King Announced as ACAC North Women’s Basketball Coach of the Year

On March 4, 2020 at the ACAC Women's Basketball Championship banquet in Medicine Hat, Chris King  was announced as the ACAC Women's Basketball North Coach of the Year. 

This is the fourth time King has received the Coach of the Year award. King is a Train to Compete certified coach with multiple professional development courses completed. He has coached the women's basketball program at Lakeland for the past 12 seasons and the 2019–2020 season will mark the 10th consecutive year that he has led the women's basketball team into the post season. In the 2018 – 2019 season, King led the Rustlers to an ACAC bronze medal, the first time Lakeland has ever earned a medal in women's basketball. This current season, the Rustlers women's team finished the regular season with a 19 and 5 record and a second place finish in the north division. 

"Chris is a very passionate coach," commented Alan Rogan, Lakeland's athletic director. "He invests a significant amount of time into the student athletes and women's basketball program and has set very high expectations for his team which he works with the student athletes to achieve."

King has worked with both the Alberta and Saskatchewan Provincial Basketball programs filling roles as assistant and head coach on multiple provincial teams as well as a Canada games team.  He also runs the Rustlers Youth Basketball program in Lloydminster that focuses on development of skills predominantly in children from Kindergarten to grade 7.  During the summer King also oversees the Rustlers Club Basketball program and multiple summer camps in the Lloydminster community.

Congratulations Coach King on this prestigious award.