| Kelly McCarthy | |
| Assistant Director Sports Information |
| kmccarthy@fairfield.edu | |
| ext. 2877 | WAC 226 |
Kelly McCarthy begins her fourth year
as the assistant sports information director. She is responsible
for covering men's and women's cross country, men's and women's
tennis, women's volleyball, men's and women's swimming and diving,
as well as the baseball program. She also assists in the coverage
of men's and women's basketball.
McCarthy comes to Fairfield after spending the 2005-06 season at
Towson University. With the Tigers, she was the contact for
the women's basketball team, as well as the nationally-ranked
women's lacrosse team. She was also responsible for volleyball,
swimming and diving, women's cross country and track, and women's
tennis.
McCarthy began her sports information career as an assistant at
Marist College during the 2003-04 academic year. There she covered
the women's basketball team during its first-ever NCAA
season. She also covered women's soccer, softball, women's
lacrosse, crew, women's water polo, swimming and diving, tennis,
and track.
After Marist, she spent a year as an assistant at the University
of Pennsylvania, covering the Quakers nationally-ranked wrestling,
men's soccer and men's crew teams, and served as the secondary
contact for football. She also covered women's soccer, women's
crew, sprint football, and softball. McCarthy also assisted
with the 2005 and 2006 NCAA Men's Lacrosse Championships
and the 111th and 112th Annual Penn Relays.
A native of Natick, Mass., McCarthy graduated summa cum laude from
St. John's University in 2003 with a Bachelor of Science degree in
Journalism. She served as the managing editor of The Torch, the
official student newspaper, as a senior while interning with the
Women's Sports Foundation and Newsday.
McCarthy, who received her Masters in American Studies from
Fairfield in May 2009, resides in Hamden, Conn.
