A two-sport high school star forced into an early beginning to his coaching career due to injury, Brice Cox is multi-tasking in his first year with the Northwestern State program.
He is a strength and conditioning for men's and women's basketball, and assists in basketball quality control for the Demons.Â
Cox helps monitor academic progress of the NSU players, organizes and implements community service projects involving the Demons, and assists with camp operations in the summer.
An ankle injury ended his college career at Culver Stockton College, where he played football for a year and then committed fully to basketball. In his second season of hoops, he suffered a career-ending ankle injury and became a student assistant coach and head junior varsity coach for a year.
After graduating with a physical education degree, Cox was assistant coach at Palmyra (Mo.) High School as the team went 27-3, then joined the Demons staff.
A Bowling Green, Mo., native, Cox graduated from Bowling Green High in 2004 after earning Class 3A All-State, all-conference and all-district honors in basketball while scoring 1,070 career points. He was also all-conference and all-district in football.
He is the son of Jamie and Nancy Cox and has two brothers, Justin (older) and Ryan (younger).Â
