Staff Bios

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Coach Heidi Miller has earned her reputation as one of the top volleyball coaches in Pennsylvania. Over a 25-year career, she has been instrumental in helping student-athletes and teams perform at a high level. Coach Miller is an educator and brings that training and mindset to the gym. She has worked with students and student-athletes of all ages. 

As a long-time coach at the North Allegheny School District, her teams consistently performed at the highest levels in the WPIAL and PIAA. The program was recognized as an exemplar in the state for consistent levels of performance. During her tenure as head coach, her teams won four PIAA Championships in the largest classification and numerous WPIAL titles. She consistently helped individual student-athletes earn recognition at the section, WPIAL and PIAA levels. In 2019, she was recognized as the Pennsylvania Coach of Year by the National Federation of High School Coaches Association. In recognition of her outstanding coaching career, Coach Miller was inducted into the North Allegheny Athletic Hall of Fame in the Class of 2021. 

Coach Miller has been actively involved in club volleyball in the Pittsburgh region for nearly three decades. She has held a variety of positions as a coach and director. She formed Allegheny North Volleyball Club to develop talent for her high school program and athletes in the immediate area. After growing the club for 10 years, she merged her program with Pittsburgh Elite. She was instrumental in helping Pitt Elite consolidate their multiple local branches into a single facility and expand the size of the club. For the past eight years, Coach Miller has been the driving leadership force behind the Pittsburgh branch of Revolution Volleyball Club. Coach Miller has trained and mentored numerous student-athletes who continued their playing careers at the Division 1, 2 and 3 levels. 

In her time as a player, Coach Miller was an Outside Hitter at Columbus East High School in the state of Indiana where she was an all-state performer and team captain. She was a member of the nationally recognized Circle City Volleyball Club in Indianapolis. In her senior year, she was recognized as the USAV 18 Open Junior Olympic Volleyball Nationals MVP. Coach Miller was recognized as a Volleyball Monthly “Fab 50” player, a USVBA All-American and trained in Colorado Springs as a member of the USA Junior National Team. Following high school, Coach Miller was a scholarship athlete at Penn State University and competed on the women’s team from 1993 - 1997. Her teams were four-time Big 10 Champions and participated in three NCAA Division 1 Final Four Championships. Coach Miller has been recognized as one of the best defensive players in Penn State history. 

With nearly 30 years as a public educator, Dr. Miller has continued to serve student-athletes through volunteer work in coaching with a primary focus on setter development and overall training design for various teams. Numerous setters have continued their playing careers at all divisions of collegiate volleyball. With a bachelor’s degree in exercise and sport science and years of personal experience in athletics, he developed the four pillars of athletic excellence philosophy in the late 1990s as a framework to guide growth and achievement both on and off the court. The pursuit of excellence in sport requires a commitment to “train in the shadows” that helps each athlete and team build confidence to “compete in the spotlight” of championship moments. Dr. Miller will lead the setter cohorts and provide support for advanced cohorts across all positions.

Dr. Miller competed at North Allegheny High School for his dad, legendary Coach Bob Miller, where he was a three-time all WPIAL and all PIAA recognized player and two-time WPIAL co-MVP. He was a key member of the 1991 WPIAL and PIAA championship team, co-male athlete of the year at North Allegheny in 1991, and recognized as a “Fab 50” player in the nation by Volleyball Monthly Magazine. Miller was a four-year letter winner with the Penn State Men’s Volleyball team and co-captain in his junior and senior years. Dr. Miller participated in four NCAA Final Four championships including the 1994 Division 1 National Championship team where he had the special distinction of serving national championship match point! During his senior year, the Nittany Lions again reached the national championship game and earned a runner-up finish. Dr. Miller was inducted into the North Allegheny Athletic Hall of Fame in 1998.