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Duquesne University basketball fans in the mid 1980s called him "Suder the Shooter" and he was deadly, especially at the free-throw line. Rick Suder, a 6-foot-4 guard/forward from Center High School, is still the best free-throw shooter in Duquesne's history and one of the school's all-time leading scorers. In four seasons, he made 87.7 percent (342 of 390) of his free throws. His senior season in 1986, he connected on 135 of 147 free throws (91.8 percent). He ranks sixth on Duquesne's all-time points per game list at 20.5 and is 10th in scoring with 1,459 points. Suder also is one of six Duquesne players to be named to the Atlantic 10 Conference's first team. He lives in Indianapolis and has a number of business ventures, including managing a mortgage company. He also is involved in helping athletes from Eastern European countries settle in the United States. Suder, 39, and his wife, Kim, have a daughter, Kaitlyn, who is 16 months old.
Q: How did you wind up at Duquesne?
A: I had some other opportunities and I had done all the paper work to enter the Naval Academy. But I didn't come from a military family or anything like that and I couldn't see myself doing the five-year [military service] commitment. Had I known David Robinson was going to grow 6 inches after he got there, I might have changed my mind because we would have been there at the same time. But Duquesne was close and [coach] Jim Satalin was trying...
