John Heisler

John Heisler, a native of South Bend, Indiana,  has been following Notre Dame football since 1964, when he first started regularly attending Irish games in Ara Parseghian’s first year as head coach. Heisler joined the Irish sports information staff in 1978, was named sports information director in 1988, and currently serves as senior associate athletics director for media and broadcast relations. He has been a part of four other books on Notre Dame football—The Fighting Spirit (with former head coach Lou Holtz), Quotable Rockne, Gerry Faust’s Tales from the Sidelines and Echoes of Notre Dame Football.