Basketball Coach 🏀 Special Education Teacher 📚 ✏️ Marist College Alum 🦊 Dog Mom 🐶 Breakthrough Basketball 🏀

New Jersey, USA
I have decided to step away from high school coaching. I’ve reached a point in my career where I know my worth, and I only want to be in environments that align with my values, where coaches are supported, and athletes are empowered and motivated.
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Excited to announce that I have been named the Head Girls Basketball Coach at Sparta High School! With such a rich tradition of success, I am grateful for this opportunity to take over not only a top North Jersey team but a perennial state power 🩵🏀🤍
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Beyond excited to be named the next Head Girls Basketball Coach at Glen Ridge High School 🏀🦓
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Officially official 🎓 Master’s Degree in Special Education 📚✏️ Graduated from American College of Education with a perfect 4.0 GPA!
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Honored and blessed to be joining an accomplished group of student-athletes into the prestigious Red Bank Catholic Athletic Hall of Fame this year 💚💛
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East Coast, I’m back 😎 can’t wait to get this journey started at KC!
Kristina Danella Selected as Head Women's Basketball Coach bit.ly/2wbA8HH
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Excited to start the next chapter at San Francisco State University 🏀🐊
🏀 SF State Names Kristina Danella Head Basketball Coach #ChompCity #CCAAwbb @CoachDanella @SFSU @goccaa bit.ly/2ssYv0Y
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Happy #WorldDownSyndromeDay2023 to Gigi! Thank you for being uniquely YOU, being a light through who you are and for inspiring me daily!
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First ever 5k today with my dad. Also placed 3rd in my age group at 25:52 💙🇺🇸
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STATE SECTIONAL CHAMPIONS!!!!! 💍 1st one in Glen Ridge history 🏀🦓 So unbelievably proud of this group, but we aren’t done yet!!!
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Honored and humbled to be inducted into the @redbankcatholic Athletic Hall of Fame this weekend. So grateful for all of the support of my family, friends, mentors and coaches for one of the most meaningful nights of my life. Once a Casey, always a Casey ☘️🏀💛
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It’s been 1,017 days (but who’s counting) since I coached my last game as a head coach. But I can finally say my favorite phrase… IT’S GAME DAY 〽️⭕️🏀 @MOHS_Basketball @MOHSMarauders
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This little girl was wearing my jersey at the Marist game last night #FiveYearsLater #TheFeels #RedFoxNation
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So excited to be teaming up with NJ legend @kristensomogyi to become the high school program director of the Jersey Cardinals AAU program. Basketball is back 👏🏻🏀
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Ready for Santa 🎅🏼🎄❤️
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Dunkin Donuts 🏀🍩 Get it?!? @dunkindonuts
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This team 🩵🏀 This team has made the last few months the best part of my days. I looked forward to each and every day with them. It’s been such an honor and privilege to be their coach! Year 1 at Sparta, Year 11 overall in the books 🩵🏀
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This game ❤️ The wins, the losses, the passion, the smiles, the tears, the pain, the love… THE JOURNEY! Grateful for those who came before me and paved the way for this orange ball to take up so much room in my heart. Happy #NWGSD!
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Proud coach. Amazing team. Love you all 💙🧡
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Winning the CSAC was great, but know what’s even better?! A team GPA of 3.49, with eight players above a 3.49 and one perfect 4.0 🏀💙 #ProudCoachMoment
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Clinched the 2-Seed for Play-offs and a first round bye; something that has never been done for Keystone WBB #ProudCoach
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Mood: when you wake up on a Monday morning and realize you have to wait seven months for the return of women’s basketball 💔
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CSAC Champs! Women’s Basketball Earns 1st Title with 72-61 Win Over St. Elizabeth bit.ly/2PxlDby
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Thank you 🏀 I’m grateful for the amazing players, staff and administration!
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Top: NCAAs as a D1 Player. Middle: NCAAs as a D2 Head Coach. Bottom: NCAAs as a D3 Head Coach. Loving the Dream 💙
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Lots of emotions and not many words as our season was officially cancelled today 💔🥺 so instead I will just reminisce on our last and most memorable win from last season 💙🏀
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Sparta Athletics Stanley Cup Crew 🩵🥤
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Do what you love and call it work 〽️⭕️🏀🤍 Year 10 in the books
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Another huge commitment coming out of NJ today! Welcome to the Giant family 💙🏀
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History made 💍🏀🦓 Sectional State Champs First Glen Ridge team to ever do it after beating University for the third time this year! Proud is an understatement!
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This edit is insane 💔
First of all... who edited this? This is amazing work. nitter.app/lecabrerar/status/1221…
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First CCAA win 🐊😈 #chomp
Highlights from tonight's road win #chompcity
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Twin Day with the best para 🩵
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Where has the time gone? Ten years ago today, I suited up in a Marist uniform for the first time. Forever grateful to be a Red Fox 🦊
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What better way to spend a Friday night than to see some future Spartans in action!! Great job girls!
