UIndy Athletics

Entering her seventh season at the helm in 2021, Holly Cox continues to guide the UIndy women's soccer program to new heights after two extremely successful seasons. 

Cox took her first trip to the GLVC Semi-Finals in the spring of 2021, after an emotional 2020 fall season delay, Cox lead the Hounds to success in their spring season with an 11-4-1 record going undefeated on visitors turf the Greyhounds hot run ended against Southern Indiana in overtime. The season also brought honors upon the Hounds, with Cox's coaching leading to a GLVC Defensive Player of the Year, two GLVC first team mentions, along with a second and third team. Her coaching also brought out the Hounds best in the classroom with the Greyhounds earning the second highest GPA (3.79) across all UIndy teams and earning Team Academic All-GLVC. 

After being picked to finish 10th in the GLVC preseason coaches poll, Cox and her Hounds proved everyone wrong in 2019. Boasting a 13-4-1 record after finishing just above .500 the year before, UIndy just missed out on the conference regular season crown before earning the No. 2 seed in the GLVC Tournament. The huge turnaround earned Cox the 2019 GLVC Coach of the Year award as voted on by her peers, the first coach in program history to earn the award. The Hounds went on to secure the No. 7 seed in the NCAA Midwest Regional, hitting the road to Findlay, Ohio, for their first NCAA tournament appearance since 2009. Playing the underdog role continued to suit the team well, as the Hounds completed a first-round upset over No. 2 seed Walsh before coming back days later to upset third-seeded and host team Walsh, 1-0. The results put the team in the "Sweet 16" for just the second time in program history.

Despite missing the GLVC Tournament in 2018, the Greyhounds still finished their season with a winning record of  9-7-2. The Hounds started the year off with a 5-1 record with their lone loss coming to one of the region's best team in Ferris State at the UIndy Invitational. UIndy ran into No. 3 Grand Valley in Grand Rapids, losing to the Lakers would send the Hounds in to a mid-season slump before winning the final three games of the season for the first time since 2015.

Under Cox's watch, the Hounds etched their names in the NCAA record book in their 2016 season opener against Salem International, potting a whopping 17 goals. It was the most goals in a game in program history and tied the Hounds for the 16th most goals in a game in Division II history.

Cox earned her first head coaching win on Sept. 6, 2015, when the Greyhounds rallied to score a pair of second half goals to come back and knock off Lake Erie, 2-1.

Prior to making the jump to head coaching, Cox was a three-year assistant under Derek Burton at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. While with the Cougars, Cox helped lead the program to three Ohio Valley Conference Tournament berths, including a championship last season.

The London, England native started for four seasons as a goalkeeper at Southern Mississippi. She totaled 15 wins and seven shutouts in her career, while playing more than 4,800 minutes in goal and serving as team captain for the Eagles in both 2008 and 2009. Cox also boasts international playing experience, representing England at the Ballymena, Northern Ireland Tournament and against France at the U17 level. She competed for England at the U19 level against Sweden.

A Southern Miss graduate, Cox received her master's degree in physical education in spring 2012. In 2010, she earned her bachelor's degree in sports coaching and physical education, also from Southern Miss.

 

Year	School	Record	Pct.	GLVC Record	Pct.
2015	UIndy	5-8-4	.412	4-7-4 (11th)	.400
2016	UIndy	7-10	.412	6-9 (9th)	.400
2017	UIndy	8-7-2	.529	7-5-2 (7th)	.571
2018	UIndy	9-7-2	.556	6-5-2 (9th)	.538
2019	UIndy	15-5-1	.738	11-3-1 (2nd)	.767
2020(21)	UIndy	11-4-1	.719	10-3-1 (3rd)	.750
Total		55-40-10	.571	44-32-10	.569