18 Facts About Fairfield Stags

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Fairfield Stags are the athletic programs representing Fairfield University in Fairfield, Connecticut.

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Fairfield Stags fielded its first varsity baseball team in 1951, winning 7 of 12 games.

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The Fairfield Stags, coached by Don Cook, made the first of three straight trips to the ECAC New England Tournament in 1977, defeating defending champion University of Maine.

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4.

The Fairfield Stags are currently coached by 2012 MAAC Coach of the Year Bill Currier.

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5.

The Fairfield Stags are currently coached by Joe Frager, who previously coached the Southern Connecticut State University Owls to the 2007 NCAA Division II Women's Basketball National Title.

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6.

In total, seven Fairfield Stags players earned All-American honors, and one player received Academic All-American honors.

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7.

The Stags are currently coached by National Lacrosse Hall of Fame Inductee and 2009 MAAC Coach of the Year, Michael J Waldvogel.

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8.

The Fairfield Stags are currently coached by 1998 NSCAA New England Coach of the Year Carl Rees.

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9.

The Fairfield Stags are currently coached by 2008 NSCAA Northeast Region Coach of the Year Jim O'Brien.

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10.

The Fairfield Stags are currently coached by Julie Brzezinski who achieved her 500th career win in 2006.

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11.

The Fairfield Stags have earned three berths to the NCAA Women's Tennis Championship and have won nine MAAC Championships in program history.

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12.

The Fairfield Stags faced the University of Washington during the 2004 NCAA Women's Tennis Championship, the University of Southern California during the 2009 NCAA Women's Tennis Championship and eventual National Champion Stanford University during the 2010 NCAA Women's Tennis Championship.

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13.

The Fairfield Stags are currently coached by 2008 MAAC Coach of the Year Ed Paige.

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14.

Fairfield Stags University's sailing team completes in the New England Intercollegiate Sailing Conference.

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15.

Home ice of Fairfield Stags hockey is the Wonderland on Ice in Bridgeport, Connecticut.

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16.

The Fairfield Stags currently are coached by head coach Marshall Richards and assistant coach Corey McGee.

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Fairfield Stags University Men's Rugby Football Club or FURFC is a men's college rugby club which competes in the Men's Collegiate Division II League of the Metropolitan New York Rugby Union.

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18.

Fairfield Stags in the Stands, founded by Marco Ambrosio '07 in 2005, was a new organization that looked to bring back the intense Stag spirit of the Red Sea, the athletic fan base formed in the 1970s, when students clad in red poured into Alumni Hall and created one of the region's best home court advantages.

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