Cy King enters his seventh season as Head Tennis Coach for the Pacers. Coach King is a Raleigh native and graduate of Broughton High School. He played number one singles on the 1970 NCHSAA 4A State Championship Team and paired with Jim Dorsett to win the state doubles title. King earned a Bachelor of Arts in History at North Carolina State University and lettered four year's as a member of the university's tennis team. In January 2005 King was inducted into the North Carolina Tennis Hall of Fame.

Coach King served as Tennis Director for the Raleigh Parks system for 30 years beginning in 1974 and earned numerous awards as a tennis professional. He also served as General Manager of the Raleigh Racquet Club.

The Southern Tennis Association recognized King as the state's Volunteer of the Year in 1993. He was presented the inaugural Mary Milam Lifetime Achievement Award for Outstanding contributions to Tennis in North Carolina in 1996. He was selected as the United States Professional Tennis Association's North Carolina Professional of the Year in 1996. King was selected News and Observer's Tar Heel of the Week in May 1997. During King's tenure with the City of Raleigh, the parks system was selected as Outstanding Parks and Recreation Program in North Carolina in 2001.

King volunteered for local, state, regional and national committees of the United States Tennis Association (USTA). He is Past-President of the North Carolina Tennis Association and the North Carolina Tennis Foundation. He served as a Delegate-at-Large on the USTA Southern Section's Board of Directors and served on national USTA committees. King currently works for the USTA as the Tennis Service Representative for North Carolina.