Notre Dame Men's Ice Hockey wins advance to the CCHA Semifinals at Joe Lewis Arena after defeating Bowing Green 4-3.
Strong, solid, two-way center with plenty of offensive potential ... has excellent size and skill to add to Irish depth at center ... knows how to use his size along the boards and when he has the puck ... strong on his skates and tough to move off the puck ... has good hands and knows how to make plays ... joins the Irish after playing the 2011-12 season for the Penticton Vees of the British Columbia Hockey League (BCHL) where he was a teammate of current Notre Dame freshman Mario Lucia ... finished seventh in scoring on the Vees with 33 goals and 49 assists for 82 points in 60 games ... had six power-play goals, four short-handed tallies and led the team with 10 game-winning goals ... was member of Penticton squad that was 54-4-0-2 to win the regular season title, scoring 334 goals while giving up just 133 for a +201-goal differential ... along the way, the Vees set a North American junior hockey record by winning 42 consecutive games ... the Vees then won the BCHL playoff title with a 12-2-0-1 record, defeating Powell River, 4-0, for the Fred Page Cup with Fogarty scoring four goals with four assists in 15 games ... Penticton then won Canada's national junior A hockey title - The RBC Cup - going 2-2 in the round-robin round before defeating the Soo Thunderbirds in the semifinals and winning a dramatic 4-3 decision in the championship game against the Woodstock Slammers where Fogarty had a goal and an assist and was named player of the game ... selected in the third round, 72nd overall, of the 2011 NHL Entry Draft by the New York Rangers ... former high school teammate of junior center Anders Lee at Edina High School ... selected to attend the U.S. National Junior Evaluation Camp in Lake Placid, N.Y., Aug. 4 to Aug. 11, 2012 along with Thomas DiPauli, Lucia and Robbie Russo ... one of four Minnesota natives on the Notre Dame roster along with Lee, Lucia (Plymouth) and Nick Larson (Apple Valley) ... one of three Irish players to play in the BCHL along with Lucia and junior Shayne Taker (Cowichan Valley) ... signed a national letter-of-intent to attend Notre Dame in the spring of 2011 along with Austin Wuthrich.
PREP & PERSONAL: Graduated from Edina High School in Edina, Minn., where he was a three-time hockey letter winner ... two-time all-Classic Lake Conference selection ... two-time honorable mention all-state in 2009-10 and 2010-11 ... as a junior in `09-'10 led team in scoring with 21 goals with 19 assists for 40 points and was +16 to help Edina to the state AA championship ... a year later (`10-'11) served as team captain and was a candidate for Minnesota's "Mr. Hockey" Award as Edina lost in the state AA semifinals ... had 26 goals and 25 assists for 51 points ... played in 21 games for Team Southwest in the preseason Upper Midwest Elite League and had 12 goals and 9 assists for 21 points ... following the high school season played in six games with the USHL's Chicago Steel where he had two goals ... son of William and Carol Fogarty ... has one brother, Charles ... born in Chambersburg, Pa ... enrolled in First Year of Studies ... plans to major in Business at Notre Dame.
