La Salle Academy (Rhode Island)

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• Main Building – The largest and oldest academic building on campus, dedicated in 1925 when the Academy moved from its location in downtown Providence to the current location in the Elmhurst neighborhood. It houses most of the classroom facilities as well as the library, computer labs, administrative offices, and the college counseling center. The first floor of one wing is devoted to the De La Salle Middle School (6,7,8).
• Brothers' Chapel – The campus chapel in which daily mass is celebrated.
• Routhier Hall – Home to Office of the President and the Institutional Advancement Office.
• McLaughlin Athletic Center – Includes a field house with three multi-use courts, men's and women's locker rooms, weightlifting facilities, a dance studio, and classrooms. (completed in 2000)
• Brother Michael McKenery Arts Center – Includes a state-of-the-art theatre, as well as studio and rehearsal space for the fine and performing arts. It also has a photography lab, television studio, and video editing facilities. (completed in 2000)
• Shea Science and Student Center – Connected to the main building by a two-story footbridge, it houses all of the laboratory classrooms for the sciences, a dining hall, school store, and campus ministry office. (completed in 2004)
• Cimini Stadium – Home to the men's and women's soccer and lacrosse teams as well as the men's football team.
• Cronin Field – Home to the men's baseball team.
• Other athletic facilities include the softball field, practice fields for football and lacrosse, and six tennis courts. The golf team's home course is Alpine Country Club in Cranston, Rhode Island. The cross country home course is currently at Colt State Park in Bristol, Rhode Island. The fields were fully completed in fall of the 2011–2012 school year.

La Salle's 64 teams in 18 sports are referred to as the Rams for men's sports, and the Lady Rams for women's sports. Nearly all teams compete in Division I of the Rhode Island Interscholastic League (RIIL). La Salle Academy was noted in May 2005 by Sports Illustrated magazine for having the best athletic program in Rhode Island.{{cite news|title=Best Sports High Schools by State|url=http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2005/magazine/05/11/top.high.map0516/1.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050513220551/http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2005/magazine/05/11/top.high.map0516/1.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=May 13, 2005|publisher=Sports Illustrated|access-date=2005-05-16}}

The La Salle Rams Football team has been successful winning the State Championship In 2008 and most recently in 2017. The men's soccer team won six consecutive state championship titles from 2000 to 2005, and the women's soccer team won five consecutive titles from 2001 to 2005. In addition, the gymnastics team has secured ten consecutive state titles (2003–2012), with New England Championship titles in 2003 and 2009.{{citation needed|date=December 2017}}

The men's lacrosse team won 8 consecutive state championships from 2012 to 2019.{{citation needed|date=June 2020}}

The men's cross country and track teams have been the most successful of all sports at La Salle with 35 cross country state titles, 25 indoor state titles and 19 outdoor track state titles. Since 2013, the men's cross country team has won three consecutive New England Championship titles, and 5 from 2013 to 2019.{{cite web|title=New England Team Champion by Year|url=https://me.milesplit.com/articles/226719/new-england-cross-country-championships-boys-team-history|publisher=Milesplit|access-date=2022-08-22}} The team has also won prestigious races including Manhattan College Invitational, Great American, and NXR Northeast twice. This has led to two berths to compete at the 2014 Nike Cross Nationals as well as the 2019 events in Beaverton, Oregon. They finished 18th and 6th, respectively. The women's team has had equal success, winning eight states cross country titles and going to Nike Cross Nationals in 2009, 2015 (9th), and 2016 (18th). The women's track teams won the 4x1 mile relay at New Balance Nationals in 2015 indoors, 2015 outdoors, 2016 indoors, and were runner up in 2016 outdoors.{{citation needed|date=December 2017}}

La Salle's sports rivals are other Rhode Island independent, Roman Catholic schools including Bishop Hendricken High School, Mount Saint Charles Academy, and St. Mary Academy - Bay View. East Providence High School is La Salle's traditional opponent in a Thanksgiving Day football rivalry that dates back to 1929.{{cite web|title=List of Rivalries Each Current RIIL Football Team Has Had Through The Years|url=http://www.rihssports.com/Thanksgiving%20Football/Lists%20of%20Games/Football%20Teams'%20Rivals%20Through%20The%20Years.htm|publisher=RI High School Sports|access-date=2008-12-21}}

