Before Holy Cross: Member of the varsity lacrosse team at Bernards High School...team captain as a senior...team Defensive Player of the Year as a junior and a senior...earned second team all-conference honors in 2005, 2006 and 2007...also a member of the varsity field hockey and swimming teams as she was a senior captain for both teams...member of the National Honor Society.

Personal: Her father Charles Murphy (1978), aunt Donna O'Brien (1977), uncle Edward Murphy, Jr. (1985) and brother E. Thomas Murphy (2007) all graduated from Holy Cross.