University of Connecticut Athletics
2024 Baseball Roster

Paul Tammaro
- Position:
- Infielder
- Height:
- 6-0
- Weight:
- 192
- Class:
- Graduate Student
- Hometown:
- Rivervale, N.J.
- Prev School:
- SUNY Oswego
- High School:
- Clarkstown South
2024 Season;: Second Team ABCA All-Northeast Region. Norman Regional All-Tournament team. Started all 61 games at shortstop for the Huskies. Hit .310 with a team-best 55 runs scored. Second on the team with 72 hits, he had 11 doubles, one triple, four home runs and drove in 37. Added a team-best 31 walks, 26 hit by pitches and .446 on-base percentage. Third on the team with 16 stolen bases. Second on the team with 21 multi-hit games. In the final 55 games of the season just committed two errors at shortstop. Homered on Opening Day vs. Louisville (2/16). Went 2-3 with three stolen bases in a win at No. 23 Auburn (3/2). Walked three times and stole two bases at UCLA (3/12). Registered a four-hit day at Cal Baptist (3/17). Went 2-4 with a home run and four runs batted in vs. LIU (3/20). Had three hits, scored two runs and drove in a pair vs. CCSU (4/1). Hit go-ahead RBI single in the eighth vs. Xavier (4/7). Had a career-day at the plate vs St. John's (4/14) recording four hits and career-high nine RBI that featured a pair of three-run home runs including a walk-off home run to win the series. Went 3-4 with four runs batted in vs. UMass (4/23). Had a four-hit day with three runs batted in at Butler (5/17). Went 6-18 with five runs scored in the NCAA Norman Regional while playing spectacular defense at short. Went 2-5 in Game 1 of NCAA Tallahassee Super Regional at No 8 Florida State (6/7). Grabbed a hit and scored three runs in Game 2 of NCAA Tallahassee Super Regional at No 8 Florida State (6/8).Â
2023 Season: BIG EAST All-Tournament Team. Started the final 10Â games of the season for the Huskies. Overall he played in 36 games and made 24 starts. Hit .389 with 35 hits, 19 runs scored, six doubles, four home runs and 16 runs batted in. Added six stolen bases and committed one error in 91 chances. Had 12 multi-hit games. Went 3-5 with a double, home run and two runs batted in to lead a comeback at Hawaii (3/11). Notched a pair of hits vs. Boston College (3/28). Collected two hits, drove in a run and stole a base vs. UMBC (3/31). Homered and collected three RBIs vs. Georgetown (4/22). Notched a three-hit effort vs. Butler (5/13). Came off the bench and grabbed a pinch hit RBI double at Creighton (5/18). Followed it up with his first career four-hit game at Creighton (5/19) that started a stretch of five-straight multi-hit efforts. In the BIG EAST Championship (5/24-27), went 7-18 (.388) with two home runs, four runs scored, two RBIs and a stolen base. Grabbed a pair of hits vs. Florida A&M (6/3) in the NCAA Gainesville Regional.Â
Transfer from Oswego State University.
2022: ABCA/Rawlings All-America Third Team. d3baseball.com All-America Fourth Team. ABCA/Rawlings All-Region First Team. d3baseball.com All-Region First Team. All-SUNYAC First Team. Played in 46 games, hit .444 with 80 hits, 68 runs scored, 16 doubles, two triples, seven home runs, 26 runs batted in and 27 stolen bases.Â
2021: SUNYAC All-Conference First Team. ABCA All-Region Third Team. d3baseball.com All-Region Third Team. Appeared and started in all 32 of the Lakers games ... Recorded career-highs in; runs (49), hits (49), doubles (9), HR (2), RBI (22), SLG% (.525), BB (20), SB (13) and assists (105) ... Named SUNYAC all-conference ... Led the league in runs ... Second in the league in hits ... Top-ten in the league for stolen bases, batting average and on-base percentage ... Third-team all New York ...
2020: Season cut short due to COVID-19 ... Appeared in all 9 games for the Lakers, started in 8 ... BA% of .409 in 22 AB ... A slugging % of .455 ... Scored 8 runs and had 3 RBI's ... Season cut short due to COVID-19.
2019:Â Appeared in 37 games for the Lakers, started in 36 of those ... Ended the season with 31Â hits and 32 runs which were both good for fifth on the team for the season ... Led the team with HBP with 12 ... In the field he had 89 assists which was second on the team.Â
High School: Attended Clarkstown South High School ... Was a member of the varsity baseball team, lettering twice and captain his senior year ... Was on the 2018 NYS Section 1 AA Championship Team ... Was named Section 1 All-League (2017 & 2018), Section 1 All-Section (2018), All-County (2018), Section 1 Honorable Mention (2017), while earning the 2017 Gold Glove Award ... Honored as 2018 Clarkstown South Most Outstanding Player.