Softball/Volleyball/Basketball
Inducted 2003
When Andrea Miller elected to come south from the Chicago area to go to college, she did so because Austin Peay was the only Division I school that agreed to allow her to play two sports.
Little did she know that a year later those two sports would grow to three...and five years later she would leave the University as perhaps the most decorated female student-athlete in school history, earning 11 letters (four softball, four volleyball and three basketball) plus several academic honors.
Originally, Miller was recruited to play basketball with the intent of also playing softball in the spring. But during the fall of her freshman year, the former prep volleyball standout was asked to play that sport to help the Lady Govs through an injury crisis. She wound up playing both that sport and softball four seasons and basketball three.
It was softball where she achieved her greatest success. She was a four-time first-team All-OVC shortstop and the 1995 OVC “Player of the Year”?the only Lady Gov ever to earn such distinction. She still owns nine career records, including batting average (.367), home runs (22) and RBI (118). She also holds eight single-season marks, including batting average (.438, 1995), home runs (10, 1995) and slugging percentage (.765). She was a two-time All-South region nominee.
In volleyball, she helped lead the Lady Govs to the 1992 OVC championship?their only regular-season title to date. She started both as a junior and as senior after being a regular member of the rotation as a freshman and sophomore. She still ranks eighth all-time in service aces and sixth all-time in digs.
In basketball, she played both as a freshman and as sophomore (1992-93, 1993-94) before deciding to give up the sport entering her junior season. However, after completing her volleyball and softball eligibility, then first-year head coach Susie Gardner asked her to play again as a fifth-year athlete in 1996-97. She still is ranked third best all-time in three-point field goal percentage in APSU history.
But Miller was more than just a standout athlete. She also was a superb student. She was an eight-time nominee for Academic All-American for her respective sports. She twice was named third-team GTE Academic All-American?the only APSU female athlete in history to earn national recognition more than once.
As a junior, she was named APSU’s Female Athlete of the Year?matching her OVC Softball Player of the Year honor?and in 1996-97, she shared the Joy Award, as APSU’s most valuable senior athlete, with Bubba Wells.
She left that spring and headed back to the Chicago area, where she was hired to help coach volleyball, basketball and softball at her prep alma mater, Willowbrook High School.
Then she popped up again at Austin Peay again, hired as volleyball graduate assistant. But typical Miller, helping with one sport wasn’t enough: she wanted even more experience so she served as the men’s basketball administrative assistant. She later added a stint as the color commentator for Lady Govs basketball games.
Miller then went back to Willowbrook High School (her prep alma mater) to become the school’s head volleyball coach, replacing her prep mentor.
She is now married to current Austin Peay baseball pitching coach, Seth Kenny.
