Ralph Drollinger

Drollinger attended Grossmont High School in La Mesa and the University of California, Los Angeles, He later received a Masters of Divinity degree from The Master's Seminary. ==Basketball==

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. He was a and center and played collegiately at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). He was the first player in NCAA history to go to four Final Four tournaments. He 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. Drollinger was the first Dallas Maverick ever in the history of the then new NBA franchise. He signed with the Dallas Mavericks in June 1980 as a free agent before they had hired Dick Motta as the head coach, motivated by his desire to attend Dallas Theological Seminary during his playing days. He played in only six games due to a knee injury which led to his retirement from basketball in March 1981. In the Mavs' inaugural season in 1980–81, he averaged 2.5 points, 3.2 rebounds and 2.3 assists per game. He was selected as one of the Fabulous 50 Basketball Players by the San Diego Hall of Champions in 2011. ==Career statistics==

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After his brief injury-plagued professional career, Drollinger founded and participated in a variety of sports related ministries. He 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. He 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, He also 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. == Capitol ministries ==

In 1997, Drollinger founded Capitol Ministries, a ministry organization that provides Bible studies, evangelism and discipleship to political leaders. The organization has founded ministries in over 40 US State Capitols since then. Drollinger also leads several senior Trump administration officials in a similar group at the White House, and provides bible study print-outs for Donald Trump. He is not associated with The Fellowship due to what he perceives as their unbiblical teaching. By 2019 Capitol Ministries had established chapters in Mexico, Honduras, Paraguay, Costa Rica and Uruguay and was planning on opening new chapters in Nicaragua and Panama. Drollinger himself has travelled to Latin America to meet with local politicians. In March 2019 he had a breakfast meeting with members of the Legislative Assembly of Costa Rica and on 19 July 2019, after being personally invited by Nicaraguan president Daniel Ortega, Drollinger gave a speech at a political event in Managua that celebrated the 40th anniversary of the Sandinista Revolution. == Political philosophy ==

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. Drollinger is also on record as being anti-LGBTQ, anti-women's rights, anti-immigration (he supports family separation at the border), a climate change denier, and declaring Catholicism as "one of the primary false religions of the world." In March 2020, Drollinger generated controversy when he appeared to link the COVID-19 pandemic with God's wrath and homosexuality. He later stated that he was misinterpreted and that he did not "believe that homosexuality played any role whatsoever in the coronavirus." ==Personal life==

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. He is also the son of the founder of Adventure16, a retail chain of mountaineering specialty stores located throughout Southern California. 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. ==Publications==

• Rebuilding America: The Biblical Blueprint == See also ==