Cross country will try to keep pace with higher-ranked teams at Notre Dame Invitational

Underdog isn’t the right word, but it’s the first one that comes to mind.

Maybe that’s why junior David McDonald spent the weekend before today’s Notre Dame Invitational watching “Rudy.”

Not unlike the story of one young man’s journey to make it on the Notre Dame football team and find salvation on the field, the men’s and women’s cross country teams will enter South Bend, Ind., looking to prove that they belong there.