BIOGRAPHY

Quick Facts

Vicki Fox: Athlete

.   10-time USATF National Champion

.   Holds “All-American” Status in 12 Track and Field Events

.   Holds “All-American” Status in Six Road Racing Distances

·      28 USATF-LI Age-division Records

.   6 National Senior Games "Top 10 Performance Records"

·       2 Long Island Senior Games Records Age 50-54: 400m & 5000m

. 2017 USATF Masters National Combined Events Athlete of the Year

. 2015 USATF Masters Age Division Athlete of the Year

·      3 American Records:  

2015 W55-59 Outdoor 4x400m

2 x W50-59 Indoor 4x200m relay

Vicki Fox: Coach/Official

·       Level 1 USATF-Certified Track and Field Coach

·       NYSPHSAA Certified Track and Field/Cross Country Coach

·       Founder of NRC Youth Track and Field/Cross Country Program

·       USATF-Association Level Certified Track and Field Official

·       2015-2019 USATF-LI Vice-chairman Masters Athletic Committee

·       2015-2019 USATF-LI Board of Directors

·       2016-2019 Northport Running Club Board of Directors

Synopsis

Vicki Fox is an internationally ranked athlete competing in master’s track and field and road racing. She holds an “All-American” status in 12 track and field events; 6 road racing distances from the mile to the half marathon; 28 USA Track and Field-Long Island (USATF-LI) age-division records; 2 Long Island Senior Games  (LISG) records and is a member of the U.S.A record-setting W55 4x400m relay team contested in Lyon, France.

Fox is a level 1 USATF-certified track and field coach, USATF-association level certified official, former vice-chairman of the USATF-LI Masters Athletic Committee on the USATF-LI’s Board of Directors. She also served on the Board of Directors of the Northport Running Club, on which she served as Corresponding Secretary. In 2014 she created the Northport Running Club’s Youth Track and Field /Cross Country Program, for which she served as head coach and coordinator from 2014-2019, until her move to Texas. The program continues to provide 9-13 year old boys and girls with a four-season track and field/cross-country program, with 80+ registrants per season.

Continued Success 

Fox’s first major track competition in 2012 landed her in Lisle, Illinois, to compete at the USATF Masters Outdoor National Championships where she set two USATF-LI age division records and stood on the podium in each of five events contested. From that first national competition, some highlights of her accomplishments are as follows: 

At the 2013 USATF Masters Indoor National Championships, she collected two individual third-place medals, helped her 4x400-meter relay team nab a first-place finish and assisted her 4x200-meter relay team to a second-place spot on the podium.

She secured gold medals at the 2013 National Senior Games in Cleveland, Ohio, in the 400- and 800-meter events, and a bronze in the 1500-meter race—each of which qualified among National Senior Games’ top-ten all-time performance records. Overall Fox has owned 8 Top-Ten All Time Performance records in the 400m, 800m, 1500m and 4x400m relay.

In 2013, USATF-LI awarded Fox with the Presidential Award for Service and Commitment to the Track and Field Community and also named her USATF-LI’s Female Masters Track and/or Field Athlete of the Year, a distinction she was again awarded in 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, and 2018. In 2015 she was honored with the Susan Polansky MVP Award and the John McManus Memorial Award in 2017.

Fox clinched the title of Indoor Masters National Champion in both the 400-meter race and the Pentathlon at the 2015 USATF Masters Indoor Track and Field Championships in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, while also taking top three finishes in the 200m, 800m, 60m Hurdles, High Jump, Long Jump, and helping her 4x200m Relay team to another national victory.  Several months later at the 2015 USATF Masters Outdoor Track and Field Championships in Jacksonville, FL, not only did Fox claim victory in the Pentathlon, 300m hurdles, Long Jump, 80m Shuttle Hurdle Relay and 4x400m Relay, but in the open events she also took 4th in the 100m, 3rd in the 200m, and 2nd in the High Jump, 400m and 80m hurdles--a mere 16 events in a 3-day competition. 

At the 2015 World Masters Athletics Outdoor Championships in Lyon, France, she placed fourth overall each in the 400m, 300m Long Hurdles and 2000m Steeplechase. She cinched sixth place overall in the 800m and scored 4213 points in the Outdoor Heptathlon ranking her number one in the USA and 7th in the world. Fox helped her Team U.S.A. set an American record in the W55 4x400m relay placing first overall and brought home a silver medal in the 4x100m. Additionally in 2015, Fox was named National Senior Games Athlete of the Month.

Continuing her successes through 2016, she competed at both the Indoor and Outdoor National Masters Championships in Albuquerque, NM, and Grand Rapids, MI, respectively, claiming gold in both the indoor and outdoor pentathlons and top three finishers in the High Jump, Long Jump, 800m, 80m Short and 300m Long Hurdles, 100m and 200m dashes.

In 2017, Fox continued to dominate the multis, claiming gold in the Pentathlon at the 2017 USATF Masters Indoor Track and Field Championships in Albuquerque, NM. From her first introduction to the multis in 2015 through 2018, she competed in 7 pentathlons, 3 heptathlons and 1 decathlon, while year after year ranked #1 in the USA and top 10 in the world earning her the title of USATF Masters Combined Events Masters Athlete of the Year in 2017.

Following a successful 2018 season, she suffered a non-related athlete injury with a plantar tendon tear to the foot that sidelined her for all of 2019. THEN…COVID hit the world in 2020 at which time she moved from NY to TX to care for her aging parents and here we are in 2023.

What’s next?

It’s either time to reclaim some lost records…

OR simply to continue moving as our sovereign God continues to lead.

“For My thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways My ways” saith the Lord.” Isaiah 55:8