1983, Morry was succeeded by incumbent vice principal Ralph J. Hoffman. However, the latter was named as the school department's hearing officer, and in 1987, he left the school. Edmund B. "Smiley"Miley served as the principal of Pilgrim after Hoffman, a tenure that would last until 2002. He was derisively nicknamed "Smiley" by students due to his serious demeanor. Post-golden era (early 90s–2014) After years of instability, some teams began to emerge from an era where they lacked championships. The baseball team continued to appear in the playoffs, while the girls' cross country team won their first division title. The football team made two appearances in the division championship in 1992 and 1995. Boys' soccer, boys' swimming, girls' basketball, girls' cross country, girls' indoor track, softball, and wrestling are some of the notable teams that won titles in the 1990s to the early 2000s. The school's second track was installed in 1995 to replace the original cinder track, and was used frequently that it showed decrepit conditions twenty years later. When Miley retired from office, Victor Mercurio (now superintendent of East Greenwich schools) took over duties of overseeing the students of Pilgrim, until he was appointed as the school department's director of secondary education in 2004. Dennis Mullen became the first teacher in the school named principal at Pilgrim, and he won the Outstanding New Principal award by the Rhode Island Association of School Principals. He also earned Principal of the Year in 2010 by the same organization. His tenure ended in 2012 similarly to his predecessor, taking over the job as director of secondary education. Marie Cote (née Johnson) became the school's first female principal, a position she would hold until 2015. One notable lowlight during Pilgrim's post-golden era included a traffic accident during the 2009 school year. In April that year, fifteen-year old sophomore Kimberly Pisaturo was crossing the street while wearing headphones and looking at her phone, when a school bus transporting students to Providence struck her near the school. The driver, Rebecca Toolin, was unaware of the situation until she pulled over. The victim's family requested privacy due to the tragedy, but a YouTube video was uploaded in memory of her. Students' disinterest in metalwork helped convert one room from a shop classroom and storage area to a media studio for audiovisual courses as a result of a $95,600 grant by The Champlin Foundations late in