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Mike Milligan |
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Walk-on catcher who rounds out 13-player freshman
class ... expected to fill fourth catcher role behind
seniors Paul O’Toole and Andrew Bushey and classmate
Brent Weiss ... a team player who will fill valuable
role as bullpen catcher ... hard worker who has shown
solid ability with his catching and hitting ...
provided key sacrifice bunt to advance Gold team’s
second run in opening 7-4 win of Notre Dame’s
Blue-Gold intrasquad series in fall of 2001 ... first
Oklahoma native to play for the Irish in the Paul
Mainieri era ... could become fifth Oklahoma native –
and the first in more than 60 years – to letter with
Notre Dame baseball program, with the others including
Leo DuBois (1917), a pair of Oklahoma City natives in
middle infielder Haskell Askew (’30-’31) and
outfielder William Lomasney (’31-’32), and Charles
Farrell (Okmugee; ’39-’41) ... inherits No. 44 jersey
worn most recently by RHP Tim Krause (’92-’95) and
four-time all-BIG EAST catcher/DH Jeff Wagner
(’96-’99) ... posted a Dean’s List semester during the
2001 fall semester, with a 3.60 grade-point average.
PREP & PERSONAL: A three-sport athlete at
Bishop McGuinness High School ... posted .389 career
batting average as a catcher and outfielder (20 HR,
125 RBI, 136 R, 87 BB) ... earned all-city as a
senior, after helping team win regional title and
reach 4A state tournament ... an offensieve guard and
inside linebacker on McGuinness football team, earning
all-conference and all-state while serving as senior
team captain ... lettered in basketball as a sophomore
.. member of National Honor Society ... father Mike
Milligan is a 1977 Notre Dame graduate, as are his
uncles Phil Kierl (’69), Peter Kierl (’76) and Michael
Kierl (’82) ... mother Tish (Kierl) Milligan played
basketball, volleyball and tennis at Marymount
University in Arlington, Va. ... aunts Terese and
Barbara Kierl played basketball at Rockhurst
University (in Kansas City, Mo.) while aunts Margaret
and Christi Kierl played basketball at Marymount ...
born Aug. 3, 1982, in Oklahoma City, Okla. ... son of
Mike and Tish Milligan ... full name is Michael James
Milligan ... enrolled in the First Year of Studies ...
intends to major in accounting.
