Coaches

Rob Miller

Rob Miller enters his fourth season at the helm of the Converse University men's soccer team for the 2024 season, the only head coach in the program's four-year history. Miller has twice been named the Conference Carolinas Coach of the Year since arriving at Converse (2022 & 2024).


Coaching Highlights


291-180-35 (25-year coaching record)

7 All-Americans

20 All-Region Selections

2 Southeast Region Players of the Year

Coached 2022 Conference Carolinas Offensive Player of the Year

Coached 2024 Conference Carolinas Defensive Player of the Year

81 All-Conference Selections

Coached AAC Offensive Player of the Year Winner

Coached AAC Player of the Year

Coached 2 SAC Players of the Year

Coached 2 Conference Carolinas Freshman of the Year

12 different Coach of the Year Awards

Under Miller's direction for the third year, Converse won 12 games, one shy of the program record set the previous season. The Valkyries won seven conference games and earned the fifth seed in the Conference Carolinas Championship. Miller led the Valkyries through the first two rounds to take on the top-seeded Francis Marion Patriots. Converse defeated the top-seeded Patriots 4-1 to reach the team's second conference title game in as many years.


Miller coached the second-year Valkyries to a 13-1-5 overall record, Conference Carolinas Regular Season Champions and Conference Championship in 2022. Converse secured a berth to the NCAA Super Region II round of the NCAA Tournament, the first team to do so in Converse history.


In his first season at Converse, Miller coached the Valkyries to an 8-8-2 regular season record in their first season. Miller led the Valkyries to their first postseason birth in 2021 with a trip to the opening round of the Conference Carolinas Championship Tournament.


Prior to accepting the position at Converse, Miller spent fives seasons as the head coach at Truett McConnell University. Miller has a career record of 240-170-28 in his twenty-three years of coaching, and during that time, he coached a total of seven All-American, seventeen All-Region and sixty-two All-Conference Team Players. The program at Truett McConnell reached new heights under Miller, with the most-noted being winning the Appalachian Athletic Conference tournament in 2017, an appearance in the NAIA National Tournament and finishing 22 in the nation. Numerous individual awards were won by Miller’s student-athletes including AAC Offensive Player of the Year (2016), AAC Player of the Year (2017), NAIA All-American (2017), and a total of ten All-Conference Players.


Miller has numerous years of impressive collegiate coaching experience, including serving as head soccer coach at NCAA Division II Anderson University from 2002-2012. While at Anderson, Miller coached his teams to three consecutive NCAA tournament appearances, as well as reaching the sweet 16 twice. His teams finished 14th, 17th, and 25th in the nation. His teams amassed nine total conference tournament appearances, and they were named South Atlantic Conference regular season champions in 2011, as well as tournament champions in 2011, 2010 and a runner-up in 2009. Honors earned by Miller’s student-athletes included South Atlantic Conference Scholar Athlete of the Year (2011), two Southeast Region Players of the Year (2010 and 2011), two South Atlantic Conference Players of the Year (2010 and 2011), and two Conference Carolinas Freshmen of the Year (2005 and 2008).


Prior to Anderson, Miller served as the head coach at the University of the Cumberlands from 1995-2001 where his teams were named Mid-South Conference Tournament Champions in 1996 and Mid-South Conference Champions in 1998 and 2000.


Miller was named Mid-South Conference Coach of the Year three times (1996, 1998, 2000). During his coaching career, he has received regional awards such as Central Kentucky Conference Coach of the Year (1992), 27th District Coach of the Year (1993), Region Coach of the Year (1998), and Kentucky State Coach of the Year (2000). His most recent honor was as Conference Carolinas Coach of Year (2008), which is awarded annually to the top coach in each sport among the twelve private colleges and universities within Conference Carolinas.


In addition to his experience as a head coach at the collegiate level, Miller has also coached All-Star teams and helped develop Olympic athletes. He served as the U.S. All-Star Team head coach in the Outback Games in Darwin, Australia, in 2003. Miller was a member of the Kentucky Olympic Development Program staff from 1996-2000 and the Olympic Development Program Head Coach for the England Tour in 2004. He also served as a member of the South Carolina Olympic Development Program Staff from 2004-2006. Additionally, Miller has coached professionally in the United States Soccer League (USL) where he coached two organizations: the Lexington (KY) Bandits and the Greenville (SC) Lions. He has had several players go on to play in Major League Soccer (MLS).


Miller attended Olivet Nazarene University in Kankakee, Illinois, where he obtained a Bachelor of Science in Psychology and a Bachelor of Science in Social Work. While at Olivet Nazarene, Miller was four-year varsity starter for the men’s soccer program. While serving as team captain there in 1989, he was named to the first-team Chicagoland-Conference team and the First Team District 20 team.