Ralph Kim Drollinger was born on April 20,1954 and is an American clergyman and retired professional basketball player, and leader of the "White House Bible Study Group," a study group sponsored by 10 cabinet members which held weekly meetings each Wednesday during the Trump administration.
22 Facts About Ralph Drollinger
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Ralph Drollinger later received a Masters of Divinity degree from The Master's Seminary.
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Ralph Drollinger played basketball at Grossmont High School and was the CIF Southern Section MVP, as his team won the 1972 CIF championship as a high school All-American.
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Ralph Drollinger was the first player in NCAA history to go to four Final Four tournaments.
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Ralph Drollinger played for two national championship teams under coach John Wooden and after his first season, won the Seymour Armond Award as UCLA's most outstanding freshman.
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Ralph Drollinger played on America' World Cup Basketball team in 1978.
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Ralph Drollinger chose to forgo the NBA during those years to instead play with Athletes in Action, an evangelistic basketball team that toured the world and preached the gospel at halftimes and represented America in the 1978 FIBA World Championship.
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Ralph Drollinger was selected with the 17th pick in the seventh round in 1976 by the Boston Celtics, with the 1st pick of the eighth round in 1977 by the New York Nets, and finally with the 17th pick of the fifth round in 1978 by the Seattle SuperSonics.
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Ralph Drollinger was the first Dallas Maverick ever in the history of the then new NBA franchise.
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Ralph Drollinger played in only six games due to a knee injury which led to his retirement from basketball in March 1981.
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Dobson and Ralph Drollinger administered CPR, but to no avail; Maravich was pronounced dead upon arrival at the hospital.
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Ralph Drollinger was selected as one of the Fabulous 50 Basketball Players by the San Diego Hall of Champions in 2011.
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Ralph Drollinger helped found and was the Executive Director of Sports Outreach America, an umbrella trade organization of American church and parachurch sports ministries, such as the Fellowship of Christian Athletes, Athletes in Action, and Pro Athletes Outreach.
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Ralph Drollinger founded Sports Spectrum Magazine, a bi-monthly print magazine that features the testimony of Christian athletes, the "Path To Victory" Sports New Testament in conjunction with Biblica, Ralph Drollinger founded, produced and financed Julius Erving's Sports Focus, a weekly one-half hour television anthology on ESPN featuring the testimony of Christian athletes and hosted by NBA player Julius Erving.
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In 1997, Ralph Drollinger founded Capitol Ministries, a ministry organization that provides Bible studies, evangelism and discipleship to political leaders.
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Ralph Drollinger leads Capitol Ministries in Washington, DC and what is referred to internally as The Members Bible Study in the US Capitol.
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Ralph Drollinger leads several senior Trump administration officials in a similar group at the White House, and provides bible study print-outs for Donald Trump.
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Ralph Drollinger is not associated with The Fellowship due to what he perceives as their unbiblical teaching.
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Ralph Drollinger is a conservative evangelical Christian who describes his belief that there should indeed be an "institutional" separation of Church and State, but that the Church should still "influence" the State.
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Ralph Drollinger is married to Danielle Madison, the founding and former executive director of California's Allied Business PAC, with whom he shares three children and seven grandchildren.
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Ralph Drollinger is the son of the founder of Adventure16, a retail chain of mountaineering specialty stores located throughout Southern California.
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Ralph Drollinger is a world-class mountaineer and is the first person to have climbed every peak on the main ridge of the Sierra Nevada between Olancha and Sonora Pass, California, the 250 mile section of the ridge commonly referred to as the High Sierra.