Alison Fitzsimmons ‘14, former outside back for the American International College women’s soccer team, will be inducted into the AIC Athletics Hall of Fame as part of its Class of 2019.
After spending her freshman season at the University of Rhode Island, Fitzsimmons, a West Springfield, Massachusetts native, transferred to AIC and made an immediate impact at outside back, earning First-Team All-Northeast-10 Conference accolades in her first campaign as well as an All-East Region Second-Team honor.
That inaugural season as a Yellow Jacket was just a taste of what she could do, however. In 2012, Fitzsimmons dominated in a way that few players have, let alone as a back, when she earned NE10 Defensive Player of the Year and NE10 Player of the Year, notching five goals and an assist, including three game-winning goals, while helping the team compile a 13-4-2 record with an NE10-best 12-1-2 conference mark, the program’s first NE10 regular season title since 1998. Fitzsimmons took First-Team All-American status from the NSCAA (now United Soccer Coaches) and First-Team All-Region from the NSCAA and Daktronics, and was also an NSCAA Scholar All-American. More importantly, she helped the team return to the NCAA Tournament.
In her senior year, Fitzsimmons and the team took yet another step forward, cruising to an 11-1-2 NE10 record in the regular season and the second seed in the NCAA East Region. Fitzsimmons was again selected as NE10 Defensive Player of the Year, and rose even further in the postseason, leading the defense to three consecutive shutouts in the NCAA Tournament as the team blanked the University of Bridgeport and The College of Saint Rose to win its first-ever East Region Championship and then stifled Slippery Rock University to become national semifinalists. For her work, she earned a Daktronics First-Team All-American selection, an NSCAA Second-Team All-American and Scholar All-American honors, CoSIDA Capital One Third-Team All-American accolades, and First-Team All-Region from Daktronics and the NSCAA. Finally, she closed her Yellow Jackets career as the 2014 President’s Cup winner as the top athlete at AIC, having helped the team compile a combined 38-16-6 record in her three seasons of play.
Since graduating, Fitzsimmons has worked in finance, spending three years at PricewaterhouseCoopers as an associate from August 2015 to September 2018 before joining Diageo North America as a senior financial analyst in October of 2018. She presently resides in Stamford, Connecticut.
