As a result, Fairfield University's seal itself was designed featuring a deer leaping over a tumbling brook to represent both the school's connection with the Dioceses as well with its close ties with nature.

The Stags, coached by Don Cook, made the first of three straight trips to the ECAC New England Tournament in 1977, defeating defending champion University of Maine.

The Fairfield Stags men's basketball team competes in the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference of NCAA Division I.

And in the 1997 NCAA Tournament, the Stags nearly achieved a historic upset of top-seeded North Carolina after leading the Tar Heels by seven points at halftime.

Individually, Joe DeSantis earned All-American honors in 1979; Darren Phillip was the nation's top rebounder in 2001 averaging 14 rebounds per game; and Deng Gai was the nation's top shot blocker in 2005 averaging 5.5 blocks per game ranking him 5th all-time in NCAA Division I basketball.

The Fairfield Stags women's basketball team competes in the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference of NCAA Division I.

Under former coach Diane Nolan, who reached her milestone 500th win in 2006, the Stags competed in the NCAA Women's Basketball Championship in 1988, 1991, 1998, and 2001.

The Fairfield Stags cross country team is the oldest athletics program at the university, dating back to 1947.

founded the team and is the namesake of the annual Father Leeber Invitational hosted by the university and held on the campus grounds.

The Fairfield Stags field hockey team, as of the 2019 season, have competed in the Northeast Conference (NEC) of NCAA Division I.

Individually, Mary Beth Combs received the Connecticut NCAA Woman of the Year Award in 1993 and ten players have earned NFHCA Mideast Regional All-American honors.

The now defunct Fairfield Stags football team once competed in the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference of NCAA Division I-AA between 1996 and 2003.

This was enough to lead all of Division I-AA, just missing the national record (12) set in 1987 by Dean Cain of Princeton University and "Lois & Clark" fame.

The Stags have won eight regular season conference titles since 1996 and competed in the NCAA Division I men's lacrosse tournament in 2002 and 2005.

The Fairfield Stags women's lacrosse team competes in the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference of NCAA Division I.

The team competed in the 2009 NCAA Women's Lacrosse Championship challenging the Ivy League Champion Penn Quakers before falling 10–8 in the first round.

The Fairfield Stags men's soccer team competes in the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference of NCAA Division I.

The Fairfield Stags women's soccer team competes in the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference of NCAA Division I.

The Fairfield Stags women's tennis team competes in the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC) of NCAA Division I.

The Stags play their home matches at the Walsh Athletic Center Tennis Courts on the campus of Fairfield University.

The Fairfield Stags women's volleyball team competes in the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference of NCAA Division I.

The Stags, in partnership with Sacred Heart University, maintain a fleet of fourteen Collegiate Flying Juniors at Captain's Cove Seaport in Black Rock Harbor and race against Division I, varsity teams throughout the New England and Mid-Atlantic region.

In its first full schedule of games in 1968–69, the team finished with an 18–8–0 record and joined the Metropolitan Intercollegiate Hockey League (MIHL).

The 2007–2008 club finished with an overall record of 20–9, qualifying for a trip to Rochester, Minnesota to compete in the American Collegiate Hockey Association (ACHA) National Championships.

Led by injury prone and scoring machine Kevin Gavin and anchored by defensemen Brendan O'Malley the Stags were able to finish 2nd overall in conference play heading into the 2013–2014 season with high hopes.

These groups perform at all men's and women's home basketball games, as well as some other athletic contests and University events.

Stags in the Stands, founded by Marco Ambrosio '07 in 2005, was a new organization that looked to bring back the intense Stag spirit of the Red Sea, the athletic fan base formed in the 1970s, when students clad in red poured into Alumni Hall and created one of the region's best home court advantages.

Unfortunately student support at the Total Mortgage Arena has dropped dramatically in recent years, and the average official attendance has fallen to a record-low 1862 in 2013–14.

Each year, inductees are selected through a nomination process by the Athletic Hall of Fame Committee and honored at a Fall induction ceremony.