Marissa Muoio
Episode 353
3 NOV 2025
She coached for the New Jersey Pride softball organization and served as a private catching coach. In addition, she has coached bowling and volleyball. She had been the assistant varsity softball coach at Mount Saint Dominic Academy and played softball at Seton Hall University. As a student-athlete at Mount Saint Dominic Academy she had played volleyball, basketball, and softball. Presently she is the Director of Strategic Initiatives and Leadership at Stuart Country Day School of the Sacred Heart, a preschool to Grade 12 private school in Princeton, New Jersey designed just for girls.
Notable guest quotes:
“My family, really our Catholic faith is just critical to our family structure. My grandfather was a deacon in the Franciscan Order.”
“It’s very much a part of who I am. And my faith is critical and core to my own being.”
“Those are some of my most special memories that we had together, is time where he really would review scripture with me, sometimes read it aloud to me and then help me break it down alongside him, and share what message that he wanted his parishioners to walk away with.”
“Just getting to see women in professional sports at that age was a huge difference maker in my own path and career and passion for athletics.”
“I think again about that servant leadership mindset. What does it mean to lead quietly, to lead a life of faith, that, I think, just in your being and your presence alone is where people recognize or can see how your faith is your core.”
“I have one study… coming out later this year. I’m working with Dr. Monica Kowalski at the University of Notre Dame and that study was designed throughout our Sacred Heart Network. So, we had over 250 adolescent female participants looking at a research question around purpose and spirituality. So, we’re excited to share those findings later this year.”
“That’s where I was able to intertwine a lot of my faith… In that belief that we are going to, if we are working hard, we’re working to the best of our ability, we’re carrying ourselves with good character and integrity, that things will fall into the place that God has a place for us.”
“It’s something that I think we do really well is being present to how our spirituality really guides our students and our coaches. And it’s again, I come back to being, because I think that for so many it’s the love of Christ is shared through action and through our presence with one another.”
“One of my favorite priests is Father Richard Rohr. I’m a fan of the mystics and I do expose students to his daily meditations.”
Related link:
Stuart Country Day School of the Sacred Heart website