FAIRFIELD, Conn. -- Four standout alumnae and two of the most successful teams in Fairfield University history will comprise the 2021 Fairfield Athletics Hall of Fame class, as announced today by Director of Athletics Paul Schlickmann. The class will be officially enshrined in a virtual ceremony on Monday, March 22 at 6:30 p.m. The ceremony will be broadcast live on FairfieldStags.com.

The virtual event is open to the public, but registration is required. Click here to register. All registered parties will receive a link to view the broadcast at the e-mail address provided prior to the broadcast.
 
The individual honorees for the class are Kristen Coleman '11 (women's lacrosse), Ahna Johnson '09 (women's soccer), Rachel Romansky '14 (volleyball) and Michelle Yoshida '12 (women's swimming and diving). The two teams selected for induction are the 1998 volleyball team and the 1968-69 men's rugby squad.
 
"Congratulations to all of the members of this exemplary Hall of Fame class," said Schlickmann. "This year's honorees were all instrumental in building traditions of excellence within their athletic programs, and they continue to proudly represent Fairfield University and Stags Athletics as alumni."
 
Kristen Coleman '11
Kristen Coleman is Fairfield's all-time leading scorer with 257 points in just three active seasons with the Stags. She also holds the top two spots on the single-season list with 90 points in 2008 and 88 in 2009. Coleman's 186 career goals also top Fairfield's all-time list, as do her 68 markers in the 2008 campaign. She also ranks all-time in assists with 71 to round out her scoring total. Coleman was 2008 MAAC Rookie and Offensive Player of the Year, then repeated as Offensive Player of the Year in 2009. She was an IWLCA All-Region Second Team and All-MAAC First Team honoree in all three of her active seasons, and earned berths on the MAAC All-Academic Team in 2009 and 2010.
 
Coleman and the Stags won the 2009 MAAC Championship with an unblemished conference record, and went on to topple Sacred Heart in the NCAA Championship Play-In Round. Fairfield was a perfect 18-0 in the MAAC regular season with Coleman in the lineup from 2008-10, securing three straight MAAC Regular Season Titles. Coleman was tabbed as a co-captain in 2011 despite out of action for the spring due to injury.
 
Coleman went on to play as a graduate student at Georgetown in 2012, netting 17 goals for the Hoyas to push her collegiate total to 203 career goals. At Georgetown, she was selected to play in the Under Armour Senior Highlight Game.  She is currently the Assistant Director of Athletics and Head Girls' Lacrosse Coach at the Stone Ridge School of the Sacred Heart in Bethesda, Md. Seven student-athletes that Coleman has coached at the high school level have gone on to play women's lacrosse at Fairfield.
 
Ahna Johnson '09
The only All-American in Fairfield Women's Soccer history, Ahna Johnson ranks seventh all-time in points with 71 and shares fifth-place on the Stags' all-time goals list with 29. Her best statistical campaign came as a senior, where she compiled 15 goals – a total that still ranks third in program history – en route to MAAC Offensive Player of the Year laurels.
 
Johnson capped off her Fairfield career in dominant fashion, netting a hat trick in the MAAC Championship Match against Loyola en route to her selection as the tournament's Most Valuable Player. That performance marked the last of the 10 game-winning goals she scored in her career. Johnson was also a member of the 2005 MAAC Champion Stags, sharing the team high of five goals in her rookie campaign as Fairfield won the conference and went on to challenge Duke in the NCAA Championship First Round.
 
Johnson was a three-time All-MAAC First Team selection in her career and earned both CoSIDA Academic All-American and NSCAA Scholar-Athlete All-America First Team recognition as a senior.
 
Rachel Romansky '14
Rachel Romansky is the only three-time MAAC Setter of the Year in conference history, leading the Stags from the setter spot in 122 matches over four seasons. Romansky ranks second in program history with a rally-scoring era record 4,552 career assists and also slots 13th with 1,132 career digs – the most digs in Fairfield history for a full-time setter.
 
