Women's Swimming and Diving
- Title:
- Assistant Coach
- Email:
- Athena.miller@usafa.edu
- Phone:
- 719-333-4765
In 2019-20, Miller helped lead the Falcons to 13 dual wins, the program's most since 2016, as well as a .722 winning percentage, the best winning percentage since 2014. The Falcons also went a perfect 9-0 against schools in the Western Athletic Conference, including a 146-96 win over WAC Champion Northern Arizona. In total, AF set 19 new top-10 all-time Academy bests, while Senior Heidi Schellin captured the Mountain West Conference Senior Recognition Award.
Year two at AF for Miller saw the Falcons have two All-Conference finishers in Kylie Stronko and Emma Strom at the 2019 MW Championships. Stronko also re-broke both of her backstroke records at the championships. At the conclusion of the season, AF was named a CSCAA NCAA Division I Scholar All-American Team.
In her first season at Air Force, Miller helped take the team to new heights. Four individual school records were broken, while the team set a new school record for team points at the Mountain West Championships with 572. Six Falcons earned All-MW honors, while five qualified with NCAA 'B' times for the CSCAA National Invitational.
Miller, a 2008 graduate of the University of Mount Union, spent the 2016-17 season as the assistant swim coach at Dartmouth College where she helped with the Big Green’s recruiting, fundraising and overall operations of the program. She also helped secure 18 top-10 program times for the men’s program and nine for the women during her one-year stint.
She spent the 2015-16 season as an assistant coach with Duke University where she helped seven women and seven men become NCAA qualifiers. She saw the Blue Devils break 33 school records in 18 events and helped Yusuke Legard qualify for the British Olympic Trials during her time in Durham, N.C.
Miller served as the head men’s and women’s coach for Defiance College from March 2012 to April 2015 where she spearheaded the team’s recruiting, travel, scheduling, budgeting and fundraising.
Miller graduated from Mount Union with a Bachelor of Arts in business administration with an emphasis in management/economics in 2008. She went on to earn two Master’s degrees, first with a Master’s in psychology with an emphasis in sport from Capella University in December of 2012 and next with a Master’s in business administration from Defiance in May 2015.
