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Pat and Meg Shields Endow Men’s Tennis Assistant Coach Position

NOTRE DAME, Ind. — Pat and Meg Shields of Reading, Pennsylvania, have made a gift to the University of Notre Dame to endow the men’s tennis assistant coach position. This is the first non-football assistant coach position to be endowed at the University.

The Shields’ gift will help underwrite the salary of the assistant coach, provide long term stability and resources and create funds for use within the athletics department. Greg Andrews will become the first Shields Family Assistant Men’s Tennis Coach. Andrews, a 2014 Notre Dame graduate and former tennis standout, currently is in his fourth season as an assistant coach at his alma mater.

“We have been grateful for Pat and Meg’s impact on our program for years,” said Andrews. “As a program alumnus, I know I have a responsibility to continue the Notre Dame Tennis tradition of excellence, and it will be my honor to serve as the Shields Family Men’s Tennis Assistant Coach.”

Pat and Meg are Notre Dame graduates and former Fighting Irish student-athletes. Pat competed with the men’s tennis program under head coach Tom Fallon before graduating in 1986 from the College of Arts and Letters. Meg, a 1987 graduate from the Mendoza College of Business, was a member of the field hockey team. The Shields own Fromuth Tennis, a wholesale racquet sports distributor and retail store based in West Lawn, Pennsylvania.

Pat, Meg and their kids have been an active part of our program for years, and for them to now have the assistant coaching position in their name is extremely fitting,” said Callaghan Family Head Men’s Tennis Coach Ryan Sachire. “Gifts of this magnitude play such an important role in allowing sports like ours to flourish and succeed at the highest level.”

The Shields have a long history of giving back to Notre Dame. They are members of the Rockne Athletics Fund’s Jesse Harper Council, President’s Circle, Badin Guild, Cavanaugh Council, Friends of Ted & Ned and the Monogram Club. The couple has four children: Patrick Jr. (’14), Lindsay (‘15), Conor (’19) and Amy (‘21).

Meg’s parents, Terrence (’62) and Barbara, were co-benefactors of the Mendoza College of Business and made a gift to underwrite the construction of McGlinn Hall, a women’s residence hall on campus. Her three siblings also are Notre Dame graduates.

“Meg and I are honored to continue the legacy of the McGlinn family in support of this University that means so much to our family,” Pat Shields said. “I have been a fan of Coach Sachire since he took over the program and have admired Greg Andrews since he was a student-athlete. Their impact on our Notre Dame student-athletes is something we are proud to support, and we look forward to following their continued success in the future.”