King went 3-0 with 25 strikeouts and a 2.31 ERA over 23 1/3 innings his freshman season at Wabash Valley College in Illinois. King went 8-3 with a 1.64 ERA over 68 1/3 innings his senior season at Frontier High School in Bakersfield. King is a viticulture and enology major at Hancock who plans to own a winery in the future.