Women's Tennis

Ed Paige enters his second season at the helm of the men's and women's tennis program.

In his first season, he guided the men's team to a 13-10 overall record to set the program record for wins in a season. The men concluded the season with a fourth place finish at the 2007 Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC) Championships. On the women's side, the Stags battled through injuries throughout much of the year, going 9-12-1 and tying for fifth place at the MAAC Championships.

Paige, who spent five seasons as an assistant coach for the Stags before accepting the position as head coach, has been involved in tennis as a player, coach and writer for nearly 30 years.

In addition to his collegiate coaching experience, Paige has coached extensively at the youth level. He spent two years as the Director of Junior Tennis in the town of Fairfield, and was also an assistant coach for the boy's junior varsity tennis team at Greens Farms Academy in Westport, Conn.

Paige spent six years as an editor at World Tennis Magazine and was the editor of Tennis USA, the United States Tennis Association (USTA) official monthly newspaper. From there Paige worked at some of the top publishing companies in the country, including Paragon House, while teaching feature writing and copy editing at New York University. More recently, Paige spent two years as an editor at The Advocate, Stamford's daily newspaper followed by three years as managing editor of Westport Magazine before turning his attention to tennis full time.

Paige earned a bachelor's degree in English from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1974 and attended the Breadloaf School of English at Middlebury College in 1976 and 1977.

Erin Reeves returns to the Fairfield sidelines as an assistant coach of the women's tennis team.

Co-captain of Fairfield's conference championship and NCAA Division I Championship Tournament Team in 2004, Reeves returns to her alma mater as a coach and as a graduate assistant to the Univesity's Family Literacy Project.

After graduating in 2004 with a degree in psychology, she will now be pursuing a Master's Degree in School Counseling

Captain of the Fairfield squad in both her junior and senior years, Reeves had one of the most successful years in school history when she posted a combined 40 singles and doubles wins in 2003-2004.

After graduating, she earned her certification with the United States Professional Tennis Association and worked as a tennis teaching professional near her hometown of Sudbury, Massachusetts.