubs -- including 60 international clubs -- is the most extensive in higher • Notre Dame is rated among the nation’s education. top 25 institutions of higher learning in surveys conducted by U.S. News and • With graduates renowned for their World Report, Princeton Review, Time, loyalty and generosity, Notre Dame Kiplinger’s, and Kaplan/Newsweek. annually ranks among the top five in percentage of alumni who contribute to • Notre Dame ranks fifth in a listing of the University. “dream schools” in a survey of parents • by the Princeton Review. The top five are The medical school acceptance rate of • In recent years, Notre Dame alumni have Princeton, Stanford, Harvard, New York the University’s preprofessional studies won a Nobel Prize in medicine, a Pulitzer University and Notre Dame. graduates is 80 percent, almost twice the Prize in journalism, and an Emmy national average. Award for contributions to television • Notre Dame is among a select group of • technology. schools that ranks in the top 25 on the Notre Dame ranks first among Catholic U.S. News & World Report survey of the universities in the number of doctorates nation’s top colleges and in the National earned by its undergraduate alumni - a Association of Collegiate Directors of record compiled over some 85 years. Athletics Directors’ Cup for overall success in athletics. TABLE OF CONTENTS THIS IS NOTRE DAME COACHES University of Notre Dame . 2-3 Head Coach Deanna Gumpf . 58 University Leadership . .4-5 Assistant Coach Kris Ganeff . 60 Academic Excellence . 6-7 Assistant Coach Lizzy Lemire . 61 Athletic Facilities . .8-9 Volunteer Assistant Dawn Austin . 62 Sports Medicine . 10 Support Staff . 62 Strength and Conditioning . 11 Excellence On the Field . .12 2009 SEASON IN REVIEW Excellence Off the field . .13 Season in Review . 64 City of South Bend . 14 Final Results . 66 Student Welfare and Development . .15 Final Statistics . 67 Monogram Club . .16 Final Statistics / BIG EAST . .68 Rockne Student Athlete . 17 Honors and Awards . 69 Quick Facts . .18 Graduated Seniors . .70 All About the Irish . 19-24 2010 OPPONENTS 2010 SEASON PREVIEW Opponents . 81 Season Preview . 25-27 Series History . .89 Team Roster . 28 On the Road with the Irish . 99 Preseason Information . .29 T .V . Roster . 30 HISTORY AND RECORDS All-Time Results . 102 STUDENT ATHLETES Honors and Awards .