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- Title:
- Head Women's Ice Hockey Coach
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- Phone:
- (401) 341-2294
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- Email:
- michael.cox@salve.edu
Bio
Michael Cox begins his fifth season as head women's ice hockey coach at Salve Regina. He owns a career mark of 49-50-7 during that stretch, but has posted a 31-19-4 mark over the last three years, including a 13-10-3 record in 2009-10. During that span, Salve Regina has advanced to the Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference (ECAC) semifinals twice and the finals once.
In 2008-09, Cox led the Seahawks to their first winning season
(18-9-1) in program history, their first-ever win over seven-time
conference champion Manhattanville and their first-ever ECAC
finals. The Seahawks began their run to the finals with a 7-2 win
at No. 4 seed University of Massachusetts Boston, and the following
weekend blanked the seven-time reigning conference champion
Valiants. The win snapped an 18-game losing streak to
Manhattanville, who won both games against the Seahawks during the
regular-season by a combined score of 9-0.
Cox arrived in Newport in 2006 with a wealth of experience coaching
women's ice hockey at the Division I level. In his first two
seasons behind the bench at Salve Regina, Cox combined to win 18
games - more than the program had tallied in its first seven years
of existence. The Seahawks equaled that total in 2008-09, and his
team carried that momentum into the playoffs.
From 1997-2006, Cox assisted in the success of three Boston-area
schools - Harvard, Northeastern and Boston College. At each school,
he was responsible for both on-ice coaching as well as video
analysis. During his three-year tenure at Harvard, the Crimson won
a school-record 33 games and won the 1999 AWCHA National
Championship.
Most recently, Cox was an assistant coach at Boston College, where
he helped the Eagles capture their first Beanpot Championship
(2006) and earn their first-ever berth in the Hockey East Finals,
finishing with a school-best 20-11-4 record.
A 1993 graduate of Merrimack College with a degree in English, Cox
has coached and directed numerous camps and clinics throughout New
England. Currently, he is the director and owner of Inside Edge Ice
Hockey Camps for Women.