iCoach: The Podcast - "Lead with Love" - Dan Miller, Head Men's Basketball Coach - San Marcos HS (TX)
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iCoach: The Podcast is powered by VYPE. Dan Miller was named head men’s basketball coach at LeTourneau University in 2014-15. In seven years, Miller has guided the YellowJackets to three 20-win seasons and two NCAA Division III Tournaments. Miller has twice been named American Southwest Conference East Division Coach of the Year (2016-17 and 2017-18), and was named National Association of Basketball Coaches South Region Coach of the Year in 2018. His teams have gone 110-64 at LeTourneau.Miller came to LETU after a successful career as a collegiate assistant and as a head high school boys basketball coach at Seven Lakes High School in Katy, Texas. After a stint as an assistant at the University of Southwest Minnesota from 2003-04 under head coach Greg Stemen, Miller built the program from scratch at Seven Lakes. In his nine years with the Spartans, he posted a 218-70 overall record, winning four district titles, three 30-plus win seasons, two regional appearances and seven straight playoff appearances. The two regional appearances and seven consecutive playoff appearances was unprecedented in Katy Intermediate School District.
The high school program developed by Miller at Seven Lakes produced 32 of a possible 43 district titles among the five teams. Thirteen of Miller's former student-athletes continued their basketball skills on the collegiate level, including six on the NCAA Division I level.
Miller was named the District 19-5A Coach of the Year on four occasions, the Katy ISD All Sports Coach of the Year in 2010, and was selected to coach the 2012 All-Star Game by the Houston Area Basketball Coaches Association.
Miller is a 2000 graduate of Minnesota State University, Mankato, and has a master's in education degree from Lamar University. The Brillion, Wisconsin native, wife, Monica, and three children, daughter, Kayla, and sons, Kyren, and Kayden, reside in Texas.
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