Notable La Salle Academy alumni include:

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• Gianni Paolo – actor most known for portraying Brayden Weston on the hit crime drama Power, and Power Book II: Ghost; Also known for MA, The Fosters, The Mick and Chance (TV series){{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm6599998/|title=Gianni Paolo| publisher=IMDb}}
• Nicolas Colaluca – professional soccer player, played for New England Revolution and the Atlanta Silverbacks{{cite web|url= http://www.lasalle-academy.org/podium/default.aspx?t=114162&tn=More+News&exp=L$c1i0$cb267287&y=2009|title= Alumni News|publisher = LaSalle Academy|access-date= April 21, 2014}}
• John F. Collins – Mayor of Providence 1939–1941{{cite news|title=Ex-Mayor Collins, 90, Dies, Served in 30s|publisher=The Providence Journal|date=6 October 1962|pages=1, 42|quote=[Collins] was graduated from LaSalle Academy}}
• Kevin C. Conroy – award-winning media and technology innovator, board member, advisor, and entrepreneur
• Herbert F. DeSimone – Attorney General of Rhode Island and Assistant Secretary of Transportation{{cite web|url= http://www.maceroni.com/obituaries/Herbert-Desimone/#!/Obituary|title= Obituary for Herbert F. DeSimone|publisher = Maceroni Funeral Home|access-date= April 25, 2014}}
• John M. Devine – Major General, U.S. Army; Commanded 8th Armored Division during World War II.{{cite book|last=Jones|first=Charles V.|title=Current biography yearbook 1948 - Who's News and Why|publisher=H.W. Wilson|location=New York City|year=1948|pages=8|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DpsYAAAAIAAJ&q=Major+general+John+M.+Devine|access-date=December 8, 2017}}
• Tad Devine – Democratic political consultant; President of Devine Mulvey, a Washington D.C.-based media consulting firm; senior advisor for Al Gore's 2000 presidential campaign and John Kerry's 2004 presidential campaign{{cite news | title=Clinton Facing Narrower Path to Nomination| url= https://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/20/us/politics/20memo.html | access-date=2010-09-27 | work=The New York Times | first=Adam | last=Nagourney | date=2008-03-20}}
• Mike Donilon – lawyer and political campaign consultant, counselor to Vice President Joe Biden{{cite web|url= https://www.lasalle-academy.org/page/news-detail?pk=579838|title= Washington Post Does Lengthy Profile on La Salle Alum Tom Donilon '73|date= 22 December 2010|publisher = LaSalle Academy|access-date= February 18, 2019}}
• Thomas E. Donilon – National Security Advisor to President Barack Obama{{cite web|url= http://www.lasalle-academy.org/podium/default.aspx?t=204&tn=La+Salle+Graduate+Named+National+Security+Advisor&nid=567111&ptid=2218&sdb=False&pf=pgt&mode=0&vcm=False|title=La Salle Graduate Named National Security Advisor|date=8 October 2010 |publisher = LaSalle Academy|access-date= April 21, 2014}}
• Liam Coen – NFL Head Coach of the Jacksonville Jaguars.
• John E. Fogarty – U.S. Representative (1941–1967){{cite web|url= http://www.fogartyfoundation.org/history|title= History

