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Notre Dame commonly refers to:

• Notre Dame (Our Lady), a French title for the Blessed Virgin Mary
• Notre Dame de Paris, the most famous church with this name
• University of Notre Dame, United States
  • Notre Dame Fighting Irish football, athletic team
• Notre Dame Educational Association, a network of Notre Dame Schools in the Philippines

It may also refer to:

Churches and cathedrals[link]

Algeria[link]

• Notre Dame d'Afrique, Algiers

Belgium[link]

• Onze Lieve Vrouw (Notre Dame), Antwerp

Canada[link]

• Notre-Dame Basilica (Montreal), in the historic district of Old Montreal
• Notre-Dame Basilica-Cathedral (Quebec City), the primate church of Canada
• Notre-Dame Cathedral Basilica, Ottawa, an ecclesiastic basilica
• Notre-Dame Church (Montreal), in Old Montreal
• Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours Chapel, Montreal

France[link]

• Basilica of Notre-Dame de Fourvière, Lyon
• Cathedral of Nôtre Dame, Amiens, Amiens Cathedral
• Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Bayeux, Bayeux Cathedral
• Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Chartres, Chartres Cathedral
• Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Rouen, Rouen Cathedral
• Cathédrale Notre-Dame-de-Strasbourg, Strasbourg Cathedral
• Collegiate Church of Notre-Dame, Melun, on rue de la Courtille on the île Saint-Etienne
• Église Notre Dame de l'Assomption, Metz, situated on the Rue de la Chevre
• Église Notre-Dame la Grande, Poitiers
• Notre-Dame de la Garde, Marseille
• Notre-Dame de Nice, neo-Gothic basilica situated on the Avenue Jean-Médecin
• Notre Dame de Paris, Gothic cathedral on the eastern half of the Île de la Cité
• Notre-Dame de Reims, Reims Cathedral
• Notre Dame des Cyclistes, Labastide-d'Armagnac
• Notre Dame du Haut, Ronchamp

Guadeloupe[link]

• Notre Dame de l'Assomption, les Saintes, Terre-de-Haut

Haiti[link]

• Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Port-au-Prince, Cathedral of Our Lady of the Assumption

Luxembourg[link]

• Notre-Dame Cathedral, Luxembourg

Philippines[link]

• Notre Dame of Greater Manila, Caloocan City

United States[link]

• Basilica of the Sacred Heart, Notre Dame, Indiana
• Church of Notre Dame (New York City)

Vietnam[link]

• Saigon Notre-Dame Basilica, Ho Chi Minh City

Places[link]

Canada[link]

Manitoba[link]

• Notre-Dame-de-Lourdes, Manitoba

New Brunswick[link]

• Notre-Dame, New Brunswick
• Notre-Dame-de-Lourdes, New Brunswick

Newfoundland[link]

• Notre Dame Bay, a large bay near the mouth of the Exploits River

Quebec[link]

• Notre-Dame-Auxiliatrice-de-Buckland, Quebec, Chaudière-Appalaches
• Notre-Dame-de-Bonsecours, Quebec, Outaouais
• Notre-Dame-de-Grâce, neighbourhood in Montreal
• Notre-Dame-de-Ham, Quebec, Centre-du-Québec
• Notre-Dame-de-la-Merci, Quebec, Lanaudière
• Notre-Dame-de-la-Paix, Quebec, Outaouais
• Notre-Dame-de-la-Salette, Quebec, Outaouais
• Notre-Dame-de-l'Île-Perrot, Quebec, Montérégie
• Notre-Dame-de-Lorette, Quebec, Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean
• Notre-Dame-de-Lourdes, Centre-du-Québec, Quebec
• Notre-Dame-de-Lourdes, Lanaudière, Quebec
• Notre-Dame-de-Montauban, Quebec, Mauricie
• Notre-Dame-de-Pontmain, Quebec, Laurentides
• Notre-Dame-de-Stanbridge, Quebec, Montérégie
• Notre-Dame-des-Anges, Quebec, Capitale-Nationale
• Notre-Dame-des-Bois, Quebec, Estrie
• Notre-Dame-des-Monts, Quebec, Capitale-Nationale
• Notre-Dame-des-Neiges, Quebec, Bas-Saint-Laurent
• Notre-Dame-des-Pins, Quebec, Chaudière-Appalaches
• Notre-Dame-des-Prairies, Quebec, Lanaudière
• Notre-Dame-des-Sept-Douleurs, Quebec, Bas-Saint-Laurent
• Notre-Dame-du-Lac, Quebec, Bas-Saint-Laurent
• Notre-Dame-du-Laus, Quebec, Laurentides
• Notre-Dame-du-Mont-Carmel, Quebec, Mauricie
• Notre-Dame-du-Mont-Carmel, Lacolle, Quebec, a former parish municipality in Montérégie that is now part of Lacolle, Quebec
• Notre-Dame-du-Nord, Quebec, Abitibi-Témiscamingue
• Notre-Dame-du-Portage, Quebec, Bas-Saint-Laurent
• Notre-Dame-du-Rosaire, Quebec, Chaudière-Appalaches
• Notre-Dame-du-Sacré-Cœur-d'Issoudun, Quebec, Chaudière-Appalaches
• Notre Dame Mountains, part of the Appalachian Mountains
• Notre-Dame Street, Montreal

