Sunday, January 20, 2013
Point Boro and Monmouth University star on Sky Blue FC roster
This spring, the new professional soccer league for women is set to kick off, and Point Borough High School alum Christie Rampone has been assigned to the local team. Rampone, who has won Olympic gold medals and World Cup trophies, will bring her experience to the Sky Blue FC club which will play its games somewhere in the New York/New Jersey area. The team will also include members of the Canadian and Mexican national teams as well as younger players fresh out of college. The National Women's Soccer League will also include teams in Boston, Chicago, Kansas City, Portland, Seattle and Washington D.C. Rampone, mother of two young girls, had lived in Point Borough for many years, graduated from Monmouth University and has been recently …
Saturday, August 25, 2012
Crowd cheers Christie Rampone at Jersey Shore University Medical Center's victory celebration
Dawn Steffens remembers the days when Christie Pearce was a shy, quiet girl, who let her presence on the soccer field do all the talking for her. That was nearly 20 years ago when Steffens — now Dawn Crawford — and Pearce —better known to the world as Christie Rampone — played for the Peninsula Aztec. "She was shy but she was always the one who pushed us," Crawford, of Hazlet, said as she waited in line to get a few moments with the most decorated soccer player in the United States. "When you're out on the field, she's a whole different person." Crawford and her children were among the more than 500 people who packed the Kurr Atrium at Jersey Shore University Medical Center in Neptune on Friday to cheer for Rampone at the Olympic victory …
Thursday, August 9, 2012
The Point Boro H.S. graduate gets another gold in what is her last Olympics
The US Women's Soccer team, including Point Borough High School graduate Christie Rampone, gets the gold in an Olympic re-match with Japan. The game, aired on NBC Sports, Ch. 69 on Comcast, just ended (4:36 p.m.). Team members are pulling on white T-shirts that say "Greatness Has Been Found" and posing for photos with the American flag. Rampone, clutching a corner of a flag, ran across the field, with a teammate holding the other side of the country's banner. The U.S. Women's National Team now has its fourth gold medal and third straight. This was the much-hyped and anticipated re-match with 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup champion Japan in the soccer finale at Wembley Stadium in London. Japan narrowly beat the U.S. in last summer's World Cup…
Tuesday, July 24, 2012
U.S. Women's Soccer Team Captain receives heartfelt send-off before London Olympics
Former Point Pleasant resident and soon-to-be four-time Olympian Christie Rampone, Captain of the U.S. Women’s Soccer Team, recently made an important stop on her journey to the site of the 2012 Summer Olympic Games in London, England: the K. Hovnanian Children’s Hospital, located at Jersey Shore University Medical Center in Neptune. Rampone, who graduated from Point Pleasant Borough High School, and currently resides in Manasquan with her husband Chris, and daughters Rylie and Reece, addressed fans and Jersey Shore University Medical Center staff in person at a pep rally held in her honor on June 26. Rampone also acts as the local spokesperson for the K. Hovnanian Children’s Hospital at Jersey Shore University Medical Center. “It’s my …
Tuesday, May 1, 2012
Manasquan's Christie Rampone teams up with Jersey Mike's Subs for ad campaign
Locally-bred U.S. women's soccer star Christie Rampone has teamed up with Jersey Mike's Subs to provide a series of free instructional videos for kids on the sub chain's website, according to a company release. The first in a series of 10 instructional videos is expected to go live on the Jersey Mike's website on Tuesday, May 1, and each week a new video will be posted leading up to Rampone's appearance at the summer games in London, the release says. Rampone, a Manasquan resident and captain of the the U.S. Women's National Soccer Team, is the sub chain's first spokesperson in its 56-year history, the release says. The series will feature Rampone, a mother of two, teaching important soccer skills including dribbling, shooting and …
Thursday, July 21, 2011
Rampone's 5-year-old daughter signs autographs at Jersey Shore University Medical Center
Ms. Rampone signed autographs for gushing fans, took pictures with them and beamed ear to ear. And so did her mom. Christie Rampone, who graduated from the borough high school and Monmouth University as a soccer star, won two Olympic gold medals, and just led the US Women's Soccer team to four game victories during the World Cup tournament, was almost being outdone by her own little offspring. Rylie Rampone may only be 5, but she's got the give-the-fans-what-they-want bit down pat. And no wonder. Her mom, US Women's Soccer Captain and Defender Rampone, was feverishly signing soccer balls, cleats, shirts, flags, papers and anything else that a Sharpie can leave a mark on at Jersey Shore University Medical Center in Neptune Wednesday morning…
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
Manasquan resident reflects on the coaches who inspired her and the ones she proved wrong
There were coaches and other players' parents who told Christie Pearce Rampone she'd never make it in soccer. Today the longtime Point Borough resident starts competing in her fourth World Cup, after winning three Olympic medals, a national championship and becoming captain of the US Women's National Soccer Team. "You have to believe in yourself, no matter what people say to you or about you," said Rampone in a recent interview, when asked what message she would send to young athletes. Rampone spoke recently about the coaches who supported her, as well as the naysayers, just before jetting off to Europe with her team. Rampone, who had won two gold Olympic medals and one silver, celebrated her 36th birthday with her teammates in Austria …
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