Brittany Cox, an NCAA All-American in the shot put and Sun Belt Conference champion in both the shot put and weight throw, is in her eighth season coaching the Georgia Southern throwers.
Eagle throwers have recorded 14 top-10 performances at Georgia Southern and set four school records during her tenure.
She became Middle Tennessee State’s first female thrower to earn All-America accolades and still owns two indoor and two outdoor MTSU records. In her senior year, Cox was the 2010 Penn Relays champion in the hammer throw and discus and finished third in the shot put, setting Sun Belt and Middle Tennessee State records in that event. Her 16.49m mark (54-1.25) moved her to a No. 10 national ranking in the shot put and she added to that with a 16.55m distance at the NCAA East Region Preliminaries. She would become the first Blue Raider female thrower to earn All-America honors with her eighth-place finish in the Shot Put at the NCAA Outdoor Championships.
That same year, Cox was an NCAA indoor finalist in the weight throw and shot put and also qualified for the Outdoor East Regional Preliminary in the Hammer Throw. Cox brought home five Sun Belt Conference individual championship trophies in 2010, as well being voted the Sun Belt Conference Women’s Field Athlete of the Year for the 2010 Indoor Championships.
Cox joins Georgia Southern after serving three years as a recreational leader at Napier Community Center and Hadley Regional Center, both in Nashville, Tennessee. She assisted with coaching duties at McGavock High School, also in Nashville, during the Raiders’ 2012-13 season.
From Antioch, Tennessee, Cox was a four-sport athlete at Glencliff High School, earning letters in volleyball, softball, basketball and track and field. She was named the District MVP in volleyball and Offensive Player of the Year and MVP for the Colts’ softball team.
Cox earned her bachelor’s degree in exercise science from Middle Tennessee State in 2011. She continues to compete at the national and international level.
