MCCC President Elected As An NJCAA Director

BLUE BELL PA – Montgomery County Community College President Dr. Karen A. Stout has been elected to the National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) Board of Directors, the college announced Friday (July 23, 2010). She will represent its Northeastern District, and her two-year term begins Aug. 1.

Dr. Karen Stout

Dr. Stout has served as president of Montgomery County Community College since 2001. Under her leadership, the college reintroduced intercollegiate athletics in 2007 after a 20-year hiatus. Its Mustangs teams compete in women’s soccer, softball and baseball in NJCAA Region 19, and in men’s soccer, men’s and women’s basketball and women’s volleyball in the Eastern Pennsylvania Collegiate Conference.

Dr. Stout is an accomplished athlete herself. A native of Bel Air MD and a 1978 graduate of Bel Air High School, she lettered in three sports and was named to All-County and All-Metro squads in field hockey, basketball and softball. While at Bel Air, she also was part of four state championship teams, three in softball and one in field hockey. Her athletic achievements earned her the Bel Air Evening Sun newspaper’s first “Female Athlete of the Year” Award.

Her academic and athletic accomplishments earned her a full scholarship to the University of Delaware, where she was a four-time letter winner and four-year starter in two sports, softball and field hockey. While a Blue Hen, she played for the national field hockey championship and competed on top five ranked teams all four years.

She continued her field hockey career after leaving Delaware, participating on three international touring teams, including competing in the 1998 Masters World Cup Championship in Holland, and she was a member of five indoor national championship club teams and three outdoor national championship club squads.