Assistant Coaches
Contact Coach Miller
E-mail: smiller@po-box.esu.edu
Phone: (570) 422-3101
Sandy Miller enters her 24th season as head field hockey coach at East Stroudsburg University after leading the Warriors to their 20th straight year with at least a .500 record in 2006, when they finished 13-7.
Miller has a 271-183-10 record in her career as a head field hockey coach, and was also the Warriors' head women's lacrosse coach for 20 years, from 1985-2004.
Under Miller, ESU has qualified for the NCAA Division II Playoffs four times, including 2001 when the Warriors finished second. Other NCAA Playoff appearances came in 1987, 1988 and 1990.
The Warriors have made the PSAC Field Hockey Tournament nine times, finishing third three times and placing second in 2001. Miller's teams have also qualified for nine ECAC Division II field hockey championships and have won six titles (1989, 1993-96, 2002).
The team has enjoyed success in the classroom as well. In 2006, 13 players were named to the NFHCA Division II national academic squad. In 2004, the team posted a grade-point average of 3.38 and won its second straight NFHCA team award.
Miller was honored as the PSAC Coach of the Year in 1996 and was the NFHCA Division II Coach of the Year in 1993, 1994 and 2001 after leading ESU to the NCAA Division II championship game.
Miller has produced All-American players in 19 of the last 21 years, including each of the past 15. Overall, Miller has coached 32 All-Americans in her 24 seasons at ESU. In 2006, Erin Due, Ashley Kocis, Katie Ord and Cara Senese were all named to the All-America list by the NFHCA, with Senese being honored for the second straight year.
Kocis achieved a first for the program last season, as she received the Honda Broderick Award as the most outstanding player in Division II. Kocis led the nation with 29 goals and 59 points and was also the first ESU player to be named PSAC Field Hockey Athlete of the Year.
Miller is also involved in many national organizations. She is the chairperson on the NFHCA Division II All-America Committee and the Division II Regional Advisory Committee. She is also the chair for the North-South Coach of the Year Award Committee.
She was formerly on the NCAA Field Hockey Sports Committee and was chair of the National Academic Squad and All-America committees. She was also the Division II representative on the NFHCA Board of Directors.
Miller has been involved in the development of ESU student- athletes for more than two decades in three different sports - field hockey, women's lacrosse and women's basketball.
In addition to being the head field hockey coach since 1984, Miller also coached the women's lacrosse team for 20 years and was an assistant women's basketball coach for 11 seasons from 1984-95.
In lacrosse, Miller was named the PSAC Coach of the Year in 2000 after ESU set a school record for wins with an 11-4 record and placed second in the conference.
An outstanding athlete at Lock Haven University, Miller earned 11 varsity letters in four sports and was chosen as the school's outstanding senior female athlete in 1983.
In field hockey, she was an All-American and a two-time All-PSAC first team selection while playing on two national championship squads. She is still an active athlete and is regarded as one of the area's top female golfers.
The Lebanon, Pa. native earned a bachelor's degree from Lock Haven in 1983 and a Master's degree from ESU in 1988, both in Health and Physical Education.
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