Huntington College

Track & Field

Meet the Coaches

Tom King - Head Coach, 34th year

Coach King came to Huntington College in 1970, and is in his 34th year coaching the men’s and women’s cross country and track and field programs. During this time, King has been selected by his peers as Mid-Central Conference Coach of the Year 30 times, District 21 Coach of the Year seven times, NCCAA (National Christian College Athletics Association) Coach of the Year two times, and NAIA (National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics) Regional administrator of the year in 1995. Actively involved in the sport, he served as chair of the Track and Field Committee of District 21 from 1991-94, and of the Cross Country Committee of District 21 from 1992-94. He has seen his athletes earn over 40 All-American honors, including four-time national shot put champion Jim Arnett, two-time national champion John Ngure and national runners-up Danielle Vohs and Jenny Keil. He has also coached over 20 All-American Scholar Athletes. In 1999, his men’s cross country team finished sixth at the NAIA National Championships, the highest team finish by any HC athletic team at that time and second highest finish to date. His women's cross country squad has qualified for the national championships a number of times.

King received his AB degree in Political Science from Ashland University in Ohio. While attending Ashland, he was a distance runner on the track team and ran second for four years in cross country. He has done post-graduate work at The Ohio State University and Ball State University. King served as Huntington College athletic director from 1987-95, and was a HC Centennial Medallion Award Recipient in 1997. In 2001, Coach King was inducted in the Huntington College Athletic Hall of Fame. He and his wife, Jan, have three married children, Rollin, Doris and Dan, and have two granddaughters.

Bethany Doyle - Assistant Coach, 3rd year

Coach Doyle enters her third year as an assistant coach with the Foresters. She is a 2000 graduate of Huntington College with a BA in Journalism. Doyle was a four-year letter winner for the Forester track and field program from 1996-2000 (then known as Bethany Manter), specializing in the throws and the pole vault. She currently spends her time coaching the throws and sprints and is in charge of meet entries and other administrative duties.

While at Huntington, Doyle contributed to team successes, helping lead the Foresters to three MCC Championship titles. She was All-MCC three times and a four-time NAIA national qualifier – twice indoor with the 20# weight and twice outdoor in the hammer. Her distance of 148-03 in the hammer is second all-time at HC. Doyle is also fourth all-time in the discus and sixth in the shot put. She began pole vaulting her junior year when it became a scored event for women. Doyle owns the school record in that event with a height of 9-0.25. Doyle was also Indiana Little State champion in the hammer her senior year and runner-up her junior year.

After graduation, Doyle spent her summer interning in the communication department at USA Track and Field in Indianapolis, Ind. Following that summer, she spent a year at Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill., as a sports information director for a few of the Wildcat athletic teams, working many Big Ten Conference sporting events. Doyle came to work for Huntington College in August 2001, and serves as the Assistant Director of Public Relations in the Advancement Office. In June 2002, she married fellow HC graduate Stephen Doyle. (She threw her bouquet like a discus!) The Doyle's currently reside in Huntington.

Greg Byrum - Assistant Coach, 2nd year

Coach Byrum enters his second year as an assistant coach with the Foresters. He is a 2002 graduate of Huntington College with a BS in Mathematics Education. Byrum was a letter-winner in cross country and track for the Foresters, and was named an NAIA All-American Scholar Athlete in cross country. He also holds membership in Chi Alpha Sigma, the athletic honor society at HC. Byrum now spends his time coaching the distance crew as well as the long jump and triple jump. Byrum is a high school mathematics teacher at Huntington North High School and is engaged to be married in June to senior mid-distance runner and NAIA national qualifier Nicole Jacob.