Post by FU73 on Jul 18, 2019 11:22:43 GMT -5
In her 25th year at the helm, Fairfield University Head Field Hockey Coach Jackie Kane has put together another competitive schedule that includes teams from the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC), Big East, Big Ten, Colonial Athletic Association (CAA), Ivy League, and Mid-American Conference (MAC). The Stags will play a balanced schedule with nine home games and nine contests off campus that includes six true road dates and three neutral site outings.
"Each year, our goal is to try and play a competitive schedule that prepares us for a run at a conference championship and a bid to the NCAA tournament," Coach Kane said. "I believe this year's schedule gives us the opportunity to play against quality programs that will test us on the field which in turn will get us ready a run at postseason."
The Stags open the season with a pair of road games, including the season opener against UMass Lowell on August 30. Fairfield will stay in the state of Massachusetts when it battles Boston College in Chestnut Hill. The Stags start the home portion of its schedule by hosting Vermont on Friday, September 6th.
This season Fairfield Field Hockey will no longer be in the MAAC but in the NEC along with Bryant, LIU, Merrimack, Rider, Sacred Heart, St. Francis, Wagner.
Stag Field Hockey started as a Club Sport in 1974, became a D3 sport in 1980 and began play as a D1 sport in 1982. The Stags joined the Patriot League in 1996, joined the NEC in 2004 and left the NEC for the America East in 2007. In 2015 the Stags joined the MAAC and rejoined the NEC for the 2019 season.
Stag NEC Field Hockey Schedule
fairfieldstags.com/schedule.aspx?path=fhockey
Stag Field Hockey
MAAC Tournament Champions (2): 2015, 2017
Patriot League Tournament Champions (1): 2001
Patriot League Regular Season Champions (1): 1998
NCAA Tournament Appearances (3): 2001, 2015, 2017
(The release for the 2019 Stag Field Hockey schedule announcement actually has the wrong information for the first home game. The first home game is Friday, September 6 at 4:00 pm against Vermont on University Field and not Sunday, September 8 at Noon against St. Francis.)
