Lynn King is in his ninth year as director of athletics for University of the Pacific. He began his tenure in March 2000.

During his time at Pacific, King has seen the Tigers claim 15 Big West Conference team titles. Pacific has also made 28 NCAA Championship appearances under King's guidance. In King's first year at Pacific, the Tigers ranked first among NCAA Division I-AAA schools in the national Sears Directors Cup standings in 2000-01, surpassing all 78 other non-football Division I universities.

The Tigers have also excelled in the classroom since King's arrival, boasting six CoSida Academic All-Americans and 37 CoSida Academic All-District Team athletes since 2000-01. In 2002-03 alone, four Pacific teams were recognized with national team academic awards

King is currently leading Pacific on a campaign to build two new facilities (a multipurpose gymnasium [the Janssen-Lagorio Gymnasium] for athletics and recreation and a tennis clubhouse), expand the Alex G. Spanos Center to include an athletics Hall of Fame and substantially increase the athletics endowment. This campaign is already well underway as construction of Klein Family Field and renovations to Chris Kjeldsen Pool have been completed. In addition, construction of the Janssen-Lagorio Gymnasium is scheduled to begin during the 2008-09 academic year.

Before coming to Pacific, King chaired the NCAA Division I men's and women's track and field subcommittee from 1995 to 1999 and served as Drake's director of intercollegiate athletics since 1990. Under the leadership of King, Drake's Bulldog Scholarship Fund grew in both record numbers and money pledged in support of Drake athletics. Among his accomplishments at Drake, King played a major role in raising $12.5 million for design and construction of the 7,000-seat Knapp Multi Purpose Center. King also spearheaded successful efforts that enabled Drake's athletics program to be officially certified by the NCAA Committee on Athletics Certification in the spring of 1998. The certification followed the committee's review of Drake's athletics program self-study and review of a report by a peer-review team that visited the campus in November of 1997.

King previously served as director of intercollegiate athletics for University of Wisconsin in Oshkosh and assistant athletic director for facilities at the University of Northern Iowa, of which he is an alumnus.

King began his career as head coach for men's track and cross country, first at Rochester Community College and then at University of Northern Iowa, where he was also an instructor of health and physical education.

While at Northern Iowa he coached 11 conference team champions, 25 All-Americans and two national champions. He was named regional or conference coach of the year 10 times and referee of the Drake Relays in 1984. King earned bachelor's and master's degrees in physical education.

He was a member of the executive committee and a director of the Greater Des Moines Sports Authority, a director of the Iowa Games board, and the 1995 National Junior Olympics Organizing Committee.

He and his wife, Jan, are parents of two adult children, Jason and Kelly.