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Ted Spencer - Head Coach |
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Ted Spencer is in his 13th season as
the head coach of the Fairfield
University men’s lacrosse program.
Under his tutelage the Stags have
seen unprecedented success and
continue to make strides towards
becoming a perennial contender at
the national level.
The second longest tenured male
coach in the Fairfield Athletic
Department, Spencer has posted an 89-81 (.524) record. He has
led the Stags to two NCAA Tournaments, two ECAC
Championships, three MAAC Titles and two GWLL crowns. Across
the three leagues that Spencer has coached the Stags in, he has
posted a 47-22 (.681) record.
Fairfield's 2007 season got off to a rousing start, as the team
opened 5-0, and earned a number 12 national ranking, March 19,
the highest in program history. The Stags played several highlyranked
teams, including hosting and defeating 11th ranked
Bucknell. For the third straight year, Greg Downing earned All-
America Honorable Mention honors, as well as joining classmate
Mike Bocklet among the elite in program history in offensive production.
The 2006 campaign marked the Stags first as a member of the
ECAC Lacrosse League. Fairfield wasted little time in making its
presence felt, defeating Rutgers 11-7 in Piscataway, N.J., in the
program's first-ever ECAC contest. The Stags upset nationally
ranked Loyola, nearly dealt a loss to national runner-up UMass,
and finished with a 4-3 record in league play.
Spencer's 10th season at the helm, 2005, will go down as one
of the finest in program history. The Stags posted an 11-5 record
on their way to winning a second Great West Lacrosse League
(GWLL) crown. Along with its second NCAA Tournament berth,
the Stags set a school record in total wins (11) and consecutive
wins (7).
That 2005 campaign
earned
Spencer his third
Coach of the Year
honor. He was
named the 2002
GWLL Coach of the
Year, and earned
MAAC Coach of the
Year accolades his
first season (1996).
The 2002 coaching
accolades were secondary
to the
team's accomplishments
that season,
winning the GWLL
crown in just their
second campaign,
and earning the
program’s first
NCAA Tournament
berth.
That first season,
the fourth of
the program’s varsity
history, saw
Spencer lead the
Stags to a school
record nine wins,
including a perfect
7-0 conference
mark. The nine-win
season was just a
start for the
Spencer coached
Stags. Since then
he has led teams
past that win total
four times, with 11
wins in 1998 and
2005, and 10 win
seasons in 1997
and 1999.
Spencer led his
team to three consecutive
MAAC
championships
from 1996 to 1998.
The Stags lost just
two games in four seasons, going 28-2 in MAAC regular-season
play, including three undefeated seasons. Add to that a pair of
wins over MAAC foes in the 1999 ECAC Tournament, and the
Stags were 30-2 (.938) all-time against league opponents while
playing in the MAAC.
Under Spencer's guidance, Fairfield also earned four consecutive
postseason bids to the ECAC Tournament between 1996 and
1999, with the Stags knocking off Colgate for the 1998 title and
Mount St. Mary’s for the 1999 crown.
Spencer’'s players have garnered three All-American
Honorable Mention selections, three All-ECAC selections, two
GWLL Newcomer of the Year awards, one GWLL Player of the
Year award, one GWLL Offensive Player of the Year award, 20 All-
GWLL selections, 21 All-New England selections, 14 USILA
North/South All-Star selections, 19 All-MAAC team members,
three MAAC Player of the Year awards, nine MAAC All-Academic
and eight Academic All-New England selections. In 2002, the
Stags were selected as the winner of the Joseph (Frenchy) Julien
Memorial Award for Sportsmanship.
In 2001, a panel of Division I head coaches selected Spencer to
coach the prestigious USILA North/South All-Star game which
showcases the country’s top Division I seniors. Major League
Lacrosse also honored him for being among a select few to have
made significant contributions to the development of lacrosse in
Connecticut.
Prior to his time at Fairfield, Spencer held assistant coaching
positions at Brown and Yale. He played for UMass-Amherst,
where he stood out as a long-pole defensive midfielder before
graduating in 1985.
Spencer resides in Fairfield, Conn., with his wife, Denise, and
their children, Ryan-Elizabeth (13), Ben (11), and Devin (9).
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