Ryan Hoff, Senior Lacrosse Player, Named Finalist in Lowe’s Senior Class Award

Senior Ryan Hoff, who plays Attack for Notre Dame’s Lacrosse team, is a finalist in the Lowe’s Senior Class Award. Nominated by his coaches, the Marketing major has not only made the Dean’s list in 2008 with a 3.83 semester GPA, but is involved in many community groups and has become an integral part of the school’s athletic advisory board. As his senior year comes closer, coaches and teammates alike, bout for his health and athleticism and are very hopeful of a promising season. He currently ranks fifth at Notre Dame history with 112 goals.

In Lacrosse, Hoff has received honorable mention for All-America accolades from the United States Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association (USILA) as a junior in 2008. Also in his junior year, Hoff scored his 41st goal, to become only the second player in the program’s history to have 40-plus goals in a season. Hoff has always been a standout athlete in both Lacrosse and football, even back in his early days at Delaney High School in Maryland. While at Delaney, he scored 4 letters in Lacrosse and 3 in football. In his entire Lacrosse career, Hoff has 198 goals and 50 assists, including two 40+ seasons.

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Permalink - Posted in General on April 16, 2009 - Post a comment

Weis Now Sees the ‘Bigger Picture’ and Son Returns to School

When a school touts its athletic program as being one of the biggest and oldest, it would make sense that Charlie Weis’ son tried to skip school for three days after his father’s football team lost to Syracuse a few years back. According to the story in Chicago Tribune, the Weis family talked about all that and felt that they didn’t want to leave that way. Deciding that they had come to win games and lay down their roots, they immediately did that.

Weis, coming from the NFL, had no clue that being a college coach meant being a coach, an alumnus, a networker, and a press conference spokesperson; so when it came down to coaching his team, Weis didn’t know what to do. His third season coaching was probably the worst. After blowing large leads, being shut out, and barely beating a low seeded team, Weis needed reassurance that he wasn’t being fired.

Before going on recruiting trips, Weis told school officials that he needed to be able to tell the recruits that he was the coach. And that is what they told him to do. Weis, with higher hopes and possibly lower levels of arrogance, will be the Fighting Irish football coach this coming 2009 season.

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Permalink - Posted in General on April 15, 2009 - Post a comment

Notre Dame Lacrosse Only Unbeaten Team in the Nation

  • The Notre Dame Fighting Irish men’s lacrosse team is the only remaining undefeated team in the country. Even though their national ranking is still only No.3, Notre Dame is a perfect 10-0 this year. It could be that this becomes the greatest Notre Dame lacrosse season ever! If you get a chance, come out to see a game soon.
  • In other Notre Dame sports news, Notre Dame Stadium has put in a bid to host the 2018 FIFA World Cup. Who knows if the home of Irish football has a real shot at winning the chance to host the biggest sporting event in the world- but it could happen.
  • Notre Dame finished the 2009 NCAA Hockey season ranked No. 4 in the country according to the latest official poll on the subject. Even though the Irish were eliminated from the NCAA Tournament early on, they were impressive in the regular season.  You can find out more about all these stories at the official Notre Dame blog at UND.com.

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Permalink - Posted in General on April 14, 2009 - Post a comment

Who Will Be the Third String QB Next Season?

It’s a safe bet that, barring any unforeseen turn of events, Jimmy Clausen will be the No. 1 quarterback for the Fighting Irish. He came on strong at the end of last year, highlighted by an awesome bowl game win in Hawaii. Dayne Crist, a hot recruit a year ago, will be his understudy.  But who will be third on the Notre Dame quarterback depth chart? A reporter asked head coach Charlie Weis about this the other day, and Weis came with this, which we took from the Official Notre Dame transcript of the press conference:

“Well, first of all, I’d go to (Nate) Montana on just the regular things here, first of all. But if we were going to run an expanded version of our offense, it would be John Goodman.

If we were going to be an isolated version of the offense, it would probably, because E.J. Banks’s in italics right now, it would probably be Danny McCarthy, to tell you the truth.

If I was going to take a defensive guy and give him some offense, it would not be the whole offense, so I want to let Goodman have an opportunity to compete at wide receiver because I think he can do that. Then later in the spring we’ll worry about sprinkling in those guys and getting them a little time. But it would defend on who it is to how much of the package we can do that in.”

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Permalink - Posted in General on April 13, 2009 - Post a comment

Inside Notre Dame Athletics

Notre Dame’s athletics program is usually ranked among the best in the nation, along with schools like Stanford, North Carolina, Texas and UCLA. Sports teams from the most popular, like football and basketball, to the most obscure, like fencing and diving, are elite within their fields. So it comes as no surprise that the Notre Dame Athletics site has it’s own insider’s feed. At the Domer’s Daily Dish, via the official athletics site, you can get all the latest news and commentary coming at you at a nearly daily basis.

