Larry Lunman

Inducted into the Brockville and Area Sports Hall of Fame: June 12, 2015

For more than three decades, Larry demonstrated a high level of devotion to his students, working as the first qualified physical education teacher at St. Mary’s Catholic School.

Larry was more than a coach – he was a hard-working volunteer, organizing sporting events, refereeing, and coaching. His career started in 1963 at St. Mary. During the winter, Lunman organized a school hockey team, and in the spring, the first elementary basketball tournament. He continued to build the school’s sports programs and ran house leagues for football, volleyball, basketball, and 3-pitch softball.

Larry began Biddy Basketball at St. Mary and organized it for 20 years.

In the 1970s and 1980s, he coached St. Mary’s boys’ flag football, track and field, boys’ and girls’ volleyball, senior boys’ and girls’ basketball, as well as his junior boys’ basketball team in competitive inter-school events.

He officiated local high school basketball games before retiring in 1995. He is also an avid sports historian.