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.