United States[link]

Indiana[link]

• Notre Dame, Indiana, a census-designated place north of South Bend in St. Joseph County

Higher education institutions[link]

Colleges and universities[link]

Australia[link]

• Notre Dame College, Shepparton, Victoria
• University of Notre Dame Australia, Fremantle, Western Australia, and Sydney, New South Wales

Bangladesh[link]

• Notre Dame College (Dhaka), a higher secondary degree college affiliated to the National University

Canada[link]

• Athol Murray College of Notre Dame, Wilcox, Saskatchewan

Haiti[link]

• University Notre Dame of Haiti, Port-au-Prince

Japan[link]

• Kyoto Notre Dame University, Sakyo-ku
• Notre Dame Seishin University, Okayama

Lebanon[link]

• Notre Dame University – Louaize, Zouk Mosbeh

Philippines[link]

• Notre Dame Educational Association, a network of Notre Dame Schools
• Notre Dame of Dadiangas University, General Santos City
• Notre Dame of Marbel University, Koronadal (Marbel) City
• Notre Dame of Midsayap College, Midsayap, Cotabato
• Notre Dame of Greater Manila, Caloocan City

United States[link]

• Notre Dame College, South Euclid, Ohio
• Notre Dame College (New Hampshire), a former college in Manchester
• Notre Dame College (New York), a former women's college in Staten Island
• Notre Dame de Namur University, Belmont, California
• Notre Dame of Maryland University, Baltimore
• University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana
  • Notre Dame Fighting Irish football, athletic team

Art[link]

• Notre-Dame, une fin d'après-midi, a 1902 painting by Henri Matisse

Botany[link]

• Notre Dame (grape), a synonym for the French wine grape, Jurançon

Music[link]

• Notre Dame (band), a former Swedish metal band
• Notre Dame (opera), a romantic opera by Franz Schmidt
• Notre-Dame de Paris (musical), a sung-through French-Canadian musical which debuted on 16 September 1998 in Paris
• "Notre Dame, Our Mother", the alma mater of the University of Notre Dame
• Notre Dame school of Polyphony, a group of composers working at or near the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris from about 1170 to 1250

Religious organizations[link]

• Hospitalité Notre Dame de Lourdes, a Roman Catholic religious confraternity under the spiritual authority of the Bishop of Tarbes and Lourdes
• School Sisters of Notre Dame, a worldwide order of Roman Catholic nuns devoted to primary, secondary, and post-secondary education
• Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur, a Roman Catholic order of religious sisters, dedicated to providing education to the poor

See also[link]

• All pages with titles containing "Notre Dame"
• All pages beginning with "Notre Dame"
• Church of Our Lady (disambiguation)
• ND (disambiguation)
• NDU (disambiguation)
• Notre Dame de Lourdes (disambiguation)
• Occurrence of religious symbolism in U.S. sports team names and mascots
• Our Lady (disambiguation)

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Mike Brey (born March 22, 1959) is an American college basketball coach. He has been the men's head coach at the University of Notre Dame since July 14, 2000.

Biography[link]

Early life and education[link]

Brey graduated from DeMatha Catholic High School in Hyattsville, Maryland in 1977. As a two-year letter winner under coach Morgan Wootten, Brey helped the team to a 55–9 mark. He enrolled at Northwestern State University, where he played varsity basketball for three years (1977–80). In 1982 Brey graduated from George Washington University with bachelor's degree in physical education.

