Head Coach Laura Field has led the Fairfield women’s lacrosse team to six MAAC Championships and seven NCAA appearances.
Fairfield University Women's Lacrosse Head Coach Laura Field was one of seven inductees into the Connecticut Lacrosse Foundation Hall of Fame on Saturday, Jan. 24, 2026. Coach Field is entering her 11th season as head coach of the Stags and her 18th year with the program.
The winningest and longest-tenured head coach in Fairfield Women's Lacrosse history, Coach Field has overseen the program’s most successful stretch. The Stags enter 2026 with a streak of seven consecutive NCAA postseason berths, a span that includes six MAAC Championships as well as an unprecedented at-large bid in 2024—the first in Fairfield and MAAC women's lacrosse history. The Stags also earned a national ranking in the 2024 campaign—their first in 15 seasons— climbing as high as #22 in the nation and finishing with a final record of 16-3. That run was highlighted by the first two wins over IWLCA nationally ranked opponents in program history, as Fairfield knocked off #24 UConn and #23 UAlbany in back-to-back outings.
During Coach Field's tenure as head coach, the Stags are 118-56 (.678) overall, buoyed by a 63-13 record in the MAAC regular season. Fairfield has won six MAAC Championships (2018, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2025) and six MAAC Regular Season Championships (2018, 2019, 2021, 2023, 2024, 2025) with Coach Field at the helm.
Coach Field's six MAAC Championships share the conference record (with Canisius' Scott Teeter) for a women's lacrosse head coach. She was also on the sidelines as an assistant coach with Fairfield's 2009 and 2015 MAAC Championship alongside her predecessor, Mike Waldvogel.
Coach Field was the 2023 and 2024 MAAC Coach of the Year.
Coach Field came to Fairfield after an eight-year stint with the Yale University women's lacrosse program, including an 11-5 season as interim head coach of the Bulldogs in 2008. That Yale team finished at #17 in the IWLCA national poll. All told, Field helped guide Yale to a final top 20 IWLCA national ranking six times, including a #7 ranking following the 2003 season. That year, Yale posted a 13-3 mark and captured a share of their first Ivy League title since 1980, en route to the NCAA Championship Quarterfinals.
In total, Coach Field owns a record of 129-61 (.679) as a head coach.
NCAA postseason appearances have been a regular occurrence for Coach Field, who earned four varsity letters as a member of the Princeton University lacrosse program. As the starting goalkeeper for the Tigers, Field led the squad to the 2000 NCAA Championship Game to cap a run of three straight postseason bids. She was a First Team All-Ivy League honoree for Chris Sailer's squad in 1997.
Coach Field is a native of Mystic, Conn.
Connecticut Lacrosse Foundation Hall of Fame Class of 2025
Laura Field - Coach
John Hackett - Official
Holmes Harden, Jr. - Player
Matt Madalon - Player
Case Matheis - Player
Sean Quirk - Coach
Fran Shields - Contributor
