Alva Duer
Alva O. Duer was a college basketball coach and National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics and United States Olympic Committee administrator and is a member of the NAIA and Basketball Halls of Fame. He went to Stafford High School in Stafford, Kansas and was captain of the basketball team all four years he attended. He graduated from high school in 1923.
He coached college basketball at Pepperdine College in Los Angeles, California from 1939 to 1948. During that time, he had a record of 176–102. He led Pepperdine to five postseason appearances, he also led Pepperdine to the 1945 NAIB final. In November, now solely as the athletic director at Pepperdine, he also added the duties of executive secretary of the NAIB in the aftermath of the passing of the association's founder Emil Liston. He would serve both roles through the spring of 1957 when he decided to step down from his roles at Pepperdine. As leader of the NAIA until 1975, he expanded the association's sports offerings from just basketball to 16 events and membership from 260 schools to over 500, including the admission of Historically black colleges and universities in 1952.
He died on his 83rd birthday in 1987.