Klein

Lyndsey Klein

    • 1996-97 California Breeze 18 Gold
    • 1996 9th Place Finish Gold Nationals
    • 1997-98 Sacramento City College
    • 1997 State Junior College Player of the Year
    • 1997-98 All-American Sacramento City Junior College
    • All American UCLA
    • 1999 NCAA National Champions @ UCLA
    • UCLA Career Leader In Doubles
    • 2000 WPSL Tampa Bay FireStix
    • 2002 USA Softball World Championship
    • 2004 NPF Championship NY/NJ Juggernaut
    • 2004 NPF All-Star
    • 2004-09 Hitting instructor US Select Sports Academy
  • Lyndsey has dedicated her life to the sport of softball. She is a well known face in the softball world, playing collegiately, professionally and the USA National Team. She is also very involved in women's sports and an active member for the charity Athletes for Hearts.
     

    • Lyndsey played two seasons at Sacramento City Junior College earning two All-America honors as well as Junior College Player of the Year for the state of California in 1997. She transferred to UCLA and as a Bruin, played and started in all 124 possible games at second base for head coach Sue Enquist. Lyndsey led the Pac-10 in doubles as a junior in 1999, setting a new UCLA record with 21 on the season. A member of the NCAA Regional All-Tournament Team, she hit .500 (8-for-16) during UCLA’s march to the 1999 NCAA Championship.

    In Lyndsey’s last season, she earned second-team All-America honors, hitting .361 with a team-high .656 slugging percentage and 11 home runs. In addition, Lyndsey was named first-team All-Pac-10 and first-team All-Pacific Region at second base. Once again, Klein hit .500 at UCLA’s NCAA Regional (7-for-14), and was named to the All-Tournament Team for the Regional. At the College World Series, Klein stole home in the top of the second inning to score UCLA’s critical first run against top-seeded Washington, then hit a two-run homer in the third inning to help seal the 3-2 win. For the WCWS, Lyndsey had two home runs and a .643 slugging percentage. Despite playing just two seasons in the Bruin uniform, she was able to make her mark on the UCLA record books. Her .347 career batting average ranks 14th in UCLA history, while she finished with 103 runs scored (12th), 25 stolen bases (t5th), 100 RBI (13th), 34 doubles (8th), five triples (t16th) and 16 home runs (7th). Lyndsey earned her degree from UCLA in the spring of 2001 and following a highly successful two-year playing career at UCLA, Lyndsey remained in the Bruin dugout as a student assistant coach.

    Lyndsey spent the summer of 2000 playing in the WPSL with the Tampa Bay FireStix, and was named the league’s Louisville Slugger of the Week after hitting two home runs with two RBI and three runs scored in her first two games for the FireStix.

    She spent the next two years working to become a member of the 2002 ASA National team. Klein was invited to the Women's National Team Camp, in September 2002 at the ARCO Olympic Training Center in Chula Vista; Calif. USA Softball will select a core group of athletes to return to the 2002 National Team Camp in June 2003.

    The players invited to the September camp are a combination of players from the 2002 Open Tryouts, members of the 2002 Women's World Team, 2002 Elite Team and at-large invitees. Lyndsey worked very hard and was the last player released prior to the naming of the USA 2004 Olympic team.

    Klein gave private lessons in Florida for 5 years before returning to California to give private instruction in the BATS facility and Clinics in the surrounding Sacramento area. For more information on how you can receive instruction from Lyndsey contact her at lklein51@aol.com or visit the lessons page at BATS.