
A native of Forest Hills, New York, Mickey Fox arrived on the Saint Mary’s campus in 1971, 18 years old, a recruit of then-coach Brian Heaney, who said, “I said him play at his New York high school. I’m not sure he knew then how good he was, but I knew he was a gem, and I saw how good he could be.” It didn’t take long for Mickey to prove Heaney a prophet. In the 1972-1973 season, he led his Huskies to the school’s first-ever CIAU championship. Fox had 32 points in SMU’s semi-final win over Windsor, and then exploded for 39 (almost half his team’s points) in the championship game versus Lakehead. Not surprisingly, he was named tournament MVP.
At the 1979 CIAU Championships, Fox scored 101 points over three games (still a tournament record!), and had 37 in SMU’s title win over Victoria. For his efforts, Fox was again named tournament MVP, becoming the first two-time winner of the award. His was a career full of ‘firsts’. Perhaps most impressive, he was the first Canadian University basketball player to be named All-Canadian on four different occasions. Only eight other players have done it since. He was also a five-time AUAA All-Star, and was named SMU Athlete of the Year in 1973.
And how he thrived when the pressure was greatest. His career regular season scoring average at SMU was 22.0 points per game. His average in three CIAU national title games – a phenomenal 34.7! And to this day he is still remembered as arguably the greatest shooter of the basketball ever to play in Canada. In 2003, nearly 25 years after playing his last university game, Mickey Fox was named by a national newspaper as one of the top 25 Canadian basketball players of all-time. His name appeared alongside Steve Nash, Rick Fox, and Jay Triano.
Mickey Fox – a legendary player yesterday, an all-star citizen today. He takes great pride in being an adopted Nova Scotian, and has given back tirelessly to his favourite sport. No camp or clinic that has approached him has ever been turned down if it were at all possible for Mickey to attend. Nova Scotia is where he’s made his career (as an elementary school teacher), it’s where he’s raised a family (two of his children play university basketball, the third is heading that way), and it’s where he’s enriched the quality of sporting life.
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• Born: New York CIty
• Two-time CIS Men’s Basketball Champion SMU Huskies
• Four-time All-Canadian
• Five-time AUS All-Star
• Two-time CIS All Tournament MVP
• SMU Athlete of the Year 1973
• Member Saint Mary’s University Sport Hall of Fame
• Today:
• Teacher with Halifax Regional School Board
• Technical Director with Basketball Nova Scotia
• Mentor to Children as Basketball Clinician