Kit Klein was born in Buffalo, New York and started competing on the local level.

She also won the 1,000 m race, as well as the overall bronze medal, at the Unofficial World Allround Championships in Oslo, Norway in 1935.

At the 1936 first official World Allround Speed Skating Championships for Women in Stockholm, Sweden, Klein won gold.

After her husband's retirement in 1967, they moved to Holmes Beach, Florida, where Catherine "Kit" Klein-Outland died in 1985 at the age of 75.

Also note that speed skating for women was a demonstration sport at the 1932 Winter Olympics of Lake Placid.