- Will Flaherty is in his fourth full season as the director of player development and community relations and his fifth season overall with the Nittany Lions.
- Flaherty’s primary responsibilities include assisting in all aspects of on-campus recruiting, planning all appearances and speaking requests for the student-athletes, coordinating the team’s extensive community outreach initiatives, creating professional development programs for the student-athletes and overseeing the transition/application process to Penn State.
- Prior to moving into his current role, Flaherty was an assistant recruiting coordinator for the Nittany Lions beginning in August 2016.
- As an assistant recruiting coordinator, he assisted with on-campus prospect visits, maintained statistics and information on prospective student-athletes and assisted in the planning of the coaches’ off-campus recruiting visit schedule.
- Prior to coming to Penn State, Flaherty spent three seasons as the defensive line coach, recruiting coordinator and co-academic coordinator at Iowa Western Community College.
- Flaherty also spent five seasons as co-defensive coordinator and running backs coach at Our Lady of Good Counsel High School in Olney, Maryland. During that time span, he helped 34 student-athletes earn full scholarships and had eight players participate in the Army or Under Armour All-American games.
- Flaherty gained familiarity with James Franklin and members of the Penn State coaching staff when he spent nearly three years at the University of Maryland as an offensive/special teams intern.
- He graduated from Maryland with his degree in kinesiology in May 2013.
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