Sept. 2, 2006

The top-ranked Notre Dame women’s soccer team will be featured on national/regional television in three of its next five games – including a live ESPN-U telecast of the upcoming showdown versus Santa Clara on Sunday, Sept. 3 (1:36 EDT kickoff). The game the following Sunday (Sept. 10) will be televised on a delayed basis by CSTV (with Sept. 12 air times of 8:00 and 11:30 p.m.) and the Irish then will be on TV the next Sunday, as Detroit-based Comcast Local will televise the Sept. 17 game at Michigan (1:00 EDT), with the game to be available on various Comcast affiliates (TBA).

The ND-Santa Clara game will re-air on ESPN-U on Sept. 10 (noon EDT), with ESPN-U also showing rebroadcasts of the 2004 NCAA title game (between ND and UCLA) on Sept. 10 (5:00 p.m. EDT) and 11 (4:00 a.m.).

Several attempts have been made to line up a telecast of Notre Dame’s Oct. 13 game at Connecticut but it appears that the game will not be televised.

Fans are reminded that the new All-Access package at und.com is free-of-charge and includes live-audio of every home game for the Irish women’s soccer team. Plans also are in the works to provide bonus live-audio coverage for each of the next seven road games: at TCU (Sept. 8), SMU (Sept. 10), DePaul (Sept. 15), Michigam (Sept. 17), Cincinnati (Sept. 22), UConn (Oct. 13) and Providence (Oct. 15). ND women’s soccer SID Pete LaFleur will proide the primary commentary for the road broadcasts and may be joined at times by special guests (such as former Irish players who are in attendance).

Several Notre Dame road games also will feature GameTracker or other live-stat offerings that will be linked on the ND women’s soccer schedule page (links already are in place for the games at TCU and Cincinnati).

The next two weekends will provide homecomings for nearly half of Notre Dame’s roster, as six Irish players are from Texas while six who are Chicago-area natives will have plenty of family and friends on hand for the DePaul game.