Adam Kaiser was a long-range shooter for the Penn State Behrend men’s basketball team from 2006-2010. He helped the Lions to an AMCC Championship, an ECAC Championship and a NCAA Tournament appearance. Kaiser led the team in scoring and three-pointers made in his junior year, earning First Team All-Conference honors.
A trademark is the foundation on which a certain behavior builds its reputation or value.
Three-point shooting was Kaiser’s trademark. This trademark is synonymous to the success of the Behrend men’s basketball program.
The year the Lions won the AMCC Championship is the year he was selected to the All-AMCC First Team, leading the conference in three-pointers, with 88. Kaiser averaged 3.26 triples per game, draining crucial shots in the 57-54 win over Lake Erie in the title game on March 1, 2008. He went from averaging 8.4 points per game to 13.6 and shot 41 percent from three-point range.
Kaiser scored 843 points from behind the arc and hit the pinnacle 1,000 career points in the final game of his career. The senior drained 24 points, including four triples against Alvernia in the ECAC South Region Championships on March 7, 2010. Kaiser was a big reason the Behrend Lions finished first as a team in 3-point field-goal percentage in 2009-10.
He finished first in career three-pointers with 246, including third-most in a season (88) in 2008-09. His 1,005 points ranks him 22nd all-time.
Kaiser resides in Erie, Pa. with wife Kelly and their two boys, Logan and Mitchell. He is a special education teacher for the Erie Public School District.