OPENING DRAW
Fairfield University Women's Lacrosse makes its ninth consecutive appearance in the MAAC Championship Game on Sunday, May 3 when the top-seeded Stags host fifth-seeded Siena at 11 a.m. Cooper Boardman and Kylie Ohlmiller will call the action from Conway Field at Rafferty Stadium live on ESPNU.
 
THE PLAYOFF PICTURE
Fairfield Women's Lacrosse makes its 17th appearance in the MAAC Championship Game overall and ninth consecutive trip to the conference final. The Stags are 9-7 in their 16 prior MAAC Championship Game appearances.
 
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.
 
SEMIFINAL SUCCESS
The Stags hosted and defeated fifth-seeded Quinnipiac, 13-9, in Friday's semifinal round to reach the MAAC Championship Game. Tessa Caputo had five points (2g, 3a) to pace the attack, and Whitney Robinson made 12 saves protecting the Fairfield cage.
 
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. GREEN
The Stags will play Siena in the postseason for the sixth time in the last seven MAAC Championship tournaments. Fairfield has lost to the Saints twice in the regular season during the current stretch but whas on all six postseason encounters in this span.
 
A DOZEN, DENIED
Prior to Fairfield's 13-9 win over Quinnipiac on Friday, the Bobcats had scored 12 or more goals in 15 straight games including all of their nine previous meetings with MAAC opposition this season.
 
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. She had three assists on Friday to run her record total to 46 assists in 2026 and counting.
 
Only a sophomore, Caputo's 68 assists rate fifth in program history and only 15 shy of Libby Rowe's 83 helpers doled out in her standout career from 2020-24.
 
60-POINT PAIRS
Tessa Caputo and Kelly Haggerty have posted 73 and 57 points, respectively. They are looking to become the sixth pair of teammates in program history to reach the 60-point mark in the same season.
 
It would be the fourth straight year that Fairfield had two players reach 60 points after seeing that occurrence only twice in the first 25 seasons of the program's varsity history.
 
2025: A. Kozak (73) and G. Slater (64)
2024: E. Talluto (83) and L. Rowe (65)
2023: O. Doody (69), E. Talluto (65), L. Rowe (64) and E. Grefenstette (63)
2009: K. Coleman (88), R. White (77) and E. Rigby (63)
2008: K. Coleman (90) and E. Rigby (62)
 
MAKE IT, TAKE IT
Brynn Donnelly has rewritten Fairfield's draw control records throughout her career. She has posted a career-record 362 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 132-59 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 143-64 in 12 years as a Division I head coach.
 
Field was inducted into the Connecticut Lacrosse Hall of Fame in January of 2026.