FAIRFIELD UNIVERSITY'S JULIE BRZEZINSKI JOINS CONNECTICUT BRAKETTES STAFF

April 20, 2006 - Julie Brzezinski, the highly-successful softball coach at Fairfield University, is the newest member of the Connecticut Brakettes coaching staff. She will join manager John Stratton and third base coach Patty Fernandes on the sidelines for the National Pro Fastpitch league's newest franchise.

The Brakettes open their inaugural NPF season June 1 in a four-game series with the New England Riptide at Frank DeLuca Hall of Fame Field.

“We’re pleased to have Julie join our staff,” said Stratton. “She is very knowledgeable and well respected in the softball hierarchy. She is a big addition to our program.”

Brzezinski is in her ninth season at Fairfield and she has averaged nearly 30 wins per season. The Stags have advanced to the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference tournament each season and they have registered five winning seasons.

Fairfield has a 25-18-1 record heading into Saturday’s (April 22) twin-bill against Manhattan, one of five crucial MAAC doubleheaders remaining on the regular-season schedule. Fairfield is hoping to advance to the MAAC playoffs, which are being staged at Frank DeLuca Hall of Fame Field, the home of the Brakettes, May 12-13.

A graduate of Furman University in 1989, where she played four years of softball, Brzezinski recently won her 500th career game. It was a 7-5 win over LIU in the Stony Brook University tournament March 27.

The fifth head coach in Fairfield University softball history, Brzezinski has posted a 238-218-3 record at the school going into this season. Prior to her arrival, the school record for wins in a season was 29, a figure she has equaled or surpassed four times in seven years.

Brzezinski earned her master’s of education from Campbell University in North Carolina in 1992, where she later served as the Fighting Campbell’s head coach for eight years. During her Campbell coaching career she led them to a 245-195 record with two Big South Conference championships (1993 and 1994), one Trans Atlantic Conference title (1995), and one TAAC runner-up finish (1996).

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