FAIRFIELD, CT — Fairfield University’s Regina A. Quick Center for the Arts is honored to welcome award-winning sports journalist Sally Jenkins as part of the Open VISIONS Forum on Tuesday, April 1, 2025 at 7:30 p.m.
With a career spanning decades, Jenkins, the first woman to be inducted into the National Sportswriters and Sportscasters Hall of Fame, has covered some of the most iconic moments in sports history. The Fairfield University Athletics Department joins the Quick in bringing this longtime columnist for The Washington Post to campus.
“It’s an honor and a privilege to have Sally Jenkins share her journey with our student-athletes and with the entire campus community,” said Vice President for Athletics Paul Schlickmann. “It is our intentional objective for athletics to serve as a vehicle for the holistic formation of our student-athletes in all aspects of their educational experience here at Fairfield. The opportunity to have a renown figure like Sally Jenkins impart her wisdom and perspective will certainly be of great value to our student-athletes in their continued growth as Stags and in their own personal development beyond Fairfield.”
Jenkins will discuss her storied career in sports journalism and her new NPR-ranked book, The Right Call: What Sports Teaches Us About Work and Life. Jenkins celebrates the integration of body, mind, and spirit, and how sports offer meaningful direction and nourishment for athletes of all levels. She will be joined by Fairfield University athletes and coaches for this Open VISIONS forum.
This forum is sponsored, in part, by Moffly Media, Delamar Southport, Delamar Spa, and Artisan. Tickets are now on sale on quickcenter.com for $35, or $25 for Quick Members. For more information, contact the Quick Center Box Office at 203-254-4010, Monday through Friday, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Fairfield University is a modern, Jesuit Catholic University, rooted in one of the world’s oldest intellectual and spiritual traditions. More than 6,000 undergraduate and graduate students from 44 states, including the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, and 43 countries, are enrolled in the University’s five schools. In the spirit of rigorous and sympathetic inquiry into all dimensions of human experience, Fairfield welcomes students from diverse backgrounds to share ideas and engage in open conversations. The University is located in the heart of a region where the future takes shape, on a stunning campus on the Connecticut coast just an hour from New York City.