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Mannion McGinley | Friday, May 15, 2020
After the women placed third in the ACC indoor conference championship, matching their best placement since 2016, and the men placed fourth, matching their best finish since 2014, the leading competitors from the Notre Dame track and field teams boarded a plane to Albuquerque for the NCAA Championships, only to turn around and come home
Mannion McGinley | Friday, May 15, 2020
This year, the Holy Cross women’s soccer team came away with a 9-8-1 record, a major turnaround from the 3-12 season that preceded it. This was an active shift completed by head coach Omar Gallo, associate head coach Duma Magagula and the team itself. “First thing we did was go out and recruit the players
Mannion McGinley | Friday, May 15, 2020
The Saint Mary’s Golf team left everything on the fairway this year and brought home the hardware to prove it. The team won its third consecutive MIAA Conference Championship this fall, and head coach Kimberly Moore attributes that success to the spirit of the team, brought out heavily by junior captains Hunter Kehoe and Summer
Mannion McGinley | Thursday, April 23, 2020
Dear Gronk, Rob, if I may What the heck, man? Sad doesn’t even begin to describe how I felt when you retired. You were my sister’s favorite player and the ability you had to get down the field for Tom Brady was unmatched by any offense in the league. To cite a few outstanding plays:
David Kramer, Hayden Adams, Jimmy Ward, Mannion McGinley, Liam Coolican, Nate Moller, Aidan Thomas and Greg McKenna | Monday, April 20, 2020
Where would we be without adrenaline? We find it buried in the backseat of dusty, puberty-ridden school buses, or blaring on those trusted headphones that we’ve used since middle school. It reaches every corner of our sweaty locker rooms and, better yet, spilling into the arena lobbies with such volume that everyone knows we made
Mannion McGinley | Wednesday, March 25, 2020
Dear Tom Brady, What the heck, man? I’m hurt. Truly, I’m hurt. I know there are diehard fans, who know more of your stats or who can rattle off every great pass you’ve ever thrown or who can date every heartwrencher out of which you’ve pulled the entire fanbase. But Tom let me ask you
Mannion McGinley | Tuesday, March 3, 2020
Notre Dame’s Track and Field team hosted all 15 teams competing in the ACC Championships at the Loftus Sports Center over the weekend. The Irish finished strong, with the women’s team finishing in third and the men’s team in fourth. Irish head coach Matt Sparks opened up about the outstanding performances that led to those
Mannion McGinley | Wednesday, February 19, 2020
Members of Irish track were in different states over the weekend to compete in the Music City Invitational in Nashville, Tennessee, and the Iowa State Classic in Ames, Iowa. Irish head coach Matt Sparks discussed successes of the weekend. In Nashville for the women’s weight throw, junior Rachel Tanczos came out swinging, literally, just as
Mannion McGinley | Tuesday, February 18, 2020
This past Friday I had a math midterm, after which our math TA provided us with pizza. Now, since I got here in August, I have not had a slice of pizza. Not because I don’t like pizza as a whole, but I like real pizza. Yes, I said it. Real pizza. Allow me to
Mannion McGinley | Wednesday, February 12, 2020
Fresh off of the Meyo Invitational, Notre Dame’s track team will be back in action this weekend as they split up to head west to Ames, Iowa for the Iowa State Classic and south to Nashville, Tennessee for the Music City Invitational. Head coach Matt Sparks broke down how the team would be split between