Head Coach Shannon Miller
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As the only head coach UMD has ever employed, Miller has amassed an impressive overall record of 234-61-25 and has led the Bulldogs to seven NCAA playoff appearances and four NCAA Championship titles, including three straight (2001, 2002 and 2003). She has led UMD into five NCAA Frozen Four berths, including the last two NCAA Championship games in both 2007 and 2008. No other hockey program in the country has won four titles, let alone three consecutive NCAA titles.
For her efforts, Miller was named the 2000 and 2003 Western Collegiate Hockey Association Coach of the Year and the 2003 American Hockey Coaches Association (AHCA) Women's Division I Coach of the Year. Along with the incredible NCAA runs, her Bulldogs have captured three WCHA regular season titles (2008, 2003, 2000) and four WCHA playoff titles (2008, 2003, 2001, 2000).
During Miller's time at the Bulldog helm, UMD has produced nine first-team All-Americans, 12 Patty Kazmaier Award Finalists, two WCHA Players of the Year, three WCHA Student-Athletes of the year and one CoSIDA Academic All-American.
Not only has Miller enjoyed incredible success with the Bulldogs, but she also had tremendous success coaching on the international stage with Team Canada. Miller coached Canada to a sliver medal at the 1998 Winter Olympics and was the first and only female head coach of any Olympic hockey team, as well as the youngest. She also coached Canada to three consecutive gold medals at the Women's World Ice Hockey Championships (1992, 1994 and 1997) and to gold medal finishes at both the 1995 and 1996 Pacific Rim Championships as well as the Three Nations Cup Tournament istant with the Alberta Women's Hockey Team (18 and under) in 1989 and two years later was part of a club, which captured a gold medal in the first-ever hockey competition for women in the Canada Winter Games.
Before leaving Canada, Miller was given the prestigious Canadian Advancement of Women in Sport Award for all her successes for women's hockey in Canada.
In 1985, Miller graduated from the University of Saskatchewan with a bachelor's degree in physical education and received her Masters of Education degree from UMD in 2005.
Prior to being hired by the Olympic Oval in Calgary to build the first-ever international high performance-training program for women's hockey, Miller was a police officer in Calgary from 1988-1996.
Apart from her duties at UMD, Miller also operates hockey schools across North America and is a professional speaker at local, national and international events.
