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No. 20 Vol. 12
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December 2024
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Hackettstown’s Will Tagliareni Enjoying Life at Scranton University
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By Steve Sears t is hard to believe that in these pages just two and a half years ago, Hackettstown Tigers’ senior swimmer Will Tagliareni’s record-setting senior year was being trumpeted. Tagliareni said, “It is crazy to say I am a junior in college already. It has been a great time. I seriously have no complaints, and it really is crazy how fast it has gone. But you know what they say, ‘Time flies when you are having fun.” Indeed. After the spring of 2022 when he for head coach Ashlee Weingarten’s Hackettstown Tigers squad set five individual school records - the 500 freestyle (breaking his own school record set as a sophomore), 200 freestyle, 100 freestyle, 100 backstroke, and the 200 IM (Individual Medley) - he crossed the Delaware River three months later and entered the pool for Scranton coaches Chris Brown and Mia Nardone. He has swam in all the Royals meets. Tagliareni spoke of his collegiate experience. “Obviously, college is very demanding. You must really balance your time and everything, especially with
athletics. I feel as though it has met all my expectations as to what to expect, especially schedule wise and performance wise, and I feel as though every year I have been progressively getting better. I am a distance swimmer and everything, and this year I am swimming some of the shorter events a lot more often than I have in the previous years.” Outside of swimming, Tagliareni has been a busy Business Analytics major at Scranton, and he has taken part in other activities at the school. He said, “Academically everything has been great. Believe it or not, I am already thinking about applying for graduate school. There is a lot of change. But at Scranton, I am also involved in what is called the Operations and Analytics Club, where I hold an officer’s position, and then I am also a SAAC member, which is the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee. We work with faculty and athletes to better the environment and see how we can make the athletic plus academic life better for everyone. The 20-year-old Tagliareni is also a mathematics tutor for several courses he has taken as a Scranton student, and he
Will Tagliareni in the pool for the Scranton University Royals (credit: ZJ Morse)
is now selecting his courses for the spring semester. And Scranton is about a 90-minute trek from Hackettstown, which means occasionally Tagliareni has fans – especially his dad, Tom, and his mom, Hackettstown girls’ volleyball coach, Jeanne Tagliareni – on site cheering him on.
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He said, “I think they enjoy watching me get to swim, and again, I have progressed into a better and stronger swimmer, and a stronger person academically. I think they are definitely proud - whether they say it or not - when they come to see me swim and for a visit, to see what is going on in my life.”