King Saluted by the CSC
ALBANY, N.Y. – Former Russell Sage College Director of Athletic Communications Ann King was recently named a recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award by College Sports Communicators (CSC). The CSC Lifetime Achievement Awards are presented to members for distinguished career service who have served at least 25 years in the profession and who are retiring, have retired, or are leaving the athletic communications profession.
A decorated leader in college athletic communications and a passionate advocate for the profession and its people, King, receiving the prestigious honor posthumously, was inducted into the RSC Athletics Hall of Fame this past October. She spent 37 years as a sports information director, the final 15 of which were here at RSC.
King's fifth all-time CSC honor ties her for the most awards earned by a woman in the organization's history alongside Bernie Cafarelli, Debbie Copp, Mary Jo Haverbeck, Debby Jennings, Diane Nordstrom and Poe. She was 59 at the time of her passing in September 2023, following a courageous and public battle with cancer.
King, recognized as one of the Empire 8 Conference's legends as part of its 25th Anniversary celebration in 2023-2024, was extremely active with CSC, formerly known as CoSIDA, the profession's national organization. She was elected to the CoSIDA Hall of Fame in 2006 and was named the first recipient of the organization's Warren Berg Award in 2003. King was also selected as the 2018 recipient of the CoSIDA Mary Jo Haverbeck Award, which is presented annually to a CoSIDA member who is a pioneer in the field of sports information who has mentored and helped improve the level of ethnic and gender diversity within CoSIDA.
Prior to coming to RSC as the institution's first full-time Sports Information Director in the summer of 2009, King, who was posthumously awarded the Division III Commissioner's Association Daniel T. Dutcher Meritorious Service Award at the 2024 NCAA Convention, spent 17 and a half years as SID at The College of New Jersey and six years as SID at her alma mater, Drew University.
