Faye Young Miller begins her first season as a volunteer assistant on Coach Dayna Smith’s staff. Miller comes to Cornell with a long and distinguished history as a player, an official, an ESPN commentator and a coach, and will be an invaluable asset for the Big Red program.
The head coach at nearby Ithaca High School from 2002-2007, Miller helped the Little Red to a 54-46 (.540) record. Under her direction, Ithaca was two-time STAC Metro Division champions, winning the STAC title in 2005-06. The Little Red also earned a Section IV championship during the 2004-05 season, advancing to the state quarterfinals. During that time, she also served as the Director of the Hoop Mountain (N.Y.) Basketball Camp from 2004-06 and worked for two years as a varsity basketball official.
Miller began her basketball coaching career with a two-season stint as the head coach at Manhattan College, posting a 31-29 (.517) overall record from 1981-1983. In her first season, she led the team to a 12-18 record and followed that up with a 19-11 record, which was the most wins in program history at that time, and is still the second- best season in Jasper history.
Following her time in Riverdale, Miller spent one season as the assistant coach at Fairview high school in Boulder, Colo., before taking an assistant coach position at Georgia Tech. Miller spent five seasons with the Yellow Jackets, helping the team to back-to-back postseason appearances in 1992 and 1993. Georgia Tech captured the 1992 National Women’s Invitational Tournament championship in the program’s first-ever postseason appearance, and followed that up with a trip to the NCAA tournament in 1993.
A two-time letter winner at North Carolina State, Miller played for the legendary Kay Yow and was co-captain of the third-ranked Wolfpack in 1977-78, helping the team to a 29-5 overall record and perfect mark of 9-0 in the ACC. Following college, she played for three years in the Women’s Professional Basketball League for the New York Stars.
Miller, who served as a women’s basketball color commentator for ESPN from 1983 to 1988, earned a bachelors of arts degree in sociology from N.C. State in 1978.
Miller is the author of Winning Basketball for Girls and resides in Ithaca with her husband, Matthew, a professor in Cornell’s Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, and their son Samuel and daughter Chaney.
