| # | Name | Pos. | Height | Grade | Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | Zaire Rogers | Wing | 6’7” | Sr. | 2020 |
| 1 | Kristopher Wallace | PG | 5’5” | Soph. | 2022 |
| 2 | Chris Rhone | SG | 6’4” | Jr. | 2021 |
| 3 | Rayvon Allen | PG | 6’0” | Sr. | 2020 |
| 4 | RJ Howell | Wing | 6’5” | Sr. | 2020 |
| 5 | Jacquez Shuler | Center | 6’11” | Sr. | 2020 |
| 10 | Montravis White | PG | 5’8” | Fr. | 2023 |
| 11 | Chase McDuffie | SG | 6’5” | Jr. | 2021 |
| 12 | Taurus Watson | PG | 6’3” | Sr. | 2020 |
| 15 | Latavian Lawrence | Wing | 6’6” | Sr. | 2020 |
| 20 | Tory Kelly | PG | 6’0” | Soph. | 2022 |
| 23 | Tim Barnes | Wing | 6’3” | Jr. | 2021 |
| 30 | Brandon Gardner | Wing | 6’6” | Fr. | 2023 |
Gray Collegiate Academy from West Columbia, SC, is seeking its third consecutive South Carolina High School Class 2A crown and has an infusion talent to make that goal a distinct possibility. Coach Dion Bethea welcomes three talented seniors, led by 6’6” forward Latavian Lawrence, last season’s Augusta (SC) Chronicle South Carolina State Player of the Year as a junior after averaging 15.7 ppg and 8.4 rpg while shooting 35 percent from three point range. Another forward, Zaire Rogers, a 6’6” native of Patterson, NJ, is an excellent rebounder and has plenty of experience as a battling Division1 type player. Taurus Watson comes from White Knoll High School of Lexington, SC, and knows how to run a team. Chase McDuffie (6.2 ppg, 2.3 rpg) is a holdover from last year’s team and a big-time talent who has shown that he is scratching the surface of his potential. Gray Collegiate also has two talented freshman in Brandon Gardner (6’6”) and Montravis White (5’9”) to add to the skills and depth of the returning players.
Gray Collegiate Academy (GCA) is a dual enrollment, public charter high school in West Columbia, South Carolina, that opened in 2014 and educates 550 students in a safe, small, family-centered setting. GCA provides students the opportunity of a challenging and rigorous curriculum with high academic standards, outstanding athletics, and the potential to earn up to two years’ worth of college credit while still in high school.
Students graduate as responsible citizens ready to succeed and contribute in college and beyond. GCA students graduate with a high school diploma and transferable dual enrollment credits up to 60 hours, having been immersed in the culture of college and therefore ready to engage in coursework at higher levels. Gray Collegiate Academy provides its students the necessary coaching and skills development to be successful beyond high school, and helps students develop into leaders through athletics and through service. GCA students obtain educational, personal, and career-awareness skills in small (1:25 teacher student ratios, or lower) classes, and benefit from a multi-ethnic community. GCA is where parents, business partners, administrators, students, and staff work together to create an academic, physical, emotional, social, and safe environment that enables all in the “GCA community” to learn from and to respect one another.
Students are educated through innovative techniques that enhance lifelong learning through technology and varied instructional strategies. The small, rigorous, dual enrollment program is attractive and provides GCA enrollees an alternative to the curricula in other West Columbia schools. GCA's academic design reflects best practices found in increasingly robust research literature on school reform. GCA assists its seniors continue their education by encouraging their pursuit of admission to two- and four-year higher education institutions, and helps student athletes obtain athletic scholarship offers at the next level.
