Coaches' Bios

Larry Ondako

Head Men's Basketball Coach

ondakolr@westminster.edu

724-946-6342

Larry Ondako enters his ninth season as head coach of the Westminster College men’s basketball team in 2011-12. Ondako’s teams have finished in the top half of the Presidents’ Athletic Conference (PAC) in six of the last eight years. That includes his first year in 2003-04 when the team won its first and only PAC Championship and the 2006-07 team that was the top seed in the PAC tournament but wound up qualifying for the NCAA Division III National Tournament after being upset in its conference tournament.

Ondako’s eight-year career record is 90-123 (.422) but that includes a winning record of 48-46 (.510) in PAC games.

Ondako has been known to improvise and manipulate the tempo of games with a sharp-shooting offense and a full-court trapping defense. This was evident during the stretch run of the team’s PAC championship season in 2004 and the 2004-05 and 2005-06 seasons when the Titans averaged over 102 points and over 17 made 3-pointers per game. In 2007-08, Westminster ranked sixth in the nation in 3-point shooting, making 10.5 per game.

Before taking over the reins of the program, Ondako served as top assistant under former head coach and current Director of Athletics Jim Dafler the previous five seasons.

A 1993 Westminster graduate, Ondako is one of only 34 Titan men’s basketball players to score 1,000 or more points with his 1,019 points from 1989-93. His 152 free throws made in 1993 also remains a school record. He was a two-time NAIA District 18 first-team selection and was named team MVP in 1992-93. Also a former Titan tennis player, Ondako was inducted into the Titan Sports Hall of Fame in 2001.

Ondako earned a master’s degree in elementary education from Duquesne in 1995. Prior to returning to Westminster, he was a teacher and basketball coach at Fairmont (N.C.) Middle School for two years.

Ondako is the second member of his family to coach at Westminster, joining his uncle, Ray Ondako, who coached basketball, baseball and cross country at the College from 1969-74.

Originally from Lower Burrell, Pa., Ondako resides in New Castle with his wife, Bess, who is also a Westminster graduate, daughter, Zoey, and twin boys, Sam and Casey.

Ondako's Year-by-Year Records:

Season	Overall Record	PAC Record	PAC Finish
2010-11	7-19	3-11	6th
2009-10	7-19	3-9	6th
2008-09	10-17	7-5	3rd
2007-08	7-19	5-7	5th
2006-07	18-9 (NCAA)	10-2	3rd
2005-06	11-16	7-5	4th
2004-05	15-11	5-5	t-3rd
2003-04	15-13 (ECAC)	8-2	1st
Totals	90-123 (.422)	48-46 (.510)

NCAA = includes 0-1 record in the NCAA Division III Tournament
ECAC = Includes 0-1 record in the ECAC Division III South Region Tournament

Bob Kerr

Assistant Men's Basketball Coach

kerrrc@westminster.edu

724-946-6163

Bob Kerr enters his seventh season as assistant coach for the Westminster men’s basketball team in 2011-12. Kerr is a former high school basketball coach in the area who is a native of New Castle.

Kerr came to Westminster after serving as head boys basketball coach and assistant athletic director/facilities director at Ellwood City Lincoln High School from 2001-04. Prior to that, he was an assistant boys basketball coach and assistant athletic director/facilities director at New Castle High School from 1994-2001.

A 1994 graduate of Slippery Rock University majoring in sports management with a minor in public relations, Kerr also worked for the NFL’s Los Angeles Raiders from 1991-93.