W. Thomas Stewart, a 1970 graduate and four-year starter in basketball was part of one of the most productive four-year spans in UMES Basketball history. Stewart's teams went a combined 77-25 including a 1970 season where the team was 20-0 in the regular season and finished 29-2 overall. That season the team won the NAIA District 19 title, was runner-up to the CIAA Championship, was CIAA Visitation Champions for the Northern Division and fell in the Quarter-finals of the NAIA Tournament. That team also earned a No. 1 ranking in the Associate Press Small College poll.
The previous season Stewart's team was runner-up to the NAIA National Championship, posting a 27-5 record.
Stewart, who played with UMES Hall of Famers James "Bones" Morgan, Reginald Butler, Jake Ford, Jack Bryant, Kirkland Hall, Levi Fontaine, Robert Kearney, Melvin Fowlkes, Kim Hall and Art Shell during his career, averaged 14 points per game and shot over 73-percent from the charity stripe over his four seasons and tallied an impressive 1,601 points. He was an All-Tournament Team selection at the CIAA Championships in 1970,
Stewart also was a baseball player for the Hawks, starting at third base all four years of his career and was part of the 1968 CIAA Championship Team.
