The following article was composed in response to an interview conducted on February 17th, 2019.
Bill Mitaritonna is driving northbound on the I-95 corridor after spending the weekend in Washington D.C., attending his daughters’ volleyball tournament — it was the Capitol Hill Classic, one of the largest youth volleyball events in the country. He’s due into Long Island, where he lived and worked as a high school social studies teacher for the last 22 years, but he’s got detour ahead of him. Mitaritonna, a former Division I walk-on for St. John’s University men’s basketball team, will be dropping into Madison Square Garden to support his alma mater as they take on Jay Wright’s Villanova squad.