Kristina Kluesner

    Kristina Kluesner is in her first season as the Director of Operations for the Youngstown State University Women’s Basketball team.
    Kluesner comes to YSU with two seasons of operations experience in the WNBA, two years of coaching at the high school level and six months of graduate assistant work at Central Methodist University.
    Kluesner’s main responsibilities include film exchange, assisting with travel and helping in the office. She is serving on a volunteer basis.
    Kluesner’s first experience in basketball operations came as an intern for the Indiana Fever of the WNBA during the summer of 2006. The following summer, she worked gameday operations with the Washington Mystics of the WNBA.
    As a student at the University of Louisville, Kluesner served as the head junior varsity coach and assistant varsity coach for two seasons at Waggener High in Louisville. Most recently, Kluesner was a graduate assistant at Central Methodist, an NAIA school in Fayette, Mo., from June to December in 2008. This is her first stint working at a Division I university.
    Kluesner graduated in 2007 from Louisville with a bachelor’s degree in sport administration.