Steve King joins the CCBC Essex women's soccer coaching staff after spending the previous 10 seasons at Johns Hopkins University where he was the women’s soccer assistant coach (August 2010-March 2020).

 

While at Hopkins, King was an essential part of a program that won six Centennial Conference championships (2010, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2019), while also advancing to the NCAA Division III Tournament Elite Eight five times (2010, 2012, 2013, 2017, 2019) and Final Four once (2014). During his tenure with the Blue Jays, King helped produce six Conference Player of the Year recipients and 11 First Team All-Americans. In addition, JHU was awarded Centennial Conference Coaching Staff of the Year honors four times (2011, 2012, 2017, 2018).

 

Prior to Johns Hopkins, King spent a season as an assistant coach at his alma mater, University of Maryland Baltimore County in 2009. As a member of former Knights head men’s soccer coach Pete Caringi’s squad at UMBC, King was a four year starter (2005 - 2008) making 66 consecutive appearances. King set the America East record for conference shutouts in a season (2005), finished in the Top 25 NCAA Division I for save percentage and goals against average (2005, 2007), and set the program Division I record for saves in a game (12) and consecutive minutes played (3,300). He would end his career with the Retrievers, finishing 3rd in school history in career shutouts, 4th in career saves, and 5th in career victories.

 

King played locally at Archbishop Curley High School, prior to attending UMBC, where he was an All-Maryland State selection in 2004 and club soccer with the Baltimore Casa Mia Bays. As the starting goalkeeper of the Bays for eight years, King would help win six Maryland State Championships, five Region I championships, and compete in four USYSA National Tournaments, winning two National Championships, as well as being awarded the USYSA Golden Glove in 2003 and 2004. 

 

King graduated from UMBC in 2009 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in American Studies and currently resides in Essex.