Sept. 2, 2011

Bronx, N.Y. - On the week before the tenth anniversary of the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center, Fordham athletics continues to leave an indelible mark on New York City and this time, the nation, as former women's basketball player, Caitlin Chiaramonte found out she will be deployed to Afghanistan next week for a year's deployment. The 2002 Fordham graduate played basketball for three years and went from being a captain for the Rams basketball team, to Captain Chiaramonte, a member of the 82nd Airborne Division of the US Army.

While at Rose Hill, Chiaramonte saw action in 86 games, while starting 34. She logged over 1500 minutes of action and scored 473 points. Highlights of her time at Fordham included a double-double, 14 point, 10 rebound effort against Stony Brook as a senior. Also, in her junior season, Chiaramonte, had a career game against Dayton in the 2002 Atlantic 10 Tournament. The game, which was one of three A-10 tournament victories Fordham ever earned, saw her score 25 points and pull down nine rebounds.

After graduating in 2002 with a degree in history, she played a fifth year in 2003 while obtaining a Master's Degree in International Political Economy. From there, she went downtown and attended Fordham Law School, earning her law degree in 2006 before joining the US Army. Today she is heading to Afghanistan where she will be the Chief of Administrative Law for the southern part of Afghanistan .

She reached out to her alma mater to inform Fordham that she was being deployed next week. Appropriately enough, it was Chiaramonte who said, while still a player at Rose Hill, that her favorite saying was `if you mourn the past and live in the future, the present dies.'