Notre Dame beat Bowling Green 2 to 1 on February 3rd, in the Compton Family Ice Arena.
Gifted goal scorer who has the potential to be a factor for the Irish in his rookie season ... strong skater with a great shot ... has great hands and instincts around the goal ... has the skills to be an excellent one-on-one player who can make a play and find the open man ... has all the tools to be a top-level collegiate player ... becomes the first Austrian-born player and third European player to play at Notre Dame, joining Calle Ridderwall `11 (Sweden) and Robin Bergman (Sweden) ... joins the Irish after spending the 2010-11 campaign with the Indiana Ice of the United States Hockey League (USHL) ... had 30 goals and 24 assists for 54 points in 55 games ... added a goal and two assists in five postseason contests ... finished third on the team in goals and fifth in points ... scored five power-play goals with five game winners ... was chosen to play in the 2011 USHL all-star game ... first Indiana Ice player to play at Notre Dame ... played in the 2011 IIHF World Junior Championships for Austria, scoring a goal and three assists for four points in five games ... one of 15 Notre Dame players to play in the USHL ... signed national letter-of-intent in the early signing period (Nov. `10) along with Eric Johnson, Robbie Russo and Andy Ryan.
PREP & PERSONAL: Graduated from Gynasium Dr. Karla Polesneho in Znojmo, Czech Republic in May of 2009 ... played junior hockey in the Czech Republic for HC Ceske Budejovice and HC Znojemsti Orli in the Czech Under-20 league during `08-'09, scoring 19 goals and seven assists for 26 points in 42 games between the two teams ... competed for Austria in the Under-18 World Championships, scoring four goals in five games ... played for Orli Znojmo in the Czech Under-20 league in `09-'10 where he had 17 goals and 13 assists for 30 points in 29 games ... played for Austria in World Junior Championships, netting one assist in six games ... full name is Peter Schneider ... son of Peter and Martina Schneider ... has two sisters, Anna and Lisa, and two brothers, Philipp and Moritz ... born April 4, 1991 in Klosterneuburg, Austria ... enrolled in First Year of Studies at Notre Dame with plans to major in business.
