Steve King

Steve King, a 1984 Illinois Wesleyan University graduate who is a member of the Illinois Amateur Softball Association Hall of Fame, will serve as interim head softball coach at IWU in 2008.

King, who served as the team’s hitting coach in 2007, took over for Lloyd Hulit in July 2007 and fills the one-year role as the University conducts a search to fill a new full-time physical education faculty position as softball coach beginning in 2009.

A graduate of Normal (Ill.) Community High School, King had a glittering baseball career at IWU from 1981-84. His career .378 batting average is fifth best at the school and he ranks eighth in runs scored (121) and slugging percentage (.582), tied for second in triples (10), 16th in hits (154) and 18th with 100 runs batted in. His .410 batting mark in 1983 is 11th best at the school for a season and he is also 19th with his .393 average in 1982.

In 2005, King was inducted into the Illinois Amateur Softball Association Hall of Fame. His extensive softball background began after college, when he played for the Bloomington Hearts fastpitch team for many years before spending five seasons with The Farm of Madison, Wis. Over a period of a dozen years, King played on six different USA teams, playing on the United States squad in the Pan Am Games in 1991 (in Cuba) and 1999 (in Canada); in the World Games (in the Philippines); and competing in three Pan Am qualifier tournaments (in Argentina, Venezuela and Mexico).

King, who is employed full-time at Bloomington’s State Farm Insurance as a manager in the systems department, is married to Laurel and they are the parents of daughters Jamie (14) and Emily (9).