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Shimmy Gray-Miller
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Shimmy Gray-Miller was named assistant coach for the Minnesota women's basketball program on May 18, 2021.
In her current role, Gray-Miller works with Minnesota's post players, sets up recruiting visits for the program and also helps prepare scouting reports and game strategies.
In her lone season at Minnesota, the Gophers reached the postseason and coached Alanna 'Rose' Micheaux to a Big Ten Freshman of the Week honor after a big-time performance in B1G/ACC Challenge game against North Carolina. She also coached Bailey Helgren who was named the Gophers' honoree on the Big Ten All-Sportsmanship team.Â
With 20 years of coaching experience, Gray-Miller has spent time at all five of the Power Five conferences. During her career, she has helped her teams to nine NCAA Tournament appearances, including one Sweet 16 appearance, and coached six WNBA Draft selections.
Gray-Miller comes to the Golden Gophers after spending the past three seasons at Clemson. She helped the Tigers to two postseason appearances in her three seasons, including reaching the second round of the 2019 NCAA Tournament. Kobi Thornton, an All-ACC Second Team member, was chosen in the third round of the 2020 WNBA Draft.
Prior to Clemson, Gray-Miller spent a season as an assistant coach and interim head coach at Texas Tech, where she worked with current Minnesota Assistant AD/Director of Operations Melissa Maines.
Gray-Miller was at the University of Florida from 2015-2017 as assistant coach and recruiting coordinator. She helped pull in a top 25 class in 2017 after the Gators reached the second round of the NCAA Tournament in 2016. She primarily oversaw the development of the post players at Florida, coaching senior Ronni Williams (2016-17), a First Team All-SEC selection by the coaches and the media. Williams led the SEC in scoring and received a WBCA All-American Team Honorable Mention before being taken in the second round of the 2017 WNBA Draft.
Prior to her time at Florida, Gray-Miller served as assistant coach at the University of Nebraska from 2012-15. The team earned an NCAA Tournament berth in all three seasons with a Sweet 16 appearance in 2012-13. Thanks to her recruiting efforts, Nebraska was ranked the No. 8 and No. 9 November signing classes in 2014 and 2013, respectively.
Gray-Miller coached Nebraska standout Jordan Hooper to first team All-America status and a No. 10 all-time rebounding mark in Big Ten history (1,110 career rebounds). Hooper was a two-time All-Big Ten choice and the 2014 Big Ten Player of the Year before being taken with the first pick in the second round of the 2014 WNBA Draft. During Gray-Miller's time with the Huskers, she also helped in the development of Lindsey Moore, a 2013 first-round pick of the Minnesota Lynx.
The longest tenure for Gray-Miller came from 2005-12 when she headed up the Saint Louis University women's basketball program. While with the Billikens, Gray-Miller coached seven All-A-10 recipients and a pair of CoSIDA Academic All-Americans.
Additional stops for Gray-Miller include two years as an assistant coach at the University of Arizona (2003-05) and three years at the University of Washington (2000-03) in the same position. In those five seasons, she coached two Pac-10 Champions, helped the teams to two NCAA Tournament berths each and saw Wildcats guard Dee-Dee Wheeler (2005) and Huskies guard Megan Franza (2001) selected in the second and fourth rounds of the WNBA Draft, respectively.
Gray-Miller is a 1994 graduate of the University of Michigan with a degree in sociology. The three-time letterwinner at Michigan served as a team captain during the 1993-94 season and won the Bob Ufer Quarterback Club Award for leadership and dedication. Gray-Miller played professionally for Olivais Futebol Clube, a first-division club team in Coimbra, Portugal.
In her current role, Gray-Miller works with Minnesota's post players, sets up recruiting visits for the program and also helps prepare scouting reports and game strategies.
In her lone season at Minnesota, the Gophers reached the postseason and coached Alanna 'Rose' Micheaux to a Big Ten Freshman of the Week honor after a big-time performance in B1G/ACC Challenge game against North Carolina. She also coached Bailey Helgren who was named the Gophers' honoree on the Big Ten All-Sportsmanship team.Â
With 20 years of coaching experience, Gray-Miller has spent time at all five of the Power Five conferences. During her career, she has helped her teams to nine NCAA Tournament appearances, including one Sweet 16 appearance, and coached six WNBA Draft selections.
Gray-Miller comes to the Golden Gophers after spending the past three seasons at Clemson. She helped the Tigers to two postseason appearances in her three seasons, including reaching the second round of the 2019 NCAA Tournament. Kobi Thornton, an All-ACC Second Team member, was chosen in the third round of the 2020 WNBA Draft.
Prior to Clemson, Gray-Miller spent a season as an assistant coach and interim head coach at Texas Tech, where she worked with current Minnesota Assistant AD/Director of Operations Melissa Maines.
Gray-Miller was at the University of Florida from 2015-2017 as assistant coach and recruiting coordinator. She helped pull in a top 25 class in 2017 after the Gators reached the second round of the NCAA Tournament in 2016. She primarily oversaw the development of the post players at Florida, coaching senior Ronni Williams (2016-17), a First Team All-SEC selection by the coaches and the media. Williams led the SEC in scoring and received a WBCA All-American Team Honorable Mention before being taken in the second round of the 2017 WNBA Draft.
Prior to her time at Florida, Gray-Miller served as assistant coach at the University of Nebraska from 2012-15. The team earned an NCAA Tournament berth in all three seasons with a Sweet 16 appearance in 2012-13. Thanks to her recruiting efforts, Nebraska was ranked the No. 8 and No. 9 November signing classes in 2014 and 2013, respectively.
Gray-Miller coached Nebraska standout Jordan Hooper to first team All-America status and a No. 10 all-time rebounding mark in Big Ten history (1,110 career rebounds). Hooper was a two-time All-Big Ten choice and the 2014 Big Ten Player of the Year before being taken with the first pick in the second round of the 2014 WNBA Draft. During Gray-Miller's time with the Huskers, she also helped in the development of Lindsey Moore, a 2013 first-round pick of the Minnesota Lynx.
The longest tenure for Gray-Miller came from 2005-12 when she headed up the Saint Louis University women's basketball program. While with the Billikens, Gray-Miller coached seven All-A-10 recipients and a pair of CoSIDA Academic All-Americans.
Additional stops for Gray-Miller include two years as an assistant coach at the University of Arizona (2003-05) and three years at the University of Washington (2000-03) in the same position. In those five seasons, she coached two Pac-10 Champions, helped the teams to two NCAA Tournament berths each and saw Wildcats guard Dee-Dee Wheeler (2005) and Huskies guard Megan Franza (2001) selected in the second and fourth rounds of the WNBA Draft, respectively.
Gray-Miller is a 1994 graduate of the University of Michigan with a degree in sociology. The three-time letterwinner at Michigan served as a team captain during the 1993-94 season and won the Bob Ufer Quarterback Club Award for leadership and dedication. Gray-Miller played professionally for Olivais Futebol Clube, a first-division club team in Coimbra, Portugal.
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