The Mount Olive, Hopatcong, Hackettstown (MoHoHa) combined high school hockey team honored late Centenary University First Lady Jeanne Murphy at a home game on Friday, Feb. 10, at the William G. Mennen Sports Arena in Morris Plains.

Team members took a stand against hit and run driving in recognizing Mrs. Murphy, a retired U.S. Army colonel, who was killed in January by a hit and run driver near her Hackettstown home. Centenary University President Bruce Murphy, Ed.D., attended the game and shared his late wife’s remarkable life with the team.

During her 30-year career in the military, Colonel Murphy served as a military nurse and was given oversight of the military’s program for world-class athletes, a task that placed her on the U.S. Olympic Committee’s Board of Directors and as chair of the USOC Multi-Sport Organizations Council for 10 years. A former competitive runner and swimmer, she was the first woman ever selected to the U.S. Modern Pentathlon Team in 1975, competing for the team until 1978.

Phoro: Centenary University President Bruce Murphy, Ed.D., with players and coaches of the MoHoHa hockey team.