Larry Kentera
| Biographical details | |
|---|---|
| Born | April 17, 1924 |
| Playing career | |
| 1947–1949 | Arizona State |
| Position(s) | Center, linebacker |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| 1951–1958 | Palo Verde |
| 1969–1965 | Stockton / San Joaquin Delta |
| 1966–1970 | Arizona State (assistant) |
| 1971–1978 | Arizona State (DC) |
| 1984 | Northern Arizona (assistant) |
| 1985–1989 | Northern Arizona |
| 1991 | Winnipeg Blue Bombers (LB) |
| 1992 | Arkansas Miners (assistant) |
| 1994 | Kiel Baltic Hurricanes |
| 1996 | Kiel Baltic Hurricanes |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 26–29 (college) 73–58–4 (junior college) |
| Bowls | 0–2 (junior college) |
| Accomplishments and honors | |
| Championships | |
| 3 SoCentral (1951–1952, 1955) 1 Big Eight (CA) (1959) | |
Lawrence "Lazo" Kentera (born April 17, 1924) is a former American football coach and player. He served as the head football coach at Northern Arizona University from 1985 to 1989, compiling a record of 26–29. He spent many years as a defensive assistant at his alma mater, Arizona State University, under head coach Frank Kush. Kentera was also the head football coach at two junior colleges, Palo Verde College in Blythe, California from 1951 to 1958 and San Joaquin Delta College—known as Stockton College until 1963—in Stockton, California from 1959 to 1965.
Kentera was the linebackers coach for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers in the Canadian Football League (CFL) in 1991, working under head coach Darryl Rogers. In 1992, he followed Rogers to serve as an assistant coach for the Arkansas Miners of the short-lived Professional Spring Football League (PSFL). In 1994 and 1996, Kentera was the head coach of the Kiel Baltic Hurricanes in the German Football League, and from 2005 he was working in football in Serbia, the country in which he was born.
Assistant coaches on Kentera's staffs at Northern Arizona included four future National Football League (NFL) head coaches: Bill Callahan, Brad Childress, Marty Mornhinweg, and Andy Reid.