Kristin King was a four-sport athlete at Pique High School in Ohio, and played softball and hockey at Dartmouth. In softball she the team MVP in 1999 and 2002, while in hockey, she was first-team All-Ivy League in her junior and senior years, and second-team in her freshman and sophomore years. After graduating from Dartmouth in 2002 with a degree in sociology she played with the Mississauga Ice Bears and the Oakville Ice of the National Women’s Hockey League. King played for the US at the 2004 and 2005 World Championships, winning a gold medal in 2005.