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Albert “Cappy” Lavin was born in San Francisco, and attended Saint Ignatius College Preparatory where he was named San Francisco’s Basketball Player of the Decade for the 1940s. At USF, he played as a guard and was noted for his skillful ball handling. Lavin played under USF Head Coaches Pete Newell and Phil Woolpert from 1949 to 1953.
After college, he became an educator at Sir Francis Drake High School in San Anselmo, and served as the Director of Curriculum at Drake and worked for the Tamalpais Union High School District for 40 years. Lavin taught at the University of California at Berkeley San Francisco State, and at Dominican University. He authored 19 books and co-founded the Bay Area Writing Project at UC-Berkeley in 1974, due to his love of reading.
He is the father of the former UCLA and Saint John’s Head basketball Coach Steve Lavin, who has was hired as the Head Coach of the University of San Diego. His son stated that what made his father special was his “strength and depth, those are the two things that come to mind. There’s a depth, a gravitas, and then a strong will, an inner strength that distinguishes him (USF Athletics).”
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