Mike Cox Receives the Year 2011 Fighting Heart Award from his former Coach, Bob Shoup
Mr. Reliable is how his former Coach, Bob Shoup, refers to Mike Cox. He was a starter for four years in both football and baseball at Cal Lutheran from 1962 until 1966. He made no mental mistakes and was always prepared, never missing a practice or a game. He was on the “blue slipper team”…a foundational player.
Mike Cox was awarded the Fighting Heart Award in 2011 because of his strength and Continuing courage in fighting a rare form of cancer in his throat, neck and on his tongue.After chemotherapy and radiation on these very sensitive tissues, with his devoted wife, Tony,applying the lotions to his burned tissues after each treatment, Mike had lost his voice and was reduced to taking his food through a stomach tube. Nevertheless, you can never count out the resolve of “a fighting heart”. As in football, so too in life; Mike’s voice has returned, he is eating normally again and…he has prevailed!
Mike Cox’s Cal Lutheran Achievements:
3 sport letterman; Football (4) Baseball (3) Basketball (1yr freshman year)
Baseball MVP 1963 - batted .400.
Awarded Iron Man trophy for most minutes played on the 1965 football team
Eleven career interceptions
Graduated Cum Laude 3.3 GPA in Business Administration 1966
After Cal Lutheran:
Received MBA from the Wharton Business School at the University of Pennsylvania, 1974
Employed by varIous manufacturers of data storage software and hardware over the past 35
years in financial positions such as Division Controller, Corporate Controller, Director of Financial
Planning and Analysis. Currently works for Quantum Corp. in Irvine, California.
Married to current wife Toni for 24 years. Mike and Toni have two sons from Mike’s first marriage
and 3 grand children.
The 5th Quarter Football Club asks that you keep Mike and his family in your prayers.
“Our vision only becomes clear when we look into our heart. Whoever looks outside, dreams. Whoever looks inside, awakens.” - Carl Jung
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