Lorin Miller

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Lorin Miller (born September 27, 1935 ) is an American basketball coach .

career

Miller ran at Sterling College , Kansas, the sports of American football , baseball , basketball, and athletics . In 1960 he graduated from Sterling College and later another from the University of Washington .

At Pawnee Rock High School in Kansas Miller was a football coach for five years and from 1967 to 1969 basketball coach for three years at Seattle Pacific College (later Seattle Pacific University). At college he was also a baseball coach. In 1970 he moved to George Fox University in the state of Oregon and supervised the local basketball team, which competed in the second NAIA division. In addition, he took over the overall management of university sports. He stayed at George Fox University until 1976. He then supervised the basketball team at Barton Community College in Kansas from 1976 to 1979.

The father of four was head coach of the German Bundesliga club TuS 04 Leverkusen in the 1979/80 season . There players like Reiner Frontzek , John Ecker , Norbert Thimm , Achim Kuczmann and Rudolf Kleen were among his protégés. He also looked after the Rhinelander in the European Cup . In the Bundesliga he was runner-up with Leverkusen.

He worked in the 1984/85 season as a talent scout for the Seattle SuperSonics , in July 1985 he became assistant coach of the NBA team. Miller was heavily involved in bringing Xavier McDaniel  to Seattle in 1985. After the end of the 1985/86 season Miller resigned from Seattle's coaching staff.

Between 1993 and 2000, Miller coached the softball ladies at Cloud County Community College and was also the assistant coach of the women's basketball team at the same college. He will hold the latter office until 2003. In 2001 he was an assistant coach in winning the women's championship title in the first NJCAA division. In April 2003, Miller took the post of head coach of the women's basketball team at Howard College, and in mid-December 2004 he resigned. From 2009 to 2013 Miller was again working as the assistant coach of the women's basketball at Cloud County Community College. In total, he was employed as assistant coach for women for 14 years and as assistant coach for men at Cloud County Community College for five years.

He was inducted into the Sports Hall  of Fame at Sterling College in 2000 and Cloud County Community College in 2015.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b First Ever Happy Sonics Birthday! Accessed July 31, 2020 .
  2. ↑ a b c Coach Lorin Miller. In: 1974-75 Media Guide. George Fox University, accessed July 31, 2020 .
  3. ^ Baseball reunion: Seattle Pacific alumni return to share All-Star lives. In: Seattle Pacific University. Retrieved July 30, 2020 (American English).
  4. ↑ GEORGE FOX UNIVERSITY MEN'S BASKETBALL RECORDS. Accessed July 31, 2020 .
  5. ↑ 2013-14 Barton Basketball Media Guide. Accessed July 31, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Champions Cup 1979-80. In: Pearl Basket. Accessed July 30, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Scouts Bob Kloppenburg and Lorin Miller Tuesday were named ... Accessed July 30, 2020 .
  8. ^ Sonic's Q&A: Xavier McDaniel. In: NBA. Accessed July 30, 2020 (English).
  9. ↑ Lorin Miller. In: basketball-reference.com. Accessed July 31, 2020 (English).
  10. ↑ a b Lorin Miller. In: CLOUD COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE. Accessed July 30, 2020 (English).
  11. ^ Howard College names Miller to lead women's basketball squad. April 18, 2003, accessed July 30, 2020 .
  12. ^ MC women avoid upset against Howard. February 8, 2005, accessed July 30, 2020 .
  13. ^ Hall of Fame. In: Sterling College. Accessed July 30, 2020 (English).
  14. ^ Cloud County Athletics Hall of Fame. Accessed July 30, 2020 (English).
personal data
SURNAME Miller, Lorin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American basketball coach
DATE OF BIRTH September 27, 1935