Wake Forest Sports Hall of Fame
- Induction:
- 2008
A four-year letterman at quarterback from 1992-95, LaRue set school and ACC records that still stand, including single-game marks for total offense, plays, pass attempts, pass completions and passing yards. He finished his football career with 5,016 career passing yards, the fifth-highest total in school history at the time.
On the basketball court, LaRue was a member of Wake Forest's back-to-back ACC championship teams in 1995 and 1996 and played in four NCAA Tournaments. He scored 667 career points and made 151 career 3-point field goals.
In 1995, LaRue pitched in one game for the baseball team, earning a save with three innings of two-hit relief in a win over Furman.
Academically, LaRue earned Academic All-ACC honors, received the ACC Scholarship Award and an NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship and was named Wake Forest's Male Scholar-Athlete of the Year in 1996. He was also a member of the College Football Association's Scholar-Athlete Team in 1995 and was selected as the Arnold Palmer Award winner as a senior.
LaRue went on to play professional basketball, winning an NBA championship ring with the 1998 Chicago Bulls. He also played for the Utah Jazz and Golden State Warriors and with teams in Russia and Italy.
LaRue got into coaching after his playing days ended. He served as head basketball coach at Greensboro College in 2004-05 and as football and basketball coach at Forsyth Country Day School in Winston-Salem thereafter.
He joined the Wake Forest basketball coaching staff in 2009.
LaRue was inducted into the Wake Forest Sports Hall of Fame on Jan. 19, 2008.
