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Kapturkiewicz played college basketball at Texas Christian University, As a freshman he joined the Horned Frogs for the 1982-83 season under head coach Jim Killingsworth in the Southwest Conference and appeared in 14 games without a start while TCU finished 23-11 overall and 9-7 in league play, tied for fourth in the SWC and advancing to the NIT.

In that 1982-83 season at TCU, he averaged 6.4 minutes, 1.9 points, 1.9 rebounds and 0.4 assists per game while shooting .571 from the field, and he shared the frontcourt with players such as Doug Arnold, Brian Christensen, Tony Papa, Tom Mortimer and Nick Cucinella while Dennis Nutt and Darrell Browder led the backcourt.

TCU’s 1982-83 team won 23 games, reached the NIT quarterfinals, and played in a rotation built around Browder, Arnold, Nutt, Johnny Pate and Joe Stephen, with Kapturkiewicz contributing in limited freshman minutes as one of the younger post players on the roster.

He returned for the 1983-84 season as a sophomore and took on a larger role for another Jim Killingsworth team, appearing in 24 games with 14 starts while averaging 20.0 minutes, 5.0 points, 5.1 rebounds, 0.6 assists, 0.2 steals and 0.3 blocks per game on .536 shooting from the field and .536 at the free throw line.

His 1983-84 season totals at TCU were 481 minutes, 52 made field goals on 97 attempts, 15 free throws on 28 attempts, 123 rebounds, 14 assists, 5 steals, 8 blocks, 17 turnovers, 37 personal fouls and 119 points, and his 123 rebounds led the Horned Frogs that season.

TCU went 11-17 overall and 4-12 in the SWC in 1983-84, finishing seventh in the conference, and Kapturkiewicz was one of the team’s main interior contributors alongside Carven Holcombe, Tracy Mitchell, Greg Grissom, Tony Papa, Tom Mortimer, Jamie Dixon and freshman guard Scott Brooks.

One of his better documented games that season came against Arkansas on January 14, 1984, when he scored 7 points and grabbed 9 rebounds in a TCU win, and he later added 2 points in the return meeting with the Razorbacks on February 15, 1984.

Across his two NCAA Division I seasons at TCU, he played 38 games and averaged 3.8 points and 3.9 rebounds per game, with his freshman year coming in a reserve role and his sophomore season developing into his first year as a regular starter and the team’s top rebounder.

After TCU, Kapturkiewicz continued his college career at California-Riverside, where he played under head coach John Masi during the program’s NCAA Division II years in the California Collegiate Athletic Association.

In the 1985-86 season at California-Riverside, he helped the Highlanders finish 24-7 overall and 11-3 in CCAA play, good for second place in the conference and an NCAA Tournament berth, while he led the team in field goals by making 140 shots on 235 attempts for a .596 field-goal percentage and also posted an .839 free-throw percentage with 78 makes on 93 attempts.

California-Riverside’s 1985-86 team was led in scoring and rebounding by Robert Jimerson, with Brad Husen handling major perimeter duties, and Kapturkiewicz gave the Highlanders another efficient inside scorer as part of a 24-win NCAA Tournament team.

He finished his final college season in 1986-87 as one of the top big men in the CCAA while California-Riverside went 19-9 overall and 9-5 in conference play for third place, and he again led the team in field goals with 161 makes on 272 attempts for a .592 percentage while also recording 96 free throws on 130 attempts for a .738 mark and a team-best 32 blocked shots.

His 1986-87 season also brought all-conference recognition, as he earned first-team All-CCAA honours and was selected to the CCAA all-tournament team, while teammate Robert Jimerson also made the first team and Mission Labasan led the club in assists.

A major single-game highlight of his California-Riverside career came on February 3, 1987 against Cal Poly Pomona, when he went a perfect 11-for-11 from the field, a performance that stood as one of the best single-game field-goal percentage marks in program and conference history.

California-Riverside’s record book later continued to show how efficient he was over that stretch, with Kapturkiewicz ranking among the program’s best career field-goal percentage leaders at .594 for his 1985-87 Highlanders career.

His California-Riverside years also placed him on teams featuring Robert Jimerson, Brad Husen, Craig Fuller, Mission Labasan and Robert Jimerson’s high-scoring frontcourt support, with Kapturkiewicz supplying efficient finishing, rebounding and rim protection in John Masi’s interior rotation.

Taken together, Kapturkiewicz’s verified college history shows an NCAA Division I start at TCU in 1982-83 and 1983-84, including a 23-win NIT team as a freshman and an 11-17 season as a sophomore in which he led the Horned Frogs in rebounding, followed by a successful California-Riverside run in 1985-86 and 1986-87 that produced a 24-7 NCAA Tournament team, a 19-9 follow-up season, first-team All-CCAA honours, CCAA all-tournament recognition and some of the best field-goal efficiency marks in Highlanders history.