Newberry Names Karrie Miller Head Women’s Soccer Coach

NEWBERRY, S.C. - Newberry College Vice President for Intercollegiate Athletics Andy Carter announced the hiring of Karrie Miller as head women's soccer coach today. Miller becomes the sixth head coach since the program's inception in 1995.

"Karrie is a great fit for us to take our women's soccer program to the next level," Carter said. "She brings a wealth of experience and has a firm grip on where we need to go next.

"Her experience recruiting in the Southeast and her background in achieving results makes her the right choice for Newberry," Carter added.

"It's an honor and a privilege to represent the Newberry College athletic department and women's soccer team," Miller said. "I'm very impressed with the level of commitment our athletic director Andy Carter has for the program and his mission statement for the athletic department.

"I am very excited about inheriting a successful program and look forward to the quest for a berth in the national tournament," Miller added.

Miller comes to Newberry with eight seasons of NCAA Division I head coaching experience, all in the state of South Carolina. She was the inaugural head coach for the programs at Charleston Southern University and Coastal Carolina University.

Miller earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Behavioral Science from Erskine College in Due West, S.C., in 1990 and then graduated from Gardner-Webb University in Boiling Springs, N.C., with a Masters degree in Physical Education in 1992.

While at Erskine, she was a three-time NAIA All-American for the Lady Fleet and made the NAIA All-East Team four times. Miller was also selected to the NAIA All-Tournament National Team in 1987 and 1989. She was inducted into Erskine's Athletic Hall of Fame during the fall of 2001.

Miller began her college coaching career at Gardner-Webb, where she served as an assistant coach from 1990 to 1992. She then accepted the position of head coach at Charleston Southern.

After spending the 1992-93 academic year preparing the Lady Buccaneer program for competition, Miller led the squad to a combined 24-13-1 record over the next two seasons. In Charleston Southern's first year of competition and her first as a head coach, Miller was named the Big South Conference Co-Coach of the Year.

After her success at Charleston Southern, Miller accepted an assistant coaching position at South Carolina and helped guide the Lady Gamecocks through their first two seasons of competition. She then moved to Alabama and helped the Crimson Tide to the Western Division Championship in the Southeastern Conference and a bid to the 1998 NCAA Tournament.

In 1999, Miller returned to the Palmetto State to begin the women's soccer program at Coastal Carolina University in Conway, S.C. She served as head coach through the 2005 season, earning a 47-50-16 record in six seasons in charge of the Lady Chanticleers.

She was also named Big South Conference Coach of the Year in 2000 and 2003 for a total of three BSC Coach of the Year awards. Her 2003 squad finished with a record of 10-9-2 overall and were the Big South regular season champions.

Miller's Coastal squads were named an Academic All-American team by the NSCAA in 2002, 2003, 2004 and 2005.

Throughout her coaching career, Miller has been heavily involved with the Olympic Development Program in bouth South Carolina and Alabama, serving as the Program Director in South Carolina from 1995 to 1998.

She was the founder and director of the Karrie Miller Women's Soccer Camp from 2000 to 2006, and has served as co-director for multiple camps throughout the state.

Miller Career Coaching Record

Year School W- L- T Pct.
1993 Charleston Southern 12- 5- 1 .694
1994 Charleston Southern 12- 8- 0 .600
2000 Coastal Carolina 5- 7- 4 .438
2001 Coastal Carolina 4-11- 4 .316
2002 Coastal Carolina 8- 6- 4 .555
2003 Coastal Carolina 10- 9- 2 .524
2004 Coastal Carolina 7-11- 2 .400
2005 Coastal Carolina 13- 6- 0 .684
Total 71-63-17 .526