Ouachita Athletics Hall of Fame
Try these credentials on for size: three trips to the NAIA National Basketball Tournament, a four-year letterman in basketball and tennis, a member of the Tiger Basketball 1,000-point club, member of six AIC Championship teams, a first-team All-Tournament selection at the 1965 NAIA National Tournament, and an undefeated record for four straight years in tennis in singles and doubles. Not bad if you’re talking about two people, but unbelievable when you’re talking about one person–in this case, David Kossover.
Kossover was a teammate of a member of the inaugural Ouachita Athletics Hall of Fame class in Leon Clements and helped lead the Tigers to two AIC titles in 1963 and 1964 in basketball and then joined his brother Jerry on the Tiger tennis team for four straight AIC doubles titles. David Kossover won the AIC singles title all four years as well by defeating his brother and doubles partner in the final each season. Oh yeah, did we mention that he also played baseball as a freshman, started at shortstop, batted .363 and was 1-0 as a pitcher? On the basketball court, Kossover led the team in assists, steals and free throw shooting and finished his career with 1,042 points and holds the fourth-highest single-season point total in Tiger history with 641 points in 1964-65.
