YEAR: 31st in 2023-24
PREVIOUS COLLEGE: Mansfield State '82; Indiana (Pa.) '83

AT ASHLAND UNIVERSITY

• King is in his 10th academic year as Director of Athletics, having been named to the position on Jan. 13, 2015.
• Was named Ashland University's interim Director of Athletics during the 2014 spring semester, and moved into that position in early July 2014.
• As AU's Director of Athletics, King oversees an athletic department that consists of 24 sports and more than 600 student-athletes.
• The 2023-24 academic year will see King serve on the Division 2 Athletics Directors Association (D2ADA) Board of Directors.
• During the 2014-15 school year, Ashland athletics finished second in the Learfield Directors' Cup - the program's highest-ever finish in the Division II all-sports standings.
• The 2022-23 school year saw the Eagles achieve a number of firsts, including the Great Midwest Athletic Conference's Presidents' Cup - the athletic program's first conference all-sports title in 25 years. Ashland also placed 29th in the Directors' Cup, a 17-place improvement from the year before.
• In 2021-22, Ashland won three Great Midwest championships in its first academic year in the league, and nationally, was led by a second-place finish by the men's indoor track and field team. Seven Eagles were named CoSIDA Academic All-Americans.
• A COVID-19 pandemic-abridged 2020-21 season was Ashland's last in the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference. The Eagle men's indoor track and field team won another NCAA Division II national championship, while GLIAC Tournament titles were earned by the men's basketball and men's soccer programs.
• In 2019-20, the Eagles claimed five Academic All-Americans, six GLIAC Commissioner's Awards and 277 GLIAC academic honors, in addition to boasting an undefeated women's basketball team and eight NCAA Division II postseason squads.
• The 2018-19 season saw Ashland athletics record two team national championships (both men's track and field), a ninth-place finish in the Learfield IMG Directors' Cup standings, four individual/relay national championships, and had 14 teams have representation in the Division II postseason.
• In 2017-18, King led an Eagle athletic department which saw five teams finish in the top 10 in the country, including national runner-up showings in women's basketball and men's outdoor track and field, and five individual/relay national championships.
• In 2016-17, Ashland athletics saw a team national championship (women's basketball) and a combined four individual national titles in wrestling and track and field.
• King's first nine academic seasons have seen Ashland's athletic department accomplish the following Learfield Directors' Cup finishes of second (2014-15), 14th (2015-16), 12th (2017-18) and ninth (2018-19); five team national championships (most of any Ashland Director of Athletics), 23 individual/relay national titles in track and field and three individual national champs in wrestling, eight second-place showings in conference all-sports standings, 29 conference championships and 45 CoSIDA Academic All-America awards.
• In addition to all the on-field and in-classroom accomplishments, Ashland's athletic facilities have been upgraded during King's tenure as athletic director. The Niss Athletic Center opened in the fourth quarter of 2021, joining the Rinehart Room, the Mary C. Miller Student-Athlete Enrichment Center, the Fauber Golf Facility, the esports facility and a renovated Deborah Liebert Karl Tennis Complex as recent athletics facilities upgrades. In the spring of 2023, the softball program's new on-field facility, Deb Miller Field at the Archer Ballpark Complex, was played on for the first time.
• His 21 years as the school's sports information director are the most in school history. As the assistant athletic director of media relations, King was responsible for all publicity concerning all of AU's varsity sports. His office wrote and edited all game programs and media guides, and was responsible for game, season and career statistics for all AU teams and student-athletes. He served as the main contact for all local, regional and national media. His office also was responsible for maintaining AU's athletics website.
• King served as the official host for a number of NCAA Division II championship events. During his SID tenure, AU hosted the national swimming and diving championships four times, the NCAA Division II men's and women's cross championships once and the NCAA Division II softball championships once (2007 at Akron's Firestone Stadium). King was the media host for NCAA playoff games in women's soccer, softball, wrestling, cross country and baseball. He has covered numerous NCAA postseason events on the road, including football playoff games and baseball games. King went to the NCAA Division II World Series three times. He also covered the 2013 Women's Basketball Elite Eight, where Ashland won the national championship.
• He served on several national and regional committees, was a member of the Harlon Hill Committee, which selects the NCAA Division II football player of the year, and was the regional coordinator for the Daktronics men's basketball Great Lakes Region all-star team.
• King has been the regional chair and a member of the Top 25 voting board for the National Collegiate Baseball Writers of America. At Ashland, he has served on search committees for athletic director (twice), director of graphic services (twice), head swimming coach, men's basketball coach and baseball coach.

BEFORE ASHLAND UNIVERSITY

• King was the associate sports information director at Indiana University, Pa. (1989-93). In that role, he wrote, edited and designed all media guides and game programs for all 14 of IUP's Division II varsity sports. He also maintained all records and handled all promotions for IUP's Athletic Club. King sold advertising packages for the annual Business Scholarship drive, which raised approximately $150,000 for athletic scholarships.
• From 1984-89, King was a sports writer for the Indiana Gazette in Indiana (Pa.). He covered high school, college and professional sports for the newspaper, which had a circulation of 24,000. For three years, King was the beat reporter for the National Football League's Pittsburgh Steelers, covering all games home and away. In 1987, he won a first-place award for sports columns in the Pennsylvania Associated Press Managing Editors contest. During that time, he also was a weekly contributor to Steelers Digest and was the writer for Basketball Digest's NCAA Division II men's basketball preview.
• King was a sports writer for the Meadville Tribune in Meadville, Pa., for one year (1983-84).

PERSONAL

• King originally is from Dayton, Pa. He received his undergraduate degree in communications/public relations from Mansfield State College in 1982, and earned a master's degree in sports sciences from IUP in 1983.
• He is an avid runner who has completed dozens of marathons. He has completed the Boston Marathon eight times. His personal best in the marathon is 3:07, which he ran at the Toledo Glass City Marathon in 1996.
• King's interests include sports and conditioning, history (particularly the Civil War) and Pittsburgh-area sports. He has a partial season ticket for the Pittsburgh Pirates.
• King lives in Ashland.