Centre College Athletics

Ben Fox joined the Centre football coaching staff as its offensive coordinator in the spring of 2017.

Most recently, Fox mentored five All-SAA selections while his offense battled roster turnover and injuries throughout 2019. Jordan Gunter, who was named to the All-SAA First Team, also garnered D3football.com Team of the Week honors for his effort against Rhodes (November 2).

He led a record-breaking offense in 2018, helping Centre finish 10-2 overall while reaching the NCAA Division III Playoffs. Quarterback Tanner Young, who was named SAA Offensive Player of the Year, set a school record with 31 passing touchdowns, and led the SAA in TDs, passing yards, passing efficiency and yards-per-completion. The Centre offense also led the league in total scoring (seventh in the nation), scoring average, total offense, passing offense and first downs. The team's passing efficiency was fourth in DIII, while the yards-per-completion ranked second. 

Including Young, 13 Colonels garnered All-SAA honors on the offensive side of the ball. Drew Yeager was also named All-American by the Associated Press.

During his first season, the Colonels went 9-1 overall and 6-1 in the SAA. As a team, the Colonels ranked in the top two in-conference for scoring offense, rushing offense, team passing efficiency and third-down conversion percentage, the latter of which Centre finished 12th in Division III. 

His offense produced eight All-SAA performers in 2017, including first-teamers Trevor Carnell and Tim Grabenstein. Under his tutelage, quarterback Devin Hayes (28 TDs) and wide out Cody Estep (10) matched the single-season record for passing and receiving touchdowns, respectively.

Fox arrived at Centre after a highly successful stint at Huntingdon College in Montgomery, Ala. 2016 was the first season in which Fox served as offensive coordinator for the Hawks and the team ranked third in all of Division III with 543.9 yards per game, as well as eighth in the country in scoring offense at 45.3 points per game.

Fox's Hawks offense was incredibly well-balanced, averaging 269 yards on the ground and 274 through the air. The offense was also the best in the nation on third downs, converting 55.8% of their third down opportunities.

Thanks in large part to the explosive offense, Huntingdon won the USA South Conference in 2016 and advanced to the NCAA Division III Playoffs against Wheaton. Six Huntingdon offensive players earned All-USA South honors, including quarterback Luke Bailey, who was named the Offensive Player of the Year in the conference as well as a member of the All-South Region squad.

From 2012-15, Fox served as Huntingdon's wide receivers coach. During his first four seasons working with the Hawks' passing game, Huntingdon generated more than 10,900 yards of passing offense and 104 passing touchdowns.

During the 2015 conference championship season, the Hawks set a program record with 482 points scored. The 2014 team ranked third in Huntingdon history with an average of 476.6 yards of offense per game. In 2013, Huntingdon set a then-Division III record with 585.8 yards of offense per game and school records for passing yards in a season (3,447) and passing touchdowns (32). 

In 2015, receiver Nick Haas became the first Huntingdon receiver to earn All-Conference honors in the USA South Athletic Conference. In Huntingdon's first three seasons in the USA South, Fox's receivers also excelled in the classroom as 10 receivers were named Academic All-Conference and two were named to the Hampshire Honor Society.

Prior to Huntingdon, Fox worked at Bryant University, where he spent three seasons as an assistant coach. Fox coached the defensive line for two seasons as a graduate assistant before coaching the receivers in 2011.

As Bryant's receivers coach, Fox worked with all-conference receiver Jordan Harris. During the 2011 season, Harris ranked second in the nation in yards per catch (22.8). Harris signed a free agent contract with the St. Louis Rams in May 2014.

Fox earned his MBA at Bryant University and his B.S. in Business Administration at Washington University in St. Louis.

A four-year player at Washington University in St. Louis, he began his college career as a quarterback before playing three seasons at defensive back. He was an academic All-Conference selection in the University Athletic Association.

A native of Gray, Tenn., Fox was a four-year letterman in football and basketball at Daniel Boone High School and was valedictorian of his senior class.

Fox and his wife, the former Katherine Poeltl, have one daughter, Kinsley Paige Fox.