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Christie Rampone
- Two-time Olympian (2004, 2000)
- 2003 World Cup Team starter
- 1998 Goodwill Games team gold medal winner
- Came back strong to national team in 2003 from ACL injury suffered in 2001, starting 15 of the 17 games in which she played
- Started and played every minute in four 2003 World Cup matches
- Missed the 2001 Nike U.S. Women’s Cup after tearing her right ACL while playing for the New York Power
- Started all five games at the 2000 Olympics and played 2,540 minutes, winning team silver medal
- Started both matches as the USA took the gold medal at the 1998 Goodwill Games
- Started 16 of 18 games for the USA in 1997, her first year with the national team
- Founding player in the WUSA for the New York Power
- A two-sport star at Monmouth University (N.J.), she was the school's all-time leading scorer in soccer and the starting point guard on the basketball team
- Heralded as the finest athlete Ocean County (N.J.) has ever produced, earning all-league honors in basketball, soccer and field hockey at Point Pleasant Boro High School; scored 2,190 career points in basketball
- Named N.J. Female Athlete of the Year by the N.J. Nets as a senior
- Full name is Christie Patricia Rampone (formerly Pearce)
- Graduated from Monmouth with a degree in Special Education
- Has a black Labrador named Tiger who serves as her alarm clock and running buddy
- Has a large collection of Snow Babies
Rampone enjoys teaching and coaching. She volunteered as a soccer coach and basketball coach at the middle school when she was student teaching and worked in classroom situations with communication handicapped children.
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Height: 5-6
Born: June 24, 1975
Hometown: Point Pleasant, N.J.
Sport: Soccer
Event: Defender
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