Education
Gay attended National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics Westmont College, located in Santa Barbara, California, where he starred on the men’s soccer team from 1966 to 1969.
Gay attended National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics Westmont College, located in Santa Barbara, California, where he starred on the men’s soccer team from 1966 to 1969.
He went on to coach the University of California, Los Angeles men"s soccer team from 1975 to 1979. He holds several school scoring records including most points in a season with 80 (30 goals and 8 assists) in 1968. He is also the career points leader with 203.
Finally, he scored 88 goals in his four seasons at Westmont.
In 1968, Gay was selected as a third team All American. He was inducted into the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics Soccer Hall of Fame in 1977 and the Westmont Hall of Fame in 1995.
In 1975, he played for the Los Angeles Aztecs during the North American Soccer League"s indoor season. In 1971, the United States. Olympic soccer team began qualification games for the 1972 Summer Olympics.
On July 25, 1971, he scored a hat trick in a 3–0 victory over Bermuda.
The United States. qualified for the games and Gay was selected to the United States. roster. The United States. went 0–2–1 in group play and did not make the second round. Gay played the second game, a 3–0 loss to Malaysia when he came on for John Carenza.
In the third game, a 7–0 blow out at the hands of the host West German team, Gay started the game, but came out for Zylker.
In 1975, University of California, Los Angeles hired Gay to coach its men’s soccer team Over the five seasons Gay spent as head coach, he compiled a 72–34–10 record before handing the team over to former assistant Sigi Schmid in 1980.
Gay has continued to coach youth soccer after founding the Arizona Soccer Camp in 1978 with Alan Meeder.
