WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. – After a career in which she became the second Lycoming College female athlete to earn first-team all-conference honors in two sports in the same year, Kayla (Kline) Zimmerman '20 will be one of 12 individuals inducted into the West Branch Valley Sports Hall of Fame on Sunday evening, Nov. 9, at the Genetti Hotel & Suites in Williamsport.
 
The induction class includes inductees: Lon Balum, Darrell Blackman, Kathy Fedorjaka, Chris Howard, Melissa Kellogg, Shawn Kunes, Dan Merk, Brycen Mussina, Joe Person, Kayla (Kline) Zimmerman, Blaise Alexander (posthumously) and Floyd "Lanny" Reed (posthumously) and the Volunteers of the Year are Bob Cellini and Kooch Chu.

Seats for the induction banquet are available for $40 from Crystal Yoder by e-mailing clyoder3@gmail.com, or by mailing a check made payable to the West Branch Valley Sports Hall of Fame mailed to Crystal Yoder, 516 Hawthorne Dr., Lewisburg, PA 17837.
 
When making reservations, it is requested that you send attendees full name (please print or type legibly) as well as a contact person and phone number in case of questions. Each table seats no more than eight individuals, so please keep that in mind if making reservations for a group larger than eight. It is also requested that you notify us of what inductee you are there to see and choose an entrée – either stuffed chicken, gluten-free chicken or cheese ravioli ratatouille.
 
The deadline for registration for the banquet is Monday, Oct. 27.
 
A 2025 inductee into the Lycoming College Athletics Hall of Fame, she became just the second Warrior to earn first-team all-conference accolades in two different sports in the same season as a junior. In softball, she led the MAC Commonwealth in batting average (.469) and slugging percentage (.708) to earn third-team all-region accolades. The Mifflinburg, Pa., native produced the second 25 game hitting-streak of her career, tying her own program-record, while notching multiple hits in 17 games. Kline was named MAC Commonwealth Offensive Player of the Week twice.
 
In basketball, the 5-8 guard/forward was the lone player in the MAC Commonwealth in the top 10 in the league in points (14.5, fifth), rebounds (9.0, fifth) and assists (2.5, 10th). Her 102 free throws were third in school history, 243 rebounds sixth and 391 points are 12th. She also added 11 double-doubles, the third-most in program history and four 20-point efforts. Kline also earned D3hoops.com Team of the Week honors and MAC Commonwealth Player of the Week honors twice each.
 
A year later, it looked like Kline was on course to do it again. She averaged 13.9 points and 8.5 rebounds per game for the women's basketball team, sitting comfortably in the top 10 in the league in both categories. She earned D3hoops.com Team of the Week accolades for her play in wins over King's and defending CSAC champion Rosemont. She was named the MVP of Moravian's Tournament after posting 16 points in a win in the championship game of the event, the same game where she became the 12^th player in school history to reach 1,000 career points.

However, a torn meniscus ended her basketball career with nine games remaining in the season. Still, in just 79 career games, she finished her career eighth in school history with 587 rebounds, 11^th with 1,026 points, 17^th with 166 assists and 19^th with 39 blocked shots.

Just six weeks later, Kline was the cleanup hitter and shortstop for the softball team. On the opening night of the season, she crushed a homer to center field against Fitchburg State. The next day, she hit a game-tying three run triple in the bottom of the seventh to lead the Warriors to a dramatic win against Norwich. By the end of the week, she was hitting .462 with nine runs, four doubles, a triple, two homers and 12 RBI to go with a gaudy .923 slugging percentage, but the season stopped abruptly due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Kline finished her career with a school-record .457 career batting average, a .490 on-base percentage and 193 total bases while playing in just 82 games. She is second with 126 career hits and 10 home runs, fifth with 23 doubles and seven triples and sixth with 64 RBI and 73 runs.
 
She is the only player in the school's history with 1,000 points in basketball and 100 hits in softball. She is the only basketball player to earn two CoSIDA Academic All-District awards and the first to earn three D3Hoops.com Team of the Week accolades. In softball, she set six single-season school records as a freshman and finished her career holding at least 10 school records.

Unsurprisingly, team success followed Kline, as she helped the softball team to a school-record 24 wins in 2017 and helped the women's basketball team to its only appearance in the MAC Commonwealth Championship final in 2019. 

The accounting major was also a seven-time member of the MAC Academic Honor Roll, a two-time Academic All-MAC selection, a three-time NFCA Scholar Athlete and a member of Chi Alpha Sigma, the National College Athlete Honor Society.
 
A third-team all-state selection in basketball at Mifflinburg Area (2015), she set a school-record with 1,211 points. She was also a two-time all-state selection in softball in 2015-16 and she still holds school's career records with .433 batting average, 140 hits, 22 doubles, 10 triples and 15 home runs. She helped the Wildcats to district titles in both basketball and softball in 2014 and she was also a two-time all-league selection in field hockey. Kline was also a two-time Punt, Pass and Kick national champion in 2012 and 2013.
 
An auditor with Baker Tilly in Williamsport, (Kline) Zimmerman and husband, Brian, reside in Montoursville. Still active in athletics, she is an assistant softball coach at Montoursville Area High School and has spent the past three seasons on the game operations crew with the Williamsport Crosscutters. She has also helped on game days at Lycoming basketball and field hockey games since her graduation.
 
The West Branch Valley Sports Hall of Fame is now in its 51^st year of celebrating athletes and coaches from the West Branch, which includes Clinton, Lycoming and Union counties, as well as the northern corner of Northumberland County, encompassing 13 local school districts (Jersey Shore, Keystone Central, East Lycoming, Loyalsock Township, Montgomery Area, Muncy Area, Williamsport Area, South Williamsport, Lewisburg, Mifflinburg Area, Milton Area and Warrior Run as well as St. John Neumann Regional and Meadowbrook Christian) and four universities (Lycoming College, Pennsylvania College of Technology, Lock Haven University and Bucknell University).