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October 20, 2009 03:00 PM | General
King
| Third season Head Coach (304) 293-3718 jimmy.king@mail.wvu.edu |
Hometown: Morgantown, W.Va. College: Bucknell, 1990 Family: Single |
Ed Pastilong announced Jimmy King as the new Mountaineer women’s rowing coach on August 18, 2007.
“We’re thrilled to have Jimmy King as our new rowing coach,” says Pastilong. “He has a lot of coaching experience, especially in the BIG EAST. I’m confident that Jimmy will continue the success of our rowing program.”
King comes to WVU after spending the previous 10 years as assistant crew coach at Georgetown. There, King directed the varsity heavyweight squad, as well as the day-to-day running of the women’s heavyweight program.
“There are tremendous resources available to the program, not only within the athletic department, but from the university as a whole, which makes me very excited about this opportunity to join West Virginia University." King says. “I am excited to come to West Virginia, and I am looking forward to working with the student-athletes and getting the season underway.”
At Georgetown, King also provided administrative support to the part-time coaches of the women’s lightweight program, and worked with the men’s crew teams. In 1999, King helped to institute the lightweight program at Georgetown at the direction of the athletic department and served as coach from 1999-2004, when he moved solely to coaching the heavyweight squad.
In 2001, in addition to his coaching job at Georgetown, King served as coach of the U.S. National Team Lightweight Women’s Pair which earned a gold medal at the USRowing Championships in the Elite 2- and Lightweight 2- and a silver medal at the FISA World Rowing Championships in WL2-.
Before coaching at Georgetown, King spent a year at George Washington from 1996-97 as head coach for the men’s varsity crew squad. King also served as assistant coach then head coach of the men’s and women’s teams at Bucknell from 1990-96.
King also coached the Navy rowing camp from 2005-07. He is a member of the Collegiate Rowing Coaches Association and of the U.S. Rowing organization, where he is certified level II.
He is a 1990 graduate of Bucknell, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in sociology with a concentration in legal studies.