Janáe (Cox) Asbury was a three-time NCAA Championships individual qualifier in gymnastics and First Team All-American during her career from 2004-07.
The Otisco, Indiana, native earned 17 All-EAGL (East Atlantic Gymnastics League) First Team accolades. She is WVU’s all-time leading career points earner (2,070.65) and the only gymnast in school history to earn 2,000-plus points.
Cox ranks first in program history in career all-around meets competed (50) and ranks second in career meets competed (55). She ranks first in career 39.0-plus all-around scores with 37.
She is second in school history in season point total (556.8, 2007), third in career 9.9-plus scores (33), second in career balance beam 9.9-plus scores (7), fourth in career floor 9.9-plus scores (15), sixth in career bars 9.9-plus scores (5) and ninth in career vault 9.9-plus scores (6).
Cox became the second WVU gymnast to become a three-time NCAA individual qualifier and qualified in the all-around each season. She finished 13th on floor at the 2007 NCAA Championships to earn First Team All-America honors.
She led WVU to two EAGL Championships and was a three-time individual EAGL champion (2004 vault, 2005 all-around and 2005 balance beam). Cox helped the Mountaineers set program records on vault, balance beam and overall total. She owns the WVU record for all-around score (39.675), earned on March 13, 2004, and the WVU NCAA Regional Record all-around score (39.35) on April 3, 2004.
Cox was the 2007 EAGL Gymnast of the Year, the 2007 EAGL Most Outstanding Senior Gymnast, the 2004 EAGL Rookie of the Year and earned 11 EAGL Gymnast of the Week honors.
Academically, Cox was a 2007 ESPN/CoSIDA Academic All-America Third Team selection, four-time NACGC/W Scholastic All-American, four-time Academic All-EAGL honoree and four-time Joseph Medrick Award honoree as the team’s top all-around gymnast. She was a three-time team MVP and earned the 2007 Red Brown Cup Award, given to WVU’s top all-around athlete.
She graduated with a bachelor’s degree in multidisciplinary studies and a master’s degree in elementary education, concurrently from WVU. Cox was a volunteer assistant in 2008, when WVU won the EAGL Championship title. She was inducted into the WVU Sports Hall of Fame and Mountaineer Legends Society in 2020.
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