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Squad makes round of 32 appearance to close 14-3 season

Grant DelVecchio | Friday, May 21, 2021

After dominating its regular-season schedule en route to a 14-3 record, the 2020-2021 Notre Dame volleyball team advanced to the NCAA tournament for the second year in a row, the third time in the past four seasons, and twenty-first time overall in program history. In Omaha, Notre Dame won its first-round tournament matchup against West

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Belles take 17th at DIII NCAA Tournament after MIAA championship

Grant DelVecchio | Friday, May 21, 2021

The 2020-2021 Saint Mary’s golf team captured an MIAA championship and advanced to its tenth DIII NCAA tournament in program history under first-year head coach Jordan Koehler. At the tournament, the Belles posted a team score of 1008 after three rounds of competition which put them in seventeenth place overall. Though the team was unable

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Irish fall to No. 10 Ducks in round of 32

Grant DelVecchio | Monday, April 19, 2021

The curtain closed on Notre Dame volleyball’s 2020-2021 season Thursday night in Omaha, as the No. 22 ranked Irish lost in straight sets in the Round of 32 of the NCAA tournament (17-25, 22-25, 13-25) to No. 10 Oregon. Notre Dame completes the never-before combined fall-and-spring season with an overall record of 15-4. The trip

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Second Kavanagh to grace Irish lacrosse team makes a name for himself

Grant DelVecchio | Monday, March 29, 2021

As a middle schooler, Pat Kavanagh’s weekends were spent traveling from Long Island, New York to South Bend, Indiana to watch older brother Matt play lacrosse for Notre Dame. “In seventh and eighth grade I was able to leave class early on Fridays from St. Agnes Cathedral School. Me and my little brother [Chris] would

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Notre Dame opens season with resounding win over Robert Morris

Grant DelVecchio | Wednesday, March 3, 2021

Almost a whole year after their 2020 season was canceled, the No. 8 Notre Dame men’s lacrosse team opened up the 2021 season with a dominant 19-7 victory over Robert Morris. For Irish head coach Kevin Corrigan, who picked up his 306th win in his 33rd season in South Bend, this one was especially rewarding.

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Lynch provides veteran leadership as Irish chase national title

Grant DelVecchio | Tuesday, February 23, 2021

“Last year was no one-hit wonder, nor will 2021 be. There’s been a lot of groundwork done for this team to be in the conversation of a national contender,” Notre Dame head women’s lacrosse coach Christine Halfpenny recently said in a preseason interview with U.S. Lacrosse Magazine. Halfpenny, now in her 10th season as head

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Jackson still hunting for national championship after disappointing season

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

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Under new head coach, Irish show strong start to shortened season

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

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‘No excuses:’ Liam Eichenberg reflects on mentorship, camaraderie that led him to path of success

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

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Javon McKinley bounces back

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,

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This Thursday, Feb. 16, the 93rd annual Bengal Bou This Thursday, Feb. 16, the 93rd annual Bengal Bouts will begin its preliminary rounds. A men’s boxing tournament that benefits the Holy Cross Mission in Bangladesh, Bengal Bouts seems to perfectly combine two integral aspects of Notre Dame’s identity: a passion for sports and a commitment to social impact.

This week, From the Archives takes a long overdue look at the history of Bengal Bouts. While this tournament predates the Observer by nearly four decades, we uncovered a selection of stories that capture at least a part of the rich history of this Notre Dame tradition.

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At Wednesday evening’s senate meeting, Briana Ch At Wednesday evening’s senate meeting, Briana Chappell, director of gender relations and LGBTQ+ advocacy, highlighted plans to edit the Moreau First Year Experience curriculum to promote values of diversity, equity and inclusion in her report on LGBTQ+ advocacy at Notre Dame this year.

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We asked you to Ask The Observer Sports Department We asked you to Ask The Observer Sports Department and you responded with the request: “Northwestern @ Notre Dame 2014 Football Breakdown”. That game was a heartbreaking loss for a Notre Dame team that had started 6-0 before stumbling down the stretch to a 7-5 record. A bowl game win over LSU salvaged some optimism for the program’s future, but that loss to Northwestern was a shocking result that contributed to one of the more appalling stretches of Irish football in the Brian Kelly era.

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Derick Williams and Hunter Brooke, two sophomore s Derick Williams and Hunter Brooke, two sophomore students campaigning to be Notre Dame’s next student body president and vice president, respectively, plan to “get sh*t done.”

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Sophomores Pablo Oropeza and Griffin McAndrew are Sophomores Pablo Oropeza and Griffin McAndrew are seeking to build stronger connections between the student body and student government if elected student body president and vice president, respectively. 

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Notre Dame students might recognize Daniel Jung an Notre Dame students might recognize Daniel Jung and Aidan Rezner from the student government Instagram page, but the two sophomores are ready to take the next big step to represent the student body.

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