Kenyon College Athletics

Emily (McDonough) Miller returned to Kenyon College after being hired as the Owls' Head Coach in August of 2022.

Miller was previously at Kenyon as an assistant coach during the 2020 season. That year, the Kenyon team played 16 spring break games in Florida and produced a 12-4 record before things came to an abrupt halt due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

With her hiring, Miller became the sixth head coach in the history of the Kenyon program. 

In her first year at the helm in 2023, Miller's young squad saw two student-athletes earn all-conference honors as first-years. Additionally, four Owls earned CSC Academic All-District recognition, and the team had the 33rd highest grade point average out of 125 Division III member teams in the National Fastpitch Coaches Association.

Last season, the 2024 campaign, Miller's team was one on the most improved in all of NCAA Division III, tacking on 14 more wins than the previous season.  

Before being hired as a Kenyon assistant in 2020, Miller served the previous year as head coach at Southern Vermont College, an institution that closed in May 2019. Miller also piled up coaching experience for two years as a graduate assistant coach at Frostburg State University. While attaining her master’s degree in school counseling, Miller helped the Bobcats notch a 46-31 combined record during the 2017 and 2018 seasons. Frostburg earned berths into the Capital Athletic Conference’s postseason tournament in each of those seasons, as well.

Miller’s undergraduate studies and playing career took place at NCAA Division I St. Bonaventure University. She broke the program’s all-time hits record and became the only player in St. Bonaventure history to surpass the 200-hit mark. She also finished with the most runs scored in program history (108), second-most stolen bases (96) and third-best batting average (.382). In 2016, she was named to both the Atlantic 10's All-Conference team and Academic All-Conference team. She also was a member of the 2016 Atlantic 10's Commissioner's Honor Roll and graduated in 2016 with a bachelor’s degree in sports science.

Miller, a native of Marlboro, New York, is a member of the National Fastpitch Coaches Association and the American School Counseling Association.

Following her first stint at Kenyon, Miller got married and moved with her husband Tim to Elkins, West Virginia, where he served as Davis & Elkins College Head Baseball Coach for two seasons, while Emily worked as an Enrollment Advisor.

Emily then went on to work as a School Counselor for one year at Buckhannon-Upshur Middle School in Buckhannon, West Virginia, while also working as the Director of Softball at Pro Performance in Morgantown, West Virginia.