ATLANTA – Oglethorpe University director of athletics Todd Brooks has announced Rob King as the next head women's soccer coach. King brings to Oglethorpe a coaching record filled with success, including multiple NCAA Division I conference championships, a Division II national championship and national coach of the year honors.
"I am extremely pleased to announce the appointment of Rob King as our next head women's soccer coach," said Brooks. "Coach King's vast experience, tremendous success, and national recognition make him an ideal selection for building a winning program. We are extremely excited about the program's future with Rob at the helm."
King comes most recently from Young Harris College where in four seasons he established the women's soccer program into a conference and national contender within the Peach Belt Conference. Under his tenure, King led the team to its first ever Peach Belt Conference tournament semifinal appearance, and in the classroom, the team won the athletic department's Adidas Promo Award for highest team grade-point average.
"I would like to thank President Nicholas Ladany and director of athletics Todd Brooks for affording me the opportunity to advance the women's soccer program at Oglethorpe University," said King. "I knew the fit was right the moment that I stepped on campus, and this was confirmed with each person I met during the visit. There is much work to be done and we are eager to begin."
From 2001 to 2015, King served Kennesaw State University in nearby Kennesaw, Georgia, as head women's soccer coach and ultimately assistant athletic director. In just his second season at Kennesaw State, and the second season of the program itself, King led the team to the NCAA Division II national championship, topping Franklin Pierce 2-0 in the final.
King won national coach of the year that season after leading the team to a 25-1 record, and the program won its last nine games without conceding a goal.
Kennesaw State transitioned to NCAA Division I in 2009, during and after which time King won multiple Peach Belt Conference titles, Atlantic Sun Conference titles, and participated in a pair of NCAA Division I national tournaments. Along the way at Kennesaw State, King has mentored several all-Americans for both academics and athletics and developed multiple Division I and II head coaches.
King earned a promotion to assistant athletic director at Kennesaw State in 2004. Charged with leading two special projects, he brought together community, corporate and nonprofit funding partners to design and build the $25 million Fifth Third Bank Stadium. Simultaneously, King wrote the bid to bring the 2011 NCAA Division I Women's College Cup to Kennesaw and for two years guided each component of the project.
Prior to Kennesaw State, King served as head women's and men's soccer coach at University of Montevallo in Montevallo, Alabama, from 1995 to 2001. There, he led the men's program to the 1999 Gulf South Conference title, and both teams were runners-up multiple times during the six-year span. King was the Gulf South Conference Coach of the Year in 1999 and was a 2020 University of Montevallo Athletics Hall of Fame Inductee.
King started his coaching career at Martin Methodist College in Pulaski, Tennessee, in 1992, and his men's team won the 1993 NSCAA national championship.
King graduated from the University of Alabama in Huntsville in 1991 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in psychology after completing his studies at Brunel University in London.
