’Coach Mox’ now heading U.Va. women’s team
Fred Jeter | 3/31/2022, 6 p.m.
The University of Virginia’s new women’s basketball coach has her fingerprints all over the Commonwealth.
Amaka Agugua-Hamilton, or “Coach Mox” for short, has been named to replace Tina Thompson, who was fired March 3.
Coach Mox, 38, starred as a player at Oakton High School in Herndon and has been an assistant coach at Virginia Commonwealth University and Old Dominion University.
Most recently, she posted a 74-15 record as head coach at Missouri State University, helping the Bears to two Missouri Valley Conference tournament championships. She was confer- ence coach of the year in 2020 and 2021.
Coach Mox becomes U.Va.’s second straight Black coach for the women’s team. Thompson, who also is Black, was 30-63 in four seasons in Charlottesville.
