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Assistant athletic director Brian Boulac, with 36 years of experience on the Notre Dame athletic staff as both a coach and administrator, is the general manager of the Joyce Center at Notre Dame. In that role, Boulac is responsible for the day-to-day operations of the building, including personnel management, budget management, crowd control, technical services, custodial services and special events. Boulac has been serving as an assistant athletic director and is in his 21st year of working in the day-to-day operation of the Notre Dame athletic department. After 13 years as a member of the Irish football coaching staff (1970-82), Boulac moved into the administrative ranks in March of 1983. He also has worked with senior associate athletic director Stan Wilcox in the student development area. Boulac previously had served as an administrator for the Irish men's and women's track and cross country teams, the Notre Dame men's and women's swimming and diving teams, the softball, hockey, volleyball and baseball squads and the men's and women's fencing teams. He also served as an athletic department liaison with the admissions and financial aid departments. Boulac also served for four years (1989-92) as head coach of the Notre Dame women's softball team. He guided the Irish to four 30-win seasons, including postseason tournament Midwestern Collegiate Conference titles in `90 and `91 and the regular season title in '92. In 1989, the first varsity season for the program, he was selected as MCC coach of the year. He was an eight-year member of the NCAA fencing committee and served as chairman of that committee in 1996-97. He is a member of the United States Fencing Association college and high school advisory committee. A former Irish end, the Olympia, Wash., native spent the last seven years of his coaching career as recruiting coordinator in addition to coaching the offensive and defensive lines, receivers and special teams at different times. He also served as administrative assistant to Dan Devine for two years and assistant head coach under Gerry Faust. Boulac was a member of the coaching staff for eight seasons that culminated in postseason bowl appearances, including Irish victories in three Cotton, one Orange, one Sugar and one Gator Bowl. He was the offensive line coach on Notre Dame's 1973 national championship team and was offensive line coach and recruiting coordinator on the '77 national title staff. A three-year member of the football team, Boulac earned monograms as a player at Notre Dame in 1960 and 1961. Following his graduation from the University in 1963, he had a tryout with the St. Louis Cardinals, but elected to stay on campus as a graduate assistant coach from 1963-64. He served as assistant freshman football coach in 1966 thru '67. (also helping the `66 team win a national championship) while working toward his master's degree which he earned in 1965. Boulac, who spent two summers in a Peace Corps-type program (CILA) in Lima, Peru, and served 20 months in the Army Medical Service Corps on active duty, remained at Notre Dame through 1968, doing doctoral work. Boulac earned 10 letters in high school while playing football, baseball, basketball and track -- and garnered all-state honors in football and basketball. Boulac, born May 8, 1941, and his wife Micki (an `83 graduate of the Notre Dame law school), have four daughters; Dawn, Denise, Deborah and Dyan (all Notre Dame graduates), three of whom (Dawn, Debbie and Dyan) earned monograms with various Irish teams. |
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