Coaching career[link]

He returned to his former high school, becoming an assistant coach under Morgan Wootten. In 1987, he was hired by Duke University to assist Mike Krzyzewski, and in 1995 he took over his first head coaching job at the University of Delaware. Brey guided the Fightin' Blue Hens to a 99–51 record over five years, leading the team to two America East Conference Championships and subsequently two trips to the NCAA Tournament.

Notre Dame Fighting Irish[link]

In 2000, he succeeded Matt Doherty as head coach of the Notre Dame Fighting Irish. Notre Dame had not been to the NCAA Tournament since 1990 when Brey was hired. Brey led the Irish to the NCAA tournament in his first three years as head coach (2001–2003), notching a Sweet Sixteen appearance in 2003. He since led the team to tournament appearances in 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011 and 2012.

2007–2008 season[link]

During the 2007–08 season, Brey led the Irish to a 24–6 regular season mark. He was named the Big East Coach of the Year for the second consecutive season on March 11, 2008.^[8] Notre Dame had a 45-game home winning streak between February 2006 and February 2009 - the second longest in school history. By completing the 2007–2008 regular season 18–0 at home, Brey coached the first team in Big East history to have consecutive undefeated seasons at home.

Head coaching record[link]

References[link]

Skylar Diggins
College	Notre Dame
Sport	Basketball
Position	Guard
Jersey #	4
Class	Junior
Height	5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)
Nationality	American
Born	(1990-08-02) August 2, 1990 (age 21) South Bend, IN
Awards
McDonald's All-American (2009) 2009 Indiana Miss Basketball award Gatorade National Girls Basketball Player of the Year (2009)[1]

Skylar Diggins (born August 2, 1990 in South Bend, Indiana) is currently a women's basketball player for the Fighting Irish of Notre Dame. She was a McDonald's All-American coming out of high school. As a freshman, Diggins became the fourth Indiana native to join the Irish roster in 2009-10, along with fellow South Bend-area guard (and co-captain) Melissa Lechlitner, Indianapolis guard Ashley Barlow (and co-captain) and Valparaiso forward Becca Bruszewski. In addition, she was one of three Miss Basketball honorees on the '09-10 Notre Dame roster, along with Lindsay Schrader (Illinois 2005) and Kellie Watson (Michigan 2008).

Diggins rose to national prominence in her sophomore year, finishing the regular season first on the team in assists per game (4.8 average), while placing second in scoring (14.4) and third in steals (1.9). Since the season began, she has scored in double figures 30 times, including eight 20-point outings, and has notched at least five assists in 21 games.^[2]

Diggins continued her stellar play in the NCAA tournament, leading the Irish to the second championship game appearance in school history, ten years after Notre Dame captured the national title in 2001. However, the Fighting Irish lost to the Texas A&M Aggies in the final game of the 2011 women's basketball tournament, by a score of 76-70. In the losing effort, Diggins finished with 23 points, 3 rebounds, 3 assists, and 4 steals. She made 8 of 9 free-throws in the game, including two with 40.7 seconds remaining. But the sophomore struggled from beyond the arc, sinking only 1 of 5 three-point attempts. Diggins also committed 6 turnovers, the last one ending Notre Dame's chances for good as the game clock wound down. As the Associated Press reported, "Diggins, fighting back tears, said the Irish couldn't handle A&M's pressure. 'We turned it over too much. I don't know if it was nerves or what,' she said. 'We just didn't handle the pressure.'"

In the semifinal game, the Notre Dame point guard led her team to victory over heavily-favored UConn (the number-one team in the country) with 28 points (her highest single-game total on the season), 4 rebounds, 6 assists and 2 steals.^[3] Diggins also made all six of her free-throw attempts in the familiar confines of Conseco Fieldhouse, where she had previously led her high school team to three straight championships. Notre Dame was victorious in its third Final Four appearance ever, defeating the two-time defending champion Huskies by a score of 72-63.^[4]

This came after beating the University of Tennessee (fourth-ranked team in the country) in the regional final by a score of 73-59. Diggins scored a then-season-high 24 points in the game, and was named the Most Outstanding Player of the 2011 NCAA Dayton Regional. What's more, with her performance against the Lady Vols, Diggins went over the 1,000-point mark for her career, becoming just the second Notre Dame women’s basketball player to reach that milestone before the end of her sophomore season.^[5] She has also showed her prowess as a floor-leader throughout the tournament, even dishing out a career-high 12 assists (most by a Notre Dame player in more than 11 years) in the Irish's 78-53 Sweet 16 victory over Oklahoma. By beating Tennessee and UConn, Diggins and The Lady Irish became the first team to ever beat both teams in the same tournament.

