Former Lady Panthers standout Addy (Roller) Miller enters her third season as a Drury assistant coach in 2022-23. Miller joined the program after four seasons at Pittsburg State, where she was the Gorillas top assistant coach for the last two years and was a graduate assistant from 2016-18.
In each of the last two seasons, she has named to the WBCA's 30-Under-30 list, an honor that recognizes 30 up-and-coming women's basketball coaches ages 30 and under at all levels of the game. Each honoree has exemplified their involvement in community service, mentorship and impact on others, professional manner, and attitude and professional association involvement.
In 2021-22, the Lady Panthers won their sixth straight GLVC championship, went 32-5, and advanced to the second round of the NCAA-II Tournament. The team also saw Paige Robinson named to the All-American team, Robinson and Alana Findley were named All-Midwest Region selections, and five members of the team were named All-GLVC honorees.
In her first year as a Drury assistant, Miller helped the Lady Panthers to an NCAA-II Runner-Up finish, a 24-2 record, and the program’s fifth-straight Great Lakes Valley Conference championship. The team also produced the NCAA-II Player of the Year, Paige Robinson, who was also the GLVC Player of the Year. Drury had four players honored as all-conference selections, earned a GLVC Team Academic Award, and had seven student-athletes named to the GLVC All-Academic team.
In her two years at Drury, the Lady Panthers have gone 56-7, 34-4 in the GLVC, won two conference championships, advanced to the NCAA-II Tournament twice, and finished as the national runner-up in 2021. They have also produced two All-Americans, nine All-GLVC selections, and 15 All-Academic selections in the conference.
While a Pittsburg State, the Gorillas recorded a 90-30 record in four seasons, reached the NCAA-II tournament twice, and in 2018, finished only behind national champion Central Missouri in the MidAmerica Intercollegiate Athletic Conference standings.
Miller played her junior and senior season for the Lady Panthers after transferring from Wayne State (Neb.). She was part of two NCAA-II tournament teams at Drury, two Great Lakes Valley Conference West Division championships, and the 2015 GLVC title while the Lady Panthers went 52-9 during her two years on the squad. Miller ranked in the league's top 10 in assists and free throw percentage in both of her seasons in the GLVC, and she was on the national leaderboard in assist-to-turnover both years. Her 11 assists against Missouri S&T in 2016 is still tied for a program single-game record. Miller led the Northern Sun Athletic Conference in assists averaging 4.7 as a sophomore while leading Wayne State to a 28-5 record and the second round of the NCAA-II tournament.
One of southwest Missouri's top high school players of the last decade, Miller scored a program-record 2,392 career points at Purdy High School, was the Class 2 Player of the Year, and helped her team to a state championship in 2011.
She graduated from Drury with a degree in Business Administration in 2016, and she earned a Master's in Business Administration from Pittsburg State in 2018.
In the summer of 2022, she married Luke Miller and couple now reside in Springfield.
