Denise King enters her fifth season at theMount in 2013-14. King serves as the program’s recruitingcoordinator, heads community service projects, serves as anacademic mentor and helps with scouting reports of opponents.
King helped lead the Mount to a 15-16 record last season and theprogram’s first trip to the NEC Semifinals since the 2000-01season.
During the summer of 2012, King coached the women’s teamas part of the Global Sports Academy Summer Collegiate BasketballTour. King guided a group of college players, including Mount guardAshley Christie, to a 5-0 record while competing against teams inBelgium, Germany and France.
In 2011-12, King helped the Mount to a six-game improvementafter the Mountaineers posted a 14-16 overall mark and a 10-8record in league play. It was the most overall wins since the2008-09 year and the squad's first winning record in NEC play since2006-07.
Working primarily with guards, King helped develop Selina Manninto an All-NEC performer who ranked in the Top-10 in steals in thenation as a sophomore and junior. She has also coached twoAll-Northeast Conference second-team selections, a 1,000-pointscorer and one player who played professionally abroad.
King came to Emmitsburg after serving as an assistant coachat Rhode Island for four seasons. She was responsible foracademics, team travel, equipment, film exchange, scouting andrecruiting for the Rams. URI participated in the A-10 Tournamentall four years and won its first round game in each of the last twoseasons to advance to the quarterfinals. King coached two1,000-point scorers at Rhode Island, three all-conferenceselections and one A-10 All-Defensive team player.
A Catonsville, Md., native, King was a four-year standout playerat Rhode Island. She is one of only 18 players to reach the1,000-point plateau with the Rams and currently sits in 14th placeon the program’s all-time career scoring list (1,023). Inaddition to her 1,000 points, she left Rhode Island fourth incareer 3-pointers made (118), fourth in free throw percentage(.772, 224-290), fourth in assists (339) and ninth in 3-pointpercentage (.312, 118-378).
In her senior year, King averaged 12.4 points per game, led theteam with 4.2 assists per game and made 49three-pointers (ninth most in team history) to earn a spot onthe All-Atlantic-10 third team. A team captain in her final twoseasons, she set a single-game program record for free throws madein a game with 14 against Massachusetts on Jan. 30, 2003 and alsoholds the seventh-best mark with 11 made from the charity stripeagainst Northeastern on Dec. 7, 2002. King also rankssixth (124, 2002-03) and eighth (119, 2003-04) on thesingle-season chart for assists while also holding the eighth-bestfree throw percentage for a season (.791, 106-134, 2002-03) atRhode Island.
Recipient of the University of Rhode Island Althea Gibson Awardin 2004, King represented the university at the 2003 NCAALeadership Conference and was inducted into the Phi Sigma NationalHonors Society, the Golden Key International Honor Society andOmicron Delta Kappa Honor Society. In addition, King was active inthe community, participating in the Rhody Reads program, serving asa member of the Student Athletic Advisory Committee andvolunteering at the Special Olympics and the World Scholar AthleticGames.
