Pueblo High School coach Roland LaVetter hugs guard Lafayette "Fat" Lever in the 1978 Arizona AAA basketball championship game in Tempe.

 Jose Galvez, Arizona Daily Star 1978

With back-to-back state championships at Pueblo in 1977 and 1978 – including a 28-0 club in ’78 – LaVetter moved to Pueblo in 1981 and coached there until 1989, retiring with more than 200 victories. 

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