UNDER THE DOME
Pleasant Draft(s) In the five and a half months from Dec.14 through the first round of the April 26-28 NFL Draft, Notre Dame has had 10 student-athletes selected among the top 32 picks (as far as first-round picks can go in the NFL) in their respec- tive pro drafts. By order of their draft position, they
were:
2 — Melissa Henderson, Women's Pro- fessional Soccer (Sky Blue FC) 3 — Devereaux Peters, WNBA (Min- nesota Lynx) 8 — Natalie Novosel WNBA (Washing- ton Mystics) 12 —Aaron Maund, Major League Soc- cer (Toronto FC)
Cardinals) 21 — Greg Klazura, MLS Supplemental
13 — Michael Floyd, NFL (Arizona
(Vancouver Whitecaps FC) 25 — Andrew Irving Major League La-
Timbers) Vikings)
crosse Supplemental (Ohio Machine) 27 — Brendan King, MLS (Portland
29 — Harrison Smith, NFL (Minnesota
31 — Regis McDermott, MLL Supple- mental (Hamilton Nationals) Among the 10, six were first-round selections (all but Klazura, Irving, King and McDermott), covering five different drafts.
Former Fighting Irish women's soccer star Melissa Henderson was the second selection in this year's Women's Professional Soccer Draft.
PHOTO BY WALT MIDDLETON
Only one other school had a first-round pick in even three of the seven mentioned pro drafts (NFL, MLL College/Supple-
mental, MLS College/Supplemental, WNBA, WPS), and that was Stanford (NFL, WNBA, WPS).
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