BOSTON ? America East Conference has added Fairfield University as an associate member in the sport of field hockey. Fairfield will join the conference for the 2007 season.
Fairfield will be joined by America East member institutions University at Albany, Boston University, University of Maine, University of New Hampshire and University of Vermont to comprise the six-team conference.
America East has sponsored field hockey since the 1989 season. The conference schedule is a round-robin format of five conference games with a four-team, single-elimination championship. The conference sponsors 22 championship sports overall.
Fairfield, which recently completed its 25th season of Division I field hockey, posted a 6-13 record last year in the Northeast Conference (4-4). The Stags were 2-1 versus America East opponents in 2006 with victories over Maine and UMBC and a loss to then 17th-ranked Boston University.