Andrew Hague:  

For those of you who did not know me in High School, let me get you caught up. I was fortunate enough to attend Ransom School in Miami, Florida. It was, for the most part, a great experience. I met some wonderful people, and was very involved with the swimming and water polo team from the very begining. I tried out for the football team in 8th grade, but the heat almost killed me. The coach came up to me and asked me if there was anything else that I could do. When I told him that I liked to swim, he sent me up to the pool and the water polo coach. It was love at first stroke! I had a great mentor in John Spire and by the end of the season, I was starting on the varsity team. As center forward, surrounded by such star players like Andy Weinkle, David Salhanick, Bill Potter, Jim Kussel and Stuart Miller in goal, I looked good for the next 5 seasons of my high school career. I was one of the first "two time" All-American Water Polo players from the state of Florida and I had the opportunity to go out to California and play teams out there. The team was very close knit and a terrific group of people lead by Coach "Cav" Cavanaugh who was not only a fantastic coach, but a good friend. Between the 6 am work-outs that had us swimming 6 miles every day from August to April and my jobs at Mercy Hospital drawing blood and assisting in autopsies, there wasn't any time for me to get into any trouble. Upon graduation from Ransom, I attended Tulane University in New Orleans where I received my B.S. in Psychology. My hobbies were skiing and scuba diving. We used to travel all over to dive on wrecks and we explored a great number of the underwater caves in central Florida. I then took a year off and traveled to Rio de Janiero and then up the Amazon River from Belem, Brasil. I then had the opportunity to spend 6 months in the South Pacific visiting Hawaii, Fiji, Australia, New Zealand, and Tahiti. Once I returned, I packed up and headed off for law school back in New Orleans and Tulane University once again. I graduated in 1982, got married 3 months later and returned to Miami and started to work for Janet Reno and the Dade County State Attorney's Office. I worked there for the next 14 years spending 10 years as Chief of Gang Prosecutions while at the same time working as a Major Crimes Prosecutor working mostly Homicide cases. One side case I worked as a favor to Tucker Gibbs was the phone ca...Expand for more