Lori Fazio-Estes

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Lori Fazio-Estes
(Softball, 1999)

This outstanding scholar-athlete who graduated fourth in her class, earned many honors as a member of the Danbury High School basketball team but it was in the sport of softball where she excelled. As a junior in high school, Lori was First Team All-FCIAC and All-Area for softball. Besides being a junior captain, Lori was also Danbury High School's Scholar-Athlete for softball. As a senior member of the basketball team at DHS, Lori was captain, All-FCIAC Honorable mention, and DHS's Scholar-Athlete. As a senior member of the softball team, the honors continued for the senior captain. Lori was honored again as First Team All-FCIAC and All-Area for softball. She was named a C.H.S.C.A. Senior All-Star and repeated as Danbury High's Softball Scholar-Athlete. Lori was also the recipient of the Connecticut Association of Schools Interscholastic Scholar Athlete Award. After graduating from Danbury High School, Lori went to Ithaca College where she majored in mathematics and continued her softball career. A second baseman, Lori's Ithaca College teams won their Empire 8 Conference Championships in 2001 and 2002. In 2000, 2001, and 2002, the Ithaca College softball team won the Northeast Regional Championships, winning bids to the Division III National Championships all three years. In the spring of 2002, the Ithaca College softball team won the Division III National Championship in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. After her graduation from Ithaca College in 2003, Lori taught math at Greenwich High School. For the past eight years, she has taught at Joel Barlow High School where she currently teaches AP Statistics and geometry. At Barlow she is co-advisor of the Achieving and Integrity Club that is dedicated to helping to promote achieving with integrity throughout the high school community. She was varsity softball coach at Barlow from 2006-08 and has earned advanced degrees from both Western Connecticut State University and Sacred Heart.