Heather Miller-Koch Named to NSIC Hall of Fame

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ST. CLOUD, Minn. – St. Cloud State Track & Field and Women's Basketball alumni Heather Miller-Koch was announced as a member of the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference (NSIC) 2026 Hall of Fame class, as announced by the league on Tuesday. The 2025 SCSU Athletics Hall of Fame inductee was an NCAA National Champion, 10-time All-American and 14-time conference champion for the Huskies track and field program, and a member of the Huskies Basketball team that reached the 2006 NCAA Division-II Final Four.

The induction ceremony will be held Tuesday, July 7 at the DoubleTree by Hilton Bloomington-Minneapolis South as part of the annual NSIC Summer Kickoff event. A social will begin at 5:30 p.m. followed by the ceremony at 6:00 p.m. Reserve your tickets for the banquet by visiting https://northernsun.org/HOFBanquet and filling out the online Hall of Fame Banquet Registration Form. Registrations are due no later than July 1, as space is limited for this event.

Miller-Koch was one of the most accomplished student-athletes in St. Cloud State history, earning national recognition as a multi-event standout with 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 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.

Miller-Koch currently resides in Mendota Heights, Minnesota with her husband, Ryan, and their three children, Carter, Taylor, and Millie. She works as a registered nurse in surgery for Summit Orthopedics. Her husband Ryan was a member of the SCSU football and track and field programs, and a fellow 2025 SCSU Athletics Hall of Fame inductee.

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