Glenn Box is an American

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coach who is the women's basketball head coach at

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Coaching career

Box began his collegiate coaching career in 2002 at

Rend Lake College Rend Lake College (RLC) is a public community college in Ina, Illinois. It is part of the Illinois Community College System (ICCS). History Rend Lake College was founded in 1955 as Mt. Vernon Community College to allow students from High School ...

as an assistant for the men's basketball team for three seasons before taking over as head coach for Rend Lake's women's basketball program from 2005 to 2008. At Rend Lake he compiled a 64–31 overall record as a head coach. In 2008, Box began a career as an assistant coach in

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women's basketball with his first stint in the MAC where he was an assistant coach at Western Michigan for two seasons. In 2010 he started his first stint as an assistant at Saint Louis which lasted two seasons before he moved back to the MAC with Akron for two seasons under

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. In 2014 he returned to Saint Louis, now under Lisa Stone, where in his second of two seasons he helped the Billikens to 26 wins and a share of the

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championship. In 2016, Box took a position as an assistant at

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under head coach

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. In

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the Hoosiers won the WNIT championship. He helped take to the Hoosiers to NCAA tournaments in

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and

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before a

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championship and an NCAA tournament top seed in

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Miami (Ohio)

On May 8, 2023, Box returned to the MAC, this time as a head coach, when he was announced as the tenth head coach for Miami RedHawks women's basketball

Personal life

Box is from

Cairo, Illinois Cairo ( ) is the southernmost city in Illinois and the county seat of Alexander County. The city is located at the confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers. Fort Defiance, a Civil War camp, was built here in 1862 by Union General Ulysses ...

, where he coached locally before moving to the collegiate ranks. He has an associate degree in elementary education from Rend Lake College and a bachelor’s degree in criminal justice from

Southeast Missouri State University Southeast Missouri State University (SEMO) is a public university in Cape Girardeau, Missouri. In addition to the main campus, the university has four regional campuses offering full degree programs and a secondary campus housing the Holland Col ...

. Box and his wife Leah have four children named Darius, William, Auna and Bella.

Head coaching record

References

External links

Miami RedHawks coaching bioIndiana Hoosiers coaching bio
{{DEFAULTSORT:Box, Glenn Living people 1975 births People from Cairo, Illinois Basketball coaches from Illinois American women's basketball coaches Southeast Missouri State University alumni Miami RedHawks women's basketball coaches Indiana Hoosiers women's basketball coaches Akron Zips women's basketball coaches Saint Louis Billikens women's basketball coaches Western Michigan Broncos women's basketball coaches