Memorial service for Gondo on Thursday at Thomas & Mack

By Steve Guiremand
Posted Tuesday, Apr. 28, 2009 at 3:22 PM

UNLV announced this afternoon that a memorial service for former Runnin’ Rebel basketball star Glen Gondrezick will be held Thursday at 11 a.m. inside the Thomas & Mack Center.

The public is invited to the service which will be the only public celebration for Gondrezick. Details of a family funeral are still being finalized.

Referred to fondly simply as “Gondo,” the former NBA player and longtime UNLV radio and TV announcer died Monday in Henderson at the age of 53. He had undergone a heart transplant on Sept. 20, 2008.

The graduate of Boulder (Colo.) High School was one of Jerry Tarkanian’s first recruits at UNLV and lettered from 1973-74 through the 1976-77 season. Gondrezick went on to finish as the 16th-leading scorer in UNLV basketball history with 1,311 points and played a major role in the Runnin’ Rebels advancing to their first NCAA Final Four in 1977.

UNLV retired Gondo’s No. 25 jersey on Dec. 27, 1997. He was also inducted in the school’s Hall of Fame in 1987.

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Steve Guiremand is the editor of Rebel Nation, a UNLV all-sports publication owned by Stephens Media that is printed weekly from August through April. He was born in southern California and graduated from the University of Southern California in 1978. He has covered college and professional sports as well as recruiting for over 30 years for several publications including the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, The National Sports Daily, the Long Beach Press-Telegram and the Las Vegas Sun. He moved to Las Vegas in 1998 and has covered UNLV football and basketball as well as the old Las Vegas Stars triple-A baseball team. He’ll blog about UNLV sports and recruiting.

Memorial service for Gondo on Thursday at Thomas & Mack

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