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247Sports ranks Notre Dame’s facilities as one of the best in the country

This is a good list to be on

In the ever lasting recruiting race, schools across the country continually try to one-up each other when it comes to their facilities. Athletes spend most of their time there, so having one of the best around the country is a big selling point for many schools.

Recently, 247Sports Brad Crawford ranked the Top-25 schools based on facilities and Notre Dame came in thirteenth, in front of schools like Michigan, Tennessee and Florida.

Notre Dame’s simplistic look had quite a dazzling facelift prior to the 2017 season with a new-look locker room for players… Notre Dame’s new 111,400-square-foot Irish Indoor Athletics center, which will serve as an indoor practice facility for the football and men’s and women’s soccer programs, opened in July 2019.

The Irish aren’t too flashy with their facilities, using a simplistic look that is classic and timeless. Glad to see that it still ranks among the best in the country.

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Notre Dame Soccer Player Bailey Cartwright Talks Stronger Scars

Athletes who suffer serious injuries will work hard to get back to competing. Some decide to turn them into an opportunity to help others.

Athletes who suffer serious injuries will work hard to get back to competing. Some decide to turn them into an opportunity to help others. Such is the case for Notre Dame women’s soccer forward Bailey Cartwright, the founder of Stronger Scars, which is a platform for student-athletes who have needed surgery for injuries.

In a piece for Untold Athletes, Cartwright writes about her experience with compartment syndrome, a condition defined by excessive pressure built up inside enclosed muscle space somewhere in the body. The surgeries she underwent because of the condition resulted in scars on her body. After feeling self-conscious about them, she realized there probably were other student-athletes who had feelings just like hers. This led to the creation of Stronger Scars.

Cartwright, a senior psychology major, plans to attend graduate school for sport psychology. She hopes to make Stronger Scars a nonprofit that gives financial resources for injured athletes who are lacking the care she received at Notre Dame. It shows how a little adversity for one person ultimately can make things better for others, especially if that one person is at the forefront of that change.