Hello From New OFD Writer, Ryan Kelley

Hello, Fighting Irish faithful! I’m Ryan Kelley, and I'm here to announce that I’m taking my talents to South Bend. Not literally, because I live in New York City where I’m a full-time student at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism. But from here on out, I’ll be writing about Notre Dame basketball for One Foot Down, and I couldn’t be more excited.

My Notre Dame fandom can be traced back to my Irish roots. You would think my grandmother bled green if you ever had the pleasure of meeting her, so fond of the phrase “Erin go Bragh” that she named her only daughter Erin. My grandfather briefly enrolled at the school before transferring to Cornell. It’s safe to say I’ve been donning the green…