Daily Archives November 13, 2013

Experience is one team component that all coaches, in any sport, would like their team to have. For Fairfield’s Joe Frager, his team features five players who have as much experience as any group in the conference.

Three freshmen join Fairfield University Women’s Basketball, and all are looking to immediately leave their mark on the team.

With women’s basketball under way, this season should prove to be up to the standards that have been established since Joe Frager became the head coach.

All players look to improve their play from one season to the next, to take their game to the next level in order to perhaps lead their team as a whole to that ultimate level that comes around each and every March.

The transition from high school to college has not been an incredibly easy one for the freshmen on the men’s basketball team. “I think it’s pretty challenging because I’m like not playing the position I was in high school so it’s kind of hard transitioning from a point guard to a shooting guard,” said Doug Chappell ‘17 about adjusting to the college basketball atmosphere.

For any team, it would be difficult to rebuild after losing one of the winningest senior classes in program history. In most cases, there would be a large contingency of seniors and upperclassmen to fill the void.

After months of waiting to step on court in a Fairfield University Men’s Basketball jersey, transfer students Sean Grennan ‘15 and Malcolm Gilbert ‘15 are finally ready to see their year-long sacrifice pay-off.

Twenty-one new lawsuits filed last Thursday allege that Fairfield University and others failed to supervise Douglas Perlitz ‘92, who was sentenced to nearly 20 years in prison for sexually abusing boys at a school he founded in Haiti.

Before the season started last year, Fairfield women’s basketball Head Coach Joe Frager appeared fit to be tied. Coming out of what apparently was one of the more frustrating practices of the still very young season, Frager was anything but subtle when he suggested that had he not been scheduled for an interview, he might have thrown himself out of the nearest window.

If you watch a Fairfield University Men’s Basketball game, it would take all of five minutes for you to see why Head Coach Sydney Johnson named Amadou Sidibe ‘16 the captain of the 2013-2014 team.