Maureen Shoren played in the Warren Women’s Softball League at the age of thirteen (!!!).  She and her Common Pub teammates went on to capture the Class B State Championship. 

At Mary V. Quirk Junior High School she set the shot put record with a throw of twenty-five feet, ten inches.

In 1985, while starring for the Luther Roofing women, she received a Golden Glove award while playing shortstop; this was ironic, since she normally didn’t play that position.  That same year, as a member of the Sterling Associates team, she was named the Most Valuable Player of the Long Island Championship Tournament.  She went on to play in the Class A World International Tourney for the Providence champions who were coached by Bill Delvecchio and fellow Hall of Famer Beth Penkala.

In basketball at Our Lady of Fatima High School, Maureen was a starting guard during her freshman season.  She was named All Class B Central in 1985 and All Class C in 1986, a year in which she finished her career with more than eight hundred points and served as her team’s leading rebounder and playmaker.  She led the squad to the finals of the Class C Tourney, where the Lady Tigers were edged out by Warren High School in an overtime thriller.  Our Lady of Fatima basketball coach and athletic director Debbie Dalton was quoted as saying, “Right now Maureen Shoren is Fatima Athletics.”

Given her prior accomplishments, it should also come as no surprise that she was the starting center fielder for Fatima’s softball team while only a freshman.

She capped off her high school career by leading her softball team in home runs, runs batted in, and batting average while garnering All State honors as a designated hitter. 

For these honors and much more she received the Marine Corps Distinguished Athlete Award “for displaying courage, poise, and leadership as a high school athlete.”

Pictures from Hall of Fame archives