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The 12th Annual O.S.C.A.R.S. will be held this coming Wednesday, May 1 to celebrate the academic and leadership accomplishments made by Notre Dame student-athletes over the 2012-2013 year. This year’s show will be very similar to last year’s, but a new award has been added to the mix. The Tweetmaster Award will go to the…
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I was asked by FIDM to start covering Notre Dame men’s tennis for Irish UNDerground back in late January. Since then, I’ve been to every home match and racked up around 45 hours at the Eck Tennis Pavilion watching the men play. I can honestly say too that I enjoyed every single one of those…
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1-The seed Notre Dame received for the BIG EAST Tournament 2-The number of Notre Dame women’s tennis players who have won BIG EAST Player of the Week this season (juniors Britney Sanders and Jennifer Kellner) 3- The number of days the team spent back in South Bend after returning from Florida before turning around to…
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This weekend is going to be a busy one at Notre Dame. Aside from the softball, baseball, men’s lacrosse, and the Blue-Gold Game, everyone’s invited to come watch Notre Dame men’s tennis host the BIG EAST Championship Tournament. Consider this your formal invitation. The event: BIG EAST Conference Championship The last time they compete for…
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Notre Dame has seen its fair share of student-athlete siblings over the years. Julie and Kenny Sabacinski are another one of those pairs. She’s a junior on the women’s tennis team, while he’s a freshman on the men’s. They grew up in Plantation, Florida and attended American Heritage High School. They both began playing tennis at…
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I sat down with freshmen Quentin Monaghan and Alex Lawson of the nationally-ranked Notre Dame men’s tennis team for a Q&A. Monaghan is from Chatham, NJ and currently plays the No. 2 Singles spot. Lawson is from Tempe, AZ and primarily plays the No. 2 Doubles spot along with partner junior Billy Pecor. (Junior Ryan…
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On Tuesday, March 28, student-athletes gathered at Compton Family Ice Arena to try their hands at a sport probably none of them had tried before: curling. Curling, if you’ve never seen it before, is kind of like bowling on ice. Two teams of four compete against each other. The first team launches a polished granite…
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Mirriam-Webster’s dictionary defines “racketeer” as “one who obtains money by an illegal enterprise usually involving intimidation.” I define “racqueteer” as “one who helps a tennis player/team obtain victories by an entertaining enterprise involving team-support and/or opponent-intimidation.” Notre Dame women’s tennis has their own racqueteers. They’ve been attending home matches at the Eck Tennis Pavilion since the match…
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How about some fun facts about Switzerland? It borders 5 countries: Germany, France, Italy, Austria, and Liechtenstein. Anywhere in Switzerland, you are never more than 13 miles away from a swimmable body of water. Louis Chevrolet, the founder of Chevrolet Motors, was born in Switzerland and lived there until he was 9 years old. The…
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College tennis as a spectator sport is underrated. I realized this while watching #27 Notre Dame take on #13 Illinois on Tuesday. Actually, I think I realized it a few weeks ago when Notre Dame took down Michigan, but Tuesday night reiterated it. The intensity of the matches was nearly palpable. Notre Dame won the doubles…
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The bears are in our neck of the woods. The Baylor Bears, that is. On Saturday, Feb. 23 at 10 am, the 22nd-ranked Fighting Irish women’s tennis will welcome No. 19 Baylor to the Eck Tennis Pavilion for a match that comes after two straight losses to Purdue and Northwestern. “We are all really looking forward…
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They float, they glide, they twirl, they fly, they twist, and they spin. And they do all of this on ice. They’re the ballerinas of the wintertime. If the Notre Dame hockey players are the kings of the Compton Family Ice Arena, then the Notre Dame figure skaters are the queens. Established in 1997, Notre…
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As junior Billy Pecor was playing the match point against No. 21 Michigan (and after over three and a half hours of play), the whole team stood on the adjacent court eagerly waiting for a victory. Pecor won the point, threw his racket up in the air, and the team rushed over to congratulate him.…
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Last weekend, men’s tennis traveled to Norman, Okla. to play Harvard and Memphis. “Last weekend was certainly a tale of different days,” associate head coach Ryan Sachire said. “All of us were disappointed with the result on Saturday against Harvard, not simply because we lost, but rather how we competed during certain situations in the…
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You know you can hear him every morning on ESPN Radio, and you know you can see him with his family on Notre Dame’s campus every football weekend. You can now add Notre Dame Swimming & Diving meets to the list of places you can see (and now hear) Mike Golic. Because his daughter Sydney…
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It looks like we have some new social media stars on the rise. @NDFabFive, a twitter account run by the five freshmen on the Notre Dame men’s tennis team, has been gaining fame over the last few weeks in the world of Notre Dame athletics both online and offline. The five members of the “Fab…
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Last night, the Student-Athlete Advisory Council (SAAC) held their 16th Annual Pediatric Christmas Party. SAAC invites the pediatric hematology and oncology wards from Memorial Hospital every year, and this year added St. Joseph Regional Medical Center to the list. Tammy Robison, the parent advocate for Memorial Hospital, said, “It’s phenomenal! It’s so great for our…
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Notre Dame student-athletes work to be the best at everything they do. They work to be the best athletes. The work to be the best students. They work to be the best representatives of the University of Notre Dame. And they work to be the best people they can be. Some of the student-athletes work…
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When I was younger, my mother tried to get me involved in fencing, but I guess it never stuck. But it’s an underrated sport that’s more complicated than two people poking each other with swords. The Notre Dame fencers understand that. Last night, the Student-Athlete Advisory Council (SAAC) held an open-forum to educate all student-athletes…
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Everyone knows that football is a big deal at Notre Dame, but it goes further than head coach Brian Kelly and his men in gold and blue. Men’s interhall tackle football is a chance for guys who either played high school football to put on their pads and helmets again and do what they love or…
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Notre Dame isn’t usually one of the first places that comes to mind when people think of “basketball schools.” The Leprechaun Legion is trying to change that this season. Andy Prombo (’13), the Leprechaun Legion Basketball Co-Chair, talked about what the Legion is trying to do to make this season different than any other basketball season.…
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Notre Dame sent a record number of athletes to the 2012 Summer Olympics. None of those athletes were there for table tennis; however, that all may change in the near future. Monday evening marked the First Annual Student-Athlete Advisory Council (SAAC) Table Tennis Tournament. (That’s a mouthful.) Athletes from the football, hockey, men’s and women’s…
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Note: This document was originally produced and distributed on Sept. 26, 2012. In January 2013, Manti Te’o told ESPN he had been the victim of a hoax regarding the existence of Lennay Kekua. The flower lei is a symbol of affection, presented to someone in expression of love, reverence, respect, congratulations, or welcome. This past…
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