Britt King enters her second year on Huntington Ave., after spending more than 25 years as a fixture on the women's basketball scene, both as a player and as a coach. At Northeastern, King acts as both the recruiting and defensive coordinator. In her first season with the Huskies, King helped lead Northeastern to 17 wins, the team's most since the 1999-00 season, and helped to showcase a nine-win improvement from 2011-12. Last year, King also led a defense that held its opponents 61.9 points per game, and average of seven points less than the previous season.
Prior to Northeastern, King was the assistant coach and recruiting coordinator at Appalachian State from 2006-09. During her time with the Mountaineers, King helped to recruit four Southern Conference All-Freshman performers and worked as the defensive coordinator.
Prior to her stint at Appalachian State, King worked as an assistant coach at American University from 2004-06, where she also graduated with an MBA in in 1989.
King also possesses a plethora of head coaching experience, most recently at Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania from 2002-04. For four seasons from 1998-02 King guided Fresno State as the program's head coach. While with the Bulldogs, King recruited and developed five All-WAC conference performers, along with the 2001 WAC Co-Freshman of the Year, Aritta Lane. Her 2001 recruiting class was nationally ranked.
Before her time in Fresno King spent a season as the head coach at Coppin State, where she recruited future MEAC Player of the Year, Keisha Brooks. Her first head coaching gig came from 1992-97, when she guided the Division II University of District of Columbia Firebirds. King took the upstart program to national prominence, pushing UDC to a national ranking and an appearance in the NCAA tournament.
King served on the legislative committee of Women’s Basketball Coaches Association from 1994-96. She has also served as chairperson for the NCAA Division II East Regional Basketball Committee 1995-1996.
During the summer of 1999, she was an assistant coach for the World University Games women’s basketball squad. After a training camp at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colo., King accompanied the team to Spain where they went 3-0 in a pre-Games tournament in Madrid before heading to the competition in Palma de Mallorca, Spain.
It was King’s first coaching stint with USA Basketball, but she has previously been involved with the organization as a member of the U.S. Olympic Festival East Team, where she won a bronze medal in 1983. She was also a USA Women’s National Team Trials participant in 1986.
King got into the coaching game after a highly successful playing career. King spent four years as a star of the Providence College Friars from 1982-86. She was inducted into the Providence Hall of Fame in 2008. King left the Friars as the program's all time leading rebounder with 1,205 boards and still currently holds the record. She is also one of just three players in program history to record 1,000-career points and 1,000-career rebounds. During her time in Providence she earned All-Big East First Team honors (1985-86), All-Big East Second Team laurels (1984-85), Big East All-Tournament honors (1986) and was a KODAK District I All-American in 1985. King also earned Providence College Female Athlete of the Year in 1986.
Following her sterling collegiate career, King played professionally for El Masnou Club in Barcelona, Spain for one season. She was one of two Americans on the team and led the country in rebounding.
