Winner of the Wade Trophy in 1987, she went on to play premier league basketball in Japan before retiring to a monastic life.

[1][7][8][9] Source[10] After graduating from Villanova, Pennefather played three seasons of professional basketball for the Nippon Express in Japan.

[1][11] On June 8, 1991, Pennefather retired to a monastic life with the Poor Clares order at their monastery in Alexandria, Virginia.

[12][11] On June 6, 1997, six years after entering the monastery as a novice, Pennefather, now known as Sister Rose Marie, took her final vows as a nun.

[1] On June 9, 2019, Pennefather had her first physical contact with family and friends since becoming a nun; her next opportunity to do so will not happen for another 25 years, per the rule of her religious order.