Todd Kemp was a record-setting pitcher from the 1980s who still held conference and school standards for strikeouts at the time of his induction.

A Hendersonville native, Kemp helped the Golden Eagle baseball team to the 1988 OVC regular season championship and was an all-region and two-time all-OVC selection. He was named to the 1988 Converse All-South Region second-team after a championship year in which he led the Ohio Valley Conference and ranked third in the nation in strikeouts with 13.9 per nine innings. During that year he broke the OVC record for strikeouts in a career. He compiled a 9-3 won-loss record and had the lowest earned run average in the OVC (2.58), and he set five school records including striking out 19 batters in a single game.

With Kemp in the rotation, Tech set the school record for wins in a season (35-17) and league victories (19-4). His 132 strikeouts was one short of his own school and OVC records of 133 strikeouts. Set as a sophomore in 1986. On the final weekend of the regular season, Kemp earned a win and two saves in Tech’s three-game sweep at Middle Tennessee which clinched the championship and earned the team a top seed and host role for the league tournament.

Kemp was chosen as the starting pitcher on opening day in 1986, 1987 and 1988 by then-coach David Mays. At the time of his induction, he still had seven of the top 11 strikeout games in school history, topped by his 19-strikeout performance against Tennessee State in a nine-inning game on April 3, 1988. He also fanned 17 hitters in a seven-inning game (another school record) on March 19, 1986. He had two games with 15 strikeouts, one with 14, and two more with 13 Ks.

At the time of his Hall of Fame induction, Kemp ranked tied for first in career victories (22), first in strikeouts (408), strikeouts per nine innings (12.4) and complete games (21), second in starts (45) and innings pitched (296), and fifth in appearances (56). He was also ninth in innings per home run allowed (13.5) and 10^th in strikeout-to-walk ratio (1.97).

He still owned the OVC records for most strikeouts in a season (133) and career (408).

As a freshman, Kemp topped the team in wins (5) and strikeouts (69) in 1985. The following season, he led Tech in wins (5), ERA (2.98), innings (90.2) and strikeouts (125). As a junior, his 74 strikeouts led the squad, and in his senior campaign he paced the Golden Eagles in wins (9), ERA (2.58), innings (87) and strikeouts (132).

Todd earned his bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from Tech in 1988.