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• Joseph H. Gainer, 1896 – Mayor of Providence 1913—1927.{{cite journal|last1=Conley|first1=Patrick T.|title=Rhode Island Hall of Fame Honorees: Six Legal Luminaries|journal=Rhode Island Bar Journal|issue=May/June 2015|volume=63|pages=27–30|url=https://www.ribar.com/UserFiles/File/May—June_2015%20Jrnl.pdf|access-date=17 January 2016|publisher=Rhode Island Bar Association|issn=1079-9230}}
• J. Joseph Garrahy – 69th Governor of Rhode Island (1977–1985){{cite web|url= http://www.lasalle-academy.org/podium/default.aspx?t=204&id=628941|title= Governor Joseph Garrahy '48 Dies|date= 26 January 2012|publisher = La Salle Academy|access-date= April 21, 2014}}
• Al Gomes – award-winning American music producer, music industry strategist, and songwriter
• Lou Gorman – American baseball executive, and the former general manager of the Boston Red Sox and Seattle Mariners of Major League Baseball
• Matt Hansen – professional football player, played for Atlanta Falcons
• Joe Hassett – Providence College basketball and NBA player. Championship with Seattle SuperSonics
• Felix Hebert – U.S. Senator (1929–1935)
• Raymond A. Hull, Class of 1981, Rhode Island State representative{{cite web |title=Representative Raymond A. Hull |url=https://www.rilegislature.gov/representatives/Hull/Pages/Biography.aspx |website=Rhode Island General Assembly |publisher=State of Rhode Island |access-date=12 April 2025}}
• Lou Lamoriello – New Jersey Devils' long time GM (won 3 Stanley cups)
• Davey Lopes – professional baseball player, Los Angeles Dodgers, Oakland Athletics, Chicago Cubs, Houston Astros; first base coach for the Los Angeles Dodgers{{cite web|title=The Baseball Cube |url=http://www.thebaseballcube.com/managers/davey-lopes.shtml |access-date=2008-07-29 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080726142153/http://www.thebaseballcube.com/managers/Davey-Lopes.shtml |archive-date=July 26, 2008 }}
• Matty Maggiacomo – fitness instructor with Peloton{{cite web|author=Jared Fessler |url=https://www.broadwayworld.com/minneapolis/article/Interview-Matty-Maggiacomo-of-the-Andrew-Lloyd-Webber-Peloton-Class-20220719 |title=Interview: Matty Maggiacomo of the Andrew Lloyd Webber Peloton Class – broadwayworld.com |publisher=broadwayworld.com |date=July 19, 2022 |access-date=December 22, 2022}}
• Salvatore Ronald Matano – Roman Catholic bishop, currently serving as 9th Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Rochester
• Nicholas Mattiello – 223rd Speaker of the Rhode Island House of Representatives (2014—2021)
• J. Howard McGrath – 60th Governor of Rhode Island (1941–1945), U.S. Senator (1947–1949), U.S. Attorney General under President Harry S. Truman (1949–1952)
• McKenzie Meehan, NWSL player, North Carolina Courage
• Jo-Jo Morrissey, MLB player (Cincinnati Reds, Chicago White Sox)
• Edwin O'Connor – author, Pulitzer Prize winner for The Edge of Sadness (1961)
• Gina Raimondo – 40th United States Secretary of Commerce (2021 - ), 75th Governor of Rhode Island (2015—2021), General Treasurer of Rhode Island (2011–2015)
• Jack Reed – U.S. Senator (1997–), U.S. Representative (1991–1997){{cite web|url=https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/r000122|title=Jack Reed|publisher=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress|access-date=February 16, 2025}}
• Kyle Regnault – baseball player{{cite web|author=John Gillooly |url=http://www.providencejournal.com/sports/20170918/at-schools-perseverance-paying-off-for-kyle-regnault |title=At The Schools: Perseverance paying off for Kyle Regnault – Sports – providencejournal.com – Providence, RI |publisher=providencejournal.com |date=September 18, 2017 |access-date=November 19, 2018}}
• Dennis J. Roberts, 1923 – 29th Mayor of Providence and 63rd Governor of Rhode Island{{cite web|title=La Salle Academy Hall of Fame|url=http://www.lasalle-academy.org/Page/Welcome/Hall—of—Fame|website=La Salle Academy|publisher=La Salle Academy|access-date=21 January 2016}}
• Robert Tiernan – U.S. Representative (1967–1975){{cite web|url= http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=T000265|title=TIERNAN, Robert Owens, (1929 — )|publisher = Biographical Directory of the United States Congress |access-date= April 21, 2014}}
• Pat Toomey – U.S Senator from Pennsylvania (2011–2022), U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania (1999–2005){{cite web|url=https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/T000461|title=Patrick Joseph Toomey|publisher=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress|access-date=February 16, 2025}}
• Felix A. Toupin – Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island and Mayor of Woonsocket{{cite web|title=Felix A. Toupin Papers|url=http://www.rihs.org/mssinv/Mss1104.htm|website=Rhode Island Historical Society|publisher=Rhode Island Historical Society|access-date=18 January 2016}}

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