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As a former Jayhawk swimmer, assistant coach Jen Fox will embark on her seventh year at Kansas alongside head coach Clark Campbell and diving coach Eric Elliott. In addition to her duties as an assistant coach, Fox serves as the Head Recruiting Coordinator for the Jayhawks. Collaboratively with Campbell and Elliott, led the Jayhawks to a successful 2008-09 campaign, securing an 11-3 record. The team shattered nine school records, including all five relay records during the season. Kansas had 18 swimmers and divers named to the 2009 Academic All-Big 12 Team, with six Jayhawks maintaining perfect 4.00 grade point averages. Fox assisted in leading the 2007-08 Jayhawks to a winning 7-2 dual meet record, capping the season off with a fourth-place finish at the 2008 Big 12 Championships in Austin, Texas. Under Campbell, Fox and Elliott, seventeen swimmers and divers were named to the Swimming and Diving Academic All-Big 12 team, the most in the Conference. The Jayhawks collaboratively shattered four Robinson Natatorium records, five Kansas all-time records and fourteen records in opponent's pools, for a grand total of 23 broken records for the Kansas swimmers and divers on the impressive 2007-08 season. Fox assisted in guiding the 2006-07 Jayhawks to one of their most successful seasons yet, including a third-place finish at the Big 12 Conference Championships, which marked the second time in four seasons that Kansas accomplished the feat. Fox assisted in the team breaking eight school records on the season, including seven at the 2007 Big 12 Championship meet and one at the NCAA Championship meet. In addition to the eight school records, 12 Kenyon Athletic Center Natatorium records were established by Kansas swimmers in Gambier, Ohio, at the Nike Cup-Kenyon Invitational in December 2006. Fox returned to KU in 2003 to take the position of assistant coach and head recruiting coordinator under Campbell. She was a student assistant under former KU head coach Cathy Burgess during the 2000-01 season. She graduated from KU in 2001 with a general studies degree in communications. Former head coach and former assistant athletic director Gary Kempf recruited Fox to swim for Kansas. Fox competed in the backstroke and the freestyle events. She was a seven-time scorer at the Big 12 Championships during her tenure as an athlete at KU from 1996-2000. After graduation, the Mansfield, Ohio, native, joined the full-time staff of Athletes in Action. Athletes in Action is a Christian-based sports group that helps student-athletes throughout the country. AIA sent her to the University of Virginia where she became a volunteer assistant under head coach Mark Bernardino and worked with the men's and women's swimming teams. Both teams finished in the top 10 in the NCAA. "Jen was an accomplished athlete and she is a great coach," Campbell said. |
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