Bowling Green State University Athletics
Curt Miller Agrees To Five-Year Contract Extension
October 11, 2004 | Women's Basketball
Oct. 11, 2004
BOWLING GREEN, Ohio - Bowling Green State University has reached an agreement with Falcon women's basketball coach Curt Miller on a five-year contract extension, BGSU Director of Athletics Paul Krebs has announced. The contract will run through June 30, 2009.
"We are pleased to reach this agreement with Coach Miller," said Krebs. "He is an outstanding, energetic individual and coach, and the University is excited about the direction of the women's basketball program.
"Coach Miller's student-athletes have been successful in the classroom as well as on the court, and we are thrilled to keep him in the Falcon family."
Miller has an overall record of 42-45 through three years at the helm of the Falcons. But, he guided the Brown and Orange to a 21-10 record, including a Mid-American Conference mark of 11-5, last winter.
Miller and his staff orchestrated a complete reversal of the previous year's league record (5-11 in 2002-03) and helped the Falcons - picked to finish sixth in the West Division in the preseason media poll - to a second-place tie, just a game out of first.
The Falcons posted three wins to close the regular season, then picked up three-straight wins in the MAC Tournament to cap a season-high six-game winning streak, a run that took the Brown and Orange all the way to the league tourney's championship game.
Miller and the 2003-04 Falcons had the MAC Freshman of the Year (Ali Mann) and the league's defensive player of the year (Lindsay Austin), along with three selections to the all-conference team.
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"The coaching profession, by nature, is transient and a little unstable, so to receive a five-year guaranteed contract gives myself and the program a tremendous amount of stability.
"We are truly proud of our success last season, but we realize our goals have yet to be reached. We look forward to being a team that, year-in and year-out, contends for a MAC Championship.
"When my coaching staff and I arrived at Bowling Green, we had a five-year vision for this program. That plan was accelerated last year, after our magical MAC Tournament run. We truly believe that the best days are still ahead for BGSU women's basketball."
The Falcons begin practice Saturday (Oct. 16), and the team's lone exhibition game is set for Mon., Nov. 8, at Anderson Arena. BGSU begins the 2004-05 regular season with a trip to Ohio State for a first-round contest in the Sportsview.tv WNIT.
