WADE TIMMERSON
2021 – BASKETBALL
Fort Cherry High School
Robert Morris University
Led the WPIAL in scoring in the 1987-88 season, averaging 30.4 points per game, still a rare feat today
Mr. Timmerson completed his three-year career at Fort Cherry with more than 1,400 points. He was the Observer-Reporter’s Player of the Year in 1988 and it’s Player of the Decade of the 1980s
He scored 56 points against Sewickley Academy in 1988 in a 90-59 win for the Rangers
At Robert Morris, he helped the Colonials to three NCAA Tournaments in four seasons
He was inducted into the university’s Hall of Fame in 2007
Mr. Timmerson established a single-season record at RMU for assist-to-turnover ratio (2.02) while ranking third in assists per game (4.1) and fourth in assists overall with 484
He was a four-year letterman and in the 1991-92 season, he became the first Colonial to record more than 200 assists in a season when he had 204
- He scored 868 points at RMU. Mr. Timmerson played one season in the World Basketball League for the Erie Wave