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The College
of New Jersey head softball coach Sally Miller Collected her 250th
coaching victory on March 11 in Osceola, FL as the Lions topped
Coast Guard, 4-0. The
victory improved the career record of the ninth-year head coach to
250-88-1.
Through the conclusion of the 2003 campaign, she was ranked 12th
among winningest active Division III coaches in win percentage.
Miller directed TCNJ to a record sixth NCAA Division III Softball
Championship as a rookie coach in 1996. The Lions went 38-3 in 1996
and ended the season with a 20-game win streak. She replaced the
late Dr. June Walker, the all-time winningest coach in Division III,
in the summer of 1995 and guided the team to the 1996 NJAC
Championship as well as the NCAA title with an undefeated mark in
the 1996 College World Series.
TCNJ revisited the CWS and ended the 2000 campaign
tied for fifth in the program’s 17th appearance after
falling 4-3 in eight innings to Alma College. The 36-9-1 Lions swept
through their regional tournament and won their second NJAC
Championship under Miller’s guidance. For her efforts, she was named
the 2000 NJAC Coach of the Year as well as the Speedline/NFCA East
Regional Coach of the Year.
Miller has guided the team to seven NJAC Tournament
appearances as well as to the CWS three times, winning the 1996 NCAA
crown, taking fourth in 1997 and fifth in 2000. She has produced 13
All-Americans as well as four CoSIDA Academic All-Americans, while
guiding the Lions to five NCAA Tournament appearances. In the fall
of 1998, Miller was honored by her peers at TCNJ with the Roy Van
Ness Award, which is annually given to a coach for outstanding
success and leadership as selected by TCNJ's athletic department.
A former third baseman at the University of Iowa, she
was a member of the Hawkeye softball program from 1986 until 1989,
serving as team captain for both the 1988 and 1989 squads. During
her senior season, Miller helped Iowa capture the Big Ten Conference
Championship and earn a berth in the NCAA Division I Regional. She
was named to the 1987 Big Ten All-Conference and All-Mideast
Regional All-America Second Teams, as well as the team’s MVP. During
her career, Miller left her mark on the Iowa softball
records. Twice, she set the school's single-season assist mark with
170 in both 1987 and 1988.
After graduating from Iowa in December of 1989 with a Bachelor of
Science in Corporate Fitness, Miller served as an assistant softball
coach for Princeton University from 1990-1992. Following her stint
at Princeton, she spent one season as an assistant for the Michigan
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