Lawrence Pete is a former American football

American football

American football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...

 nose tackle. He played five in the NFL for the Detroit Lions

Detroit Lions

The Detroit Lions are a professional American football team based in Detroit, Michigan. They are members of the North Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League , and play their home games at Ford Field in Downtown Detroit.Originally based in Portsmouth, Ohio and...

 who selected him with the 115th pick in the 1989 NFL Draft

1989 NFL Draft

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. He retired after the 1993 season and finished his career with 3.5 sacks, 3 fumble recoveries, and 61 games played with 19 starts.

He attended Wichita South High School

Wichita South High School

Wichita South High School, known locally as South, is a fully accredited high school, serving students in grades 9-12, located in Wichita, Kansas, USA. It is also known as Wichita High School South. The school colors are blue and red and the enrollment for the 2009-2010 school year is 1,657...

.

His nephews Arthur and Bryce Brown

Bryce Brown

Bryce Lee Brown is an American football running back. He attended the University of Tennessee his freshman year, but decided to leave the football program in March 2010...

were amongst the best high school football prospects in the United States. Both are enrolled at Kansas State.

Lawrence Pete played nose tackle for the University of Nebraska from 1986-88.
Lawrence Pete is now assistant vice president and branch manager for Bank of the West in Omaha.
Lawrence Pete was inducted into the Nebraska Football Hall of Fame on September 9, 2011.