Moorestown Friends School Athletic Director Inducted Into Camden County Sports Hall Of Fame

Moorestown, NJ -- Moorestown Friends School Athletic Director Danielle Dayton was inducted into the Camden County Sports Hall of Fame Thursday night, the school announced.

Dayton played three sports at Collingswood High School. She was the MVP for the field hockey team for two years, as well as basketball and lacrosse.

An All-State hockey player, she was the Field Hockey Club of South Jersey’s High School Defensive Player of the Year, the Inquirer’s Field Hockey Player of the Year, and twice an All-South Jersey first team selection. In lacrosse, she was an honorable mention All-American, All-South Jersey first team player, and scored 100 points her senior year (173 total goals). She also lettered in basketball.

Dayton received the Howard T. Irvine Memorial Award, the Beatrice Markwick Memorial Scholarship Award, and was the first female recipient of the John Sohanchak Memorial Award. She extended her career at Ohio State University, where she earned a master’s degree in physical education and a bachelor of science in education.

While an undergraduate at Ohio State, she was a four-year varsity letter winner and three-time regional All-American. Dayton currently ranks as the third-leading career goal scorer (53) and fourth-leading points scorer (110) at Ohio State.

She was named Athletic Director at Moorestown Friends School in 2006, and is also the field hockey team’s head coach.

In 2007, Dayton led the Foxes to the school’s first Friends Schools League field hockey championship since 1985. The team also appeared in the FSL final in 2010-11. Her team hosts an FSL semifinal over the weekend against Shipley.

Before coming to Moorestown Friends, she served as a health/physical education teacher and coach at Collingswood High School and as Assistant Athletic Director at Columbus School for Girls in Columbus, OH, where she had previously been a health/PE teacher.

She also taught PE and coached at the Hockaday School in Dallas, Texas. She was an assistant field hockey and lacrosse coach at Ohio Wesleyan University and served as a student assistant coach at Ohio State.

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