Fox Sargent ’09 enters her second season at the helm for Merrimack in 2023 after she took over the Warriors’ women’s lacrosse program after she was the head coach at Roger Williams University for four seasons prior. 

Merrimack quickly became a force in the NEC during Fox Sargent's opening year as head coach. The Warriors won back-to-back games to open league play in March and went on to a 4-4 record in conference play, which would have had the team just one game shy of qualifying for the league tournament had it been eligible as part of the school's NCAA Division I reclassification. Her four NEC wins marked the most league victories for a first year head coach at the school since Fox Sargent's former coach, Corinne Desrosiers, had seven NE10 triumphs during the 2008 campaign.

The Merrimack alum coached a trio of NEC all-conference selections in 2021, led by Meghan Dzialo, who was named a first team midfielder, while Catherine Mahanna and Kelly Corrigan were both named second team honorees. Dzialo was also named the Merrimack College Athletics Female Athlete of the Year for the second consecutive school year. Dzialo and Mahanna also represented the program in the 2022 IWLCA Senior All-Star Game after the end of the season in Sparks, Md. 

The Braintree, Mass. native was a dominant force on the defensive end of the field during her playing days at Merrimack and was a two-time team captain. She also served as the Vice President of the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC) while she was a student.

She immediately got involved in the coaching world after graduation with a stop at Simmons College as an assistant coach for one season, then had similar roles at Randolph-Macon College and Saint Francis before she returned to Merrimack in 2014 as an assistant coach. She spent one season at her alma mater, then took an assistant role at Endicott for a year and won a Commonwealth Coast Conference (CCC) championship leading into her hire at Roger Williams in 2017.

While the head coach of the Hawks, Fox Sargent has thrust the program into a dominant force in the Commonwealth Coast Conference. She compiled an impressive 34-13 record while at the helm, which culminated this past spring with a CCC Championship and a trip to the third round in the NCAA tournament that included Roger Williams’ first ever win in NCAA postseason play.

Fox Sargent was tabbed the CCC Coach of the Year in 2021 for the third time and had seven of her players earn All-CCC honors, including the Rookie of the Year and Scholar-Athlete of the Year. She also had one of her players named an IWLCA All-American for the first time in program history.

Since 2013, Fox Sargent has also served as the head coach of the Boston Laxachusetts Girls Lacrosse club for players aged elementary school through high school. With that role, she’s provided coaching for the highly competitive club team, but has also provided support for student-athletes in the college recruiting process.