Stephanie Klein Named an NGCA Division I All-American Scholar-Athlete

Coral Springs, Fla. - University at Albany's Stephanie Klein has been named to the 2010-11 National Golf Coaches Association Division I All-American Scholar-Athlete team, as announced by the organization on Monday. A total of 566 women's collegiate golfers, across all three NCAA divisions were recognized. The criteria for selection to the NGCA All-American Scholar Team are some of the most stringent in all of college athletics. The minimum cumulative GPA is 3.50.

Klein finished with a three-round total of 254, including a team-best round of 80 on the final day of play, to lead UAlbany to a fourth-place finish at the 2011 Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Golf Championships. She finished the spring averaging 87.18 over nine rounds of play. Klein was also second on the team in the fall season, posting an 85.20 average in six tournaments.

Klein, who was also named to the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Academic Honor Roll, maintains a 4.00 cumulative grade point average as a pre-medicine major.

Courtesy: UAlbany Sports Information