Football: Ex-Santa Monica coach Norm Lacy dies

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Norm Lacy, who coached Santa Monica and St. Monica to Southern Section football championships and was serving as the athletic director at Santa Monica, died Saturday in Indio after suffering a heart attack. He was 56.

Lacy was vacationing when he became stricken. He died at John F. Kennedy Memorial Hospital.

Lacy coached St. Monica to a Southern Section championship in 1998 and Santa Monica to a championship in 2001. He gave up coaching after the 2003 and continued as athletic director. He was an offensive lineman for USC in the 1970s.

He was born in Texas, grew up in Pacifica in Northern California but ended up going to USC and stayed in Southern California.

A memorial mass is scheduled for Wednesday at 6:30 p.m. at St. Monica’s church in Santa Monica.

He is survived by his father, Norm Sr., wife Patricia, two daughters, a sister and two brothers.

-- Eric Sondheimer