Career
Van Nostrand was a dual National Collegiate Athletic Association All-American for Pepperdine University, in 1982 and 1983. The American was a quarter-finalist at the 1983 Hall of Fame Tennis Championships, held in Newport, Rhode Island. He beat world number 46 Mike De Palmer in the opening round and Mike Leach in the second round.
The pair upset top seeds Broderick Dyke and Rod Frawley in the quarter-finals.
Three months later, Van Nostrand was killed in a car accident, along with fellow player Joe Heldman. They had been traveling from Mexico City to the San Luis Potosí Challenger tournament.
On a mountainous road near San Juan del Río, their car went off a curve and fell 660 feet down the mountain. Doubles: (1).