The last post up, on April 9th, talks about end-of-school-year awards. Who do you think the best overall athlete was this year? We had All-Americans, Olympic medal winners and even tons of clutch student athletes. Which team was the most dominant? Which coach did the best job with the team he or she led?  They give some good opinions on their early favorites. Check it out, and then check out the schedule of events for Notre Dame sports this weekend.

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Permalink - Posted in General on April 10, 2009 - Post a comment

Kyle McAlarney to Play in PIT

Just having finished up playing in the NIT with the Notre Dame basketball team, Kyle McAlarney is set to play in the PIT with Sales Systems Ltd. What’s the PIT, you ask? Why, it’s the Portsmouth Invitational Tournament, one of the top offseason college basketball tournaments in the nation. When the season’s over, many of the game’s top players like to come out to these tournaments to gain recognition, improve their skills and keep their game in top form for the next college basketball season or an eventual career in the NBA.  This one takes place in Portsmouth.

Kyle’s going to be playing on a team with several other basketball players you might have heard of, including Paul Delaney III (from UAB, which Notre Dame played in the NIT), K.C. Rivers of Clemson, Josh Carter of Texas A&M and Diamon Simpson from St. Mary’s.  Other notable players in the tournament on competing teams include Alfred Aboya of UCLA, Alex Ruoff of West Virginia, A.J. Abrams of Texas, Leo Lyons of Missouri, Byron Eaton of Oklahoma State, and Jon Brockman of Washington.

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Permalink - Posted in General on April 9, 2009 - Post a comment

UND Basketball Season-Ending Stats at SouthBendTribume.com

The SouthBendTribune.com has Notre Dame’s season-ending stats available.  Although you could have looked t the stats elsewhere before today, we thought we’d take a little time out to go over some of the numbers. It’s always good to reflect on the season when the emotions have had a chance to settle down and the cold, hard facts are right in front of you.

One of the first things that jumps out from the stats if the impact of Luke Harangody. He was basically half the team all himself. No wonder he gets such acclaim. Big Luke is a stat machine, we jut wish there were another player on the team who was his natural sidekick.

Kyle McAlarney wasn’t that bad at shooting threes this year. Although the popular opinion was that he was dogging it from downtown, he actually shot 42%, which isn’t anything to be upset about. Tory Jackson and Luke Zeller were actually not shooting that well this past season. Zach Hillesland can’t be blamed for the three point shooting- he didn’t take one all year long.

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Permalink - Posted in General on April 8, 2009 - Post a comment

Harangody Makes Dick Vitale Team

Luke Harangody has made the 2009 Dick Vitale All-American Team. The honor comes after Luke Harangody, a two-time second team Associated Press All-American, led the Big East in scoring for two straight years (the first time ever that it’s been done).  Luke was also ranked in the top ten nationally in scoring and rebounding- the only player to do that this season.  Blake Griffin, Tyler Hansbrough, DeJuan Blair, Hasheem Thabeet?  Nope. Not as good as ‘Gody this season.

While making the Dick Vitale team is an honor, as Dickey V is a living legend of college basketball, making the AP All-American team and the sports writer’s teams are probably more important. You can read all about Luke Harangody’s accomplishments when you take a look at the article about him at UND.com.

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Permalink - Posted in General on April 7, 2009 - Post a comment

UHND Has the Recruiting Coverage UND Fans Need

The basketball team is out of the NIT, the football team is months and months away from taking the field on opening day, the soccer team is in the middle of a long offseason, and the hockey team was eliminated from the tournament a while ago. While other sports, like baseball, softball and track and field are in full swing, it does seem as though the slow time of the year has begin in the Notre Dame sports world.

So where can you turn to get good recruiting information? Well, might we present to you Uhnd.com, a blog for Fighting Irish fans who like to know every quote, every detail, every little story coming from the world of Notre Dame athletics. There is a war of recruits going on in football right now. Signing day was months ago, but there are still some top level recruits trickling into the best football programs in the nation. See who the Irish are picking up by checking out Uhnd.com whenever you can.

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Permalink - Posted in General on April 6, 2009 - Post a comment

“The Shirt” On Preorder Sale; Other Athletic Events of the Weekend

Notre Dame sports fans well know the importance of The Shirt. When you wear your Shirt around campus or to the next water polo event, or over the top of a dress shirt to look classy at your next wine and cheese gala, or leave it on in the shower at the gym, people will know you mean business about supporting the Fighting Irish. Every year The Shirt becomes the standard in supporters apparel for UND. It helps fundraise for Student Activities. It has swallowed four of five men whole and still been hungry. You can order it at the official Notre Dame athletic site, UND.com, right now. Note: the actual shirt will be unveiled in mid April.

There are lots of Notre Dame sporting events taking place this weekend. Get in on the action. The baseball team will continue its series with Villanova. The softball team plays a double header against Pitt. The women’s lacrosse team plays on Saturday and Sunday. The golf team will be at a tournament, and the women’s tennis team will play at Marquette.

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Permalink - Posted in General on April 3, 2009 - Post a comment


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