 As a Boy Scout at Notre Dame Elementary School, he was awarded the Eagle Scout rank and was inducted into the Eagle Scout Hall of Fame.He was a grade school and high school classmate of running back Mike Guman (Bethlehem Catholic '76), who later starred at Penn State, and played 10 years professionally for the Los Angeles Rams.Bethlehem Catholic went 11-0-0 in 1974 with Spagnola as one of the team captains.