Jane Miller Position: Senior Associate AD for Programs Education: Northeastern University

Jane Miller has worked in the Virginia athletics department as a coach and administrator since 1983. Miller was promoted to senior associate director of athletics for programs in November of 2001. She spent the previous six years as associate director of athletics for programs/senior woman administrator. Before that, she was the head women's lacrosse coach at UVa for 12 years and an assistant athletics director and senior woman administrator since July of 1992. She resigned her coaching position to assume full-time administrative duties in 1995.

Miller is the athletics department's liaison to the Office of Student Affairs. She is a member of the Women's Center Council and serves on the University Calendar Committee and Judicial Review Board. Miller is a member of the NCAA Division I Championships/Competition Cabinet, the Chair of the ACC Men's and Women's Lacrosse Committees and Equity Committee, and is a member of the ACC Women's Basketball Committee, ACC Wrestling Committee, and ACC Student-Welfare Committee.

In September of 2000, Miller was appointed by UVa President John Casteen III to serve as a member of the Women's Leadership Council, a standing University advisory committee. The broad mission of the WLC is to consult with, counsel and inform the president about institutional policies, objectives, procedures and actions with regard to developing an equitable gender climate. Its goals are to: ensure that women are included fully and equitably in all aspects of the life of the institution; and promote the development and well-being of all members of the University community in an atmosphere marked by collegiality, rigorous intellectual inquiry and self-examination, moral reflection and fundamental human kindness.

Miller is the winningest coach in UVa women's lacrosse history, compiling a 12-year record of 145-44 from 1984-95. During that time, she led the Cavaliers to six NCAA Final Four appearances and to two national championships (1991 and 1993). She was named NCAA Division I National Coach of the Year in 1991.

She was head field hockey coach at Virginia from 1983-91 and her teams compiled a record of 100-65-7 in nine seasons.

The native of Easton, Mass., came to Virginia from Longwood College, where she spent two seasons as head coach of women's basketball and four seasons as head coach of women's lacrosse. Her lacrosse teams compiled a combined record of 30-20-1 and captured a Division III state title. Miller also had coaching stops at Milton Academy in Milton, Mass., and at the University of North Carolina-Greensboro.

Miller graduated from Northeastern University in 1973 and was elected to her alma mater's Hall of Fame in 1983. She was a three-sport standout at Northeastern in basketball, field hockey and lacrosse.

Miller coached the South team to three United States Women's Lacrosse Association (USWLA) national championships (1983, 1985 and 1987). She was a U.S. lacrosse squad coach for six years and was an assistant coach for the 1986 U.S. World Cup lacrosse team. She was elected to the Virginia chapter of the Lacrosse Hall of Fame in 1996, the New England chapter of the Lacrosse Hall of Fame in 2000 and the U.S. Lacrosse National Hall of Fame and Oliver Ames High School Hall of Fame in 2003.

Miller is a member of the National Association of Collegiate Women Athletic Administrators and the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics. In May of 1999, she received the Woman of Achievement Award from the UVa Women's Faculty and Professional Association.