Dear Friends of Fairfield Athletics –

Happy New Year from the Stags Athletics Family! As we look ahead to 2024 – our Head Coaches, Staff, and Student-Athletes would like to thank you for your exceptional support this past year. We appreciate your engagement in so many ways: philanthropic participation, attending events, purchasing tickets, and promoting Fairfield University in your communities. Your generosity has a significant impact on our student-athletes and our objective to provide them with a holistic experience and the resources necessary for championship success.

Having hit the halfway point of the 2023-24, I would like to also look back and share highlights from last academic year. Please take a moment to review our Annual Report and celebrate the successes we experienced in the classroom, community and field of competition.

In case you missed it – here is just a handful of highlights we experienced last semester:

Team Success
• Volleyball won the MAAC Championship (13th conference title, the Stags won the MAAC Regular Season Title for the 22nd time.
• Field Hockey won their 3rd Northeast Conference (NEC) Regular Season Title.
• Women’s Soccer program posted a 7-2-1 conference record, their 26th winning conference mark in program history.
• Men’s Golf had two top three finishes and Women’s Golf had two top three finishes and won the Hartford Hawks Invitational.
• Men’s Rowing took the top spot in the varsity 8, the second varsity 8, the third varsity 8, varsity 4 and novice 4 at the NYRA Fall Invitational.
• Women’s Rowing headed to the New York Rowing Association (NYRA) Fall Invitational with our second varsity 4 securing first place in its heat and finishing in first place in the A final. The varsity 4 A boat took the top spot in its heat and rallied to a third-place finish in the A final.

Individual Accolades
• Fall All-America: 1
• Fall All-Region: 6
• Fall Conference Player of the Year: 4
• Fall Conference Rookie of the Year: 1
• Fall All-Conference Selections: 19
• Fall Conference Tournament MVP: 1

Winter YTD
• Men’s and Women’s Swimming and Diving was a combined 7-1 to open the 2023-24 season.
• Women’s Basketball got off to their best start in 40 years with a 12-1 record.
• Men’s Basketball is on an 8-game win streak beating pre-season conference favorites Rider, Yale, and Sacred Heart on the road.
• Fairfield Athletics celebrated 50 years of Women’s Athletics on December 10th as we welcomed back former female student-athletes and coaches during the WBB game vs Fordham. 

As of January, Fairfield Athletics and our Hall of Fame Selection Committee announced the 2024 Class. Join us on January 27th as we celebrate these inductees at our WBB game vs Canisius and reception/dinner at Mahoney Arena. Register here.

In closing – Thank you again for giving back in 2023 and through our annual Giving Tuesday (National Day of Giving) event in November. We saw record-setting participation from our Friends of Fairfield Athletics with 258 donors and $261,176 raised to support our Athletics Built for Life Fund and our Sport Specific Gift Funds (an increase of 21% in donor participation). We are so very fortunate to have your passionate support! If you have not made a gift to support Fairfield Athletics – please consider supporting our student-athletes and coaches.

Wishing you all the best in 2024!

Go Stags,

Paul Schlickmann
Vice President for Athletics