Fairfield University Athletics Wins 3rd Consecutive MAAC Commissioner’s Cup

FAIRFIELD, CT — Fairfield University Athletics won the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference's Richard J. Ensor, Esq. Commissioner’s Cup for the third consecutive academic year and the MAAC Commissioner’s Cup for Women’s Sports for the fifth straight year, the conference and the school announced.

The Commissioner’s Cup is awarded annually to the conference institution with the highest point total based on performance in MAAC championship sports. The standings are calculated using results from men’s and women’s basketball and the top six men’s and top six women’s sports for each school.

Fairfield earned MAAC tournament championships in volleyball, women’s basketball, men’s and women’s swimming and diving, and women’s lacrosse during the 2025-26 academic year. The Stags also won regular-season conference titles in women’s soccer, volleyball, women’s basketball and women’s lacrosse.

The Stags finished with 192.5 points in the overall standings, ahead of Quinnipiac University (155.5), Marist University (155) and Sacred Heart University, also in Fairfield (150.5).

The 2025-26 title is Fairfield’s seventh Commissioner’s Cup in program history and its third in a row.

"We are thrilled and honored to win the Richard J. Ensor, Esq. MAAC Commissioner’s Cup for the third consecutive season and the Women’s Commissioner’s Cup for the fifth straight year," Vice President for Athletics Paul Schlickmann said in a statement. "These awards represent the achievement of annual departmental goals indicative of our continued commitment to comprehensive competitive excellence."

Schlickmann added that the award reflects contributions from university leadership, campus partners and supporters.

Fairfield also won the MAAC Commissioner’s Cup for Women’s Sports with 117 points, ahead of Quinnipiac’s 106.5 and Sacred Heart’s 80. The title was the program’s 14th women’s commissioner’s cup, the most in conference history.

In addition to its conference championship and regular-season title teams, Fairfield earned points from a second-place finish in softball and a fifth-place finish in women’s cross country. Hannah Snayd won her second consecutive individual MAAC cross country championship.

On the men’s side, Fairfield finished third after placing eighth in 2024-25. The Stags improved their point totals from the previous year in cross country, soccer, basketball and swimming and diving. Baseball led the men’s programs with 16 points after tying for second place in the regular season and finishing as tournament runner-up. Men’s golfer Rasmus Ditzinger contributed points with an individual MAAC championship.

The Commissioner’s Cup standings do not include Fairfield teams that compete outside the MAAC. Those programs include the university’s field hockey team, which won the Northeast Conference regular-season and tournament championships in 2025-26 and later earned an NCAA Tournament victory over Boston University.

“I am extremely proud of ALL our coaches, staff, and student-athletes – including those who don’t compete in the MAAC – whose relentless commitment to a shared aspirational vision inspires our ability to meet high expectations and a consistent desire to raise our own bar,” Schlickmann said.

Fairfield's MAAC Commissioner's Cup History

Overall (7): 1994-95, 1997-98, 2008-09, 2011-12, 2023-24, 2024-25, 2025-26

Women's (14): 1993-94, 1994-95, 1997-98, 1998-99, 1999-00, 2001-02, 2008-09, 2014-15, 2019-20, 2021-22, 2022-23, 2023-24, 2024-25, 2025-26

Men's (3): 1994-95, 1996-97, 2011-12