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Pat Miller Head Coach

Phone: 262-472-1146 Email: millerp@uww.edu

Pat Miller was named head coach of the Warhawks prior to the 2001-02 season. Miller and the Warhawks captured an outright WIAC Championship, Conference Tournament Championship and advanced to the first round of the NCAA Division III Playoffs in 2007-08. He led the Warhawks to the program's third national championship in the 2011-12 season. Miller was also named WIAC Coach of the Year four times as the Warhawk head coach. His winning percentage through the 11-12 season (.763) ranks number one all-time at UW-Whitewater and 4th all-time in WIAC history behind only Bo Ryan, Ken Anderson and Jack Bennett. He achieved his 100th win during the 2005-06 season and was the second fastest coach in WIAC history to do so. Miller has led the Warhawks to five WIAC Championships. He has coached players to WIAC All- Conference honors 31 times, inluding 15 first team honors and 16 honorable mention honors. Miller has also coached one national player of the year, four players named WIAC Player of the Year, one Max Sparger Ahtlete, and five different NCAA All- Americans. Miller has also coached several All-Region players.

Miller was an assistant coach for the basketball team for eight years, beginning in the 1993-94 season. Miller is a 1989 graduate of UW-Whitewater and played three seasons under Head Coach Dave Vander Meulen. In the 1988-89 season was a co-captain of the team that won a national championship (the second in school history and second under Vander Meulen - the first was 1983-84). That year he was also named the Conference Scholar-Athlete of the Year for men’s basketball. On October 14, 2006 Coach Miller was inducted into the UW-Whitewater Athletic Hall of Fame for his accomplishments as a player.

During his years as an assistant basketball coach, Miller also served as head coach of the women’s golf team and was an instructor in the Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Coaching Department. Miller was the head women’s golf coach for six seasons, beginning with the 1994-95 season. He directed the golf team to two Conference Championships (1996-97 and 1999-00). Miller also received the WIAC Women’s Golf Coach of the Year honors for the team’s two championship seasons.

Miller was a member of the UW-Whitewater men's basketball team from 1986-89. He ranks third in school history in three-point field goals made, and in three-point field goal percentage, as well as fourth in three-point field goals attempted. Miller was 178-371 from three-point range in his career, a .480 percentage. Miller's best season was in 1988-89, when the Warhawks won the NCAA Division III national championship. That season Miller scored 16.6 points per game and made 107 of his 223 attempted three-pointers. The 223 three-point attempts that season were the second most in school history, while the 107 three-point field goals made were third best in school season history.

Miller's wife, Kristin, is a registered nurse. They have a son, Benjamin, born January of 2001 and a daughter, Laurel, born June 2004.