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Name: Michele Taddei
Age: 41
Residence: Gallitzin
High School: Bishop Guilfoyle
College: Bucknell and Mount Aloysius College
My favorite sport: Basketball
I usually attend games with: Lynn, Anne, Dom and Shawn Taddei, Randy Ciccarella and Ryan Yoder
Favorite high school: Bishop Guilfoyle
Favorite college team: Notre Dame
Favorite pro team: Steelers
My favorite sports memory: I’d have to say the 1993 state championship for the BG girls basketball team. Thousands of fans are screaming. In a brief moment, I heard my dad’s voice, and I turned and looked directly at him out of all those thousands of people. And for a split second, our eyes met and he gave me a big fist pump.
Local athlete I enjoyed watching growing up: Doc Capriotti
My all-time favorite coach: A tie, Mark Moschella, Dave Adams and Joe Cicero
Most famous athlete I ever met: Johnny Bench
Most prized autograph/photo: Autographs from Larry Bird and James Worthy
Claim to fame as a fan: Chris Elliott and I picking blades of grass out of Notre Dame Stadium and bringing them back and sprinkling them on the Mansion Park turf.
If I were the boss of local sports, the one rule I would like to see enforced would be: Put your team before your self – always!
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