Heather Miller (2025) - Hall of Fame - St. Cloud State University Athletics

Heather Miller

Induction:
2025
Class:
2010

The lone female student-athlete from St. Cloud State to compete in the summer Olympics in track & field, Heather Miller-Koch was an NCAA National Champion, 10-time All-American and 14-time conference champion for the Huskies from 2006-10. Miller was a standout multi-event and horizontal jumps athlete for the Huskies, earning four All-America honors in the triple jump, three in the long jump, two in the heptathlon and one in the pentathlon. She captured the third individual national championship in program history, and first since 1992, when she won the 2010 NCAA Division-II Indoor Pentathlon title. She was named the 2010 USTFCCCA National Indoor Field Athlete of the Year, was a two-time USTFCCCA Central Region Field Athlete of the Year, three-time NSIC Field Athlete of the Year and four-time high-point scorer at the NSIC Championships. She set the NCAA Division-II pentathlon record in 2010 with 3,993 points, a mark that held up until 2016, and set seven NSIC records and eight program records throughout her career. To this day, she remains the school record holder in four indoor events: 60-meter hurdles, long jump, triple jump, 4x400-meter relay. Miller represented the United States at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio as a member of Team USA in the heptathlon, placing 18^th in the event. She is one of eight athletes from SCSU to compete in the Summer Olympics and one of 26 to compete in the Olympics overall. She recorded five consecutive top-10 finishes in the heptathlon at the USA Outdoor Track & Field Championships (2012-16) and represented Team USA at the Thorpe Cup three times (2012-14). Miller also played two seasons for the Huskies basketball team (2005-07) and was a member of the 2006 NCAA Division-II Final Four team. In the classroom, Miller was named a 2010 CoSIDA First Team Academic All-American and received the 2009-10 NSIC Myles Brand All-Academic with Distinction Award.

Following her athletic career, Miller-Koch would go on to coach track & field at Concordia-St. Paul. She is married to fellow 2025 Hall of Fame inductee Ryan Koch.