[2][3][4] Lewis was an All-America selection at Brandeis University and captain of the 1976 NCAA Division III Men's Soccer Championship winning team.
[1] In January 1978 he was selected by the Soccer Bowl '77 champion, Cosmos in the first round of the NASL's 1978 college draft, but never played for them.
After a brief stay in the preseason camp of the Houston Hurricane in 1980, Lewis decided to retire from professional soccer.
[7] In 1993 he was inducted into the Brandeis University Athletics Hall of Fame as an inaugural member.
He was named after his mother's Tuskegee University track and field coach, Cleveland Abbott.