The Revere High School basketball teams are set to retire No. 22 to honor alums Casey Nance, Larry Nance and Pete Nance during the season-opening football game at home against Woodridge on Aug. 23.
Phil Heyn of the Revere Athletic Hall of Fame Committee said Revere is inducting nine members into its athletic hall of fame before the game. The nine inductees will be joined by Revere's 2013 state championship boys soccer team that featured standout players Brandon Taylor, Joel Gerberich and Daniel Branch and coach Sandor Jakab.
The nine individual Revere hall of fame honorees are:
former basketball coach Jack Greynolds
athletic contributor Eric Moats (1980 Revere graduate)
Brian Gabel (1983) — football and wrestling
Pat Kirkland (1993) — football and wrestling
Amy (Kloner) Kaplan (1995) — tennis, basketball and track and field
Ben Deighton (2011) — soccer and football
Camryn Brown (2016) — basketball
Caitlin Vari (2016) — basketball
Revere basketball will then retire No. 22 to honor the Nance siblings between the first and second quarters of the football game. Casey Nance graduated from Revere in 2008, Larry Nance graduated from Revere in 2011 and Pete Nance graduated from Revere in 2018. All three players earned All-Suburban League, All-Northeast Ohio Inland District and All-Ohio honors.
Casey Nance totaled 1,037 points, 1,113 rebounds and 281 blocks in her four-year career at Revere and was a McDonald's All-America nominee as a senior. She played basketball at the University of Dayton for four seasons, was an Atlantic 10 All-Rookie Team selection, an Atlantic 10 All-Defensive team selection and a three-time recipient of the Arthur Ashe Scholar Athlete Award. She helped Dayton make three NCAA Tournament appearances and win the program's first A-10 tournament title in 2012.
Larry Nance helped Revere compile a record of 40-6 overall and 28-0 in Suburban League games during his final two seasons and advance to two Division I district finals. He played four seasons at the University of Wyoming and was named to the All-Mountain West first team and the All-Mountain West Defensive Team twice each. As a senior, Nance led the Cowboys to the NCAA Tournament he was named the Mountain West Defensive Player of the Year in 2015.
The Los Angeles Lakers drafted Larry Nance in the 2015 NBA Draft with the 27th pick in the first round. He currently plays for the Atlanta Hawks after stints with the Lakers, Cleveland Cavaliers, Portland Trailblazers and New Orleans Pelicans.
Pete Nance led Revere to its first district championship in boys basketball in 2018 and ended his four-year career with 1,347 points, 983 rebounds and 340 blocks. He was named the Ohio Division II Player of the Year and was afinalist for the Ohio Mr. Basketball Award. He played four seasons at Northwestern and a graduate season at North Carolina, and finished with 1,324 points, 759 rebounds, 238 assists, 138 3-pointers and 122 blocks in 137 games (105 starts). Pete split last season between the Cleveland Cavaliers and the Cleveland Charge.
Michael Beaven can be reached by email at mbeaven@thebeaconjournal.com and is on Twitter at @MBeavenABJ .
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