Woodbury, Middlebury Athletes Playing In-State Division I

WOODBURY-MIDDLEBURY, CT — More than 300 student-athletes from Connecticut, including one each from Woodbury and Middlebury, are continuing their academic and sports endeavors at one of the state's seven Division I universities this fall, based on rosters provided by those institutions.

A total of 356 competitors have chosen to stay close to home while participating in 13 Division I fall sports. Danbury has 13 student-athletes on in-state D-I rosters, while Glastonbury has 12 and Norwalk and Shelton each have 10.

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 for men's cross country and women's swimming, cross country, rowing, rugby and bowling had not yet been made available by publication time.

Universities

• Central Connecticut - 104
• UConn - 97
• Sacred Heart - 66
• Yale - 25
• Fairfield and Hartford - 22
• Quinnipiac - 20

Counties

• Fairfield - 109
• Hartford - 102
• New Haven - 71
• Tolland - 23
• New London - 18
• Middlesex and Litchfield - 15
• Windham - 3

Sports

• football - 88
• men's soccer - 67
• women's soccer - 54
• men's cross country - 40
• women's rowing - 33
• women's cross country - 24
• women's swimming - 14
• field hockey and women's rugby - 10
• women's equestrian - 7
• women's volleyball - 6
• co-ed sailing - 3

Litchfield County residents

• 2 - Torrington, Watertown, Terryville
• 1 - New Milford, Bridgewater, Plymouth, Lakeville, New Hartford, Woodbury

New Haven County residents

• 9 - New Haven
• 8 - Cheshire
• 6 - Hamden
• 5 - Southbury
• 4 - Meriden, Milford, Prospect, North Haven
• 3 - Guilford, Wolcott
• 2 - Branford, Oxford, Madison, West Haven, Wallingford, Derby
• 1 - Ansonia, Beacon Falls, East Haven, Woodbridge, North Branford, Bethany, Middlebury, Waterbury, Naugatuck

Woodbury residents on in-state fall 2018 rosters

• Elias Field, fr., CCSU cross country

Middlebury residents on in-state fall 2018 rosters

• Margaret Flaherty, so., Sacred Heart swimming

Image created by Tim Jensen

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