Herb Huesman Class: Senior Hometown: Cincinnati, Ohio High School: Oak Hills Event: Diving Birthdate: 05/24/1978

Returns for a fifth-year of eligibility after missing the 1998-99 season recovering from an injury.

AS A SENIOR: The top diver on the team in 1999-2000 ... set the school record on the three-meter board with 360.90 points vs. Oakland, winning the competition ... also won the one-meter event vs. Oakland to sweep the diving events at the dual meet ... won the one-meter competition to open the season vs. Pittsburgh ... took second place in the 1999 Notre Dame Invitational three-meter event with 460.25 points ... won the one-meter competition at Invitational, posting 491.15 points in the finals ... finished fourth in the one- and three-meter diving events at the 2000 BIG EAST Championships ... placed sixth at the NCAA Zone diving meet in Minneapolis, Minn., on the three meter board.

AS A JUNIOR: Did not compete due to injury in 1998-99.

AS A SOPHOMORE: Continued his excellence in diving by finishing 10th in one-meter diving and 12th in three-meter diving at the 1998 NCAA zone meet ... placed fourth in one-meter and three-meter diving at the 1998 BIG EAST championships ... set the school record in one-meter diving with a score of 335.6 against Western Kentucky ... had seven one-meter dual-meet wins in 1997-98 ... won both diving competitions at the Notre Dame Invitational ... runner-up at the Rainbow Invitational in the one meter and won the three-meter event ... won every three-meter dual meet event he participated in ... lowest dual-meet finish on the one-meter board was second against Ball State and Cleveland State.

AS A FRESHMAN: Established himself as one of Notre Dame's all-time great divers in his first season in 1996-97 ... posted three of the top seven scores in school history in one-meter diving ... also had the sixth-best score in three-meter diving ... participated in the 1997 NCAA Zone C diving meet ... finished 21st in the one-meter competition ... finished sixth in both events at the 1997 BIG EAST championships ... was the top point-scorer for the Irish in dual meets ... won 12 of 17 dual-meet events ... lowest dual-meet finish was third in one-meter diving against Ball State, his only dual-meet loss in that event ... also won both events at the Notre Dame Invitational.

HIGH SCHOOL AND PERSONAL DATA: Four-time prep All-America selection ... participated in the Junior Olympic nationals on six occasions ... two-time runner-up at the state championships in his freshman and senior years ... born May 24, 1978, in Cincinnati, Ohio ... enrolled in the Mendoza College of Business Administration with a major in management information systems.