Kasey O'Connor Class: Sophomore Hometown: Yorktown, NY High School: Yorktown Height: 6-0 Position: Infield Bats/Throws: R/R

THE O'CONNOR FILE: The multi-sport start earned varsity letters in basketball, softball and soccer for Yorktown (Yorktown, N.Y.) ... earned starting nods on three varsity sports during her freshman year ... team captain as a senior when her team won the section title ... all-state and all-section performer ... named a Journal-News All-Star ... finished the year with 35 RBI and nine home runs ... high school's female student-athlete of the year ... earned the Con Edison Award, which is handed out each week to the county's most outstanding performer on and off the field ... part of the Diamond 9+1 team, a similar award given to just 10 softball players in her section ... she capped off a junior season in which she hit .461 in 102 at bats by earning all-state honors ... also scored 34 times and recorded 26 RBI on 47 hits, four of which were doubles and three went for three bags ... had an on-base percentage of .486 and a slugging clip of .735 that was aided by six homers ... over the course of Yorktown's season, she was good for 14 multi-hit contests and racked up at least a pair of RBI in eight more games ... tabbed the North County News' Athlete of the Month after hitting home runs in four consecutive games to close the 2007 season, as the last three of those came during her first at-bat of the game ... the North County News also recognized her on its allcounty team in 2007 and 2006, an honor she also collected from the Journal News ... the New York State Public High School Athletic Association awarded her its scholar-athlete award during her respective soccer, basketball and softball seasons ... led the Cornhuskers to a 24-4 mark and a Section 1 Class AA title in 2007, which was the school's first-ever softball championship ... daughter of Karen and Donald O'Connor ... brothers, Kevin and Ryan, played lacrosse at Delaware and Boston College, respectively ... born Oct. 30, 1990 ... comes to Notre Dame from the same high school that yielded Irish swimmer Rebecca Grove (2004- 07) ... enrolled in the First Year of Studies.