Chet Kammerer Headed To Indiana Hoops Hall Of Fame
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NEW CASTLE – Leesburg native Chet Kammerer has been selected to the 2019 Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame class, which was announced today by the hall of fame.
Kammerer has seen success in basketball from the smallest of Indiana high schools to a member of the front office of multiple NBA World Champion squads.
A 1960 graduate of 120-student Leesburg High School, his record-breaking career took off at Grace College. A 1964 graduate of Grace, he set the school and Indiana intercollegiate career scoring record of 2,504 points, along with 1,070 rebounds, earning NAIA All-American honors.
As the head coach and athletic director at Grace, his teams were 173-88 from 1965-1975. He found further success at Westmont College (CA), where his teams were 359-156 from 1975-1992 and the floor was later be named “Kammerer Court.”
An assistant coach with the Los Angeles Lakers from 1992-1994, his NBA career has included work as a scout for Milwaukee, Miami, Philadelphia and Washington. From 2002-2018, he was Vice President of Player Personnel for the Miami Heat, winners of the 2006, 2012, and 2013 NBA Championships.
He is now Senior Advisor of Basketball Operations for the Heat. He resides in Redondo Beach, California.
Other members of the induction class include Ken Barlow (Cathedral), Orville Bose (Hymera), Bill Butcher (Loogootee), Ed Butler (SB Adams), Sam Chase (Knightstown), Dan Dimich (SB?Washington), Mack Gadis (Pike), Jerry Hoover (Monticello), Willie McCarter (Gary Roosevelt), Wayne Pack (Indianapolis Washington) and Bob Smock (Hebron).
John Grimes (Terre Haute Gertsmeyer) will receive the Indiana Pacers Silver Medal, while Clyde Grater (Lebanon) will receive the Centennial Award posthumously.
