Quinnipiac Athletics has been fortunate to have many successful, long-tenured coaches across all of its programs. One coach with the pedigree to be at the forefront of this conversation is Paula Miller, head coach of women’s tennis.
Miller has coached women’s tennis at Quinnipiac since the 2014-15 season after 17 seasons on the coaching staff under then head coach Mike Quitko, who tallied 526 career wins and 18 conference championships over his 23-year career. Miller has since recorded 150 wins over an 11-year career, along with nine MAAC conference championships and an in-conference record of 73-2, a 97% win rate against conference opponents.
“I never really thought I’d be a head coach,” Miller said. “But I didn’t want anything to change on how he built the programs.”
Miller and Quitko’s careers have been forever intertwined, with Miller being Quitko’s first recruit in his tenure with the Bobcats in 1992, the program then competing at the Division II level.
“I knew him from high school,” Miller said. “He was one of the big influences on why I came here.”
Over Miller’s four-year playing career, she won 83 matches and the team won three Northeast-10 Conference championships. In 2010...