Tom Kubat, BA’69, received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Indiana Sportswriters and Sportscasters Association. He retired in 2008 after a 40-year career covering sports for the Lafayette Journal & Courier, as well as for USA Today and Gannett News Service. He has received numerous first-place national and state writing awards (including the Hoosier State Press Association’s award as Best Sports Columnist).

He authored a book about former Purdue football coach Joe Tiller, titled “Tiller: Not Your Average Joe,” and he also was one of several ISSA Hall of Fame sportswriters to write several chapters in the book “The 25 Greatest Sports Stories in the History of Indiana.”

He was inducted into the ISSA’s Hall of Fame in 2007 and has been a member of the ISSA’s Board of Directors since 2009. He has served as the association’s president since 2014. (August 2022)