A sort of homecoming

I don’t write original content here often but today I’ll make an exception.

A year ago I was brand new to South Bend and I’d only been in town a little over a week when I went to a men’s soccer game wearing a FB Bayern Munich soccer jersey. The guy on the right — Jack — asked me about my jersey and we started talking. I told him that I had just moved to South Bend the week before and that I had loved Notre Dame since I met my friend Chuck Rigali in the 4th grade. He said “Well then, you need to be an usher”. After grilling him on the details I decided to apply and the rest is history. So a year later, I have my first chance to usher a soccer game and there was Jack. I hadn’t seen him again in a year of ushering and I couldn’t wait to thank him for introducing me to the program.

I also had the opportunity to meet McKenna, the other female leprechaun and there was a German family from Cologne, Germany that had come to South Bend to drop off their son who is in the class of 2028. We had a chance to talk about Thomas Muller, FC Bayern Munich, Cologne and Notre Dame life auf deutsch.

Ushering is one of the best Notre Dame experiences that anyone could imagine and I’m so grateful that I’ve been chosen to be one of the official greeters who get to say ‘Welcome to Notre Dame’…