Lifetime Legacy Award

Gary and Cindi Gray are the 2025 recipients of the prestigious Lenawee Lifetime Legacy Award. The Grays have big hearts for our community and for others, especially children. Nearly 35 years ago, they created Hot Rock Basketball Training Camp to teach basketball and life lessons all with no charge to attend this camp. Gary has been an assistant varsity basketball coach and Lenawee Christian School Board member. He is CEO of Gray Institute and Director of Program Development and Education at 3DPT Physical Therapy. He is world-renowned in the fields of physical therapy, functional movement, and sport training.

Cindi volunteered and taught at the Adrian Training School for 20 years. She has shared her skill of sign language in churches, schools, as well as at Gray Institute. She has served on the Crisis Pregnancy Board and volunteered at HOPE Community Center. Cindi has also written a historical fiction book, Locust in the Sandbox, about the 1963 bombing of a Black church in Birmingham, Alabama, that killed four girls.

The Grays are kind and considerate, genuine and authentic, quietly living their values through actions that serve others. They have big hearts for our community and for others, especially children. They embody all that the Lenawee Lifetime Legacy Award represents through their lifetime of giving to multiple local causes for more than 40 years.

The Lenawee Leave a Legacy Lifetime Legacy Award recognizes individuals, couples, and families who have given exemplary service and commitment to the Lenawee County Community.  The award honors consistent, lifetime giving to multiple local causes for a minimum of twenty years.

The exquisite 32% lead crystal Lifetime Legacy Award includes a base representing community support, an obelisk rising to meet higher goals, and a seed from which all good deeds begin. The dedication cuts represent increasing philanthropic interests, while the uniqueness of each crystal sculpture signifies the individuality of each philanthropist’s gifts and commitment to our community.