WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Purdue track & field and cross country coach Norbert Elliott has announced that Tony Miller will join the program as an associate head coach.
Miller will coach the short sprinters and hurdlers and serve as the recruiting coordinator for the Boilermakers. He comes to West Lafayette after four seasons at Louisville, where he was named the 2022-23 USTFCCCA Southeast Region Men's Assistant Coach of the Year indoors. Miller brings nearly 20 years of coaching experience to Purdue.
"I'm very excited to add Coach Tony Miller to our staff," Elliott said. "Coach Miller has a wealth of experience and has been a very successful coach throughout his career, most recently at Louisville. We look forward to having him at Purdue and being part of our staff, and we welcome him into our Boilermaker family."
"I am very excited to join the Boilermaker Track & Field family," Miller said. "I would like to personally thank Associate Athletics Director Calvin Williams and Head Coach Norbert Elliott for giving me this great opportunity in West Lafayette!"
Miller is coming off a 2022-23 season at Louisville where he helped guide two athletes and three relays to the NCAA Outdoor Championships and two individuals qualified for the indoor national championships. Miller's NCAA qualifiers totaled three first team All-America honors, in the 200-meter and 4x100 relay outdoors and the 200m indoors. Nine of Miller's athletes set school records outdoors and five indoor records fell under his watch.
In 2021-22, a second team All-America accolade capped the season that saw Miller's runners earn three All-ACC accolades and two medals, one of them gold, outdoors along with a 60m ACC title and All-America distinction indoors. Five school records were set and one of Miller's runners was selected to race at the U.S. Track & Field Championships in the 100m.
The 2020-21 campaign featured a first team All-America award in the 60m indoors thanks to a school-record time. This came after an All-ACC award indoors in 2020 and another two team records.
Miller came to Louisville from SMU, where he was an assistant coach from 2006-19. The 2018-19 season saw Miller's Mustangs break seven school records, win three conference titles and qualify four to the NCAA regionals and one to the NCAA Championships. A year before that, in 2017-18, Miller led his runners to a conference championship, two regional qualifiers and one NCAA Championships berth along with four school records. In 2016-17, the Mustangs broke one school record, won two gold medals at the conference meet and sent two to the NCAA regionals.
At North Texas from 2004-06, Miller helped lead the Mean Green to their first Sun Belt Conference women's championship and coached his athletes to eight all-conference honors.
Miller is a 1996 graduate of Baylor University with a bachelor degree in business administration-marketing. He received a U.S. Track & Field Level II coaching certification in 2006.
For more on the Purdue track & field and cross country program, visit PurdueSports.com/TrackField and follow and connect with the Boilermakers on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook.
Miller will coach the short sprinters and hurdlers and serve as the recruiting coordinator for the Boilermakers. He comes to West Lafayette after four seasons at Louisville, where he was named the 2022-23 USTFCCCA Southeast Region Men's Assistant Coach of the Year indoors. Miller brings nearly 20 years of coaching experience to Purdue.
"I'm very excited to add Coach Tony Miller to our staff," Elliott said. "Coach Miller has a wealth of experience and has been a very successful coach throughout his career, most recently at Louisville. We look forward to having him at Purdue and being part of our staff, and we welcome him into our Boilermaker family."
"I am very excited to join the Boilermaker Track & Field family," Miller said. "I would like to personally thank Associate Athletics Director Calvin Williams and Head Coach Norbert Elliott for giving me this great opportunity in West Lafayette!"
Miller is coming off a 2022-23 season at Louisville where he helped guide two athletes and three relays to the NCAA Outdoor Championships and two individuals qualified for the indoor national championships. Miller's NCAA qualifiers totaled three first team All-America honors, in the 200-meter and 4x100 relay outdoors and the 200m indoors. Nine of Miller's athletes set school records outdoors and five indoor records fell under his watch.
In 2021-22, a second team All-America accolade capped the season that saw Miller's runners earn three All-ACC accolades and two medals, one of them gold, outdoors along with a 60m ACC title and All-America distinction indoors. Five school records were set and one of Miller's runners was selected to race at the U.S. Track & Field Championships in the 100m.
The 2020-21 campaign featured a first team All-America award in the 60m indoors thanks to a school-record time. This came after an All-ACC award indoors in 2020 and another two team records.
Miller came to Louisville from SMU, where he was an assistant coach from 2006-19. The 2018-19 season saw Miller's Mustangs break seven school records, win three conference titles and qualify four to the NCAA regionals and one to the NCAA Championships. A year before that, in 2017-18, Miller led his runners to a conference championship, two regional qualifiers and one NCAA Championships berth along with four school records. In 2016-17, the Mustangs broke one school record, won two gold medals at the conference meet and sent two to the NCAA regionals.
At North Texas from 2004-06, Miller helped lead the Mean Green to their first Sun Belt Conference women's championship and coached his athletes to eight all-conference honors.
Miller is a 1996 graduate of Baylor University with a bachelor degree in business administration-marketing. He received a U.S. Track & Field Level II coaching certification in 2006.
For more on the Purdue track & field and cross country program, visit PurdueSports.com/TrackField and follow and connect with the Boilermakers on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook.