PERSONAL INFORMATION
Full Name: Glenn Box
Alma Mater: Southeast Missouri State, '98
Wife: Leah
Children: Darius, William, Auna and Bella
COACHING EXPERIENCE:
2001-03: Rend Lake College, Assistant Coach (men)
2004-06: Rend Lake College, Head Coach (women)
2007-09: Western Michigan, Assistant Coach
2010-11: Saint Louis, Assistant Coach
2012-14: Akron, Assistant Coach
2014-16: Saint Louis, Assistant Coach
2016-2018: Indiana, Assistant Coach
2020-23: Indiana, Associate Head Coach
2023-PR: Miami, Head Coach
POSTSEASON EXPERIENCE:
2013-14: NCAA First Round
2016-17: WNIT Quarterfinals
2017-18: WNIT Champions
2018-19: NCAA Second Round
2020-21: NCAA Elite 8
2021-22: NCAA Sweet 16
2022-23: NCAA, Second Round
2024-25: WNIT First Round
CAREER COACHING RECORD:
| Year |
Record |
Pct. |
Conf. |
Pct. |
Finish |
| 2023-24 |
9-20 |
.310 |
6-12 |
.333 |
9th |
| 2024-25 |
19-12 |
.613 |
11-7 |
.611 |
5th |
| Career |
28-32 |
.467 |
17-19 |
.472 |
|
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Glenn Box was named the 10th head coach in Miami women's basketball history on May 8, 2023.
Stepping into an extremely difficult situation in year one, Box added eight newcomers to the roster in his first month at the helm. This new-look RedHawk squad went 9-20 overall and 6-12 in conference play, all while finishing the year third in MAC scoring defense (60.4) and first in field goal percentage defense (.381).
With a full off-season to work with in year two, Coach Box took that opportunity and ran with it. His 2024-25 RedHawks went 19-12 overall and 11-7 in MAC play, earning the No. 5 seed in the conference tournament and advanced to the WNIT for the first time since 2018-19. Miami added 10 wins to the previous season's output, matching a program record for biggest single-season turnaround in Miami women's basketball history. Box helped produce two All-MAC performers, including Enjulina Gonzalez, who earned first-team All-MAC honors, Miami's first since 2019.
The wins weren't the only thing that improved in year two under Box. Miami's offense jumped from a 53.9 average in year one to 66.5 points/game in 2024-25. While the offense made incredible strides, Miami's calling card was on the defensive end. The RedHawks surrendered a MAC best 59.1 points/game (66th nationally), while also leading the conference in steals and were second in turnovers forced per game.
Box came to Miami after seven years on staff with the Indiana women's basketball program, the last four as associate head coach. During Box's time with the Hoosiers, they won 20 or more games in all seven of his seasons and earned seven postseason berths, including five NCAA Tournament appearances. In those NCAA appearances, the Hoosiers advanced to the second round all five times, made two Sweet Sixteens (2021, 2022) and advanced to the Elite Eight in 2020-21. The Hoosiers went 28-4, earning a No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament in 2022-23. IU added a Big Ten regular season championship (first in 40 years) and climbed as high as No. 2 in both national polls that same season.
Under Box's tutelage, 11 Hoosier guards earned a total of 16 All-Big Ten honors including four-straight first team selections for Grace Berger (2019-23). Berger became the program's first WNBA first round selection in 2023, as she went seventh overall to the Indiana Fever and was a six-time All-American honorable mention in her five-year collegiate career.
Box helped guide the Hoosiers' defense, a calling card of the program. In 2022-23, they led the Big Ten in field goal percentage defense (38.7%) and scoring defense (62.1 ppg.). Mackenzie Holmes became the program's first Defensive Player of the Year, and for the first time ever, IU had two players on the All-Big Ten defensive team in Holmes and Chloe Moore-McNeil.
Box arrived in Bloomington after spending two seasons at Saint Louis University. Overall, he spent a total of four seasons in two stints with the Billikens, having also served as an assistant coach at SLU in 2010-11 and 2011-12.
Under Box's watch, SLU sophomore Jackie Kemph became the program's first player to earn All-America honors as she received honorable mention distinction from the Associated Press and the school's first conference Player of the Year. Kemph also was named to the A-10 All-Academic Team and earned Academic All-District laurels. Along with Kemph, Box played a role in two additional Saint Louis student-athletes who earned all-conference honors in 2015-16.
Prior to his second stint at Saint Louis, Box coached two years at Akron in 2012-13 and 2013-14. During his tenure, the Zips played in the 2014 NCAA Tournament after winning the Mid-American Conference Tournament championship in 2014. In 2012-13, Akron won the East Division of the MAC, going 14-4 in conference play.
At Akron, Box played a role in five players earning All-MAC honors in two seasons, including the school's first-ever Mid-American Conference Player of the Year in 2013 in Rachel Tecca.
Before his first stop in Saint Louis in 2010, Box spent two years on the sideline as an assistant at Western Michigan. Prior to that, he spent six seasons at Rend Lake College, a junior college in Ina, Ill. He spent his first three years at Rend Lake as an assistant with the men's program before moving on to become head coach of the women's team.
A native of Cairo, Ill., Box posted a 64-31 record and downed four nationally ranked opponents during his three years as head coach. In 2007-08, Rend Lake went 21-11 and reached as high as No. 16 in the NJCAA national poll. He guided the Lady Warriors to a 24-8 ledger in 2006-07, the second-most victories in school history, while finishing in the top 25 in the country in scoring, field goal percentage, three-point field goal percentage and free throw percentage.
Box earned his associate's degree in elementary education at Rend Lake in 1996 and went on to obtain his bachelor's degree in criminal justice from Southeast Missouri State in 1998. He began his coaching career in the Cairo school district before entering the college ranks.
Box is married to Leah and has four children, two sons, Darius and William, and daughters, Auna and Bella.
