Scholar Athletes of the Month: Hackley’s Three-Sport Athletes Excel in Every Season 

River Journal is saluting top high school student-athletes from its coverage area throughout the academic year. The series continues with student athletes from the Hackley School in Tarrytown.  Emma Curran, Senior  Curran competes on the Hackley cross country, swimming and track and field teams. Photo supplied Curran learned to test her limits at an early age. She has been a triathlete since she was seven years old and will be participating in age-group nationals in Germany. She competes on behalf of Hackley in cross country, swimming and track and field.  She said of her three-sport involvement at the Tarrytown school, “They are team-oriented, but at the end of the day, it’s you pushing yourself. It teaches you that you can do hard things. Your mind might be saying you can’t, but you really can.”  Her willingness to pay the price for excellence was on display recently at the Manhattan University Cross Country Invitational at Van Cortlandt Park. She completed the rugged 2.5-mile course