The 6'6" Gondrezick played collegiately at University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

A starter on the Runnin' Rebels' first Final Four team in 1977, his jersey number 25 would be retired by the program twenty years later.

He would also call the Mountain West Conference men's basketball tournament games for the Mountain West Radio Network from 2000–2008 before dying of complications from heart surgery on April 27, 2009, at the age of 53.

[2] Gondrezick's younger brother, Grant, was also a professional basketball player, and a shooting guard.

He acknowledged to authorities that the gunshot wound to the left side of the chest was self-inflicted.