Meet Molly Miller, the college basketball coach who led her team to its first NCAA tournament: a mother of 2, she worked in marketing before becoming a full-time coach
Basketball coach Molly Miller, who recently took the Grand Canyon Antelopes women's basketball team to their first NCAA tournament, has taken up a new challenge as head coach of the Arizona State University women's basketball team, reports USA Today.
During her turn as head coach at Grand Canyon University, Miller guided the team to a championship-clinching victory against the UT Arlington Mavericks in the 2025 WAC Tournament. She then went viral for her post-game celebration, making snow angels in Gatorade on the locker room floor before her players gave her a celebratory lift on their shoulders.
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After five seasons with the Lopes, Miller will now lead the Sun Devils. She succeeds Natasha Adair, who was fired after the team posted a disappointing 29-62 three-season record under her.
So who is Molly Miller, who has won NCAA D-II Coach of the Year twice and whose looks are being compared to those of star gymnast
Livvy Dunne of the LSU Tigers?
Molly Miller's athletic career
Molly Miller led the Grand Canyon Antelopes women's basketball team to their first NCAA tournament. Photo: @MollyMiller33/X
Molly Miller (née Carter) grew up in Springfield, Missouri. She realised she had a knack for basketball at eight, when she served as a ball girl for the Missouri State Lady Bears, according to the GCU Athletics website. She attended Kickapoo High School, where she played basketball and took her team, the Lady Chiefs, to two state championships, per USA Today. According to her biography on the Drury University Athletics website, she graduated top of her class before joining the MBA programme at Drury, per her LinkedIn page. In her collegiate career, she played point guard and scored 1,570 points, making her the fourth-highest scorer in the history of Drury, per the New York Post. For steals and assists, she ranked second and third respectively. In her senior year she won the leading-athlete Paragon Award from the Great Lakes Valley Conference (GLVC) and earned an All-American title at NCAA Division II level.
She worked in marketing
Molly Miller had a career in marketing before she became a full-time coach. Photo: @gcu_wbb/Instagram
After graduating from Drury in 2008, Miller worked for four years as a marketing director at the Springfield Neurological and Spine Institute at CoxHealth, per her LinkedIn page. During that time she was coaching as a side job, states the GCU Athletics website. In 2012, she returned to Drury as an assistant coach of the Lady Panthers, even though the job came with a lower salary. After two seasons, she became head coach. Her team punched tickets to the NCAA II tournament five times, winning several GLVC championships.
She is married with children
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