Cox will start his 25th season as the head coach of the both the men's and women's cross country and track and field teams at Concord during the 2024-25 academic year.

A native of Mercer County, Cox led Shawnee Carnett to two NCAA Division II National Championships during the 2011 outdoor season and again in the indoor season of 2014 in the 800-meter run. It was Concord's first national championship in any sport. Under Cox's tutelage, Carnett was a six-time All-American wearing the Maroon and Gray of Concord.

His most recent top tier accomplishment was coaching Issac Prather to First Team All-American honors in the 3,000-meter steeplechase during the 2023 NCAA Division II National Championships. Prather was CU's first First Team All-American in over a decade. 

He coached two All-Americans during the same track & field season. In the spring of 2021, Prather and Jason Weitzel were Second Team All-Americans in the 3,000-meter steeplechase at the NCAA Division II National Championships at Grand Valley State in Michigan. Weitzel and Prather were the third and fourth All-Americans in men's track & field history and the firsts since 2012.

Prather followed up his 2021 All-American honor with another Second Team All-American laurel during the 2022 outdoor season. Additionally, Prather was an All-American during the 2021 cross country, a first for Cox and the men's and women's cross country programs. 

Along with Carnett, Prather and Weitzel, John Paul Paul Blankenship (shot put) and RJ Anderson (60-meter dash indoors) have been All-Americans under Cox's coaching.

The 2021 cross country season was successful for the Mountain Lions. Along with Prather being an All-American, it was just the second time in program history that CU men's team has qualified for the NCAA Division II National Championships. Cox led Concord to a 27th-place finish. For the Concord women's cross country, Hannah Altizer and Emily Wallace were the first two all-region athletes with the help fo Cox's guidance. 

Cox's men's cross country team followed up the national championship appearance in 2021 with a second consecutive national meet bid in 2022 as four runners earned all-region. 
 
One of the top coaches in the region, Cox is a seven-time West Virginia Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Coach of the Year. Additionally, Cox has been awarded Mountain East Conference Coach of the Year five times to bring his career total to 12. In the fall of 2016, Cox earned his highest coaching honor to date as he was voted by his peers as the United States Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches' Association Atlantic Regional Men's Cross Country Coach of the Year for guiding the team to an appearance at the NCAA Division II Championship Meet after finishing fourth at the regional meet. It was the first time in school and conference history that a team qualified for the national championship meet. 

Cox has coached seven conference-winning teams in cross country with titles in 2004 and 2007 as well as three straight championships from 2015-2017 on the men's side.  The first women's cross country conference title came in 2010 and the Mountain Lions took home the crown again in 2018.

In the last five seasons, Concord has tutored eight all-region performers, Jason Weitzel (four times), Cedric Drennen, Tyler Kosut, Nate Leichner, Issac Prather (three times), Preston Prather, Justin Snyder and Logan Zuchelli (three times). Prior to 2015, Concord had only had two all-region athletes in program history. Included in the all-region honors was Weitzel being name the 2018 Atlantic Region Runner of the Year in cross country--the first regional athlete of the year for CU in any sport since 2014. I. Prather repeated as Atlantic Regional Runner of the Year during the 2021 and 2022 seasons. 

As Concord’s cross country coach, Cox has led 75 all-conference runners, three WVIAC Runners of the Year, three MEC Runner of the Year, six first team All-Atlantic Region honoree and three NCAA Championship qualifiers.

The mentor of CU’s track & field program, Cox has coached eight athletes to the NCAA National Championship meet, more than 40 WVIAC champions, three WVIAC Championship Most Valuable Athletes and three WVIAC Rookies of the Year.

With the help of Cox, Jonathan Gore became CU's first high point at an MEC or WVIAC championship when Gore scored 28 points for the Mountain Lions at the MEC Championship in 2017.

A year later in 2018, Weitzel was named the MEC Track Athlete of the Year under Cox's guidance. Weitzel has also collected MEC High Point/MVP honors on Cox's watch, earning the award in 2021. And Prather backed up Weitzel's performance by adding MEC High Point/MVP honors in 2022 while also being named MEC Track Athlete of the Year. Prather has also been a two-time MEC Track Athlete of the Year for the outdoor season, and picked up the same distinction during the 2023 season.

In the MEC, Cox has coached 18 conference champions, two rookies of the year and numerous all-conference athletes in six seasons of the conference track championships.

Prior to entering collegiate coaching Cox attended Virginia Tech, where he qualified for the USA Junior National cross country team as a freshman and competed internationally in Budapest, Hungary. At Virginia Tech, he was a member of seven conference championship teams. Individually, Cox was a three-time all-conference runner, a two-time Atlantic 10 10,000-meter run outdoor champion and an indoor 5,000-meter run conference champion.
 
Cox was a highly decorated prep athlete at Athens High school, winning nine state championships, earning All-America honors and being named the West Virginia Track and Field Athlete of the Year in 1993. He still holds the West Virginia Class AA record in the mile, with a time of 4:17.54.

As a professional, Cox qualified for the Olympic marathon trials in 2004 and 2007. Cox lives in Princeton with his wife, Tabitha. They have two boys, Miller and West.