Athletics Advancement would like to welcome four new team members (Brian Benedict, Sean Carroll, Marie Labosky, and Matt Weldy) and congratulate a current staff member on a new position (Kevin Nugent).

Kevin Nugent ‘13, after serving six years as an Associate Director, will transition to a Regional Director fundraising role. In the past five years, Kevin has been instrumental in the creation and execution of stewardship programming and marketing materials for Athletics benefactors.

Joining Kevin as Regional Directors on the Athletics Advancement team will be Brian Benedict ’13 and Marie Labosky ‘04.

Brian transitions to the team after serving two successful years as an Associate Director in Annual Giving, where he raised critical funds for Giving Societies. Prior to that role, Brian was instrumental in the sales of Notre Dame Stadium club and loge seating as a member of the Legends team.

Marie returns to Notre Dame as a 2004 graduate and four-year monogram winner on the women’s swim team. For the last six years, she has excelled in a sales and marketing role with Speedo, based out of Philadelphia.

As regional assignments and metro areas of coverage for Brian, Kevin and Marie are finalized, we will share them with the larger UR team.

Also as you may be aware, we are integrating the Monogram Club into Athletics Advancement, and are fortunate to have Matt Weldy ’09 (IU), the Executive Director of the Monogram Club, leading those efforts. Matt will lead and oversee all engagement, strategic initiatives, and Club activities for over 9,000 Monogram winners and team participants. Matt has served the Monogram Club since 2015 when he came on staff as an Associate Director, and prior to that role served in the Camps Office for Athletics.

Sean Carroll ’02 (IU) has been a part of the Notre Dame family since 2004, working in various roles with Athletics Communication, and in recent years, the Monogram Club. He will transition to serve both the Monogram Club and Athletics Advancement as the Associate Director leading the teams’ efforts in communications, marketing, and storytelling. He will also work to coordinate the organization’s efforts to work with other Development and Athletics partners in areas such as stewardship and event management.

Congratulations and welcome to Sean, Matt, Marie, Brian and Kevin on their new roles with our team. We are excited to see your talents at work in advancing Notre Dame’s mission through the vehicle of Athletics.

—Sara Liebscher
SR. DIRECTOR, ATHLETICS ADVANCEMENT