Stu Klitenic

Klitenic was a standout basketball player at Northwood High School in Silver Spring, Maryland. He was named "All-Met" in 1973 and in 2008 was named one of the top Montgomery County shooters of the 1970s.^[2] From 1973 through 1977, Klitenic played on the basketball team at the University of South Carolina under Hall of Fame coach Frank McGuire.^[3][4] In May 1977, he was selected as one of 12 Jewish basketball players from the United States to compete in the 1977 Maccabiah Games in Israel.^[5] That team went on to win the gold medal.^[6] In 1998, he was named to the Jewish Community Center of Greater Washington's Sports Hall of Fame.^[7]

He worked at WBNS-TV in Columbus, Ohio and WXYZ-TV in Detroit, during the mid-1980s. Until mid-1989, he was sports director at television station KTVI in St. Louis, Missouri.^[8] In the 1990s, he was the sports anchor at WSB-TV in Atlanta.^[1][9][10] In 2005, he was named co-host of the Atlanta Braves postgame show with former Brave Mark Lemke.^[11]