Blue & Gold Illustrated: America's Foremost Authority on Notre Dame Football
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UNDER THE DOME Senior attackman Sean Rogers tied for the team lead in goals (18) and points (25) last season. PHOTO COURTESY NOTRE DAME MEDIA RELATIONS • Inside Lacrosse pegged four members of the Notre Dame men's team as preseason All-America selections. The magazine also ranked the Irish No. 9 in its first poll of the 2012 season. Junior goalie John Kemp made the third team. Defenseman Kevin Randall, attackman Sean Rogers MISCELLANEOUS NOTES and midfielder Liam O'Connor all got honorable mentions on the list. Kemp's older brother, Joey, was also an All-American goalie for the Irish for three consecutive years. Rogers is expected to lead Notre Dame's offensive charge this season. He tied for the team lead in goals (18) and points (25) as a junior. • Women's lacrosse coach Christine Halfpenny signed 10 new recruits this month to fill out her first class as the head coach of the Notre Dame program. Stephanie Peragallo, who is ranked as the No. 2 defender in the country by ESPN, headlines the class and is one of three future Irish players to be named a high school All-American in her junior year. The group is composed of seven midfielders, two defenders and one attack player. • Notre Dame's volleyball team also signed two new recruits this month to replace their small out- going senior class. Taylor Morey and Hannah Muzzonigro will join the team next fall. Morey is from Muncie, Ind., and won the Indiana Gatorade Player of the Year award this season. She will be a defensive specialist for the Irish. The 5-11 Muzzonigro is a setter from Gibsonia, Pa. She was an honorable mention All-American on PrepVolleyball.com's 2010 list. • Two Notre Dame track stars won conference awards in their debut meet in December. Freshmen Chris Giesting and Kaila Barber were named the Big East athletes of the week following strong perfor- mances at the Blue and Gold Invitational. Giesting won the 400-meter dash and qualified for the confer- ence race with a time of 47.4 seconds. Barber claimed victories in the 60-meter hurdles, the 400-meter dash and the long jump. Both freshmen ran the anchor leg for the winning 4x400 relay teams as well. • Irish underclassmen had a good December in the pool as well. Freshman Emma Reaney and sophomore Frank Dyer won the Big East weekly awards for swimmers and divers during the teams' only tournaments this month. Dyer set a school record on his way to winning the 200 freestyle event in 1:35.58 — currently the seventh-best time in NCAA this year. Reaney won the 200 and 400 individual medleys at the Ohio State Invitational during the first week of the month. This is the second time she has won the conference honor this year, becoming one of only three swimmers to do that since the award's inception in 2008. • Notre Dame graduate and former Bengal Bout champion Mike Lee remained undefeated in his pro- fessional boxing career by knocking out Allen Medina in the fourth round at Madison Square Garden on Dec. 3. Lee (8-0, 4 KOs) was scheduled to go six rounds, the longest fight of his career, as an undercard leading up the rematch between Miguel Cotto and Antonio Margarito. — Dan Murphy www.BLUEANDGOLD.com JANUARY 2012 17