For her excellence on the court, Diggins has been selected by the Associated Press as a 2011 Third Team All-American,^[6] and she has also been honored as one of ten members of the 2011 State Farm Coaches All-America Team. She joined Baylor's Brittney Griner as one of only two sophomores honored, and was just the third Irish women's basketball player to earn the award, joining Ruth Riley (2001) and Jacqueline Batteast (2005).

Diggins was chosen as one of four finalists for the 2011 Nancy Lieberman Award, given to the nation's top point guard. During the 2011 season, she was also selected as one of twenty midseason candidates for the John R. Wooden Award, and was among thirty midseason candidates for the James A. Naismith Trophy. Connecticut's Maya Moore won both of these awards. In addition, Diggins was one of twenty-five players selected for the State Farm Wade Trophy's preseason "watch list". The Wade Trophy was also awarded to Moore.

USA Basketball[link]

• Diggins was a member of the USA Women's Under-18 National Team, starting all five games at the 2008 FIBA Under-18 Americas Championship in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She was part of the United States team that went undefeated and won the gold medal. Statistically, she averaged 10.8 points on 50-percent shooting from the field, 3.2 rebounds, 3.6 assists and 2 steals in 23.2 minutes per game. In the tournament, she ranked among the top 10 in the entire tournament in scoring (10th), field goal percentage (7th), assists (2nd), steals (8th), and assist-to-turnover ratio (2nd).
• July 29, 2009: Notre Dame incoming freshman guard and United States co-captain Skylar Diggins (South Bend, Ind./Washington) scored 11 points, including three three-pointers in a 42-second span early in the first quarter, as the USA trounced Japan, 109-68, on Wednesday in its final Group F second-round contest at the FIBA U19 World Championships inside the Bangkok Thai-Japan Youth Center in Bangkok, Thailand.^[7]

High school[link]

• In the March 30, 2009, issue of Sports Illustrated, she was part of its Faces in the Crowd segment.
• She was a four-year starter at Washington High School, where the Panthers had a combined record of 102-7.^[8] In her senior year, she led the Washington High School Panthers to a 26-1 record and a runner-up finish in the Class 4A state tournament, where they fell to the nation's number-one-ranked team, Ben Davis of Indianapolis, 71-69. She averaged a state-best 29 points per game, along with 6.3 rebounds, 6.2 assists, 5.4 steals and 2.2 blocked shots.
• She was a two-time Gatorade Indiana Girls Basketball Player of the Year.^[1] In four consecutive years, Diggins led the Panthers to state championship games, including Washington's title-winning season of 2007.
• A McDonald's All-American Game selection,^[9] she finished her career with 2,790 points, the third-highest girls' scoring total in Indiana history for an average of 25.9 points per game.
• Skylar Diggins chose Notre Dame over Stanford, but was able to make friends with Stanford alum Candice Wiggins after visiting the university.
• Diggins was named a WBCA All-American. She participated in the 2009 WBCA High School All-America Game, where she scored 24 points.^[10]

Awards and honors[link]

• 2011 Associated Press All-American (third team)
• 2009 consensus Naismith Prep Player of the Year, earning top honors from Gatorade, Atlanta Tipoff Club (Naismith Trophy), ESPN Hoopgurlz and MaxPreps
• Three-time high school All-American by Parade magazine (first team 2008 and 2009; third team 2007)
• Three-time high school All-American by EA Sports (first team 2008 and 2009; second team 2007)
• USA Today All-USA Team (first team 2009; third team 2008)
• USA Today All-Underclass Team (2006)
• Two-time Gatorade Indiana Player of the Year (2008 and 2009)
• Two-time MaxPreps Indiana Player of the Year/first-team All-American (2008 and 2009)
• 2009 Indiana Miss Basketball ^[11]
• 2009 South Bend Tribune Girls' Athlete of the Year (covers all female high school athletes in all sports throughout newspaper's coverage area)

References[link]