Ron Kestenbaum
Ron Kestenbaum (born September 16, 1943)
Teams coached: Arkansas-Little Rock Trojans, Brooklyn College Bulldogs
Arkansas-Little Rock record: 85-52 (.620)
Brooklyn College record: 16-39 (.291)
Overall record: 101-91 (.526)
Career Accomplishments:
- NCAA National Championships: 0
- NCAA Tournament Appearances: 0
- NIT Championships: 0
- NIT Appearances: 0
- TAAC Regular Season Champion: 2 (1982, 1983)
Awards:
- TAAC Coach of the Year: 1 (1982)
Coaching Career (head coach, unless noted):
| 1990-1992 | Brooklyn College |
| 1984-1990 | Brooklyn College (asst) |
| 1979-1984 | Arkansas-Little Rock |
| 197?-1979 | Centenary (asst) |
Ron Kestenbaum Facts
- Ron Kestenbaum
- Born September 16, 1943
- Hometown: New York City, New York
- Alma Mater: Hunter College (BA, 1966)
- Born and raised in The Bronx, Kestenbaum played basketball at (now D-III) Hunter College in New York City
- First head coaching job was at Adlai Stevenson HS (NY), where he won two Section II NYC titles and was Coach of the Year in 1974
- Moved up to the college ranks, first as an assistant under Riley Wallace and Tommy Canterbury at formerly D-I Centenary in Shreveport, LA
- Was hired in 1979 to be the head coach at Arkansas-Little Rock and immediately began recruiting players from New York and New Jersey
- Compiled an 85-52 record over five seasons at the helm and won back-to-back TAAC regular season titles in 1982 and 1983
- Went 14-15 in his fifth and final year, then resigned to head back home and take a job at Brooklyn College
- Spent six seasons assisting Mark Reiner at Brooklyn, which was at that time a Division I Independent program
- Took over as the Bulldogs’ head coach in 1990, going 16-39 in two seasons before the program decided to reclassify to D-III
- Kestenbaum became the athletic director at Sheepshead Bay HS (NY) in 1992, working for 12 years before retiring in 2004
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