Blue & Gold Illustrated: America's Foremost Authority on Notre Dame Football
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Nineteen different teams contributed to Notre Dame's small step forward in the Directors' Cup standings BALANCED ATTACK season in the yearly competition that mea- sures a school's success across all of its ath- letic programs. I YEAR IN REVIEW women's basketball, men's lacrosse and fenc- ing — reached the final four of their respec- tive sports, and 16 others made it far enough in postseason play to register points in the scoring system set up by the National As- sociation of Collegiate Directors of Athletics. They combined to score 843.5 points, which was the highest total of any Big East school and among the top five schools in the North- ern half of the country. The deck is stacked against Notre Dame ever winning the Cup, and even climbing into the top 10 can be a challenge when com- peting against schools with far more varsity Three different Notre Dame teams — BY DAN MURPHY t took a team effort to keep Notre Dame slowly climbing the ranks in this year's Directors' Cup challenge. The Irish moved up one spot to 17th overall this Jeremy Rae crossed the finish line to clinch the distance medley national title for Notre Dame this past year. His teammates in the event were Jonathan Shawell, Randall Babb and Chris Giesting. PHOTO COURTESY NOTRE DAME MEDIA RELATIONS AUGUST 2012 99