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Ranney Hosts Fourth Annual Shore Conference Women in Sports Day

Ranney Athletic Director Natalie Cocchi Gorman along with the nine other female Athletic Directors in the Shore Conference hosted the fourth annual Shore Conference Women in Sports' Day on February 17 at Ranney's campus in Tinton Falls.

Three female student-athletes from 46 Shore Conference schools attended, totaling 138 female athletes including Ila Molettiere '28 who is a varsity swimmer for Ranney, Sloane Paulus '27 who is a varsity soccer player and fencer for Ranney, and Ciara Sittig '26 who is a varsity soccer player from Ranney.

Among the speakers were Christie Pearce Rampone, one of the all time greatest athletes from the Shore Conference.  Pearce Rampone is a former captain of the United States Women’s National team, three-time Olympic gold medalist and two-time Women’s FIFA World Cup Champion, as well as Miss New Jersey Ivy Harrington, who played basketball and ran track at Neptune High School and played basketball at Morgan State University.  

The motto for the day’s event was a famous quote from tennis legend Billie Jean King, “Girls who play sports become women who lead.”

Several members of Ranney's faculty and administration spoke in breakout sessions and sat as members of a Q&A panel: Lower School Counselor Ali Le Vine Pugsley whose background includes serving as a Mental Conditioning Coach at IMG Academy and the University of Louisville Athletic Department, Physical Education teacher and women's basketball head coach Mauri Horton who starred at Rutgers and led the Scarlet Knights to their first-ever Final Four before enjoying a successful professional basketball career in Europe, and Director of Marketing and Communications Sara Zavorek who was previously the Director of Communications at The Big East Conference.

The Shore Conference is proud to be the only conference in New Jersey that hosts their own event to honor the National Girls and Women in Sports day tradition.  The Shore Conference also gave out four scholarships of $500 each to two attendees from Monmouth county and two attendees from Ocean county.   
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