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From Wednesday to Sunday, incoming freshmen at Saint Mary’s College will be acclimated to their new campus environment through Belles Beginnings, an orientation program led by upperclassmen and faculty. The program features events that will help students familiarize themselves with different parts of campus life and make connections outside of the classroom.
As Notre Dame, Saint Mary’s and Holy Cross sports have gone quiet over the past few months, professional opportunities and individual accolades have taken center stage. Here’s a rundown of this year’s biggest summer headlines around tri-campus athletics.
At half past noon on Tuesday, Aug. 19, head coach Marcus Freeman announced CJ Carr as their starting quarterback for the season opener in Miami. To most people surrounding the program, the sophomore was presumed the eventual starter following the departure of Steve Angeli in the transfer portal. However, after three weeks of fall camp, the final decision felt unexpected.
The air will feel a little different this year at Alumni Stadium as the Notre Dame men’s soccer team takes the pitch with a new look.
It’s championship or bust for the Notre Dame women’s soccer season in 2025. Despite their youth, the Irish are not lacking any bit of experience.
When the college football world thinks of the historic rivalry between Miami and Notre Dame, one phrase comes to mind: “Catholics vs. Convicts.” The famous phrase traces its roots back to South Quad residents Pat Walsh (Dillon) and Joe Fredrick (Alumni) who illegally produced and distributed the infamous Catholics vs. Convicts t-shirt for the 1988 game between the two schools. The phrase, which eventually became the title of an ESPN “30 for 30” chronicling the game and its background, came to fruition after Miami’s football roster saw publicized legal trouble and multiple player arrests in the 1980s. While the derogatory shirt is certainly what comes to mind when anyone thinks about the matchup, there is so much more to this rivalry than just “Catholics vs. Convicts.”
Expectations for the 2025 Irish women’s soccer team are higher than they’ve ever been during the Nate Norman era. The Irish return almost 90% of their scoring from a season in which they reached the national quarterfinals. They were accordingly ranked second in the nation — their highest preseason ranking as a program since 2011’s national championship follow-up.
Indiana attorney general Todd Rokita has expanded an investigation into Notre Dame’s diversity, equity and inclusion practices to determine whether the University is in compliance with civil rights laws and an Indiana statute regulating nonprofits.
Notre Dame’s Center for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, which has occupied the second floor of LaFortune Student Center since 2022, has been renamed the Sister Thea Bowman Center. The change was not accompanied by a press release.
Erin Hoffmann Harding will join the President’s Executive Team at Saint Mary’s, the College announced in a July 17 press release. Hoffmann Harding will serve as the College’s vice president for strategy and legal affairs, as well as chief of staff, beginning Aug. 1. The position is newly established within the executive team.
Notre Dame’s over $20 billion endowment will face a higher tax rate after President Donald Trump signed a major tax and spending bill into law on Friday, July 4. The bill, dubbed the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” is Trump’s signature legislative initiative thus far in his second term.
In a press release published Monday, the University of Notre Dame announced Santiago Schnell, the dean of the College of Science, will leave his position at the end of June and accept a new post as provost at Dartmouth College, serving as that institution’s chief academic and budget officer. Schnell will succeed outgoing provost David Kotz at Dartmouth, who was appointed to the position in 2022.
Notre Dame sent a message to the rest of the country in the First Round of the NCAA tournament, defeating No. 4 seed Ohio State 15-6 and avenging their regular-season loss to the Buckeyes. That set up a Quarterfinal matchup with another Big Ten opponent, No. 5 seed Penn State. The Nittany Lions edged Colgate in round one to set up their first date with the Irish since 2014 and their first meeting in the postseason. After a slow scoring start for both teams, what appeared to be a sleepy Sunday quickly turned into a scorcher.
The Saint Mary’s College volleyball team improved from 6-14 two years ago to a respectable 10-13 in the fall of 2024, successfully taking a step forward after spending the entirety of last offseason with that expectation.
Last spring, the Notre Dame men’s golf team made a memorable postseason run in May. Under the guidance of head coach John Handrigan, the Irish reached the NCAA Tournament and headed down to Austin. There, they finished third in NCAA Regionals, advancing to the Championship for the first time since 1966.
Harnessing the abilities of an inexperienced roster is never easy, even for an experienced coach like Caroline Powers Ellis. In charge of the Notre Dame women’s golf team for a third season in 2024-25, she oversaw just two seniors in the midst of four freshmen and three sophomores. The team also did not return Lauren Beaudreau, last year’s solo star who captured an NCAA Individual Regional Championship.
On Wednesday, Saint Mary’s announced Megan Zwart’s transition from interim provost to the position permanently, and becoming vice president for academic affairs.
Transitioning from the fall campaign to the spring season is never easy for a college golf team in northern Indiana, and that certainly rang true for Holy Cross women’s golf in 2025. The Saints couldn’t get out and play competitively at all in March, giving them less than three weeks between their first tournament of the spring and the Chicagoland Collegiate Athletic Conference (CCAC) Tournament.
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