AJ Miller Last College: William Smith '07 Position: Assistant Coach Experience: First Season

AJ Miller embarks upon her first season at Bucknell in 2007-08. Her main duties will be assisting with the varsity and serving as recruiting coordinator.

Miller spent 2006-07 completing her degree at William Smith while also volunteering with the men's crew team at Hobart. Prior to that, she was the head women's novice coach at Fairfield for one year. She helped guide the Stags to numerous first-place finishes, including a gold medal performance by the novice eight at the Metropolitan Intercollegiate R.A. Spring Championship in 2006. The novice four, which posted first-place showings four times throughout the season, took second at that event. Both the novice eight and novice four closed out the campaign with berths in the semifinals of the Dad Vail Regatta.

From 2000 to 2002, Miller served as assistant women's rowing coach and head novice coach at Southern Methodist University. In addition to assisting the head coach in winter training, she created and applied the fitness rowing program for the team, helped coordinate travel and was instrumental in practice scheduling, regatta organization and race coordination.

Miller started coaching at the college level at Colby College during the 1999-2000 campaign when she was an assistant coach for both the men's and women's crew programs.

At William Smith, Miller was a four-year member of the varsity program, which earned the New York State Championship three times as well as the 1999 Division II/III national championship. She also earned the William Smith Coach's Award for sportsmanship and the Betsy Smith Award for perseverance in 1999.

Following her collegiate career, Miller spent the summers of 2000 and 2002 competing with the New York Athletic Club. She trained and competed in eights, a quad and a straight four and won a silver medal in women's intermediate quad at the 2002 U.S. Rowing Nationals. Additionally, she served as a juniors coach at the New York Athletic Club.