Blue & Gold Illustrated: America's Foremost Authority on Notre Dame Football
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UNDER THE DOME 'OUR CLASSROOM IS THE WORLD' Summer vacation has become sort of an oxymoron to Notre Dame's student- athletes. For one, year-round conditioning and training is mandatory and not optional among top athletes all around the country. Two, learning and expanding the mind never stops either. Notre Dame's six-week summer school program began June 13, but the time between the end of the spring semester May 6 and the start of the full summer session June 13 provided opportunities for prime internships — set up through the university — and three-week overseas studies also sponsored by the school. More than 50 percent of Notre Dame students study abroad at some point of their college careers, and the university is ranked No. 12 nationally for students studying abroad. This year, nine football players were among approximately Notre Dame's 60 student-athletes involved in international studies: • From May 12-June 4, senior free safety Max Redfield, senior nose guard John Montelus and junior punter Tyler Newsome were in Sao Paulo, Brazil, in a "Doing Business In Brazil" course that centers on international economics, politics and finance. • From May 16-June 4, star senior cornerback Cole Luke joined senior long snapper Scott Daly and junior kicker Sam Kohler in Greece to study "Ancient Corinth And Its Surroundings." • From May 17-June 7 in Jerusalem were senior wide receiver and student body president Corey Robinson, junior safety Drue Tranquill (a mechanical engineer major) and junior walk-on wideout Keenan Centlivre. Their tour included the Sea of Galilee, Nazareth and Bethlehem in a course titled "Three Faiths, Two Peoples: Jews, Christians and Muslims in the Holy Land." Walk-on defensive lineman Ryan Kilander was in London, while senior and former defensive end Doug Randolph, no longer on the team for medical reasons but helping with coaching duties, studied in Japan. Among many other student-athletes studying abroad were junior All-American basketball forward Brianna Turner (South Africa, while senior teammate Kristina Nelson was in Greece), and 2015-16 freshman phenom Anna Rohrer (Ireland), who placed fourth in the 5,000 meters in the NCAA Indoor National Championships. Internships also are valuable. Last year at this time junior starting right guard and Michigan native Steve Elmer worked in Washington, D.C., as a congressional intern to John Moolenaar, who represents Michigan's Fourth District. That was parlayed into a job opportunity in D.C. earlier this year that was too good to pass up. Thus, Elmer graduated this May after completing three and a half years of study (he was an early enrollee in the spring of 2013) and left a potential NFL career behind him. Among the 2015 starting linebackers, last year at this time Butkus Award winner Jaylon Smith was in South Africa, current senior James Onwualu was on Wall Street as a analyst on the stock market trading floor at the New York Stock Exchange and Joe Schmidt plied his trade in investment finance at the University of Notre Dame Investment Office. Among the internships this year were 2015 starting quarterback DeShone Kizer working with GE Capital Aviation Services. It sums up a credo the university espouses: "Our campus is in Indiana. Our classroom is the world." Safety Max Redfield