Tom Ackerman (basketball)

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Tom Ackerman
Personal information
NationalityAmerican
Listed height5 ft 6 in (1.68 m)
Career information
High schoolTriadelphia
(Wheeling, West Virginia)
CollegeWest Liberty (1950–1952, 1954–1956)
NBA draft1952 / Round: 2 / Pick: 19th overall
Selected by the Minneapolis Lakers
PositionGuard
Coaching career1969–1992
Career history
As coach:
1969–1975;
1987–1992		West Liberty
Career highlights and awards
  • 3× First-team All-WVIAC (1952, 1955, 1956)
Career coaching record
College101–200 (.336)

Thomas L. Ackerman is an American former basketball player and coach. He played college basketball as a guard for the West Liberty State Hilltoppers and was a three-time All-West Virginia Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (WVIAC) selection.[1][2] He also played baseball and golf for the Hilltoppers and was the only athlete to be named to the All-WVIAC team in three sports.[1]

Ackerman attended Triadelphia High School in Wheeling, West Virginia.[3] He made his first All-WVIAC basketball team for the Hilltoppers in 1952.[1] He was selected by the Minneapolis Lakers as the 19th overall pick of the 1952 NBA draft but he enlisted into the United States Army for the Korean War.[1] Ackerman returned to West Liberty in 1954 to continue his athletic career and was named to the All-WVIAC basketball teams in 1955 and 1956.[1] Ackerman served as head coach of the Hilltoppers men's basketball team from 1969 to 1975 and 1987 to 1992 and amassed a 101–200 record over eleven seasons.[4]

Ackerman was inducted into the West Liberty Athletics Hall of Fame in 1982.[1]

References[]

  1. ^ a b c d e f "Thomas L. Ackerman (1982)". West Liberty University Athletics. Retrieved June 23, 2020.
  2. ^ "Solomon, Rosen On Tourney Team" (PDF). Charleston Daily Mail. March 7, 1952. p. 9. Retrieved June 23, 2020.
  3. ^ Holbrook, George (March 7, 1952). "No Speed Limit, So West Liberty Sets Sail" (PDF). Charleston Daily Mail. p. 9. Retrieved June 23, 2020.
  4. ^ "2018–19 West Liberty Hilltoppers Media Guide" (PDF). West Liberty University Athletics.
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