Stafford Athletes On In-State Division I University Rosters

STAFFORD, CT — More than 160 student-athletes from Connecticut, including one from Stafford, 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 166 competitors have chosen to stay close to home while participating in 13 Division I winter sports. New Haven has seven student-athletes on in-state D-I rosters, while Fairfield, Greenwich and Trumbull 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

• Central Connecticut - 49
• UConn - 38
• Sacred Heart - 23
• Yale - 18
• Quinnipiac - 16
• Hartford - 14
• Fairfield - 8

Counties

• Fairfield - 58
• New Haven - 39
• Hartford - 33
• Litchfield - 10
• Middlesex - 8
• New London - 8
• Tolland - 6
• Windham - 4

Sports

• men's track and field - 56
• women's track and field - 39
• 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 - 4
• women's squash - 2
• women's fencing - 1

Tolland County residents

• 2 - Tolland
• 1 - Andover, Coventry, Stafford, Vernon

Stafford residents on in-state winter 2018-19 rosters

• Emily Kopec, so., Hartford track and field

Image credit: Tim Jensen

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