SAMOHI — The late Norm Lacy, Santa Monica High School’s longtime athletic director who passed away last year, was honored before a girls’ basketball game on Saturday.
Head Coach Marty Verdugo presented Lacy’s widow, Patty Lacy, with a ring celebrating last season’s California Interscholastic Federation Southern Section Division 1A title and a jersey bearing the number he wore during his days playing football at USC.
Verdugo said that he decided that the girls’ basketball program’s annual Westside Challenge was the appropriate time.
“Norm really meant so much to all of us at the school,” Verdugo said.