OPENING DRAW
Fairfield University Women's Lacrosse makes its seventh consecutive appearance in the NCAA postseason, opening the 2025 national tournament at #6 Maryland. Opening draw from College Park is set for Friday, May 9 at noon live on ESPN+.

MAAC CHAMPIONS
Fairfield won the 2025 MAAC Championship this past Sunday, May 4, with a 12-7 victory over Iona. The conference title is the ninth for Fairfield overall and the sixth for Head Coach Laura Field. Field is now tied with former Canisius and current Louisville head coach Scott Teeter for the most MAAC Championships as a head coach. The 10-year leader of the Stags was also on the sidelines as an assistant coach alongside her predecessor, Mike Waldvogel, for Fairfield's 2009 and 2015 MAAC Championship victories.

ANNUAL OCCURRENCES
The Stags have earned their seventh consecutive NCAA postseason berth. That run includes the first-ever at-large bid in both Fairfield and MAAC Women's Lacrosse history in 2024. Fairfield is one of 14 teams in the 2025 tournament field that is competing on the national stage for seven (or more) consecutive years. This year's NCAA appearance is the ninth overall bid for the Stags to the national tournament since 2009.

Fairfield competed in the MAAC Championship Game for the eighth consecutive season (excluding the canceled 2020 season). In total, the Stags have reached the conference final on 16 occasions, posting a 9-7 record in the championship game.

MAAC REGULAR SEASON CHAMPIONS
The Stags went 7-1 in the MAAC regular season to earn a share of the program's 16th MAAC Regular Season Championship. Mount St. Mary's earned the top seed and hosting duties as a result of a 10-7 win over the Stags on April 5 in Emmitsburg.

BIG TWO FROM THE BIG TEN
Fairfield challenges a Big Ten opponent to begin NCAA postseason play for the second straight year. The Stags were clipped by #11 Johns Hopkins, 11-5, in the first round of the 2024 tournament at Yale's Reese Stadium.

STAGS VS. TERPS
Fairfield and Maryland are meeting for the first time in program history on Friday. The Stags are 1-1 all-time against the Big Ten. Fairfield earned a victory over Rutgers in 2015, which was the inaugural season of Big Ten Women's Lacrosse. The Stags' only other game against a Big Ten opponent was last season's 11-5 loss to Johns Hopkins in the NCAA First Round.

POLL POSITIONS
Fairfield Women's Lacrosse is playing a ranked opponent for the first time this season, though not due to lack of trying. During the regular season, the Stags met three opponents that appear in this week's IWLCA poll (#21 Army, #22 Denver, #24 Drexel) but were unranked at the time of their meeting with the Stags. In addition, UConn made multiple appearances on the national ledger this season but was unranked when the Huskies hosted Fairfield in February.

The Stags defeated ranked opponents in back-to-back games last spring, knocking off #24 UConn and #23 UAlbany for the program's first-ever wins over IWLCA nationally ranked foes.

Fairfield has played at least one nationally ranked opponent in seven straight seasons.

ALL-CHAMPIONSHIP ACCOLADES
Amanda Kozak was named the MAAC Championship MVP after racking up 14 points in the Stags' two-game run to the tournament crown. Kozak posted five goals and nine assists combined against Siena and Iona.

She was joined on the All-Tournament Team by Grace Slater (6g), Brynn Donnelly (17 DCs) and lockdown defenders Katherine Shammas and Macey Daly.

WE'VE GOT A FIRST TIMER OVER HERE
As a result of the MAAC's unbalanced schedule, last Sunday's championship game against Iona marked the first time that the Stags challenged an opponent in the conference tournament that they did not play during the regular season.

TWENTY QUESTIONS
In the April victories over Canisius and Manhattan, Fairfield scored 20 goals in back-to-back games for the first time since the 2008 team dropped 20+ in consecutive wins over Iona, Holy Cross and Niagara. That season is also the last time the Stags reached 20 goals in three MAAC games, doing so against Iona, Niagara and Siena.

60-POINT PAIRS
Amanda Kozak and Grace Slater have posted 71 and 64 points, respectively. They are the fifth pair of teammates in program history to reach the 60-point mark in the same season.

2025: Amanda Kozak (71) and Grace Slater (64)
2024: Elizabeth Talluto (83) and Libby Rowe (65)
2023: Olivia Doody (69), Elizabeth Talluto (65), Libby Rowe (64) and Ellie Grefenstette (63)
2009: Kristen Coleman (88), Rebecca White (77) and Erin Rigby (63)
2008: Kristen Coleman (90) and Erin Rigby (62)

MAKE IT, TAKE IT
Brynn Donnelly has shattered Fairfield's single-season record with 146 draw controls and counting. She owns two of the three 100+ draw seasons in program history, having eclipsed the mark in both of her campaigns as the Stags' primary draw specialist. Donnelly enters the NCAA Tournament tied for the Fairfield career record of 271 draw controls established by Erin Mammele from 2016-19.

On the season, Donnelly leads the conference and ranks 16th nationally with 8.11 draw controls per game. The All-MAAC First Team and MAAC All-Championship Team selection set a new Fairfield single-season record with 13 draw controls in the April 16 win over Sacred Heart, then surpassed that mark three days later with 18 in the April 19 win at Marist. 

HEAD COACH LAURA FIELD
The 2023 and 2024 MAAC Coach of the Year, Laura Field is in her 10th campaign leading the Stags and her 17th overall with the program. Field has been at the helm for six MAAC Championships (2018, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2025) and seven NCAA postseason appearances (2018, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025) and was also on staff as an assistant for her predecessor, Mike Waldvogel, for the 2009 and 2015 MAAC Championship seasons and NCAA berths.

Field is the winningest coach in Fairfield Women's Lacrosse history with a 118-55 record. She was also the interim head coach at Yale University in 2008, leading the Bulldogs to an 11-5 mark - a win total that would not be reached again at Yale until 2022 - to round out her career tally at 129-60 in 11 years as a Division I head coach.