04-29-2019, 06:00 PM
http://www.espn.com/college-football/sto...leprechaun
Quote:For the first time, Notre Dame will have a female leprechaun cheering on the sideline for the Fighting Irish this season.
Lynette Wukie, a sophomore from Elyria, Ohio, was one of three students selected Tuesday to wear the green suit and Irish country hat as Notre Dame's mascot.
She is the first woman selected since the leprechaun became the school's official mascot in 1965.
Wukie and junior Samuel Jackson are the second and third African-American students picked as mascots. Notre Dame had its first black leprechaun in 2001.
Sophomore Conal Fagan, the first native Irishman to serve as the leprechaun, is coming back for a second season in 2019, the school said.