Jill Matesic Hometown: Chicago, Illinois High School: North Allegheny (Pennsylvania) Position: Director ('04-'07 tern) Monogram Earned: Soccer Graduated: 1995

Former Notre Dame soccer player Jill Matesic ('95) has worked as a Vice President in the Private Wealth Management group of Goldman Sachs in Chicago since 2000. Jill - previously served a four-year term on the Monogram Club board of directors (2003-2007) - and now serves as an advisor on the board.

Matesic earned her MBA from the Harvard Business School in 2000, after working in Hoffman Estates, Illlinois., at the privately-held company Natural Golf ('97-'98), and in Pittsburgh at the management consulting firm McKinsey and Co. ('95-'97).

A three-year starter with the Irish soccer team, Matesic suffered a broken leg in '93 before serving as a senior captain in '94 (she was slowed by injury in that NCAA runner-up season). She graduated summa cum laude in December of '94 (as a member of the class of '95), finishing her accounting degree requirements in seven semesters.

Matesic spent her formative years in Pittsburgh, earning prep All-America honors as a soccer player at North Allegheny High School. She has run in two Chicago Marathons ('98, '02), plus the 2001 New York City Marathon and the '03 Boston Marathon, with her time in the 2002 Chicago event (3:29.48) qualifying her for the Boston race.

In addition to serving on the Monogram Club board, Jill is also a board member of the FireWorks for Kids Foundation, the charitable arm of the Chicago Fire Major League Soccer Team.

Jill has been married to Tim Gilroy (ND 1994) since 2000. Jill and Tim split time between Chicago and Washington, DC where Tim is a Special Agent for the United States Secret Service currently serving on the protective detail for President George W. Bush.