Belmont Abbey College

Toni Fox enters her 10^th season at the helm of Belmont Abbey Women’s Volleyball with a litany of success.

Since her arrival in 2015, the program won three division championships and earned the overall regular-season title in 2019. Additionally, the Crusaders made championship game appearances in 2017 and 2018.

Fox has coached 18 All-Conference Carolinas selections with Hannah Schellenberg earning AVCA All-America and league Player of the Year honors in 2015. Sarah Kenney was named Defensive Player of the Year honors in 2017.

The recognitions on the court extended into the classroom as well with 41 players named Academic All-Conference Carolinas. Her teams were honored by the AVCA as All-Academic eight times.

Individually, Fox earned Conference Carolinas Coach of the Year honors in 2018 and 2019.

The all-time winningest coach in school history, Fox holds a 122-138 record at The Abbey. She is 185-235 in 14 seasons overall, including six years at head coach at Saint Mary's College, an all-women's college in South Bend, Ind., that competed at the NCAA Division III level.

From 2016-19, Fox worked as an assistant coach with the men's program at Belmont Abbey, including a stint as interim head coach in 2017. Her highlights with the team include the school’s first conference championship match berth in 2016 and several all-conference selections. Crusader players won Defensive Player of the Year, Player of the Year and Freshman of the Year honors as well. Four of her players went on to professional volleyball careers.

A native of Pine River, Minnesota, Fox (then Elyea) is a graduate of Pine River-Backus High School. After a successful prep career in volleyball and softball, she went on to play collegiate volleyball and softball at Central Lakes College. During her time at Central Lakes, she was a defensive specialist for two state, regional, and national championship volleyball teams. She also was the starting catcher at Central Lakes where the team finished both seasons as state and regional champions as well as finishing seventh at the national championship in 2001.

From Central Lakes, she went on to earn her bachelor's degree in recreation and sport management from St. Cloud State in 2005.