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Cox was named the Women’s Basketball
Coaches Association (WBCA) Region IX
Coach of the Year in 2003 and was named
the Mid-Florida Conference Coach of the
Year on three different occasions.
In addition to his six seasons at Daytona
Beach, Cox served as the head coach at
Valencia Community College in Orlando,
Fla., for eight years. He became the first
full-time head coach at Valencia in 1989
and compiled a 144-97 record, including
four seasons with 20 or more wins and
three state tournament appearances.
Cox’s overall record at the junior college
level is an impressive 291-138 for a win-
ning percentage of .678.
During his junior college tenure at both
Daytona and Valencia, 44 out of his 58
sophomores graduated and most contin-
ued their basketball careers at NCAA
Division I and II programs.
At Clayton State, Cox has built the Laker
women’s basketball program into one of
the top NCAA programs in the country.
Earlier this season, he captured his 250th
Campus Review
January 31, 2014
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NCAADivision II victory, and he current-
ly ranks among the winningest coaches at
the D-II level.
Entering the 2013-14 season, the Lakers
were on an unbelievable three-year run,
which included a 96-6 overall record and
a 52-1 mark in Peach Belt Conference
play.
During that three-year span, the program
won three straight Peach Belt Conference
Championships, a Peach Belt Conference
Tournament Championship, advanced to
three NCAA Division II National
Tournaments, advanced to two NCAA
Division II Eight Eights and won a NCAA
Division II National Championship.
Cox has been Peach Belt Conference
Coach of the Year four times, NCAA
Division II Southeast Region Coach of the
Year three times and National Coach of
the Year one time.
In his 10 years at Clayton State, Cox holds
a 256-54 record (.826). His teams have
won six Peach Belt Conference
Championships (2005, 2007, 2008, 2011,
2012, 2013), four Peach Belt Conference
Tournament Championships (2005, 2007,
2010, 2013), four NCAA Division II
Regional Championships (2007, 2009,
2011, 2013) and the 2011 NCAADivision
II National Championship. His teams
have advanced to the NCAA Division II
National Tournament for nine straight
seasons.
Cox earned a Bachelor of Science degree
in Biology from Eckerd College in St.
Petersburg, Fla. He later earned a
Master’s Degree in Exercise Physiology
and Wellness from the University of
Central Florida. He and his wife Ruth
reside in Decatur, Ga.
writing and partnering is in the works for
the organization.
Just this year alone, Half Step 2 Help has
hosted a clothing drive, a Thanksgiving
dinner to feed the homeless, career coach-
ing and business council, and Trisomy 9
Mosaic Syndrome outreach.
“We helped more than 200 people this
year. Many people were responsible for
this success and I am very grateful,” says
White.
From an organizational standpoint,
TRUST also created a logo, mission state-
ment, and wrote a constitution during the
fall 2013 semester. In addition, an appli-
cation to join the Public Relations Student
Society of America (PRSSA) is in the
works, as is a TRUST website.
TRUST, cont’d. from p. 14
Half Step 2 Help, cont’d. from p. 15
Coach Cox, cont’d. from p. 25
Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie is a writer, educator,
and performer. She has been a featured
speaker at universities, festivals and events
throughout Europe and North America. She is
the Poetry Editor of the literary magazine
African Voices. Her work deals with silence,
sexism and racism and it has been published in
Crab Orchard Review, BOMB, Paris/Atlantic,
GO, TELL MICHELLE (SUNY), LISTEN UP!
(One World Ballantine) and REVENGE AND
FORGIVENESS (Henry Holt). Tallie’s work has
been the subject of a short film “I Leave My
Colors Everywhere.” Her first collection of
poetry, KARMA’S FOOTSTEPS, was released by
Flipped Eye Publishing in September of 2011.
She is the recipient of a 2010 Queens Council
on the Arts grant for her research on herbalists
of the African Diaspora. She currently teaches
at York College in New York City.
Visiting Writers Reading Series
SPRING 2014
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This event is free to the public. Ekere’s reading is followed by a Q&A and book signing.
This event is sponsored by the College of Arts & Sciences and the Department of English.
http://www.clayton.edu/arts-sciences/english
Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie
Thursday, March 20, 2014
Lecture/Presentation
11:15 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. in UC 272
Poetry Reading
2:10 p.m. - 3:25 p.m. in UC 272
WRITING. MADE REAL.
It’s CYGNET’s 10th
Anniversary!
CYGNET 2014 Launch Party
Thursday, April 24
UC 272 4:40 p.m. - 6:15 p.m.
The event is free to the public.
We encourage students to attend and
bring a friend, family member, and/or professor.
Students whose work will be featured into
CYGNET 2014 will have the opportunity to
read their work, and the art featured in
the issue will be projected during the event.
Light refreshment will be served.
Look for posters around
campus for Clayton State
University’s Spring 2014
Visiting Writers Reading
Series and launch of the
10th Anniversary of Clayton
State’s Literary Magazine,
Cygnet
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