Indiana University of Pennsylvania Athletics

Tom Kerstetter averaged 14.4 points and 8.6 rebounds per game for the IUP men's basketball team from 1969-72 to play his way into the Athletic Hall of Fame.
Kerstetter scored 1,098 points and pulled down 653 rebounds in his three-year career in an era in which freshmen were ineligible. He ranks 16th in school history in career points and sixth in rebounds. His per game rebounding average places him eighth.
He and teammate Lee McCullough, a 2002 Hall of Fame inductee, were a rebounding force in the early 1970s. After McCullough graduated in 1971, Kerstetter led the team with a career-high 11.9 rebounds per game the following season. That mark is the seventh best single season average in school history.
With Kerstetter under the boards. IUP hauled in 60 rebounds in four different games. The Indians tallied over 60 rebounds twice in a four-day span in February 1971.
Known as a sharpshooter. Kerstetter shot 47 percent from the field while draining 437 field goals. Only 11 Indians have made more buckets.
On January 20, 1971 against Shippensburg. Kerstetter made 12 of his 13 field goal attempts for an amazing percentage of 92.3 which is tied for the third best single game mark in school history. He once scored 23 points and pulled down 13 rebounds in one half of a game.
Playing under coaches Herm Sledzik and Carl Davis. Kerstetter helped lead the Indians to a record of 60- 17 during his career.
He earned three letters and was a PSAC West all-star in 1972. That same year, he was chosen to the all-district first team in addition to being an NAIA District 18 second team election.
After graduation, Kerstetter was drafted by the Allentown Jets of the Eastern Professional Basketball League, a farm club of the New York Knicks.
A graduate of the Harvard Business School Advanced Management Program, Kerstetter is the president of Board Member Inc., a publishing database and conference company serving corporate boards of public companies around the world.
Kerstetter received the IUP Distinguished Alumni Award in 1998.
Kerstetter and his wife Sherri are the parents of two daughters, Kerie and Kyla.