FACT FILE

High School:
Bishop Guilfoyle (1992)

College:
Penn State University
B.A. Special Education

COACHING EXPERIENCE

18th season overall and 1st at Penn State Altoona

Bishop Guilfoyle High School (1990 - 2001, 2002-2003)

Head Girl's Basketball Coach
Bishop Guilfoyle High School (2001 - 2002)

Assistant Women's Basketball Coach
Penn State Altoona (1987)

Head Women's Basketball Coach
Penn State Altoona (1988 - 1991)

PLAYING EXPERIENCE

Member of three District 6 Championship teams at Bishop Guilfoyle

Two - time Commonwealth Campus Athletic Association All-Conference player

NJCAA Region 20 All-Star

Head Coach Donna Kling

Donna Kling enters her fifth season as the head women's basketball coach at Penn State Altoona.  In 2008-2009, Kling guided the Lady Lions to the AMCC Semifinals, and the team finished with a 16-10 overall record.

Kling's arrival at Penn State Altoona is actually a homecoming of sorts, as the Altoona native began her coaching career at Ivyside, first as an assistant coach in 1987, and then as the head coach from 1988 until 1991, when varsity athletics were eliminated from the Altoona campus.

Kling won consecutive Commonwealth Campus Championships during her tenure at Penn State Altoona, and one of her teams also earned an honorable mention ranking for the NJCAA.

After leaving campus, Kling began a successful coaching career at Bishop Guilfoyle High School in Altoona, working as the assistant varsity coach for the girls' team from 1990 until 2001, when she was handed the head coaching duties for a year. She then returned to her position as an assistant coach during the 2002-03 season. Aside from being the assistant coach, Kling was also the junior varsity coach for 11 years, an assistant coach for the freshmen team for four years, and coach of the seventh grade team from 2003 until 2005. She has also worked at various summer basketball camps at local and college levels, as well as with a number of elementary programs.

As a player, Kling graduated from Bishop Guilfoyle in 1982 and was a member of three District 6 Championship teams. She graduated from Penn State University in 1986 with a degree in Special Education, and spent two years playing basketball at Penn State Altoona where she twice received All-Conference honors from the Commonwealth Campus Athletic Association and was also named as a NJCAA Region 20 All-Star.

Contact Coach Kling:
Phone: 814-949-5234
E-mail: dtk3@psu.edu

Basketball Staff

Assistant Coach Kristen Baker
Penn State '03

Kristen Baker returns for her fourth season as the top assistant to Donna Kling in 2006-2007.  Previously Kristen Toomey, she was a standout on the 2001 and 2002 Penn State Altoona women's basketball teams who captured back to back Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference championships.  She's the only player in Penn State Altoona women's basketball history to score over 1,000 points in a career.  She played at the Ivyside campus from 2000-2003.

Assistant Coach Pat Nagle

Pat Nagle has coached basketball for over 30 years at all different levels. For the past 9 years, he has been part of the Bishop Guilfoyle High School junior high girls program. He graduated from Altoona Area High School where he also played basketball for four years.  He went on to play one season at Juniata College and one season at Penn State Altoona.  Pat's family includes his wife Linda and 3 daughters, Kelli, Maureen and Megan.