Texas Tech University Athletics
Softball
- Title:
- Assistant Coach
- Email:
- coach.b.miller@ttu.edu
Brittany Miller joined the Red Raiders staff for the 2020-21 season after spending the previous four seasons at Loyola Marymount under head coach Sami Ward.Â
In her first season with the Red Raiders, Miller helped the Tech pitchers to the third most strikeouts in the Big 12 (290), trailing Oklahoma and Oklahoma State. Tech and Oklahoma State were the only teams with two pitchers to finish in the top 5 of the league in strikeouts as Erin Edmoundson finished fourth (128) and Missy Zoch finished fifth (124).Â
Under Miller’s direction the Red Raider pitching staff posted five double-digit strikeout performances, including Zoch’s program record 16 strikeouts against Kansas (4/17). Zoch also recorded her first no-hitter as a Red Raider in Tech’s 23-0 win over Tarleton State (3/21) where she tallied eight strikeouts in just five innings of work and allowed just three base runners all game.
Zoch and Edmoundson each took home Big 12 Pitcher of the Week honors during the season, with Zoch claiming the award twice.
While in Los Angeles, Miller helped the Lions’ pitchers lead the WCC in earned run average in 2018 and 2019. During LMU’s 2019 campaign pitchers Samantha Manti and Hannah Bandimere each recorded a sub-3.00 ERA while finishing tops of the conference in strikeouts with a combined 254 K’s. Under Miller’s guidance Bandimere twice earned All-West Coast Conference First Team honors (2018, 2019) and was named WCC Co-Pitcher of the Year in 2018.
Before joining the LMU coaching staff, Miller spent four seasons as the pitching coach at Iowa State.
She began her coaching career as a graduate assistant at North Dakota State before being named assistant coach of the Bison. Miller helped the Bison to Summit League Tournament Championships and NCAA tournament appearances in each of her three seasons in Fargo.Â
Miller (neé Weil) was a four-time All-Big Ten selection as a pitcher at Iowa from 2006-09 where she was named NFCA First Team All-Region and Second Team All-American in her senior season. She remains the only player in Iowa softball history to earn Team MVP honors in all four of her seasons and tallied record-setting marks in her senior season to finish her career as the program leader in strikeouts (1,083), games pitched (183), innings pitched (1,011.2), complete games (110) and wins (99).Â
She was drafted seventh overall in the 2009 National Pro Fastpitch draft to the Akron Racers.
Miller is a native of Garden Grove, California. She and her husband, Thavis, have seven children -- Amilyon, Zatyvion, Lataviah, Tajavis, Tryce, Tytan and Tazzy.
