GARY LAVEY (Athlete, Class of 2003)

Very few Rhode Island high school football players have ever been named All State at three different positions.  In fact Gary Lavey might be the only one who has ever achieved this distinction.

Gary was a member of Warren High School’s championship football teams of 1972, 1973, and 1974.  He was named an All State defensive end by the Coaches Association in 1973, a year when he was also honored as an All American offensive guard.

In 1974 he earned All State recognition as an offensive guard by the Providence Journal and as a linebacker by the Coaches Association and again achieved All American honors.  That year he had the unique distinction of tackling a Scituate runner in the end zone for a safety, something he had also done the previous year versus Ponagansett.

The Portsmouth High School coaching staff scouted every one of Warren High’s 1974 games.  They subsequently said that, when “pulling” from his offensive guard’s position to block the defensive end, Gary never failed to knock his opponent to the ground.  Never!

He has run two or more miles every day (in rain, snow, or gloom of night) for the last six years.