Mitchell Kline begins his fourth year as Cabrini's head softball coach in 2015-16.
Kline earned his first Colonial States Athletic Conference Coach of the Year honor in 2015, as he led the Cavaliers back to the CSAC championship game. The recorded a 27-12 campaign, including a 19-3 mark in conference play. The Blue and White ranked 14th in the NCAA in with a .361 team batting average and 7.15 runs per game. Kline also helped senior Steph Diegel (1st Team), junior Kaitlyn Cooper (3rd Team) and sophomore Amber Dietrich (3rd Team) earn NFCA All-East Region accolades.
Kline led the Cavaliers to a nine game improvement between the 2013 and 2014 campaigns, as the Blue and White posted a 25-18 mark in 2014, including 17-5 in CSAC play. The 17 conference victories marked the most since the 2005 season. Cabrini returned to the CSAC Tournment, surviving three elimination games before losing in the title game.
Kline made an immediate impact both in the softball program and the College community as a whole, recognized by receiving the 2014 Cabrini Athletics Denis Edwards Award, given to an individual who best exemplifies the spirit of Cabrini Athletics.
Kline came to Cabrini after a two year stint as athletic director at Jack M. Barrack Hebrew Academy, where he was also a health and physical education teacher.
Kline also held college coaching stints at Haverford and Swarthmore Colleges. Kline was the head softball coach at Swarthmore from 2000-03, where he also assisted with the Garnet volleyball team during the 2001 campaign. He also volunteered with the Haverford softball team during the 1996 season.
Kline’s coaching career dates back to 1981 at Frankford High School at the head girl’s cross country coach.  Since then, he has been a successful coach in a variety of sports including track and field, basketball, softball and field hockey, winning championships at each stop and garnering 13 Coach of the Year awards. Kline retired from coaching the Northeast High School field hockey team in 2009 after capturing four consecutive Public League Championships from 2005-09.
In addition to his high school and college experience, Kline’s playing and coaching careers have also exposed him to international outings. Since 2000, Kline has been an assistant baseball coach for the Junior Maccabi Games for the 15-16 year old boys’ team. He also traveled to Mexico City in 1999 as the manager for Team USA at the Maccabiah Pan American Games.
As a player, Kline was a member of the United States Fastpitch Softball Team at the Maccabiah Games, capturing gold medals in 1985 and 1989, and silver in 1993.
Kline’s teaching career began in 1974 at Richard R. Wright and James G. Blaine Elementary School in Philadelphia and has spanned more than 35 years, mainly in the Philadelphia public school system.
Kline graduated from Penn State in 1973 with a bachelor’s degree in health, physical education, recreation and dance. In 1984, Kline completed his master’s degree in therapeutic recreation at Temple.
Kline and his wife Sandee have three adult children, a daughter, Malka, who lives in Israel with her husband Neria and three children, and two sons, Evan, and Jeffrey.
