Cox was one of the top-rated high school basketball players in the country. She was the 2016 Women's Basketball Coaches Association High School Player of the Year.[1]
College career
She played college basketball for the Baylor Lady Bears.[1] She was named a preseason All-American by Lindy's Sports, Athlon Sports, and Street & Smith prior to the 2019 season beginning. In November 2019, ESPN ranked Cox as the second-best collegiate women's basketball player in the country behind Sabrina Ionescu.[2] She would be named Big 12 Player of the Year that season.[3]
Professional career
Cox was drafted by the Indiana Fever with the third overall pick in the 2020 WNBA draft. She played 14 games during the 2020 WNBA Hub season, averaging 3.6 points and 3.3 rebounds. During the 2021 WNBA season, she played in 11 games for the Fever before being waived on June 27, 2021. Three days later, she signed with the Los Angeles Sparks, finishing the season with them by playing in 15 games and averaging 3.5 points and 3.7 rebounds.[4]
Cox was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at the age of 7. She wears an insulin pump during games.[10] In each season of Cox's Baylor career, the Lady Bears played a preseason type 1 diabetes benefit game. The 2019 edition of the game, in Cox's final season at Baylor, was especially significant for her personally, as the opponent was defendingNCAA Division II champion Lubbock Christian, which featured her younger sister Whitney—who had been diagnosed with the disease at age 17—as a freshman reserve. Near the end of the 2019–20 season, the United States Basketball Writers Association announced that both sisters would receive the Pat Summitt Most Courageous Award for their basketball and community involvement in the face of their condition.[11]
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