May 22, 2001
Notre Dame, Ind. – Notre Dame golf standout Steve Ratay (Jr., Arlington Heights, Ill.) is one of four Notre Dame student-athletes to be selected to the Verizon/CoSIDA Academic All-District Five At-Large Team for spring sports.
Ratay is joined on the 10-man men’s District Five team by Irish lacrosse defenseman Mike Adams (Sr., Wilton, Conn.). Also selected on the women’s side are rowing standout Leah Ashe (Sr., Orchard Park, N.Y.) and All-American sprinter Liz Grow (Jr., New Braunfels, Texas) who were selected to the 10 member District Five women’s squad. All four athletes will now go on their respective national ballots for Verizon Academic All-American honors. The men’s team will be announced on June 12 and the women’s team on June 14.
Ratay is coming off an outstanding season which saw him lead Notre Dame with a 73.68 stroke average over 28 rounds. He was the top Irish finisher in five of the team’s ten tournaments which included two firsts, one second and one fourth place finish. Ratay finished in a three-way tie for the BIG EAST Championship with a 54-hole mark of 215 (+5) in late April. During the fall, he tied for first at the Wisconsin Invitational with a 54-hole mark of 212 (-4). The Irish team captain owns a 3.781 grade-point average in Computer Science and has been a Dean’s List selection in all five of his semesters at Notre Dame. He was chosen as the golf team’s winner of the Notre Dame Club of St. Joseph Valley Rockne Student-Athlete Award.
The Academic All-America Spring At-Large teams are chosen from student-athletes participating in seven spring sports – rowing (women), lacrosse, indoor/outdoor track, water polo (women), golf, tennis and volleyball (men). The teams are then selected in voting by the College Sports Information Directors of America.