STEVE HONDERD D3HOOPS.COM FEATURE STORY

This past spring, Calvin men's basketball great Steve Honderd was selected to be inducted into the Small College Basketball Hall of Fame. Honderd will be part of the 2025 Small College Basketball Hall of Fame Class and will be inducted October 31 in Lakeland, Florida. The National Hall of Fame Class marks the ninth class inducted into the Small College Basketball National Hall of Fame. The National Hall of Fame induction ceremony will take place on Friday October 31st inside the Branscomb Auditorium on the campus of Florida Southern College.

D3hoops.com senior editor Gordon Mann caught up with Honderd for a lengthy feature story on D3hoops.com. The story can be read at: D3hoops.com Steve Honderd Feature Story. 

The well-crafted piece follows Honderd's journey to Calvin and his incredible four-year career that spanned from 1989-1993.

A four-year starter, Honderd is Calvin's all-time leading scorer with 2,469 points. He was a four-time 1^st Team All-MIAA selection and a two-time MIAA MVP. He earned NABC Division III All-America honors in 1992 and 1993. He was a part of three MIAA regular season title winning teams as well as Calvin teams that captured the first two MIAA Tournament crowns in 1992 and 1993. As a freshman in 1990, he helped Calvin reach the NCAA III Final Four for the first time in program history, which included a 33-point performance in a second round NCAA III Tournament win over Hope and a 30-point output in a national semifinal loss to DePauw. As a junior in 1992, he led the Calvin men's basketball team to its first Division III National Title including a 62-49 victory over the University of Rochester in the national championship game. He was subsequently named the Most Outstanding Player of the 1992 NCAA III Final Four. As a senior in 1993, he was named the NABC Division III National Player of the Year. In his final regular season game, he scored a Calvin and MIAA single-game record 61 points in a memorable overtime win over Kalamazoo that clinched the outright MIAA regular season title for the Knights.

In 2000, he was named the Division III Player of the Decade by DIII News.

Over the course of his collegiate career, he appeared and started in 119 of a possible 120 games, averaging 20.7 points and 7.4 rebounds a game while connecting on a Calvin career-record 62.8 percent of his field goal attempts.

In the classroom, he was a two-time Academic All-American as an economics major and later received a prestigious NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship. After spending four years playing professional basketball overseas in Europe, he returned to West Michigan where he earned his MBA degree from Grand Valley State University.

In 2019, he was inducted into the Grand Rapids Sports Hall of Fame.

He and his Shelly are parents of three sons and reside in Holland, Michigan.