Tom started every game in his 4 years at SU. As a DB, he set SU career records for: interceptions (19), punt returns (88) and punt return yards (626). He was named to the ECAC Weekly Honor Roll in consecutive weeks as a freshman in Oct. 1981. He earned Div. 3 All American honors in 1983 as a key member of the 1983 MAC Championship team. In 1984, he played both offense and defense, and was named to the All-MAC Conference team as a DB in 1984. Tom was also an exceptional baseball player at SU. He was SU’s leading hitter and MVP in 1983, and named to MAC All-Star teams in 1984 and 1985. Tom was a Co-Winner of Blair Heaton Award in 1985, and inducted in SU Sports Hall of Fame in 1996.
Since graduating in 1985, Tom has gone on to a successful career in the field of computers. Tom and his wife have raised four sons, and he has given an enormous amount of his time to coaching 42 youth sports teams in Football, Baseball and Basketball over the past 17 years. Football: Hillsborough Junior Raiders (1998 - 2009); Basketball: Hillsborough Recreation (2002 - 2012); Hillsborough Bulldogs Travel Team (2010 - 2012); Baseball: Hillsborough Little League (1998 - 2005), and Hillsborough Heat AAU Travel Team (2006 - 2015). As Head Coach of many of these youth sports teams, his duties included coordinating and scheduling of games and tournaments. He also built a batting cage in his backyard, which has been used for coaching numerous local players (not just for his sons) for the past ten years. Tom located two abandoned fields and rebuilt them for use by youth sports teams in his community of Hillsborough, NJ. One field also benefits patients at the nearby Carrier Clinic, a Behavioral Health Facility. T
Tom’s family, work and coaching obligations leave him very little spare time. However, he has returned to campus for events involving the 1983 football team in 2003 (25 year reunion) and 2018 (1983 Team of Honor), and also participated in an alumni baseball game in the past.
