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Grant DelVecchio | Friday, May 15, 2020
When you’ve achieved the type of success that the Notre Dame hockey team and head coach Jeff Jackson have during Jackson’s 15-year tenure with the team, every season is met with lofty expectations and goals of reaching the national championship game. The Irish entered the 2019-2020 hockey season two years removed from a 2-1 loss
Grant DelVecchio | Friday, May 15, 2020
A 9-8 away victory over Radford moved the No. 24 ranked Notre Dame baseball team to 11-2 on the season and marked the 10th-consecutive win that the offense scored eight or more runs. The Irish and first-year head coach Link Jarrett thus secured their first midweek win of the season and their seventh in a
Grant DelVecchio | Friday, November 22, 2019
Irish head coach Brian Kelly was noticeably pleased with his team’s performance in their 32-point victory over the Naval Academy, especially his senior offensive lineman Liam Eichenberg. “Liam Eichenberg is playing lights out right now,” Kelly said about Eichenberg’s performance. “That’s only making him a better player for next year.” But Eichenberg’s passions didn’t develop
Grant DelVecchio | Friday, November 22, 2019
Heading into this season, senior wide receiver Javon McKinley had much to prove. McKinley was recruited to Notre Dame as one of the most prolific wideouts in the country out of Centennial High School but the Corona, California native faced significant setbacks as he began his time in blue and gold. Despite facing such adversity,
Grant DelVecchio | Friday, November 22, 2019
Notre Dame senior cornerback Donte Vaughn wasn’t always on the defensive side of the ball. In fact, the Memphis, Tennessee native played quarterback all the way up until his sophomore year of high school. “I kept going, I got into high school, I won state my ninth-grade year. I was playing quarterback at the time.
Grant DelVecchio | Saturday, November 16, 2019
After Notre Dame’s 52-20 routing of visiting rival Navy on Saturday afternoon, Irish head coach Brian Kelly was eager to express his pleasure regarding the way his staff and players performed. For Kelly, this game reflected what it means to have success, as opposed to winning rings or big bowl games. “When you talk about
Grant DelVecchio | Saturday, November 16, 2019
Tradition is everything at Notre Dame. From academics to residence hall life to faith-building to athletics, there is little that goes on at Our Lady’s University that isn’t deeply rooted in tradition. Because of this, branching away from the way things have “always been done” and moving on from the old days is hard to
Grant DelVecchio | Thursday, November 14, 2019
Despite forcing 28 turnovers, Notre Dame suffered their first loss of the season against Tennessee in their most recent game this past Monday night. Graduate transfer and former North Carolina guard Destinee Walker led the Irish in scoring with 18 points, while freshman Sam Brunelle and sophomore Katlyn Gilbert contributed 16 and 12 points respectively.
Hayden Adams, Liam Coolican, Grant DelVecchio, Mannion McGinley, Aidan Thomas and Jimmy Ward | Thursday, November 7, 2019
Sydney “The Sloth” Carlino def. Carrie Davis The first bout of the 2019 Baraka Bouts tournament saw two New Jersey natives square off. Carlino, a junior in Cavanaugh Hall, got off to a fast start in the match. “The Sloth,” somewhat of a misnomer, probed at her opponent with several punches and kept her opponent,
Grant DelVecchio | Sunday, November 3, 2019
Last week against Michigan, the Notre Dame offensive line was, to put it bluntly, horrible. The unit lost senior offensive lineman Tommy Kraemer early in the first quarter to a season-ending injury, and they didn’t look the same afterwards. All in all, a poorly played contest for the Irish. Heading into this week, Kraemer was