Shannon McGarrigle (2008)

Shannon McGarrigle (Class of 1994) made her mark in Ridgewood High Schoolathletics in basketball. A four-year varsity starter, she is Ridgewood High School's all-time leading scorer in basketball, both boys and girls, with 1,967 points. In the BergenCounty girls tournament, McGarrigle is also the all-time leading scorer with 289 points. McGarrigle's top honor came when she was selected to The Record's All-Century Team. She is in the top ten, all-time, for scoring in girls basketball in Bergen County. For three consecutive years (1992, 1993 and 1994), she made first team All-County, first team All- Area North Jersey in the Herald and News and first team All- Suburban in The Ridgewood News. She was named first team All-State in 1994. Team-wise, McGarrigle played on Ridgewood's Group 4 state championship team of the 1990-91 season and the Maroons' Bergen County championship teams of 1992, 1993 and 1994. McGarrigle received a basketball scholarship from Northwestern University. Now the head girls basketball coach at Ramsey High School, McGarrigle was named The Ridgewood News' All-Suburban Girls Basketball Coach of the Year for the 2006-07 season.

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