Larry Mialik
Larry Mialik is an American athlete, who played tight end in the National Football League (NFL) from 1972 through 1976. He also sailed as a member of the crew aboard America³, winner of the America's Cup in 1992.
Biography
Mialik was born Lawrence George Mialik on May 15, 1950, in Passaic, New Jersey.[1]
He began playing football in the tenth grade at Clifton High School in Clifton, New Jersey.[2]
Athletic career
Mialik played at the collegiate level at the
Mialik was drafted in the twelfth round of the
Mialik initially took up sailing as a hobby but became interested in the competitive aspect of the sport when he met members of the crew of The Heart of America, a contender for the America's Cup in 1987.[3] He would go on to participate in four America's Cup campaigns, including serving as a member of the winning crew with America³ in 1992. In the victorious 1992 effort, Mialik worked as a "grinder," operating the heavy winches which control the jib and spinnaker, the two forward sails.[3]
Footnotes
- ^ "Larry Mialik Stats". Pro-Football-Reference.com.
- ISBN 9781617495373. Accessed September 29, 2016. "So I really didn't start until I was a sophomore at Clifton High School in Clifton, New Jersey.... I lived in Passaic, where he went to school. I went to Clifton High School, and he went to Passaic High School, and we played each other in his senior year."
- ^ a b Gabriella Mazzucca, "Where Are They Now?" Street & Smith's Pro Football 1994, pp. 70-71.