Gay Elmore

Gay Elmore
College	VMI
Conference	Southern
Sport	Basketball
Position	Small forward
Nationality	American
High school	South Charleston HS
Awards
2× SoCon Player of the Year (1986, 1987) SoCon Tournament MVP (1985) Retired jersey

Gay Elmore is an American lawyer in Charleston, West Virginia who is better known for his collegiate basketball career at Virginia Military Institute between 1983–84 and 1986–87. During his career, Elmore scored a then-school record 2,423 points in 113 games, which at the time of his graduation was also the fourth-highest total in Southern Conference history. As a sophomore in 1984–85 he scored 17 points in the championship game of the Southern Conference Men's Basketball Tournament, but the Keydets lost to Marshall, 70–65. He was named the tournament MVP. In Elmore's final two seasons he was named the conference player of the year, becoming the 10th player to earn the honor at least twice at that point.

After averaging 25.5 points per game during his senior season, the Milwaukee Bucks selected Elmore in the sixth round (133rd overall) of the 1987 NBA Draft, although he never ended up playing in the league. He attended Washington and Lee University School of Law and became a lawyer. Today, he and his wife run Elmore & Elmore, a law firm in Charleston, West Virginia, primarily handling real estate and business law.

His sons, Jon and Ot, play college basketball at Marshall.

References

1. "1987 NBA Draft". basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved October 7, 2011.
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3. "Jersey Retirement Ceremony Set for VMI's Reggie Williams". VMIKeydets.com. Virginia Military Institute. September 1, 2010. Retrieved October 7, 2011.
4. Giardina, Frank (March 19, 2011). "State Tourney Rich in Memories". The Charleston Gazette. Archived from the original on April 6, 2012. Retrieved October 7, 2011. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help); Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
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6. "Jon Elmore bio". Herdzone.com. Marshall Thundering Herd. Retrieved April 5, 2018.