‘Eaters’ Lavery honored

UC Irvine senior golfer Mike Lavery has been named to the 2003

Verizon Academic All-District VIII men’s at-large third team.

Lavery, a psychology and social behavior major, led the Anteaters

to their third straight Big West Conference championship this season

by winning the individual title with a 36-hole score of 6-under par

138 (70-68). He had four top-10 finishes this season and was UCI’s

top performer at the NCAA West Regional Championships with a

32nd-place finish of 221 over three rounds. He ended his senior

season with an average of 72.47 per round.

Lavery has earned first-team All-Big West Conference honors the

past two years. He was UCI’s male Big West Scholar-Athlete of the

Year in 2002-03 and he is a four-time conference scholar-athlete.

The at-large team encompasses the sports of fencing, golf,

gymnastics, hockey, lacrosse, rifle, skiing, swimming, tennis,

volleyball, water polo and wrestling. Nominees must be a starter or

important reserve with legitimate athletic credentials and must have

maintained at least a 3.2 cumulative grade-point average.