OPENING DRAW
Fairfield University Women's Lacrosse kicks off postseason play in the MAAC Championship Semifinals. The top-seeded Stags will play host the conference's "final four" beginning with a Friday, May 1 visit from in-state league foe Quinnipiac. Opening draw from Conway Field at Rafferty Stadium is set for noon with Jacob Munch and Brinley Anderson calling the action on ESPN+.
THE PLAYOFF PICTURE
Top-seeded Fairfield and sixth-seeded Quinnipiac will play the first of two semifinals on Friday at Rafferty Stadium. The other side of the bracket will feature second-seeded Niagara and third-seeded Siena, with the winners reconvening in Fairfield for the MAAC Championship Game on Sunday at 11 a.m. live on ESPNU.
The Stags defeated Siena and Quinnipiac during the regular season and, for the second consecutive season, did not play Niagara as a part of its eight-game MAAC slate.
Fairfield is vying for its 10th MAAC Tournament Championship and 10th NCAA postseason appearance. The Stags have reached the NCAA Tournament in each of the last seven seasons, including an at-large bid in the 2024 campaign.
MAAC REGULAR SEASON CHAMPIONS
Fairfield won its 17th MAAC Regular Season Championship with an 8-0 trip through the conference slate. The Stags have won four consecutive regular season crowns and seven of the last eight.
NUTMEG STAGS
Fairfield has played one only game outside of Connecticut since the non-conference slate ended on March 11. In addition to four regularly scheduled MAAC home games, the Stags' league road slate included visits to Sacred Heart and Quinnipiac as well as a road trip to Manhattan that was moved to Raffety stadium due to facility availability.
Fairfield's lone MAAC road game across state lines was an April 1 visit to Rider.
RED VS. BLUE
The Stags will play local MAAC rival Quinnipiac in the postseason for only the second time. Fairfield hosted and defeated the Bobcats in the 2023 semifinals en route to the MAAC Championship.
Including this season's 17-13 win in Hamden on April 11, the Stags are 18-0 all-time against Quinnipiac.
SHE'S HERE TO HELP
Tessa Caputo broke a pair of Fairfield assist records in the regular season finale against Marist. The sophomore dished out a program-record eight helpers in the win; in the process, she distributed her 43rd assist of the spring to set a new Fairfield single-season mark.
Only a sophomore, Caputo's 65 assists rate fifth in program history and only 18 shy of Libby Rowe's 83 helpers doled out in her standout career from 2020-24.
MAKE IT, TAKE IT
Brynn Donnelly has rewritten Fairfield's draw control records throughout her career. She has posted a career-record 357 draw controls in her career, fueled by a single-season best 149 draw controls in 2025. Donnelly set a new Fairfield single-season record with 18 draw controls in a win at Marist last spring.
HEAD COACH LAURA FIELD
The three-time MAAC Coach of the Year (2023, 2024, 2026),
Laura Field is in her 11th campaign leading the Stags and her 18th 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.
With two wins this weekend, Field would win her seventh MAAC Championship as a head coach to surpass former Canisius leader Scott Teeter and set a new MAAC Women's Lacrosse record.
Field is the winningest coach in Fairfield Women's Lacrosse history with a 131-59 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 142-64 in 12 years as a Division I head coach.
Field was inducted into the Connecticut Lacrosse Hall of Fame in January of 2026.
