Limestone University Women's Basketball

Fox has guided the program to unprecedented heights during his tenure.   In just the last five years, Fox has led the Saints to an impressive 143-20 overall record, a 97-5 Conference Carolinas mark, five straight Conference Carolinas Regular Season Championships,  four Conference Carolinas Tournament Championships, five straight NCAA Tournament appearances, two NCAA Southeast Regional Championships, and trips to the 2014 and 2015 NCAA Elite Eight. Additionally, the team has finished in the national Top-10 twice over the past five seasons.   On November 17, 2012, the three-time Conference Carolinas Coach of the Year became the programs all-time leader in career wins with a 91-62 decision over Coker. On the heels of back-to-back 30-win campaigns, Fox enters the 2016-17 season with a 236-141 (.626) career record while posting seven straight winning seasons.   A year after advancing to the national semifinals, Fox led his team to an unblemished regular season for the first time in program history during the 2015-16 season. The Saints started the year with 30 consecutive wins to sweep the Conference Carolinas Regular Season and Tournament Championships for a fourth time in five years.   Limestone spent a majority of the season ranked No. 2 in the USA TODAY Sports Coaches Poll and earned a top seed in the NCAA Southeast Regional for a second consecutive season. The Blue and Gold would finish the year with a 30-1 overall record and No. 11 in the final national rankings.     The Saints dominated the landscape during the 2014-15 season as they posted a 34-2 overall record, a 22-0 mark in league play and a second straight trip to the NCAA Elite Eight. With an impressive 33-game win streak that ran deep in to the postseason, Limestone earned the right to host the 2015 NCAA Southeast Regional as the top overall seed.   After opening the NCAA Tournament with a pair of double digit wins, the Saints laid claim to their second straight NCAA Southeast Regional Championship with a 72-38 win over Anderson in the regional finals. Limestone would then move on to record a come-from-behind 61-58 decision over fourth-ranked Lewis in the national quarterfinals to make the programs first Final Four appearance.   Limestone spent the entire 2014-15 season in the national rankings, starting the year ranked 11 th in the USA TODAY Sports Coaches Poll. The Saints fell to No. 15 briefly, but steadily climbed all the way to No. 2 entering the NCAA Tournament. The Blue and Gold finished the year ranked No. 3.     In what was supposed to have been a rebuilding year for the Saints during the 2013-14 season, Limestone went on to win the NCAA Southeast Regional Championship and advanced to the Elite Eight in Erie, Pa. for the first time in team history. The Saints went 27-6 and captured its third straight Conference Carolinas Regular Season Championship with a 16-2 league mark.   In 2012-13, Fox guided the team to a 27-4 overall record and a 21-1 ledger in league play while climbing to No. 8 in the national rankings and recording the programs first two NCAA Tournament wins. The Saints advanced to the Sweet 16 for the first time in team history before falling to nationally top-ranked Clayton State in the regional finals.     The achievements of the last three seasons have come on the heels of a 25-7 mark during the 2011-12 campaign in which the Saints swept the Conference Carolinas Regular Season and Tournament Championships and secured a berth in the NCAA Tournament for the first time in team history. Fox was named the 2011-12 Conference Carolinas Coach of the Year.   The road to success began during the 2010-11 season in which the Saints posted a 19-9 overall record, marking only the second time in team history and the first time in 25 years that the team finished with less than 10 losses in a season. One of the biggest highlights in program history occurred that season when the Saints posted a 74-68 win over Mount Olive live from the Timken Center on CBS College Sports on January 29, 2011.   That win kick started the program as the Blue and Gold has since posted an amazing 154-22 overall record and has been nearly unbeatable at home with an incredible 81-7 mark at the Timken Center over that same time frame.       Fox guided the team to a 17-11 record during the 2009-10 season, the most wins in a season since the 2000-01 campaign, two years after leading the Saints to their first winning season over the previous six years with a 16-15 overall record and an 11-9 conference mark in 2007-08.   Foxs team won 22 games during the 2005-06 and 2006-07 campaigns. Although the team finished below the .500 mark in both seasons, they collected two more wins than the program had put together over the previous four years combined. In 2005-06, Fox guided the team to a 12-17 record to snap a string of three straight seasons with single digit wins.   In his first full year at the helm of Saints in 2004-05, Fox finished with a 4-23 record a season after posting a 2-12 mark when he inherited the team midway through the 2003-04 season. Before being named head coach of the womens basketball team, Fox served as an assistant coach on Larry Epperlys staff with the mens team for 2 ½ seasons.   During his time at Limestone, Fox has been named Conference Carolinas Coach of the Year three times and has coached a pair of All-Americans in Alicia Brookins and Jasmine Kearse. He has mentored four preseason All-Americans, two National Players of the Week, two First-Team All-Region selections, a Second-Team All-Region honoree, and a Southeast Region Player of the Year. A total of seven players have been named to the NCAA Southeast Region All-Tournament Team during his tenure while Kearse has twice earned NCAA Southeast Region Most Valuable Player honors.     At the conference level, Fox has coached a Conference Carolinas Player of the Year, a two-time Conference Carolinas Defensive Player of the Year, one Conference Carolinas Freshman of the Year, 11 First-Team All-Conference selections, six Second-Teamers, three Third-Teamers, five Honorable Mention All-Conference award winners, 14 Conference Carolinas All-Tournament recipients, four Conference Carolinas Tournament Most Valuable Players, and 18 Player of the Week selections. .   Foxs student-athletes have been just as successful in the classroom as 13 players have been named to the Conference Carolinas Academic All-Conference Team while 92 student-athletes have earned a spot on the Conference Carolinas Presidential Honor Roll during his tenure. Maurissa Lester became the first player in team history to win the prestigious NCAA Elite 89 Award at the 2014 Elite Eight, the first Academic All-American, and was a 2016 NCAA Woman of the Year Finalist.       Prior to joining the Limestone coaching staff, he played one season with Division I Western Illinois and two seasons with Danville Area Community College before suiting up for Limestone his senior year. In just one season with the Saints, Fox broke the single season school record with 187 assists while also setting Top-10 single season marks in three-point percentage (44.4% - 2 nd ), three-pointers (67 - 4 th ), points (395 - 5 th ), and free throw percentage (83.2% - 5 th ).   He graduated from Limestone College in 2001 with a Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Studies. He currently resides in Gaffney with his wife, Marie, and their children, C.J. and Ryann Elizabeth.