Hall of Fame
Carla Tagliente is one of the best field hockey players to ever play in New York State and one of the most successful athletes in Marathon High School (Section IV) history. In field hockey, she is 4th all-time in goals scored in a career (159) and 8th all-time in goals scored in a season (51) while leading Marathon to three NYSPHSAA State Championships from 1994-96. She played five years on the varsity team from 1992-96 setting school records that still exist today including most career points and goals in addition to most assists in a season. In basketball, Carla is the second all-time leading scorer at Marathon with 1,692 career points and led her teams to five Section Championship appearances and a Sectional title. In track, she was a First Team Section All-Star and currently holds the Marathon High School record in the triple jump. As a senior in high school, Tagliente was touted as the top field hockey recruit in the state before committing to the University of Maryland. While at Maryland she played for the US National Team and following college, she pursued a coaching career that took her to Iowa, Massachusetts, Michigan and Northwestern, where she was an assistant under NYSPHSAA Hall of Famer Tracy Fuchs. She returned to UMass for a head coaching job for five years before landing at Princeton in 2016, leading her teams to two NCAA National Championship games and earning numerous conference and region coach of the year honors. A graduate of Marathon High School, Tagliente earned her bachelor’s degree from Maryland and her master’s degree from Michigan.