Walk onto any campus with a Division One sports program and one of the main attractions is often a statue of its mascot. Jonathan the Husky at UConn. The Penn State Nittany Lion. The Quinnipiac Bobcat (also made by J.C. Dye).
Even schools without major sports programs have a centerpiece of campus, a place where high school students stop to take a picture on a tour, alumni return to excitedly and graduates stop at for one last goodbye.
But Fairfield had no such statue, no centerpiece, no similar tradition. Until now.
With the addition of the Stag Statue in the center of campus, Fairfield has joined the ranks of its fellow universities.
As students turned out to support the Stags and show their school spirit on Friday night, it was clear that the energy that Hutch Williams ’07 and others have brought to campus in the past few years has truly worked. Freshmen enter Fairfield with a love for the Stags, bleeding Stag red.
With the basketball season unofficially kicking off with MAAC Media Day on Tuesday afternoon in New York, it’s time for the basketball teams to take center stage and provide a window to the world of what Fairfield can offer. But the smaller sports still deserve your support.
So have yourself your own pregame ceremony, paint your faces and come to the games, it’s what college is about.
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