CHRIS KANE was a four-year letterwinner at Notre Dame, where he helped the Irish tennis team win 76 percent of its matches from 1972-75 (69-22) while playing for Hall of Fame coach Tom Fallon. A 15-time state champion and two-time national champion during his junior tennis days, Kane went on to play No. 1 singles and doubles at Notre Dame. He graduated in 1975 with a government degree before receiving his law degree from the University of San Diego, near his hometown of Rancho Santa Fe.

Kane spent eight years during the 1980s as an assistant professor of business administration at Dominican University in River Forest Ill., teaching business law. He also has spent the past 20 years as an attorney in private practice in Barrington, Ill., with his practice concentrated in real estate, corporate and commercial litigation.

Kane and his wife, the former Susan Skowron (St. Mary’s ’75), were married three weeks following his graduation. The couple resides in Barrington and are the parents of three children: Melissa (a junior accounting major at Notre Dame, living in Breen-Phillips Hall), Emily (a junior at Loyola Academy High School) and third-grade son Christopher. Chris and Melissa Kane currently are ranked No. 16 nationally in the father/daughter division.