Jim Spalding has been a staple of the Bellarmine University Athletic Department since his basketball-playing days (1951-55). A three-time Kentucky Intercollegiate Athletic Conference MVP, Spalding led the Knights to three state tournaments. After receiving his bachelor's degree in biology in 1955, he earned a master's in Education from the University of Kentucky. He has since served Bellarmine as assistant baskeball coach (1957-66), head basketball coach (1966-71), men's cross country/track coach (1961-75), men's tennis coach (1961-62), men's golf coach (1996-97), and last but certainly not least, director of athletics (1971-94). He, too, helped to found the league, and has served the GLVC in countless ways throughout the years.