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Dion Miller enters his ninth season as a member of the Texas Tech track and field staff. He was named to the Associate Head Coach position Aug. 13, 2012
In 2012 he coached 14 All-Americans while the women's 4x100 relay team broke a seven-year school record with a time of 45.53. Meanwhile he also trained hurdles Jamele Mason and Shane Brathwaite who both qualified for the 2012 London Olympics. Mason was the 2012 NCAA runner-up in the 400-meter hurdles with a school record time of 48.89.
The 2011 season added more honors to Miller's resume. Omo Osaghae was runner-up in the 60M hurdles at the NCAA Indoor Championships and Big 12 Indoor Championships. Osaghae set the school record in the 60M hurdles and continued Tech's streak of yearly hurdle All-America. The men's 4x400M earned All-America status for the second-straight season. Bryce Brown won the Big 12 Championships in the 400M hurdles and was named All-American along with Jamele Mason. Miller was named Mountain Regional Assistant Coach of the Year for the outdoor season. Four men hurdlers and LaToy Williams (400M) competed at the NCAA Outdoor Championships under Miller.
The sprints and hurdles group reached new expectations during the 2010 seasons. Conference championships came in the 600Y by LaToy Williams and Bryce Brown in the 400M hurdles. A total of 21 All-American honors were collected under Miller's tutelage with the women's 4x100M relay earning the program's first All-American honor. Brown (400M hurdles), Jamele Mason (400M hurdles) and Omo Osaghae 60M hurdles) added three All-American honors to the rich history of Texas Tech hurdlers.
The success of the sprints and hurdles group has continued to grow at Texas Tech under Miller, who was named the 2009 NCAA Division I Indoor and Outdoor Mountain Regional Coach of the Year for the second-straight year. Gil Roberts and Omo Osaghae took home two Big 12 titles and three All-American honors between the two under Miller. Roberts won the indoor and outdoor 400M conference titles and finished as the runner-up at the NCAA Indoor Championships. The indoor and outdoor 4x400m relays earned All-American status and bring back a majority of the runners from both squads.
Sandra Iwunze won her second-straight conference 400M hurdles title. School records were set in the men's and women's 55M hurdles, men's 60M hurdles, 110M hurdles, 100M hurdles, men's indoor and outdoor 400M, women's 60M dash were all set under Miller's watch.
Miller has immediately left his mark on the program in his return. He was named the 2008 NCAA Div. I Outdoor Track & Field Mountain Region men's assistant coach of the year as well as the 2008 NCAA Division I Indoor and Outdoor Track & Field Mountain Region men's assistant coach of the year.
In his first season back, he heralded six outdoor All-American honors and five school records were broken in the sprints (55M H, 60M H, 60M, 100M H, 400M H). On the men's side he coached five student-athletes to All-American status including Tim Foster (4x400M), Shawon Harris (60M hurdles, 110M hurdles, 4x400M), Rodney Mims (4x400M), Omo Osaghee (110M hurdles), and Gil Roberts (4x400M), four Big 12 champions, and one NCAA West Regional. He guided Sandra Iwunze to the Big 12 Championship in the 400M hurdles, the first in Tech history, and school records in the 100M hurdles and 400M hurdles.
Before leaving Texas Tech to venture out west, Miller built Tech's sprinters' program into one of the premier groups in the nation. During the 2002 season, he coached nine student-athletes to All-American honors, namely Ivory McCann, Albert Booker and Jonathan Johnson, while the men's 4x100m relay team captured its first Big 12 championship title.
In the 2001 season, Miller's sprinters shined both in the indoor and outdoor seasons. Throughout both seasons, seven school records were set including two Big 12 champions.
During his time at Texas Tech, Coach Miller has coached 28 All-Americans and led 17 student-athletes to elite status of Big 12 champions.
Coach Miller built on his great success at Texas Tech as he helped assemble the Arizona State track team into a Pac-10 powerhouse. While at ASU, he helped lead the ASU women to numerous championships including their first Pac-10 team championship in the history of the program in 2007 as well as the 2007 women's NCAA Indoor and Outdoor team championships. During his tenure at ASU, he worked with Jacquelyn Johnson, who picked up four multi-event NCAA titles and All-American honors as well as leading four other student-athletes to All-American honors with LaTosha Wallace topping the list.
Prior to taking on the reins at Arizona State, Miller served a short term as the sprinters coach at University of Washington. During this time, he guided the first 4x400m relay to advance to a NCAA championship appearance since 1998.
In 2008 Coach Miller also coached 2008 Olympic 4x400 Silver medalist Andrae Williams of the Bahamas and Indoor 2008 World Champion 4x400m Gold Medalist Greg Nixon of the United States.
Miller earned his degree in exercise and sport science from Texas Tech University in 1998 where he was an All-American. He also captured 13 all-conference honors for the Red Raiders. An eight-time NCAA qualifier for TTU, Miller also qualified for the U.S. Olympic Team Trials in 1996 in both the 100m and 200m events.
Miller and his wife, Carol, reside in Lubbock with their children, Alandrea, Kameron and Dionna.
