Durham College Athletics

One of the greatest players ever to wear a Durham College uniform, Stacey Fertile began an exceptional two-year career with the DC women's softball team in 1994. Joining a team steeped in tradition, Fertile helped add to that as the Lords completed back-to-back perfect regular seasons, finishing both 1994-95 and 1995-96 with identical 10-0 records.
 
Fertile was named an OCAA all-star in both years totaling 34 hits, 21 runs, 18 RBI, and a .486 batting average on 70 plate appearances in 18 games played during that stretch. During her rookie campaign in 1994-95 she also set two new OCAA records with the most hits in a season (17) and the most hits in a single game (4).
 
At the OCAA championship that year, the Lords knocked off Mohawk 3-2 in the semifinals, before claiming gold with a 6-0 win over Conestoga. Fertile was named the OCAA championship MVP, rounding out her spectacular first-year with the Lords. Durham would then capture OCAA silver the following year with Fertile once again matching her OCAA record of 17 hits during the 1995-96 season.
 
Her outstanding hitting and exceptional defence at the shortstop position eventually led to an invite to be part of Team Canada with the women's national fastball program upon her graduation in 1996. She would later be named to the OCAA women's fastball all-millennium team and was inducted into the OCAA hall of fame in 2009.