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Suzanne Fox enters her eleventh season as Texas State's head women's basketball coach. In her previous 10 seasons, Fox has coached the Bobcats to 125 wins, including an 18-14 record, SLC tournament title and NCAA appearance in 2002-03.
Texas State's final win of the 2006-07 season marked yet another milestone as Fox recorded her 125th career victory as a Bobcat in a 79-71 win at Sam Houston State, becoming the third Texas State women's basketball head coach to win that many games. Despite a heartbreaking 78-77 overtime loss to Texas A&M-Corpus Christi in the SLC Tournament, the Bobcats still finished 18-12 overall and 11-5 in conference. The 18 wins tied Fox's career high at Texas State as the 'Cats finished better than .600 for the second-straight year, an achievement last reached by Linda Sharp in the 1992-93 and 1993-94 seasons. Fox also stretched her streak of finishing at .500 or better in conference play to five years with the 11-5 SLC mark.
In 2005-06 Texas State finished 17-11 (.608), finishing with a winning percentage above .600 for the first time since 1999-00. The Bobcats also had a 9-7 conference mark, extending Fox's streak of finishing .500 or better in SLC play to four years.
The 2004-05 season marked a milestone for Fox, who grabbed her 200th career victory on Jan. 15, 2005, at Louisiana-Monroe. Last season, the Bobcats finished third in the Southland Conference at 11-5.
In the Bobcats' NCAA Tournament season, Texas State finished 14-6 in conference play, which placed third behind Stephen F. Austin and Texas-San Antonio. The Bobcats' stumbled in to the 2002-03 season with a 1-7 start, but the Fox-led Bobcats won 11 of their last 13 en route to the NCAA's First Round.
The 2002-03 season was not the first 18-win season for Fox, however, as her Bobcats went 18-11 in 1999-2000, posting a Southland Conference mark of 12-6 and finished third in the SLC standings.
Before to coming to Texas State, Fox was the head coach at Abilene Christian for five seasons. Fox also served as Senior Woman Administrator at ACU for her last four years with her alma mater..
In her time as the Wildcats' head coach, Fox coached two National Players of the Year and two First Team All-Americans in addition to winning two LSC Titles. In addition to the conference titles and awards for her players, Fox brought home her own hardware in 1996, when she was named the 1995-96 WBCA National Coach of the Year.
Before Fox was named head coach at ACU, she served as an assistant to long-time head coach Burl McCoy.
Prior to her success in the coaching ranks, Fox played four seasons for ACU, garnering several honors in her time as a Wildcat. In her playing days, Fox was named GTE Second-Team Academic All-America, First-Team All-LSC, Conference MVP, All-Academic LSC and LSC Defensive Player of the Year.
Fox still ranks seventh on the all-time ACU career scoring list with 1,502 points and an 18-point average during her senior campaign.
Fox earned her bachelor's degree in physical education and math education in 1990 from Abilene Christian. As an NCAA post-graduate scholarship recipient, she also received her master's degree in school administration from ACU. Fox was awarded the ACU Trustee's Student Award in 1990 and was selected to speak at a GTE Academic All-America seminar in 1991.
Presently, Fox serves as the chair for the Carol Eckman Award committee. The award will be given to an active WBCA coach who best demonstrates the character of the late Carol Eckman, the mother of the collegiate women's basketball national championship.
Fox has served as a clinician for the NCAA's Youth Education Sports Program (YES) at the WBCA National Convention, and the Bobcat head coach was the WBCA Conference Captain for the Southland Conference for the last four years.
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