Casey Murphy and Chris Mirabelli, two star New Jersey athletes, dreamed off making the Olympics. Only one will step onto the field in Paris.
Chris Mirabelli, an All-American javelin thrower at Rutgers, married the Scarlet Knights' star goaltender Casey Murphy in December 2023. They would walk down the aisle in December 2023 and then, just a few months later, march into the Opening Ceremony as flag-wavingfor Team USA. Honeymoon in Paris? Forget that. This would be a business trip, and no one who knew them in Piscataway would bet against them bringing home matching gold medals.
He won three Big Ten individual titles. She led the soccer team to its first Final Four. He won the gold medal at the Junior Pan-American Championships. She left Rutgers a year early to chase a professional career. The dedication paid off with a record-setting career that led to a Rutgers scholarship offer. At a time when the Scarlet Knights were desperate for success in a new conference, Mirabelli “was a machine,” Rutgers coach Bob Farrell said, who treated each practice like it was the most important workout of his life.Reaching the Olympics seemed like a foregone conclusion. He finished eighth at the 2016 U.S. Olympic Trials, competing against professionals when he was just 19.
She joined a rec team called the Minnows when she was 5, and after she made an acrobatic save a year later that seemed way too advanced for a kid her age, a coach approached father Mike Murphy on the sidelines with a question.The family soon learned all about it as Casey Murphy quickly climbed to the top level in her sport — not that she was satisfied training just with those elite teams.
Mirabelli creeped up the stairs, one by one, until he could eavesdrop on the conversation. He had made it all the way to their bedroom door when Murphy announced the good news with a scream that might have scared the neighbors.She had made the roster.
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