In addition to her trio of MAAC Setter of the Year nods, Romansky was a two-time All-MAAC First Team selection, the 2013 MAAC Preseason Player of the Year, and a four-time member of the MAAC All-Championship Team. The starting setter for back-to-back MAAC Champions in 2012 and 2013, she was tabbed as MAAC Championship MVP for Fairfield's 2013 title run.
 
Romansky completed her career at Fairfield as the 2013 Female Athlete of the Year and went on to play professionally in Chur, Switzerland and Copenhagen, Denmark.
 
Michelle Yoshida '12
Michelle Yoshida is the all-time leading scorer at the MAAC Championships for Fairfield Women's Swimming and Diving, racking up nine gold medals and 12 total individual medals in her career. She led Fairfield in scoring at the conference meet in all four of her seasons in the pool.
 
Yoshida became the program's first-ever "triple champion" as a freshman in 2009 with victories in the 50y, 100y and 200y freestyle at the MAAC Championship Meet. Yoshida repeated the feat again in the same three events in 2010. As a junior, she added gold medals in the 100y freestyle and 100y backstroke and a silver in the 50y freestyle. Yoshida capped her career with a gold in the 100y backstroke and silver medals in the 50y freestyle and 200y backstroke.
 
Yoshida graduated as the fastest in Fairfield history in five individual events and is the current record holder in the 100y freestyle, 100y backstroke and 200y backstroke.
 
1968-69 Men's Rugby
The 1968-69 Fairfield Men's Rugby team stated its case as not only the best team in the club's history, but one of the most successful teams in Fairfield history. In the fall of 1968, FURFC posted a 7-2 record, opening the season with four straight victories within the New York Metropolitan Rugby Union. The highlight of the fall – and still considered among the most important wins in program history – was a 14-5 triumph over the famed and feared Columbia Old Blue, a side that ranked #1 in the Eastern Rugby Union and #3 in the nation. FURFC took a 7-1 record with only 20 points allowed into the New England Collegiate Championship Invitational, where they fell to a strong side from Brown to end the semester.
 
Fairfield picked up where it left off in the spring, boasted a 5-1-1 record to round out the year at 12-3-1 against one of the strongest scheduled in club history. Spring victories included defeats of Westchester, Fordham and an 8-0 shutout of a Georgetown side that has trounced Fairfield in the prior season. The spring also saw the dedication of Lt. Hans Grauert Memorial Field as the nation's first collegiate pitch designated solely for rugby.
 
The team was captained by Tom Crowley '69 and John Murphy '69.
 
1998 Volleyball
In a program with 11 MAAC Championships to its credit, the 1998 Fairfield Volleyball team stands out as the "champion of champions". Coming off of its first-ever MAAC Championship in 1997, Head Coach Todd Kress's squad hit the ground running in 1998. After reeling off four straight wins to begin the campaign, the Stags burst into the national conversation at the Miami Amerihost Classic. Fairfield posted wins over Alabama, host Miami of Ohio and Iowa to win the tournament, improving to 7-0.
 
Though the Stags would suffer a misstep against UTEP to end their unbeaten streak, Fairfield recovered with wins over Rice and Mississippi State leading into the MAAC slate. The Stags were dominant against their league foes, racing to a 9-0 conference mark and a third straight regular season crown. Along the way, they also notched non-conference triumphs against St. John's, Villanova, Boston College, and the fabled 3-2 victory over Notre Dame – the eventual Big East Champion – before a crowd of 969 fans at Alumni Hall.
 
Fairfield powered its way through the MAAC Championship in Orlando, running its record to 35-1. Despite a loss to Clemson in the NCAA Championship, the Stags' 35-2 mark was the best in the country that year and set a program record for winning percentage (.944) that stands to this day. The season saw Sara Lein tabbed as the MAAC Player of the Year, and she was joined on the All-MAAC Team by teammates Liz Bower '00 and Jen McLaughlin '00. Kress earned his third consecutive MAAC Coach of the Year Award and was also recognized by his peers regionally as the AVCA District II Coach of the Year. Bower, McLaughlin, Corrine Carlson '01 and Joanne Saunders '02 have all previously been enshrined individually in the Fairfield Athletics Hall of Fame.