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Erich Braun |
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Gifted senior has the potential and ability to be one of the top
forwards in the country in 2002 and strong candidate for All-America
honors this season • will serve as a tri-captain this season along
with teammates Justin Ratcliffe and Greg Martin • a tremendous
athlete and proven goal scorer who has been Notre Dame's leading
scorer twice in the last three seasons • possesses deceptive speed
and quickness, but his greatest asset is his finishing ability
around the goal area • has an aggressive goal-scoring mindset • a
strong leader on the field.
AS A JUNIOR: A first team all-BIG EAST selection and first team
all-Great Lakes Region honoree • led team in scoring for the second
time in three seasons with a career-high 12 goals and three assists
for a personal best 27 points • netted a goal in all but two contests
(Syracuse and Georgetown) in which the Irish scored a goal and
tallied a goal in 11 of 19 games • at one point, during the season,
scored a goal in six consecutive games • provided the lone goal in
Notre Dame's 1-0 win over sixth-ranked Indiana when he scored at the
49:05 mark of the contest off assists from Kevin Goldthwaite and
Devon Prescod • registered his first multiple-goal game of the season
and fourth of his career in 3-1 win over Georgetown • scored his
first goal of the game with 2:33 left before the intermission off
assists from Goldthwaite and Kevin Richards which gave the Irish a
1-0 lead and then tallied the game-winning score at the 68:08 mark
off an assist from Chad Riley which broke a 1-1 tie • had a goal and
an assist in 3-0 win at West Virginia • netted a goal with two
seconds remaining in 2-0 victory at Virginia Tech • netted the second
Irish goal in 2-0 win at home against Boston College when he scored
at the 53:55 mark off assists from Prescod and Riley • also provided
Notre Dame's second score of the game at the 66:02 mark in 2-0 win
at Providence off an assist from Justin Detter • recorded one of the
quickest goals in Notre Dame history when he netted the first Irish
score 14 seconds into their 4-0 win over IUPUI • scored his first
goal of the season, and Notre Dame's third of the game, in 5-0 win in
the season opener against Villanova off of a penalty kick at the
68:17 mark in the contest • had a goal and an assist in overtime loss
to fifth-ranked Furman • gave the Irish a 1-0 lead at the 13:41 mark
and then assisted on Detter's goal at 70:57 which gave Notre Dame a
2-1 advantage • had a goal and an assist against Cleveland State •
assisted on what proved to be the game-winning goal on Detter's score
at 59:09 which gave the Irish a 2-1 lead and then added the evening's
final score at 79:15 on an assist by Detter • had a goal in 3-2
victory at Bradley • selected as the BIG EAST Offensive Player of the
Week for the week of Oct. 22 after leading the Irish with two goals
in wins against Indiana and Boston College.
AS A SOPHOMORE: Finished the season as Notre Dame's second-leading
scorer with four goals and three assists despite being hampered by
injuries • started 12 of the 13 games he played • had the third
multiple-goal game of his career when he scored both of Notre Dame's
goals in 2-1 win over Villanova • netted the first goal 3:55 into the
contest off of an assist from Chad Riley and then tallied the second
goal at the 62:12 mark • scored the lone Irish goal in 3-1 loss at
Rutgers at the 43:14 mark of the contest • tallied his first goal of
the 2000 campaign in 3-2 loss to Pittsburgh when he knotted the game
at 1-1 5:22 into the second half off an assist from Stephen Maio •
sat out the first three game of the season with a hamstring injury
before earning his first start of the season against Syracuse • had
an assist against the Orangemen on Dustin Pridmore's goal which
put the Irish up 2-0 at the 69:47 mark of the contest in eventual 3-0
victory • assisted on Justin Detter's game-winning goal at the 47:40
mark in 2-1 victory over Northwestern.
AS A FRESHMAN: Produced one of the finest seasons ever by an Irish
rookie that resulted in him being named the 1999 BIG EAST Rookie of
the Year as he became the first Notre Dame men's player to garner one
of the league's top player-of-the-year awards • was the first Notre
Dame player to lead the Irish in all three offensive categories since
Tim Oates in 1994 as he scored nine goals and dished off six assists
(24 points) • a third-team NSCAA/adidas All-Mideast region selection
• third-leading scorer in the BIG EAST tallying the most points by
any freshman (17) in the league since the inception of round-robin
scheduling in 1990 • named to the all-BIG EAST rookie team and was a
rookie-of-the-week selection once during the campaign (for the week
of Oct. 4) • had at least a goal or an assist in eight of the last 12
games • netted his first collegiate goal in second contest of the
season in Notre Dame's 1-0 win over Boston College • in 2-1 overtime
loss to Connecticut, scored at the 87:17 mark of the contest • was
one of five different goal scorers in 5-2 win over Eastern Michigan •
registered the first multiple-goal game of his career when he had
both of Notre Dame's scores in 2-0 win against Syracuse • provided
the game-winning assist on Ryan Cox's goal in 1-0 win over IUPUI •
also tallied two goals in 4-0 win over Providence • had a goal and an
assist against Valparaiso • dished off two assists on scores by
Rafael Garcia and Connor LaRose in 5-0 win over Villanova • netted
the lone goal against St. John's in 4-1 loss to the Red Storm •
assisted on game-tying goal versus Seton Hall in eventual 1-1 tie
with Pirates in regular-season finale.
HIGH SCHOOL AND PERSONAL DATA: Enjoyed a stint with the Under-16
German National Team (although he did not play at the same time or on
the same team as Alex Altmann) • a graduate of Adolft-Reichwein-Gymnasium, he played the last five years for
Eintracht Frankfurt • led his squad to a fourth-place finish among 14
teams in the Hessen League with a 14-6-8 record • played five games
and scored two goals for the German Youth National Team as a 15- and
16-year-old • was a member of the Hessen Regional squad for three
years and led this team to the national title in 1998 • as a
17-year-old, he was the goal-scoring champion at the national tournament with seven goals in five games •
two-time member of BIG EAST Academic All-Star Team • named to the
Dean's List in Spring of '02 • born Sept. 16, 1979 • majoring in
economics and computer applications in the College of Arts and
Letters.
Braun's Career Statistics
| Year | GP-GS | Sh | G | A | Pts | GW |
| 1999 | 20-20 | 71 | 9 | 6 | 24 | 2 |
| 2000 | 13-12 | 40 | 4 | 3 | 11 | 1 |
| 2001 | 19-18 | 62 | 12 | 3 | 27 | 3 |
| Totals | 52-50 | 173 | 25 | 12 | 62 | 6 |
