Meet the Coaches

Beth Fox
Head Coach

Beth Fox is entering her fourth year as the head coach of the Muskingum College women’s basketball program.

Fox, who was assistant basketball coach at Muskingum from 2002 to 2004, brings both years of coaching and on-the court playing experience, to the Fighting Muskie team.

Last season, Fox guided the Muskies to a five-game winning improvement over the previous year. The Fish had Jessica McKenzie and Tiffany Youel recognized with all-conference honors. In addition, McKenzie was named Ohio Athletic Conference Player of the Week a league-high four times.

Prior to arriving in New Concord, Fox was an assistant coach at Bluffton College (BC) for three years, where she also served as the head women’s golf coach. A 1998 BC graduate, Fox was a four-year varsity performer and a member of Bluffton’s record-setting 1995-96 squad that went 16-9. Fox ranks among the top five three-point shooters in the history of BC basketball and holds the record for three-point shooting accuracy in a game (.667, 6-9), single-season (.529, 18-34 in 1995-96) and career (.360, 45-125 from 1994-95 through 1997-98). Her six three-pointers against Manchester in 1997 tied the single-game trey mark.

A native of Lakewood, Ohio (Lutheran West High School), Fox received her master’s degree in education with an emphasis in sports administration in the spring of 2002 from Bowling Green State University. Fox and her husband, Clint, reside in New Concord, with their two-year old son, Gunner.

Tamara Spence
Assistant Coach

Tamara Spence is entering her second season as assistant coach at Muskingum.

Previously, Spence was assistant girl's basketball coach at Licking Heights High School and assistant women's basketball coach at Glenville State College. While at Glenville she assisted in the recruitment of high school student-athletes, coached post players during practices and assisted in all aspects of player coaching and analyzing game film.

She was a four-year letterwinner in basketball and two-year letterwinner in golf at Glenville State College. Spence was a four-year West Virginia Intercollegiate Athletic Conference all-tournament team honoree and two-year WVIAC First Team selection for the Pioneer basketball squad. She also garnered WVIAC Freshman of the Year accolades and helped lead Glenville State to the WVIAC regular season and tournament championships in 2001-02.

She graduated with a bachelor of arts in education and organizational communications in 2002 from Glenville State College. She attained her master of science in physical education from Dayton University in 2004.

Spence also serves as the women's golf coach at Muskingum.