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Putting it all into perspective🩵Basketball, like life, is a series of ups and downs. Success should never be measured through wins and losses, because it is about so much more. Grateful for this game that has given me the opportunities and brought incredible people into my life
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Your 2018 SF State Gators 🐊🏀💜
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Happy National Girls and Women in Sports Day 🏀 So thankful for what the sport has done for me, the opportunities it has always provided me and the relationships I have been able to form and maintain. “Here’s to strong women… May we know them, may we be them, may we raise them.”
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💔 Thank you for it all, I will miss weekend jelly donuts with you. Love you Granny 💔
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First look at the 2017-2018 SF State Women's Basketball Team 🐊🏀 killed it on the track this morning!!! #TrustTheProcess #ChompCity
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626 days since I last stepped on the court to coach but that all changes today! Excited to start this new journey with @MOHSMarauders 🏀
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First win of the season! Such an all-around great team victory!
🏀 @SFState_WBB takes down Dominican in regular season opener bit.ly/2zXwqD4
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I’m so grateful for the outpouring of support — truly overwhelmed in the best way. This was 100% my decision, and I’m at peace with it. I’m more than okay — I’m happy, hopeful, and excited for what’s next. Thank you all 🤍
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First conference win in four years… so proud of this team for our fight! Down 12 in the second half and chipped away to seal this victory with two huge FTs with 11 seconds left! @MOHSMarauders @KevinRStansber1
MOGB finishes with a big conference win tonight against Roxbury! A true battle from start to finish by both teams. S/O to Julia Klatt - leading the team with 17 points & Bella Cefola with huge game winning free throws! 〽️⭕️
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Collegeville, PA Breakthrough Basketball Camp 👏🏻
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Mount Olive Girls Basketball 1st Annual Free-Throw-a-Thon was a major success!! Thanks to all who pledged and donated! …guess I’m not that washed up, 97/100! @MOHS_Basketball @MOHSMarauders @KevinRStansber1
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First day of this new journey! Excitement is an understatement 💙🧡
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6’2 Freshman really stepping up lately… super skilled, fundamentally sound player who is only just getting started!
🚨DOUBLE-DOUBLE ALERT🚨 in last night’s win over Newton, freshman Brooke Shust registered her first career double-double with ten rebounds and ten blocks. Brooke was just two points away from a triple-double, ending with 8 points! Filling up the stat sheet!
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What a week for Sparta! Sparta Girls Basketball Camp was a huge success with over 100 campers and a week of fun! Followed it up with the Championship in the Hopatcong Summer League with the team by going 13-0 to take it for the second straight year. Love the start of summer 🏀🩵
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Our new Athletics weight room is unbelievable 🔥🔥🔥 so excited for this for our players and our whole department!
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Exceeded expectations today and got after it! What a way to start it off right 💙🧡
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It’s 2:15am but my adrenaline is still pumping after those two games tonight #FinalFour
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It wasn’t pretty but going into break with a win makes it better!
FINAL: @KCwomensBBALL defeats @PCTAthletics 66-57; Gordon w/19 pts, Moro w/14 pts & 15 rebs & Kitchen w/16 pts, 7 rebs, 5 assts, 4 stls
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Make Thanksgiving a habit, not a holiday. Grateful, thankful and blessed, especially for these two 🍁🧡
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Great Relay for Life event last night despite the rain. Thank you to all who have donated over the past few weeks; it is truly appreciated. I exceeded my goal and raised over $1100 for this great cause. Together, we will continue to fight this terrible disease 💜
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Congrats to former 🦊 @CoachDanella !!! CSAC Champs and headed to the NCAA Tournament!!! Way to go Danella your #RedFoxFam is so proud of you!!!
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Best day of the year 🧡💙 Grateful to begin Year 2 with @KeystoneWBB!
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Excited for this new journey… the future of MOGB begins now 💛🏀
NEW HEAD COACH ALERT! Mount Olive Athletics is proud to announce our New Head Girl's Basketball Coach! Kristina Danella! Click below for BIO: smore.com/5mha0 @ZywickiR @PrincipalMOHS @KevinRStansber1 @dailyrecordspts @MtOliveChron @nendze_atc @mohsparentclub
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Just got great news from a future Gator! Our family continues to grow 🐊🏀
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Such a memorable experience for our current players to watch these two play at the next level!
Great night at the Villanova vs. Richmond Game with our current program to see two of our alumni, @allysweeney14 and @BrynnMccurry13 , play against each other!
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Another nice showing from the 8th graders today with two more wins! Double shirts 🔥🔥🔥
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Game Day for my Red Foxes 🦊❤️ Wishing all the luck to the Marist squad as they take on Louisville in the first round of the Tournament tonight at 8pm on ESPN! Here’s a little throwback to our first round win in 2012 over #4 Georgia!