Professional
Andrae Williams - 2008 Beijing Olympic Silver Medalist 4x400M
Greg Nixon - 2008 Olympic Trials 7th place in 400M
2007 USA Indoor 400M Champion
2007 Pan Am Games 4x400M Silver Medalist
LaTosha Wallace - 2008 Olympic Trials 6th place in 400M hurdles
2007 North American, Central American, Caribbean
Assoc. Gold Medalist in the 400M hurdles and 4x400M 2007 USATF Outdoor National Championships 6th place in the 400M hurdles
NCAA Champions (4) Jacquelyn Johnson - 2007 Heptathlon Jacquelyn Johnson - 2007 Pentathlon Jacquelyn Johnson - 2006 Heptathlon Jacquelyn Johnson - 2006 Pentathlon
All-Americans (96)
Shane Brathwaite - 110MH (outdoor 2012) Shane Brathwaite - 4x100M (outdoor 2012) Jamele Mason - 400MH (outdoor 2012) Ben McRoy 4x100M (outdoor 2012) Gil Roberts 400m (outdoor 2012) Gil Roberts 4x100M (outdoor 2012) Erica Alexander 4x100M (outdoor 2012) Erica Alexander 4x400M (outdoor 2012) Taylor Evans - 200M (outdoor 2012) Taylor Evans 4x100M (outdoor 2012) Taylor Evans - 4x400M (outdoor 2012) Katie Grimes 100MH (outdoor 2012) Candace Jackson - 4x100M (outdoor 2012) Candace Jackson - 4x400M (outdoor 2012) Cierra White - 200M (outdoor 2012) Erica Alexander - 4x400M (indoor 2012) Taylor Evans - 4x400M (indoor 2012) Candace Jackson - 4x400M (indoor 2012) Olivia Lewis - 4x400M (indoor 2012) Katie Grimes - 60M Hurdles (indoor 2012) Erica Alexander - 4x100M (outdoor, 2011) Erica Alexander - 4x400M (outdoor, 2011) Taylor Evans - 4x100M (outdoor, 2011) Taylor Evans - 4x400M (outdoor, 2011) Tara Thomas - 4x100M (outdoor, 2011) Kelsey Lloyd - 4x400M (outdoor, 2011) Erica Alexander - Distance Medley Relay (indoor, 2011) Jamele Mason - 400M Hurdles, (outdoor, 2011) Jamele Mason - 4x400M, (outdoor, 2011) Gil Roberts - 400M, (outdoor, 2011) Gil Roberts - 4x400M, (outdoor, 2011) Shane Brathwaite - 4x400M (outdoor, 2011) Bryce Brown - 400M Hurdles (outdoor, 2011) Omo Osaghae - 110M Hurdles (outdoor, 2011) LaToy Williams - 4x400M (outdoor, 2011) Shane Brathwaite - 110M Hurdles (outdoor, 2011) Bryce Brown - 60M Hurdles (indoor, 2011) Erica Alexander - 4x100M (outdoor, 2010) Erica Alexander - 4x400M (outdoor, 2010) Erica Alexander - 4x400M (indoor, 2010) Trudeann Clarke - 4x400M (outdoor, 2010) Trudeann Clarke - Distance Medley Relay (indoor, 2010) Trudeann Clarke - 4x400M (indoor, 2010) Taylor Evans - 4x100M (outdoor, 2010) Taylor Evans - 4x400M (outdoor, 2010) Taylor Evans - 4x400M (indoor, 2010) Terra Evans - 100M (outdoor, 2010) Terra Evans - 200M (outdoor, 2010) Terra Evans - 4x100M (indoor, 2010) Candace Jackson - 4x100M (outdoor, 2010) Candace Jackson - 4x400M (outdoor, 2010) Candace Jackson - 4x400M (indoor, 2010) Omo Osaghae - 60M Hurdles (indoor, 2010) Bryce Brown - 400M Hurdles (outdoor, 2010) Bryce Brown - 4x400M (indoor, 2010) Jamaal Butler - 4x400M (indoor, 2010) Jansen Hyde - 110M Hurdles (outdoor, 2010) Jamele Mason - 400M Hurdles (outdoor, 2010) LaToy Williams - 400M (outdoor, 2010) Rodney Mims - 4x400M, (outdoor, 2009) Lamont Adams - 4x400M, (outdoor, 2009) Brandon Washington - 4x400M, (outdoor, 2009) Tim Foster - 4x400M, (outdoor, 2009) Gil Roberts - 4x400M, (indoor, 2009) Markus Henderson - 4x400M, (indoor, 2009) Tim Foster - 4x400M, (indoor, 2009) Rodney Mims - 4x400M, (indoor, 2009) Gil Roberts - 400M, (indoor, 2009) Omo Osaghae - 60M Hurdles, (indoor, 2009) Shawon Harris - 110M Hurdles, (outdoor, 2008) Shawon Harris - 4x400M, (outdoor, 2008) Tim Foster - 4x400M (outdoor, 2008) Rodney Mims - 4x400M (outdoor, 2008) Gil Roberts - 4x400M (outdoor, 2008) Shawon Harris - 60M hurdles, (indoor, 2008) Julianne Kennedy - pentathlon (2008) Jordan Durham - 4x400M (outdoor, 2007) Shauntel Elcock - 4x400M (outdoor, 2007) Jacquelyn Johnson - Heptathlon (2007) Jacquelyn Johnson - Pentathlon (2007) LaTosha Wallace - 400M hurdles (2007) LaTosha Wallace - 4x400M (outdoor, 2007) Bridgette Williams - 4x400M (outdoor, 2007) Jacquelyn Johnson - Heptathlon (2006) Jacquelyn Johnson - Pentathlon (2006) Jonathan Johnson - 4x400M (outdoor, 2002) Albert Booker - 4x400M (outdoor, 2002) Ivory McCann - 4x400M (outdoor, 2002) Licretia Silbey - 400M (outdoor, 2002) Jonathan Johnson - 4x400M (indoor, 2002) Julieon Raeburn - 4x400M (outdoor, 2002) Ivory McCann - 4x400M (indoor, 2002) Albert Booker - 4x400M (indoor, 2002) Julieon Raeburn - 4x400M (indoor, 2002) Licretia Silbey - 4x400M (indoor, 2002) Rachelle Evans - 4x400M (indoor, 2002)
