Danika Cox
Women's Coach
Danika Cox begins her first season as the head women's tennis coach and assistant women's basketball coach at Marietta College.
Cox, a 2004 graduate of Cumberland College in Williamsburg, Kentucky, joins the Pioneers after two seasons with Oakland City (Ind.) University. She helped the Mighty Oaks win back-to-back NCCAA MidEast Region Championships in 2006 and 2006. Oakland City went on to finish second and third, respectively, in the NCCAA National Tournament.
In 2004-05, Cox was an assistant coach for Wolfe County High School in Campton, Ky., where she led the junior varsity team to a 17-2 record.
Cox began her collegiate playing career in 2000-01 at Western Kentucky in Bowling Green, Ky. She lettered as a freshman with the Hilltoppers and helped them qualify for the National Invitational Tournament. Cox then transferred to Cumberland for her final three seasons. The Patriots qualified for the NAIA National Tournament in 2002 and 2004. In 2004, they were the Mid-South Conference Champions and finished 28-4. Cox, a three-year letterwinner at Cumberland, was given All-Mid-South Conference honorable mention in 2003 and 2004.
Cox earned a Bachelor of Science in movement and leisure studies from Cumberland in 2004 and a Masters of Science in management from Oakland City in 2006. She has gained further coaching experience by working an assortment of camps around the Ohio and Kentucky border.
Cox lives in Marietta. |
(740) 376-4669
danika.cox@marietta.edu
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