Christie Rampone


Country
Birth date
Age
24/06/1975 
37
Height
Weight
Gender
165 cm / 5'5" 
64 kg / 141 lbs 
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Sport
Team
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RankEventYearLocation
Olympic Games
1Senior2008Beijing, CHN
1Senior2004Athens, GRE
2Senior2000Sydney, NSW, AUS
FIFA Women's World Cup
1Senior1999United States
2Senior2011Germany
3Senior2007China
3Senior2003United States

Hobbies

Sewing, shopping, collecting snow babies. (Athlete, 22 Feb 2000; US Soccer, 18 Aug 2000)

Education

Education - Monmouth University, West Long Branch, NJ, USA

Family

Husband Chris Rampone, daughter's Rylie and Reece

Language(s) spoken

English

Coach

Pia Sundhage [national] (SWE) from 2008 (ussoccer.com, 02 Feb 2012)

Position and style

Defence (livestrong.com, 26 Sep 2011)

Sporting relatives

As a senior student at Point Pleasant Boro High School, she became the first person to lead the Shore Conference in scoring in soccer, basketball and field hockey. (US Soccer, 30 May 2004)

Debut

1997 for United States, against Australia (espn.go.com, 14 Dec 2011)

Injuries

She tore her anterior cruciate knee ligament in her knee late in the 2001 season. (US Soccer, 30 May 2004)

Additional information

Reason for taking up this sport
She followed in the footsteps of her sister. (Athlete, 22 Feb 2000)

Most memorable sporting achievement
Winning the World Cup in 1999. (espn.go.com, 15 Jun 2011)

Hero
Her sister for getting her started in sport and Mia Hamm. (Athlete, 22 Feb 2000; Women's Soccer, 05 May 2000)

Most influential person in career
Her father because he paved the way for her success. (Athlete, 22 Feb 2000)

Awards
She is Monmouth University's all-time leading soccer goalscorer. Also a college basketballer, she was named as New Jersey's Female Athlete of the Year by the New Jersey Nets in her senior year at college. (Women's World Cup, 1999; Women's Soccer, 05 May 2000)

General
SOCCER MUM
She returned to play for the USA national team just 112 days after giving birth to her first child - Rylie. Her return match was against Norway in a four team tournament held in China. She missed the entire 2005 season due to her pregnancy. (ussoccer.com, 09 May 2007)

CAPTIAN SINCE 2008
Since 2008, when Pia Sundhage took over as coach of the USA, she was the captain of the national side. (espn.go.com, 14 Dec 2011; prettytough.com, 17 Jan 2008)

Previous Olympics

Beijing 2008, Athens 2004, Sydney 2000


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