Longtime Jacksonville doctor to be honored during W.W. Gay Bold City Showcase

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – A longtime Jacksonville doc and erstwhile squad doc for The Bolles School for much than 35 years volition beryllium honored for his committedness and work to athletes from the precocious schoolhouse level to the pros.

The tribute volition hap earlier the opening crippled of the 2021 W.W. Gay Contractor Bold City Showcase Friday.

“When idiosyncratic has worked that agelong successful the community, has been that loyal and faithful and that giving of themselves, they should beryllium recognized,” said Matt Morris, The Bolles School diversion director. “We conscionable privation to fto him cognize however overmuch we admit everything helium and everyone astir him person done.”

Dr. Stephen Lucie retired successful 2020, but Bolles did not person an accidental to convey him publically due to the fact that of the pandemic.

“It’s giving backmost to the community,” Lucie said of his vocation successful sports medicine. “I did that for adjacent to 40 years I deliberation that’s a large legacy.

That’s however Dr. Lucie wants to beryllium remembered for his agelong vocation arsenic a physician.

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Morris knows the interaction Lucie has had connected much than conscionable athletes.

“Where would we beryllium without him? We’d person less radical playing precocious schoolhouse oregon assemblage football, we’d person less doctors, we’d person less bully citizens,” Morris said of Lucie’s contributions.

Dr. Lucie treated athletes some astatine the schoolhouse and the Jacksonville Orthopaedic (Correct Spelling) Institute, which helium helped commencement successful the mid-1990s.

“My champion memories were watching athletes get amended and workout and watching maine get amended truthful I could instrumentality to bash what I enjoyed,” helium said.

Lucie rehabbed astatine the installation himself arsenic an avid runner. He has competed successful astatine slightest 10 marathons.

Something Lucie enjoyed was his agelong stint arsenic the Jacksonville Jaguars squad physician.

“I had the privilege of being the squad doc done those bully years,” helium said. “I went to 2 AFC Championship games and successful 2000 I was the squad doc for the Pro Bowl.”

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Dr. Lucie’s tenure besides gave him a accidental to dainty World Series Champion Chipper Jones, who is besides a Bolles School alum. Jones was the fig 1 wide prime successful the 1990 MLB draft.

Lucie met NFL star, Derrick Henry, moving backmost for the Tennessee Titans, and erstwhile wide receiver standout Anquan Boldin.

Whether it was precocious schoolhouse oregon the pros, Dr. Lucie appreciates immoderate jock who trusted him.

“Thank you for allowing maine to instrumentality attraction of you and to assistance you to get you backmost connected the field,” helium said. “Hopefully done athletics, it’ll marque everyone a small spot of a amended person.”

Dr. Lucie is being honored astatine 6:30 p.m. Friday close earlier the kickoff of the archetypal crippled of the Bold City Showcase betwixt The Bolles School and West Nassau.

During retirement, Lucie wants to walk much clip with his grandchildren. Instead of practicing medicine, helium plans to signifier his skills arsenic a aviator and alert planes.

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