| Chris O'Connor | |
| Associate Director Sports Information |
| coconnor@fairfield.edu | |
| ext. 2878 | WAC 226 |
Chris O'Connor is in the fourth year
of his second stint in the Fairfield University sports information
office, currently serving as the Associate Director. He
serves as the primary contact for women's basketball, women's
soccer, men's and women's lacrosse and men's and women's golf.
O'Connor was the Assistant Media Coordinator for the 2006 NCAA
Women's Basketball Tournament Bridgeport Regional. He also
assisted in hosting the MAAC Men's and Women's Basketball
Championship at the Arena at Harbor Yard in 2007, along with
numerous other MAAC Championships held on campus. O'Connor first
came to Fairfield in September 2000, for a year-long stint in which
he served as the media contact for women's basketball, baseball,
volleyball, men's and women's golf, men's and women's swimming and
diving and women's soccer.
In August 2001 he left Fairfield to become the Sports Information
Director at his alma mater, Marist College, where he oversaw the
media relations efforts for the Red Foxes 23 Division I varsity
sports, and was the primary contact for football, men's basketball
and baseball. During his time at Marist, the Red Foxes had
three student-athletes earn CoSida Academic All-America status.
O'Connor graduated from Marist in May 1998 with a B.A in
Communications. He was a four-year member of the varsity swim
team, setting three individual school records and swimming on a
pair of record setting relays. He was the Metropolitan
Collegiate Swimming Conference Rookie of the Year in 1995, and
helped the Red Foxes to four conference crowns.
O'Connor left Marist in July 2004, when he was married to his wife,
the former Ashley Hotze, and move to St. Louis. He assisted
in the running of the 2005 NCAA Men's Division I Men's Basketball
Final Four, as well as working for various collegiate athletic
programs in the St. Louis area, including the Missouri Valley
Conference and Saint Louis University.
Chris and Ashley, an ESPN employee, just purchased their first
house in Waterbury, Conn.
