Fairfield University and Rutgers University - Day 3 of American Heritage Summer Tour

Today saw our 9 man travel group leave the Boston area in the morning and head toward the Connecticut, New York, and New Jersey area. Our first stop was Fairfield College in Fairfield, CT. Coach Maciariello and Coach Cooley were absolutely awesome and showed our team a good time. We were able to see a bit of Fairfield, watch a highlight tape, and spend about 30 minutes with the coaching staff. It was an informative session, and, at the conclusion of the meeting the coaches told us about a place called Vino's - a local eatery in town. Our team went with the suggestion, and absolutely loved lunch - big sized italian food. We really had a good meal.
After lunch we headed to Monmouth University in New Jersey. Unfortunately our plans needed to be flexible, as we were stuck in a 3 hour traffic delay on I-95 South right outside of New York. We ended up going straight to our hotel in Piscataway, and at this point our entire van was tired of being couped up in the car for multiple hours. We checked into the Embassy Suites and got ready for our shoot around. We went over to the Rutgers Athletic Center where we met Coach Nee, Coach Bloom, Coach Gregory, and Coach Winterbone. We were able to get the blood flowing again and soon we were having a great pre-game shoot around - our kids broke a good sweat and got a good number of shots in before we departed. We came back to the hotel and got ready for dinner - the players requested a dinner of White Castle - and - since I like to do things and go places while on the road that you cannot do while at home, we obliged. I saw Jake Wheeler eat an enormous amount of food (trust me - enough to feed small classrooms of children!) - and a couple of our other guys give it the old college try.
We are now back at the hotel where we are resting in preparation of the team camp, which begins tomorrow at 10:15am for us.
Happy Birthday to Coach Arlen - who was kind enough to share his birthday with the team.