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Women's Basketball...
Head Coach
Donna Kling
3rd
Season
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High School:
Bishop Guilfoyle (1992)
College:
Penn State University
B.A. Special Education
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Coaching
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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)
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Playing
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Member of
three District 6 Championship teams at Bishop Guilfoyle
Two - time Commonwealth Campus Athletic Association
All-Conference player
NJCAA Region 20 All-Star
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Donna Kling enters her third season as the head
women's basketball coach at Penn State Altoona. She will look to guide the
Lions back to the AMCC playoffs for the first time since the 2003-2004 season.
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 Email:
dtk3@psu.edu
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Year by Year Coaching
Record
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Year |
Overall
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AMCC |
Season Finish |
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W |
L |
W |
L |
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2007-2008 |
10 |
16 |
7 |
11 |
1st round AMCC playoffs |
| 2006-2007 |
6 |
19 |
4 |
14 |
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| 2005-2006 |
6 |
18 |
5 |
13 |
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TOTALS |
22 |
53 |
16 |
38 |
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Basketball Staff
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Assistant Coach
Kristen Baker
Penn State '03Kristen Baker returns for her third 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
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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.
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Copyright © 2003 Penn State Altoona; Varsity Athletics;
Steve Crider, Sports Information Director
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