Will Fox

Will Fox, a Major League Lacrosse Draft Pick and University of North Carolina coach, has joined the Sacred Heart men's lacrosse team as an assistant coach.

Will Fox, a Major League Lacrosse Draft Pick and University of North Carolina coach, has joined the Sacred Heart men's lacrosse team as an assistant coach.

Fox, who served as a volunteer assistant with the Tar Heels the last three years, comes back to the town he played in as a collegian.

Fox took his B.S. in psychology and a minor in health studies with him to Chapel Hill in 2019. As a Stag, he was a two-time Second-Team All-Colonial Athletic Association pick in 2015 and 2016 who was also the CAA Rookie of the Year in 2015.

The former Face-Off Director for the Southshore Lacrosse Club is second all-time at Fairfield in career face-off wins, face-off win percentage and ground balls. He also ranks eighth all-time in the CAA for career face-off wins and 12th all-time for career face-off winning percentage and ground balls.

Fox's other accolades from his collegiate career include Fairfield's Male Freshman Athlete of the Year in 2015 and Fairfield's Alumni Association Scholar-Athlete of the Year in 2018. Additionally, Fox was a candidate for the Senior CLASS Award in 2018 and received a Scholar All-Academic nod from the New England Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association in 2018.

SHU's new assistant coach was drafted by the Chesapeake Bayhawks in the 2018 Supplemental Draft of Major League Lacrosse. That same year he was named a U.S. Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association Scholar All-America.