lightning basketball
James P. Fox
CEO
bio
Jim was a college Men’s Basketball Coach, at Division 1 level, for 19 years. He started his coaching career at St. Dominic High School in Oyster Bay, N.Y., where he was associate head coach for five seasons and athletics director for one year. He also coached the Long Island Lightning AAU program.
Jim spent 13 years as an assistant at Davidson College in North Carolina. Davidson played in several NCAA Tournaments during that time. He recruited many players that went on to professional careers, no more well known than 2-time NBA MVP Stephen Curry. Jim and Steph still have a friendship to this day. He continued his career in Boone, North Carolina as the Head Coach at Division 1 Appalachian State. Jim built that program over his time there and rescued them from NCAA sanctions and put them in position to compete for titles in the extremely competitive Sun Belt Conference.
Jim has now returned to his roots on Long Island. He has been known as someone who has a knack for developing players – for finding that diamond in the rough and helping them achieve their dreams of playing basketball for their high school or college.