The College of New Jersey's sports information director, Ann
King will be honored with the Scoop Hudgins Outstanding SID
Award on December 4 at the All-America Football Foundation's 56th
Banquet of Champions at the Hyatt Regency in Princeton.
Also earning the Scoop Hudgins Outstanding Sports Information Director
at the Banquet of Champions is Colgate University SID, Bob Cornell, a
former Assistant Sports Information Director at Princeton University
until 1976.
King is currently in her 17th year as a sports information director,
including the last 12 years as SID at The College of New Jersey. Prior
to coming to the Ewing campus in February of 1992, she served for six
years as SID at her alma mater, Drew University in Madison, NJ.
As SID, King handles all publicity for the College's 21 varsity sports
and writes and edits all media guides and event programs, while also
maintaining The College's athletic web site. She is a member of the
College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) and the Eastern
College Athletic Directors Sports Information Directors Association.
During the summer of 1999, she was named to CoSIDA's Board of Directors
and served a three-year term as a College Division Representative from
1999-2002. She was just the tenth female named to CoSIDA's Board of
Directors in the 47-year history of the organization.
Over the last 12 years, 16 of her publications have received CoSIDA
awards, including five Best in the Nation laurels. She currently serves
on CoSIDA's Site Selection Committee and served on the group's Workshop
Social Committee, where she served as the Vice Chair of the committee
for three years. She has also served on the CoSIDA Digest and Website
Editorial Committee, the Workshop Program Committee, and the Academic
All-America Committee.
In 1995, she was named to the Board of Directors of the Eastern College
Athletic Conference-Sports Information Directors Association (ECAC-SIDA)
and served as the organization's secretary until 2002, when she was
named the organization's first vice president and now serves as the
group's president for the 2003-2004 academic year.
During the summer of 2003, she was named the recipient of CoSIDA's
Warren Berg Award, which is presented annually to a CoSIDA college
division member who has made outstanding contributions to the field of
sports information, and who by his or her activities, has brought
dignity and prestige to the profession. With her selection, she is the
first female SID to receive to honor in the 19-year history of the
award.
She also holds membership in the Women's Sports Foundation, the United
States Basketball Writers Association, and the National Collegiate
Baseball Writers Association, and is a former member of the Middle
Atlantic Conference Games Committee. She also served as a regional
coordinator for the ECAC-SIDA Hometown Handbook and was a coordinator
for the Division III Metro New York-New Jersey Baseball All-Star team
for two years. She has served as a voter for Don Hansen's Football
Gazette All-America Football Team for the past six years.
One of the founders of FAME (Female Athletic Media Relations
Executives), she has been active in the creation of an organization
whose mission is to discuss issues facing women in the sports media
relations field and to develop appropriate strategies to deal with those
issues. FAME members are committed to encouraging and mentoring all
women working in athletic media relations as a career.
Since arriving at TCNJ, she has served as host SID for 13 NCAA
Championship events, 43 NCAA Regional tournaments as well as numerous
conference tournaments.
Over the past 12 years, she has made several presentations at both the
ECAC-SIDA and CoSIDA Workshops on various topics from "Working With
Women's Sports," "Hosting an NCAA Championship," "Office Organization",
"Handling Season Overlap", "Promoting Non-Revenue Sports," "Attaining
National Press," served as a panelist for the Sears Collegiate Champions
panel at the 1999 CoSIDA Workshop, and helped coordinate the CoSIDA chat
sessions and table topics for the 2000 and 2001 workshops. At the 2003
CoSIDA workshop, she served as a panelist, talking about
"Professionalism in our Profession."
Named the 2003 recipient of CoSIDA's Warren Berg Award, King received
the award in Cleveland at the CoSIDA workshop and becomes the 19th
College Division SID chosen for the distinction, while also becoming the
first female SID tapped for the honor.
A 1986 graduate of Drew University with a B.A. in American Studies,
King resides in Monroe, NJ with her husband, Tracy King, the assistant
athletic director and SID at Stevens Institute of Technology. She is the
eldest daughter of Bob Bready of Wilbraham, MA and Judy O'Neill of
Claremont, CA.