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Barbara Foxx Hall of Fame induction video

Barbara Foxx, ‘78 was a three-sport standout in basketball, softball, and field hockey and twice named Campbell’s Outstanding Female Athlete (1976 and ’77).  After transferring to Campbell from Central Carolina Community College, she earned all-district honors in basketball in each of her three seasons.  She averaged 15.7 points in her 60-game career, and despite standing only 5-foot-4, she finished with 501 rebounds (8.4 per game).  She twice scored a career-best 33 points in a game, vs. High Point (1/7/76) and Duke (2/3/76) and pulled down a career-high 18 rebounds vs. High Point (12/1/75). 
 
After graduating with a B.S. in health and physical education in 1978, Foxx began teaching and coaching at Pinecrest High School – her first and only job over a 38-year career.  She earned her master’s degree from Gardner-Webb University and attained State Board Certification in physical education.  Foxx retired in December 2016 with 726 volleyball coaching wins over 39 seasons, the second-most in NC High School history at the time.  Foxx led Pinecrest to the 1988 and 1992 4A state volleyball championships and served as head basketball coach from 1993-2002 and as head softball coach.  Her volleyball, basketball and softball teams combined to win 16 conference titles and she was named conference coach of the year 20 times.  She was head coach of the East team in the 1997 North Carolina East-West Girls Basketball All-Star game. 
 
Foxx was inducted into the United States Slowpitch Softball Association Hall of Fame in 1997, the National Senior Softball Hall of Fame in 2018 and into the North Carolina High School Athletic Association Hall of Fame in 2020.  A member of the NCHSAA Board of Directors from 1995-99, she was selected as one of the NCHSAA’s 100 Coaches to remember during its Centennial Celebration in 2013.  Barbara A. Foxx Gymnasium at Pinecrest High School in Southern Pines was dedicated in 2018.
 
Two of her players went on to become Division I head coaches – Melissa Ferris (William & Mary volleyball) and Sarah Haney (North Carolina rowing).  Foxx also played slow pitch with the Norfolk-based Dreamgirlz, a 50-and-over team in the Senior Softball USA League.  Still active after retiring from teaching, she serves as volleyball head coach at St. John Paul II Catholic Middle School in Southern Pines.