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A year of change and growth… moved back to NJ, left collegiate coaching, became a special education teacher and started my Master’s 💫
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Championship Week brings back all the best memories 🏀 2013 vs. 2020
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Lake views with the best boy 🩵🥰🐾
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No matter the distance, we are always together 🧡💙 Stay safe everyone!
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Wishing everyone a Merry Christmas from the Keystone Women’s Basketball Team 🏀
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Congrats to our senior guard on her commitment to continue playing at the next level 🏀🦓
Congrats Marjorie Boyle!! We cannot wait to see your Senior year and beyond! @NJLadiesHoops @PGHNewJersey @EJayArrow @njdotcom
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If you are a current collegiate player and aren’t watching the @ncaawbb games, what are you doing?? Stop learning from Lebron! Learn from your peers!
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Final score wasn’t in our favor but that does not take away from how proud I am of our showing today. Effort, intensity and energy was there 💙
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Unbelievable Final 4 this past weekend! Congrats to @ndwbb for overcoming adversity time and time again and continuing to believe!
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First day of preseason complete! Great team practice...excited to start this journey 🐊🏀#ChompCity
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Happy 4th Birthday to my boys 😘😍
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Keystone Basketball Camp 🏀 what a week!
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Portland, Maine Breakthrough Basketball Essentials Camp 🏀always love coming up to Maine each summer for this one! Great assistants, great players! I love to see how many players travel from all over for this one; this week we had players from CT, MA, NH, VT and even Nova Scotia!
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The most perfect addition to this program 💕 Welcome Baby Madison, you are already so loved!
Our program is pleased to announce the addition of our future MVP, Madison Grace! Our amazing assistant, Coach Callahan, gave birth to this beautiful baby girl this past Saturday. We can’t wait to have Coach Callahan back on the sidelines with us and we cannot wait for #TeamBaby!
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Ready for this challenge 〽️⭕️🏀
Rounding out our staff is new Varsity Head Coach, Kristina Danella!
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Two big wins for this group today! Proud of the effort and focus 🏀 @btbasketball10
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There’s no place like home 🏡❤️ Excited to announce that we have purchased our first home together and cannot wait to begin this new adventure in our private lake community!
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Six years ago today 😭 #RedFoxNation
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Competed today against some good Shore competition. Love to see the girls in action and cannot wait to able to coach this group!
Team Blue had a nice showing at the Just Us Girls Charity Tournament today 🏀🩵
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Great turnout of potential collegiate student-athletes! Thank you Coach Heeman for allowing me to present alongside of you!
Great success today at our NCAA Student-Athlete Workshop! Thank you to our special guests and Admin. for their continuous support. Sirajj Ziyad - St. Peters/Montclair - Fball Chris Grillo-Muhlenberg-Baseball Analee Smith Susquehanna-FHockey Liam Anderson-Holy Cross-Fball
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Yesterday we said goodbye to the best man I have ever known. Pa was truly the kindest, most selfless person we all knew. You showed us all that family is everything. Until we meet again Pa, I love you so much, I will miss you forever and I’ll take care of your girls♥️
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Proud of this squad for coming together and getting a big win over a Shore Conference opponent !
That winning feeling 🤩🤩 big win over Colts Neck this morning!!
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Mount Olive, thank you! Thank you for giving me the opportunity for my first teaching position. Thank you for giving me an unbelievable group of coworkers that have become friends. Thank you for giving me the best co-teacher who has become my best friend 💕 I am forever grateful
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Picture Day 📸😬
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Quality over quantity 💜🖤
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Free throws matter 🏀
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Excited to present on Friday about collegiate athletics!!!
NCAA Workshop for all MO Athletes on 3/10/23 in the PAC during TAG. All are invited. BONUS GUESTS: -Chris Grillo (Muhlenberg-Baseball) -Analee Smith (Susquehanna-Field Hockey -Liam Anderson (Holy Cross-Football) -Marcquis Smallwood (Rider-Track)
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Today we remember and honor those who lost their lives in the 9/11 tragedies. We had a moment of silence, observed the flag at half-staff and did different activities including our memorial ribbons that we hung outside of the classroom. We will never forget 🇺🇸 @Dr_Lazzara
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Merry Christmas from your SF State Gators 💚🎅🏼❤️🐊
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Catch me on the road this weekend...I'm hunting for some future Gators 🐊🏀
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Let's gooo! Best Christmas present I could have asked for! nitter.app/ashpowell19/status/942…
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Great showing by the squad today in our first scrimmage. Lots of positives but always room for improvement #UnfinishedBusiness
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Portland, Maine Breakthrough Basketball Camp 🔥🦞
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Championship Sunday here in Columbus! #WFinalFour
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Announcing my newest business endeavor, Kristina Danella Basketball, LLC 🏀 Please reach out if you are interested in individual lessons, group/team trainings and more. Serving the North Jersey area, for athletes of any age and any skill level. Website link in bio 💜
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