3 Newtown Athletes On In-State Division I University Rosters

NEWTOWN, CT — More than 190 student-athletes from Connecticut, including three from Newtown, are continuing their academic and sports endeavors at one of the state's seven Division I universities this winter, based on rosters provided by those institutions.

A total of 198 competitors have chosen to stay close to home while participating in 13 Division I winter sports. Fairfield, New Haven and Trumbull each has seven student-athletes on in-state D-I rosters, while Greenwich, New Milford and Tolland each boasts six.

Following are breakdowns by university, by county and by sport, with links to the home pages of each school's athletic department. Note: several rosters had not yet been made available by publication time.

Universities

• UConn - 66
• Central Connecticut - 49
• Sacred Heart - 27
• Yale - 18
• Quinnipiac - 16
• Hartford - 14
• Fairfield - 8

Counties

• Fairfield - 65
• New Haven - 41
• Hartford - 39
• Middlesex - 14
• Litchfield, Tolland - 12
• New London - 11
• Windham - 4

Sports

• women's track and field - 67
• men's track and field - 56
• men's swimming - 21
• men's ice hockey - 9
• women's ice hockey - 8
• men's fencing - 7
• women's basketball - 6
• women's equestrian - 5
• men's basketball, women's bowling, men's squash, men's wrestling - 4
• women's squash - 2
• women's fencing - 1

Fairfield County residents

• 7- Fairfield, Trumbull
• 6 - Greenwich
• 5 - Norwalk, Shelton, Stamford
• 4 - Danbury, Darien, Ridgefield
• 3 - Newtown
• 2 - New Canaan, New Fairfield, Weston, Westport, Wilton
• 1 - Bethel, Bridgeport, Brookfield, Easton, Stratford

Newtown residents on in-state winter 2018-19 rosters

• Jack Godfrey, so., CCSU track and field
• Anthony Falbo, so., Sacred Heart wrestling
• Melissa Samoskevich, sr., Quinnipiac ice hockey

Image credit: Tim Jensen

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