Colorado State University Athletics
Colorado State Athletics Hall of Fame
Kinard , Hal
Hal Kinard
- Induction:
- 1993
- Class:
- 1956
Men’s Basketball (1951 to 1955)
Hal Kinard lettered in basketball all four years he attended Colorado A&M College and is regarded as one of the finest basketball players in the Aggie days of CSU. Kinard helped lead coach Bill Strannigan’s 1954 team to the school’s first conference championship in basketball and first appearance in the NCAA tournament. In his senior season of 1954-55 he was selected first team all-conference and ended his career with the second most points in school history to that date.
Following graduation in 1956, Kinard spent two years in the Army and then spent 40 years in the Poudre School district as a teacher, coach and vice principal. In 2006, the school district’s newest junior high School was named in his honor and is now known as Kinard Core Knowledge Middle School.
Other Accomplishments:
Hal Kinard lettered in basketball all four years he attended Colorado A&M College and is regarded as one of the finest basketball players in the Aggie days of CSU. Kinard helped lead coach Bill Strannigan’s 1954 team to the school’s first conference championship in basketball and first appearance in the NCAA tournament. In his senior season of 1954-55 he was selected first team all-conference and ended his career with the second most points in school history to that date.
Following graduation in 1956, Kinard spent two years in the Army and then spent 40 years in the Poudre School district as a teacher, coach and vice principal. In 2006, the school district’s newest junior high School was named in his honor and is now known as Kinard Core Knowledge Middle School.
Other Accomplishments:
- Ranks 5th in career Field Goal Attempts at 1,137
- Coached CSU Freshman team after Army career
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