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This season, the Holy Cross women’s tennis team captured their fourth consecutive Chicagoland Collegiate Athletic Conference championship. That title earned the Saints the right to travel to Mobile, Ala., on Wednesday for the NAIA Tournament, where they were bested 4-3 by in-state foe Goshen.
For the fourth consecutive season, the Holy Cross men’s tennis team secured the Chicagoland Collegiate Athletic Conference championship. Seeking the program’s first national championship, the Saints advanced to round two of the NAIA Tournament in Mobile, Alabama, where they were swept 4-0 by Cumberlands.
On May 5, the Notre Dame Board of Trustees announced Claire Babineaux-Fontenot, former CEO of Feeding America, and Adm. Christopher Grady, 12th vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, as the body’s newest members.
This season, the Saint Mary’s softball team entered its second year under head coach Jordyn Walter. Saint Mary’s completed its season 19-21 overall — the program’s best record since its 36-7 finish in 2019. In addition, the team finished No. 6 in the Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association, a jump from last season’s eighth-place ranking.
The Saint Mary’s tennis team proved its worth on the court this season, finishing the season 18-8 overall and 6-2 in the conference.
The Saint Mary’s STUNT team concluded its 2026 season with an appearance at the STUNT national semifinals, taking home fourth place. The team finished with an overall record of 13-14, falling to the George Fox University Bruins by a final score of 24-16 to wrap up the campaign.
Heading into the 2025 season, head coach Salima Rockwell recruited a strong class of freshmen and used the transfer portal to her advantage to craft a strong lineup full of rising stars and well-tested veterans. Her most impactful recruit was junior outside hitter Sydney Helmers, who had spent the past two years at Texas and was on the 2023 national championship-winning squad. As soon as Helmers stepped foot in South Bend, she had an instant impact as a 6-rotation starting outside. She proved how much Rockwell trusted Helmers with digging against some of America’s best hitters but also to score at the net when the University of Notre Dame needed it the most. Ultimately, Helmers would play in 23 matches, earn 229 kills, get 157 digs, post 36 blocks and serve 25 service aces. Her impressive statistics hint at how, in her senior year, she will be the most reliable and go-to player for the Irish.
UCLA basketball. Alabama football. UNC women’s soccer. UConn women’s basketball. All are dynasties that have left an indelible mark on collegiate athletics.
After a disappointing 6-19 finish to last season, Saint Mary’s basketball improved to an 8-17 finish in the 2025-2026 season under second-year head coach Rob Hoffman.
Consensus All-American. Unanimous All-American. Doak Walker Award Winner. Heisman Finalist. Top-3 NFL Draft pick. Jeremiyah Love. You could spend hours listing the Notre Dame running back’s career accolades, accomplishments and highlights. From hurdles against Army, USC and Miami to 90-yard sprints against Boston College and Indiana to the grittiest two-yard rush in football history against Penn State, the St. Louis kid has provided Irish fans with countless memories and moments to cherish. Now, three years after arriving in South Bend as a reserved and restrained backup, the greatest running back in Notre Dame history has graduated to the National Football League as the highest-paid ball carrier in professional football history.
The clock inside Fort Worth’s Dickies Arena read 14.2 seconds to play. Notre Dame star junior guard Hannah Hidalgo pointed at the hardwood and told her teammates, “One stop. Right here.” This was the fifth consecutive Sweet 16 appearance for the Irish under Niele Ivey, a national champion as a player under Muffet McGraw. The previous four trips ended right there, but Ivey couldn’t ask for a better scenario with Hidalgo, the nation’s best defender, needing one stop to propel Notre Dame over the hurdle.
Despite a gut-wrenching double-overtime defeat at the hands of Ohio State in the second round of the NCAA Tournament, Notre Dame women’s soccer authored arguably the greatest season in program history this past fall. Spearheaded by a mix of savvy veterans and talented underclassmen, eighth-year head coach Nate Norman’s Irish navigated a grueling schedule nearly unscathed, all while earning numerous program and individual accolades.
With head coach Michael Norment in his first year at the helm, both the Notre Dame men’s and women’s swim and dive teams entered October with uncertainty. Not only was the program in a natural rebuilding period, with new staff additions and 20 freshmen comprising the 57-person roster, but its male athletes had not competed in over a year and a half.
Senior defender Mitch Ferguson let himself fall to the turf at Alumni Stadium. With the cold November night enveloping him, the four-year starter wondered whether this was the end. Eighth-year head coach Chad Riley’s Irish had just fallen 3-1 to North Carolina in the opening round of the ACC Tournament. As a result, which was representative of its 2025 season, Notre Dame couldn’t string together a consistent 90 minutes of soccer when it mattered most.
For Notre Dame hockey, the first year under Brock Sheahan was never going to be an easy one. An alumnus of the program, Sheahan took over for 20-year head coach Jeff Jackson at the end of the 2024-25 season after a year in waiting. That 2024-25 team was 4-19-1 in Big Ten play, the season bolstered at the end by a conference tournament upset against Minnesota.
On more than one occasion in the past few months, Mendoza has come under fire for being inauthentic to its mission to “Grow the Good in Business.” As current seniors mere days away from graduation, we’ve been fortunate enough to experience firsthand that this is not simply a slogan, but something to which the College is unapologetically committed. Any perception to the contrary is simply an oversight.
We are proud to announce the official launch of the Notre Dame Political Union (NDPU). Our organization comes at a time when political discourse often feels heated, and people too often choose to stay silent. NDPU aims to create a space of rigorous intellectual inquiry and civil discourse.
David Campbell, a political science professor and director of the Notre Dame Democracy Initiative, has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
I love prediction markets. They’ve challenged the idea of Vegas running sports betting and always taking a hefty commission. They’ve provided statistically significant predictors of political campaign successes and pop culture developments. But I don’t love prediction markets for any of those reasons. To me, they’re one of those things that I’m going to look back on in 50 years and be grateful I was around for just because of how chaotic and unprecedented they are/were. The opportunity to bet on literally anything is something that I don’t think we’ve truly appreciated. Even sports betting was remanded to the backrooms of bars until the past decade or so, and now the NBA shoves ads for it down our throats every game.
Solutions by The State News
