Moorestown girls basketball walked away from its game against Old Tappan on March 15 with a state championship title, the first in the high-school’s history.
The Moorestown High School girls basketball team made history last month with its first state championship win against Old Tappan by a score of 50-37.
“It would be hard to put into words how the season went,” said head coach Jeb Howley, who’s in his first year with the team. “It couldn’t have gone better. Every season brings new challenges and new ideas, and I look forward to every new season as much as the one before and the one that’s going to come after.
“You never know what you’re going to get, but you know that you’re going to get kids that are going to work hard and that want to be there and who have a great competitive spirit.”
A teacher at Cinnaminson High School, Howley previously coached at both Haddon Township and Shawnee high schools before coming to Moorestown. Winning the state championship title was a moment he’ll never forget, he said, and he couldn’t be prouder of an incredibly hardworking group of girls, a team a mix of both junior varsity and varsity.
“We had an incredible blend of age, ability and experience, and they bonded around each other,” Howley explained. “The joy they took in each other’s presence and being able to work through adversity, seeing the same people every day over and over for 111 days can get difficult for a lot of teams, but this group never got sick of each other.
“They enjoy each other off the court, they love playing together on the court, and in the end, that’s what brings us to a championship,” he added. “Certainly the bond that they have is one of the main reasons, if not the main reason, that we got to where we got to.”
The team’s state championship win wasn’t its only feat this season. It took the first sectional title and state title in Moorestown High history, and won the Olympic Conference Patriot Division title. Senior Analyse Intenzo, the school’s all-time leading scorer, led the team to victory against Old Tappan.
With a total of 1,773 career points – a school record for both boys and girls at Moorestown – Intenzo recently earned First Team All-Conference Honors for the Olympic Conference. Her 246 three-pointers broke a Burlington County record held by Lenape High School alumna Christina Foggie in 2010; she had 242. This year, Intenzo broke the single-season scoring record at Moorestown with 571 points, an average of 17.8 points per game for the 2025-26 season.
“It’s so rewarding, because I’ve put in so much hard work and time that not a lot of people saw,” Intenzo noted, “so I think that my accomplishments show the work that I put in. But I am just very thankful that I’ve been recognized for all the hard work.”
“I think that it shows how strong we are together because we knew what we were capable of, and it didn’t really matter what other people thought about us, because it only mattered what we thought because we knew that we could win,” said Analyse Intenzo of her team’s final winning game of the season.
Earlier this year, Intenzo broke the girls’ high-school record of 1,376 points set in 1998. She also broke the boys’ high-school record of 1,565 points set in 1982. Intenzo holds the record for the most (six) three pointers in a single game, and was named the all-time leading three-point scorer in the county.
But when the team won the state championship on March 15, it almost didn’t feel real, Intenzo acknowledged, “because it’s all she dreamed about, especially in her senior year.”
“It was a sign of relief, like all of our hard work has paid off,” she recalled of her immediate reaction when she heard the final buzzer. “I don’t think anyone really expected Moorestown girls basketball to make it this far.”
The team, Intenzo added, saw a lot of adversity but proved people wrong with its epic win. Its overall record this season was 23-9. That moment of winning the championship with her best friends was nothing short of an amazing feeling for Intenzo.
“I think that it shows how strong we are together,” she commented, “because we knew what we were capable of, and it didn’t really matter what other people thought about us. It only mattered what we thought because we knew that we could win.”
Intenzo started playing basketball in third grade, but her earliest earliest memory of the sport was watching her brother play with his middle-school friends. The best part of being an athlete is meeting people along the way, she explained, but the more challenging part is the sacrifices made.
“A lot of times I would have tournaments and practices or trainings I would have to go to and I would be missing my friend’s birthday party,” Intenzo said, “or all my friends would be down the beach in the summer especially, so I feel like I have definitely sacrificed a lot. But I wouldn’t trade it for the world.”
Intenzo was the youngest member on the varsity team when she started playing her freshman year. Since then, the girls have become close knit, and when coach Howley started last year, that bond grew stronger.
“Before (a) game the starting five huddle up, so I definitely use that time to make sure that everybody is okay and calm for the game,” she noted, “because we know all the work that we’ve prepared for the game we’re about to play.”
Intenzo will attend Fairleigh Dickinson University to play Division 1 basketball. Because the college game moves faster than high school, she’s excited to see the competition.
“Follow your dreams and work hard,” she advised. “Your hard work will pay off and as long as you’re putting in the hard work. It will eventually show. Once you start seeing results in your work, you’ll get more consistent. Consistency is the key. It’s how bad you want it.
“You can do anything as long as you want it enough and you put in the work.”
