FAIRFIELD, Conn. – Fairfield University Volleyball hosts a pair of Huskies this weekend at Leo D. Mahoney Arena with visits from Northeastern on Friday at 6 p.m. and UConn on Saturday at 4 p.m. The Stags will recognize the 2024 MAAC Championship season with the unveiling of their championship banner prior to Friday's clash with NU.
 
Admission is free for all fans to all regular season home matches this season.
 
Fairfield University Stags (4-2, 0-0 MAAC)

• The Stags opened the home portion of the schedule on Wednesday with a 3-0 sweep of visiting Yale.
• Fairfield hit .383 against the reigning Ivy League Champions, the best hitting percentage by a MAAC team thus far in 2025.
• Maya Walker scorched the Bulldogs with a .733 hitting percentage in the middle (11-0-15) and Allie Elliott added 11 errorless kills from the pins to finish at .579 (11-0-19).
• For the season, Fairfield leads the MAAC with a .235 team hitting percentage.
• Harlan Wyche had six blocks on Wednesday. The sophomore continues to lead the conference and has cracked the top 100 nationally at 96th with 1.25 blocks per set.

 
Northeastern University Huskies (4-2, 0-0 CAA)

• Northeastern has gone 2-1 in each of its two weekend tournaments en route to a 4-2 overall mark led by first-year head coach and former Fairfield assistant Brendan McGourn.
• The Huskies lead the CAA with a .271 hitting percentage, led by Kaylin Daniels' .371 clip – good for 13th in the nation.
• Valentina Meirelles is Northeastern's most prolific attacker with 2.76 kills per set, followed by Emma Rowell at 2.72.

 
All-Time Series (Northeastern leads 8-6)

• Fairfield hosted and defeated Northeastern at Alumni Hall in 2019 to shrink the Huskies' lead in the series to 8-6.
• NU won the first six meetings in the series between 1989 and 1995, with the Stags winning six of the last eight.
• The teams have not played in Boston since 1995, with Friday being the seventh time that Fairfield has hosted Northeastern since then, with the other two matches taking place on neutral courts at Syracuse in 2001 and Valparaiso in 2002.
• This season, the Stags are 1-0 against the CAA (Towson) and Northeastern is 1-0 against the MAAC (Saint Peter's).

 
University of Connecticut Huskies (6-0, 0-0 Big East)

• UConn enters the weekend off to an unbeaten start at 6-0. The Huskies have won three matches at Binghamton (Lehigh, Binghamton, Fordham) and three in Storrs (South Dakota, Ball State, Colgate)  thus far in 2025.
• UConn visits Yale on Friday before making its first-ever regular season visit to Mahoney Arena. The Huskies came to Fairfield for an exhibition match prior to the start of the 2024 campaign.
• Emma Werkmeister leads the UConn attack with 3.96 kills per set, while the defensive pace has been set by McKenna Brand with 3.96 digs per stanza.

 
All-Time Series (UConn leads 17-3)

• UConn has won back-to-back meetings over Fairfield and owns a 17-3 lead in the all-time series, which began in 1990. While the Huskies and Stags have been frequent opponents over the years in the spring and summer, the two teams have not met in the regular season match since 2012.
• Fairfield's last win was a 3-2 victory at Alumni Hall in October of 2009.
• The Stags also defeated the Huskies in 1999 before a crowd of 1,018 fans at Alumni Hall. That match marked Fairfield's regular season home attendance record until 2023, when 1,715 fans attended the first-ever volleyball match at Mahoney Arena.
• This season, Fairfield is 0-1 against the Big East (Villanova), while UConn is playing the first of three MAAC opponents on its 2025 slate. The Huskies host Marist and Sacred Heart next weekend in Storrs.

 
Notes

• Fairfield's 2024 MAAC Championship, which will be recognized prior to the start of Friday's match, was the Stags' second straight conference crown and their MAAC-record 14th in program history.
• The last time Fairfield played back-to-back opponents with the same mascot (excluding doubleheaders against the same team) was in 2008 when they traveled to DeKalb, Ill. to meet the Northern Illinois Huskies followed by a visit to the UConn Huskies.

 
Up Next

• Next week, Fairfield concludes the non-conference schedule with visits to Bryant (Sept. 17) and CCSU (Sept. 19).
• Bryant is 3-4 with three home matches on tap this weekend, while the Blue Devils head to Providence for three contests still in search of their first win of 2025.
• Action then returns to Leo D. Mahoney Arena for three straight MAAC matches against Merrimack (Sept. 26), Quinnipiac (Sept. 27) and Sacred Heart (Sept. 30).