Kayla McBride was sitting and watching shootaround before Notre Dame’s first game of the season against Fordham last week.
She admitted she was nervous even though her playing days for Muffet McGraw and the Irish are over. The former Notre Dame great is back on campus this winter as a player development program manager – a new position created this season.
“I’m really excited to be working with the team,” McBride said. “It gives me a taste of what coaching may be like if it’s something that I may want to do in the future.”
McGraw said she approached McBride over the summer when she saw her star guard playing with the Las Vegas Aces in Chicago. McGraw said that Notre Dame had been offered a small stipend for an internship by the Women’s Sports Foundation for a position that she thought McBride would be perfect for. The Hall of Fame coach said that the internship didn’t work out the way it was worded, so she went to her bosses at Notre Dame and asked if they could still hire McBride. They agreed.