Regis McDermott Class: Senior Hometown: Amityville, NY High School: Chaminade Weight: 210 Position: Defense

Will serve as a team captain this season ... a three-time monogram winner ... has played in all 47 games during his Fighting Irish career ... 18 starts ... has totaled one point on one assist to go along with 81 ground balls ... a versatile and savvy player ... will be counted on to anchor the Irish defense ... a good communicator and makes everyone around him better ... arguably the smartest player on the team ... does a lot of little things to help the defense succeed ... has a knack for making plays ... hails from Chaminade High School in New York, a school that has produced 11 Notre Dame lacrosse players ... also was a decorated football player in high school.

AS A JUNIOR: Started all 17 games and was a key reason why the Irish ranked fifth nationally in scoring defense by allowing just 7.04 goals per game ... the stingy defense surrendered 10 or more goals on just two occasions and held opponents to six goals or fewer eight times ... picked up a career-high 37 ground balls ... attempted one shot ... picked up a season-high four ground balls on three occasions ... those came in wins over #13 Albany (7-6),Villanova (16-6) and against #10 Ohio State (9-2) in the title game of the GWLL tournament ... whistled for three penalties, totaling 1:30 of penalty time.

AS A SOPHOMORE: Played in all 15 games ... made one start ... helped Irish rank fourth nationally in team defense by allowing a school-record 6.66 goals per game ... one point on one assist ... collected 20 ground balls ... attempted two shots ... whistled for three penalties, totaling three minutes of penalty time ... notched his first career point with an assist in an 11-3 victory at Brown ... picked up a season- high three ground balls on two occasions, wins over #19 Drexel (16-5) and Bellarmine (11-3) ... the Drexel contest was also his first collegiate start.

AS A FRESHMAN: Had an instant impact in the Irish defense ... played in all 15 games and helped the Irish post the nation's 11th-best scoring defense by allowing just 7.67 goals per game ... picked up 24 ground balls ... whistled for three penalties, totaling 2:30 in penalty time ... collected a season-high five ground balls in a 10-8 win over Ohio State ... one of four freshmen to earn a monogram for the Irish.

PREP AND PERSONAL: Two-sport letterwinner at Chaminade High School in New York ... earned two letters in both football and lacrosse ... all-conference football selection his senior season ... helped lead lacrosse team to an undefeated season, conference championship, and final national ranking, (Inside Lacrosse #14), in his senior season ... elected team captain as a senior ... selected all-conference as a senior ... earned Newsday All-Long Island selection as a senior ... played in the Empire State Games, was a Long Island Empire Selection and Silver Medal winner ... played in CHSFL Football All-Star game as a senior ... comes from same high school as recent Notre Dame players Daniel Hickey, Sean Quigley, James Severin and William Sullivan ... son of Patricia and Kevin McDermott ... has two older and one younger sibling ... older brother, Padraic, graduated from Notre Dame in 2004 ... cousin Eamon McGloughin is a former member of the University of Virginia golf team ... member of the National Honor Society ... born on March 31, 1987, in Bronx, N.Y. ... enrolled in the College of Arts and Letters as a political science major.

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