Meet the Coaches
Beth Fox
Head Coach
Beth Fox is entering her seventh year as the head coach of the Muskingum women’s basketball program.
Fox the 2008-09 Ohio Athletic Conference Coach of the Year has directed the team to its highest league finish since the 1996-97 season and took the squad to the OAC Tournament Final Four during her tenure. She coached both Jessica McKenzie and Tiffany Youel to First Team All-OAC, which marked the first time that Muskingum had placed two players on the First Team squad since 1989 when Julia Hoag and Kathy Lee both received the recognition.
Throughout her coaching stint, Fox has developed some of the top talent in the OAC. Highlighting the group of stellar Muskies are Jessica McKenzie and Tiffany Youel. McKenzie was a three-time all-league honoree, OAC Player of the Year and All-American. McKenzie ended her Muskie tenure with 1,383 career points and ranks first at Muskingum in scoring average and field goal shooting percentage. Youel was an all-league honoree and ended her career with 1,186 points.
Prior to arriving in New Concord, Fox was an assistant coach at Bluffton University for three years, where she also served as the head women's golf coach. A 1998 Bluffton 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 resides in New Concord, with her six-year old son, Gunner, and three-year-old son, Cannon.
Amy Senefelder
Assistant Coach
Amy Senefelder is entering her first year as the assistant coach of the Muskingum women’s basketball program.
Senefelder comes to Muskingum after serving as assistant coach of the women’s basketball team at Ancilla College in Indiana. At Ancilla, Senefelder developed conditioning programs, ran practice sessions and helped implement game strategy.
She also served as a graduate assistant coach at Franklin Pierce University in New Hampshire. There, she helped coach the 2008 conference championship team that made school history by advancing to the NCAA Division II National Tournament Elite 8. Furthermore, Senefelder coached and recruited the NCAA Division II Player of the Year Johannah Leedham, who was selected in the 2010 WNBA draft by the Connecticut Sun.
As a collegiate player, Senefelder spent four years with the Trine University women’s basketball team. She graduated from Trine in 2005 with a B.S. in sports management and received her master's degree in business administration in 2009 from Franklin Pierce University.
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