Bob King has been the Director of Athletics at Trinity since 1992.

Mr. King is responsible for intercollegiate athletics, intramurals, outdoor recreation, club sports, spirit groups, campus recreation, aquatics, physical education, and athletic and recreational facilities.

Since Mr. King was appointed in 1993, Tiger teams have finished in the top-10 on five occasions in the prestigious Directors’ Cup standings, of some 430 schools. Trinity has won four NCAA Division III national team championships (men’s and women’s tennis, women’s basketball, and men’s soccer), and eight individual NCAA individual championships (high jump, pentathlon, and diving).

The Tigers have also captured 11 Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference President’s Trophies, as the best all-around program in the SCAC. Trinity teams have won 136 SCAC Championships - in 16 sports - since Mr. King took the reins of the program.

Academic excellence has been a part of Trinity Athletics. Since Mr. King came on board, Trinity moved into the top-10 rankings of the NCAA Postgraduate Scholarships. A total of 30 Tiger student-athletes have earned the distinction. The grade point average for student-athletes is consistently equal to – or exceeds – the general student population.

During Mr. King’s tenure, student athlete particapation has risen from 200 in 1993 to 485 in 2009-2010.

Mr. King has twice been elected the Athletic Director of the Year by the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics, in 2000 and 2004.

He currently serves on the NCAA Division III Championships Committee. Mr. King was the chair of the SCAC Athletic Directors Council for two terms.  He was a member of five Local Organizing Committees for the NCAA Division I Men’s and Women’s Basketball Final Fours, Division I Volleyball, and Division III Soccer, held in San Antonio. Mr. King was a member of the board of directors of the San Antonio Sports Foundation.

Trinity has been a busy place for postseason play under Mr. King’s leadership. In addition to hosting SCAC Championships, the campus has hosted 60 NCAA D III events, in eight sports. Included in the count were the 2001 NCAA D III Women’s Tennis Championships.

Mr. King was the developer and organizer of the Trinity Athletic Hall of Fame in 1992, and serves as chair of the selection committee.

He also started the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee, which represents all Trinity student-athletes in University matters.

Mr. King previously was the Director of Athletics at Millsaps College (Jackson, Miss.), his alma mater. During his tenure at Millsaps, the Majors won five SCAC championships.

He earned the Bachelor of Arts in education from Millsaps, in 1977. As a Millsaps student-athlete, Mr. King was a four-year letterman in baseball and football. He was the

starting cornerback on the 1975 football team which advanced to the NCAA

Division III semifinals, and also broke the school’s career interception record. Mr. King is currently second at Millsaps in career interceptions with 17 and holds a career batting average of .320 in baseball. In 1991, Mr. King was inducted to the Millsaps College Sports Hall of Fame.

Mr. King went to graduate school at Idaho State University, where he received the Master of Physical Education degree in Athletic Administration in 1983. As an intern in 1984, he worked in the intercollegiate athletics department at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. In 1992, Mr. King was awarded a postgraduate certificate by The Sports Management Institute’s Executive Program. His academic campus work was completed at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and the University of Southern California.

Mr. King is a native of Abingdon, VA. He is married to a San Antonio physician, Susan Marenda King, and is the father of two daughters, Tennison and CC.