Salve Regina Athletic Hall of Fame - Dr. Christopher M. Kiernan

Inducted - October 2015
Dr. Christopher M. Kiernan - spent 27 years at Salve Regina as a faculty member, administrator and everything in between, from head basketball coach to second in command ... Dr. Kiernan's contributions to Salve Regina were innumerable, and include guiding Salve Regina to national accreditation as a university to launching both the Humanities Ph.D. program and the NCAA Division III athletics program ... senior student-athletes with the highest grade point average annually receive an award named in his honor ... Dr. Kiernan, who was a member of the first class to be inducted into the Saint Joseph's College Athletics Hall of Fame in 2000, coached basketball when the only available gym for the students at Salve Regina was in Mercy Hall, and he used to say that "if you can make a layup and break a press in a phone booth, you can do it anywhere."