Jack Swarbrick ’79, a sports attorney who was instrumental in bringing the Super Bowl and the NCAA to Indianapolis, is taking on a new sporting challenge as athletic director of Notre Dame University. “I believe that I accept this job on the threshold of extraordinary change in intercollegiate athletics in America,” Swarbrick, a former partner at Baker & Daniels LLP and a 1976 Notre Dame alumnus, told ESPN.com. “I have my theories on what that change may entail and where the industry is headed, but I think they’ll be enormous.” Swarbrick has been a leader in the national and international sports arenas for more than 25 years. He served as sports commissioner of the 1982 U.S. Olympic Festival, competition director of the 1987 Pan American Games, chairman of the 1991 World Gymnastics Championships, and an advisory committee member of the 1994 World Rowing Championships. Currently vice president of the Indianapolis 2012 Super Bowl Committee, Swarbrick was a key negotiator in winning the NFL’s bid to host the game in Indianapolis. He also played a major role in moving the NCAA’s offices to Indianapolis and landing the Big Ten Conference men’s and women’s basketball tournaments at the city’s Conseco Fieldhouse. Stanford Law Classmate Jeff Lipshaw ’79 told the Chicago Tribune, “I can’t imagine a higher profile and more difficult job than the athletic director at Notre Dame—you have so many different constituencies. If anybody can put oil in those waters and be a listener, but also be decisive, it’s Jack.”