Juli Fulks took over as head women’s basketball coach for the 2004-05 season.  Fulks took a 1-15 (in the NWC) team in 04-05 and turned it into one of the twenty most-improved teams in the country in 05-06 and to a playoff contender in 2006-07. In 2007-08, she guided the women's basketball team to their first post-season appearance since the Pioneers became a member of the NCAA.

For the past three years, Fulks has been a volunteer coach with the Understand the Game program, founded by former NBA All-Star Detlef Schrempf. Working with the US State Department, this basketball diplomacy exchange program that promotes positive aspects of American culture around the world and has taken Fulks to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in Septemebr 2005 and to Rabat, Morocco in August 2006 to work with local youth basketball camps. She will travel to Jordan in the summer of 2007.

Fulks came to Lewis & Clark for the 2004-05 basketball season from NCAA Division III Defiance College (Defiance, Ohio). With Fulks as an assistant coach, the Defiance Yellow Jackets finished the 2003-04 campaign with a 20-7 record, eight games better than their 2002-03 finish. The Yellow Jackets ranked in the top ten in the nation in team field goal and free throw shooting percentages. Fulks also served as assistant softball coach, guiding her team to its first NCAA tournament appearance in school history in 2004.

Prior to her tenure at Defiance, Fulks was an assistant varsity basketball coach at Westerville North while also working as freshman coach in 2000-2001 and junior varsity coach in 2001-2002. Fulks also served Southern Cross University in Lismore, Australia, as a student assistant in 1999 and the Jewish Community Center in Columbus as a youth basketball coach from 1998-1999.

Fulks graduated from Capital University in Columbus, Ohio, with a bachelor’s degree in Biology and a holds a master’s degree in Education from Defiance College. 

While at Capital, she was a member of the Crusaders’ 1997 Final Four team. Fulks played her high school ball at Hardin Northern in Dola, Ohio, where she is still the all-time leading scorer, male or female, with more than 1,600 career points. She holds