The 5-foot-4 senior won the 1600-meter run with a time of 5:11.52 and the 3200 broke the tape in the 3200 in 11:11.61 at the Division 2 state meet this past season, leading the Black Bears to the state championship as a team. The state’s reigning Gatorade Player of the Year in girls cross country, Cox also took second in the 800. She also won the 3200 at the state Meet of Champions with a time of 10:57.53.
Cox has maintained an A average in the classroom. She has signed a National Letter of Intent to run on scholarship at the University of New Hampshire this fall.
President of her school’s Student-Athlete Leadership Team (SALT), Cox has volunteered as a peer consultant at the Coe-Brown Writing Center and on behalf of the New Hampshire Thunder Youth Track program. She is also a member of both the National Honor Society and Healthcare Occupation Students of America (HOSA), a student-leadership organization that promotes career opportunities in the healthcare industry and strives to enhance the delivery of quality health care to all people.
