Colin Laughrey

Height:
5-7
Class:
Freshman
Hometown:
Naples, Fla.
High School:
Barron Collier

BEFORE AIR FORCE: Lettered all four years in golf … team captain as a junior and senior … team MVP three times … team top scorer twice … all-area honorable mention as a junior and senior … earned the team’s newcomer of the year as a freshman … lettered three years in lacrosse … led the team in scoring as a junior and senior … team captain as a senior … all-area second team twice … member of National Honor Society … graduated with a 5.4 weighted GPA and was in the top eight percent of his class … earned an academic letter all four years.

PERSONAL: Member of cadet squadron 34 … major is undeclared … son of Melissa and Ian Laughrey … has two younger brothers … hobbies are flying, snow skiing, weight lifting and lacrosse … greatest individual moment in sports was scoring the go-ahead goal with two minutes left to beat rival Naples H.S. as a senior … plans to attend pilot training after graduation … earned his private pilot’s license at the age of 17 … is the fourth generation in his family to earn pilot’s license … father was 1998 graduate and played baseball … mother was a 1997 graduate who competed in gymnastics two years and lacrosse two years … maternal great grandfather was a major general in the Army, serving in World War II, Korea and Vietnam … paternal great grandfather served in the U.S. Army Air Corps in World War II … maternal grandfather was a colonel in the Army, a 1969 West Point graduate and served in Vietnam … paternal grandfather was a captain in the Air Force … father is a Lt. Col. in the Air Force, serving as a pilot during Operation Southern Watch and Operation Enduring Freedom … mother is a major in the Air Force Reserves.