April 11, 2001

Columbia, Mo. - Missouri Tiger softball head coach Jay Miller has been selected as a coach in the USA Softball National Team Pool. Coaches from this pool will participate in the USA Softball National Team Camp May 30-June 3 in Chula Vista, Calif. After the camp, the pool will be narrowed down to six coaches who will be assigned to the two U.S. National Teams selected after the camp. The head coach for the 2004 U.S. Olympic Softball Team will eventually be chosen from among the final six coaches in the pool.

Also, the coaches from this pool will be selected for the 2001 U.S. Cup, 2001 Canada Cup, 2002 ISF Women's World Championship in Canada, and the 2003 Pan American Games in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.

"It is a great honor for the University and the softball team to be recognized by the USA softball committee," said coach Miller. "The National Team Camp in June will be a great learning experience. I'm really looking forward to working with the 11 other coaches."

Miller (682-374 overall record, 18 yrs.) is no stranger to USA National Softball. He recently finished a term in the USA National Team Olympic coaching pool for the 1997-2000 quadriennium. In 1998, Miller was selected as the head coach of the USA Softball alternate team. This team played against the U.S. Pan Am and Olympic Teams during the Coca-Cola USA Softball American Challenge Series during the summer of 1999. The team represented the USA in the 1999 Canada Cup where the team took third place. He served on the NCAA Women's Softball Committee from 1991-1997 and was a member of the USA Softball National Team Selection Committee that chose players and coaches for the 1996 Gold Medal winning U.S. Olympic Softball Team (1993-1996). He is currently on the NCAA Rules Committee and the NFCA All-American Committee.