page_title: Steve Klosterman
section_title: Career
hierarchical_section_title: Steve Klosterman / Career
caption_attribution_description: English: Klosterman in press-conference after winnig the national championchips
context_page_description: Steve Klosterman is a volleyball coach, currently Assistant at Hofstra University, a 2-time NCAA All American, NCAA Championship MVP, Puerto Rican Superior League Championship MVP, and former international player from the United States. He finished UCLA as the #1 points producer in the “rally scoring” era, and 4th overall in the long history of the most dominant collegiate men's program in the sport that's won 19 NCAA Championships.
context_section_description: Coaching:
  Hofstra University Women's Volleyball, Assistant Coach, 
  Assistant (vol) Coach at Loyola of Chicago, Women Fall, 2017
  Loyola of Chicago Men's: Camp Coach Summer, 2018
  High School Head Coach
  Club Head coach and technical advisor, at Chicago Bounce
  10 years coaching at HBC Club in So. California
  UCLA Men's, (vol) Assistant Coach
  Los Angeles Times article on Taking a very inexperienced team to the CIF Playoffs
  INTERNATIONAL PLAYER
  2014 — SKV Havířov, Czech Republic
  2012 — Played for Nuevos Gigantes de Carolina of the Puerto Rico Superior League
  2011 — Played in Toulouse, France Joined the Spacers who were already losing many matches and in jeopardy of being dropped down to the B league. Helped win enough of the season's 2nd half matches to keep the team in the A League, including defeating the eventual league champion in a crucial match.
  2010 — Played in Doha, Qatar with Police United. Helped team to its All Time best season with a 3rd-place finish
  2009 — Member of USAV Training Team. Member of team that defeated Canadian National team.
  2007-08  — Named MVP of the Puerto Rican Championships after leading his Naranjito Changos to the Puerto Rican Professional League Championships.
  UCLA
  2007 — UCLA, (University of California at Los Angeles). Finished UCLA as the #1 points producer in the “rally scoring” era. UCLA is the most storied program in US collegiate volleyball with 19 national championships, by far the most of all teams.
  Earned 2nd Team All-America honors from the AVCA and Volleyball Magazine. 
  Was a 3rd Team All-America selection by Spike/Volleyball.
  Second team All-MPSF selection.
  Led the team in kills (472) and points (553.0). 
  Finished his UCLA career ranked first on the RALLY SCORING ERA kills chart, and fourth on the ALL-TIME kills list with 1,513 and ended his career ranked second on the career rally-scoring era aces chart with 79.
  Recorded 76 career double-digit kill matches, including 27 in 2007 and 21 straight.
  Ranked seventh in points per game (4.9) and kpg (4.16).
  Scored 20 or more points 14 times.
  Selected AVCA National Player of the Week, and MPSF Player of the Week (2/26) after impressive victories against CS Northridge and UCSB.
  Against CSN (2/21), he pounded a career-high of 31 kills w/ no errors, including 22 straight through three games.
  
  His total of 35 points that night was a career-high.
  2006 — Named Most Outstanding Player of the NCAA Championships after scoring 32 points and hitting .379 in two matches at the tournament.
  In spite of rehabbing the first half of the season from surgery and playing sparingly on a strict "pitch count" for half the season, he earned Second-Team All-America honors from Spike/Volleyball and Volleyball magazines.
  Named All-MPSF Honorable Mention.
  Entering the season he boasted 49 career double-digit kill matches, including 25 the previous season.
  Ranked ninth on the all-time UCLA career kills list with 1,041 entering his senior year.
  Ranked first on the UCLA career rally-scoring kills chart.
  His 466 kills last season ranked seventh in UCLA history.
  Also on the career rally-scoring charts, he ranked first in attacks (2,268), fourth in solo blocks (28), fifth in block assists (170) and total blocks (198), sixth in digs (345), eighth in aces (50), and 10th in attack percentage (.287).
  On the season charts, he ranked first in kills (466) and attacks (1016), and second in points (528.0).
  Ranked in a tie for 19th nationally at 4.12 kpg.
  Recorded his career high of 32 points and 30 kills (.390) vs. CSN (4/15).
  Blocked a career high of nine balls vs. USC (3/17).
  Also recorded 27 kills (.511) and 28.5 points vs. Pepperdine (3/1).
  Recorded a double-double vs. CSN (2/10) with 12 kills and a career high of 14 digs. 
  All of this was accomplished in a return from rehab season after surgery, rehab that greatly restricted playing matches and swing counts until the second half of the season.
  The Daily Bruin did this story on his recovery and resurgence:
  Bouncing back into his game 5. 
  2005 — Led the Bruins to the NCAA National Championship match. Lead the Bruins with 20 kills
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