Shelby Miller - Softball Coach - University of Houston Athletics

Shelby Miller

Title:
Assistant Coach
Email:
samillergamb@central.uh.edu

Miller arrives to Houston from Long Beach State, where she spent one season with the Sharks working primarily with the pitching staff.

At LBSU, Miller played a key role in producing three Big West Pitcher of the Week awards, lowering the pitching staff ERA by over 1.0 runs and earning a victory over No. 4 Oklahoma.

Prior to her stop in Long Beach, Miller spent four seasons as an assistant coach at Fresno State.

With the Bulldogs, she helped lead a 149-108 overall record while developing back-to-back Mountain West Pitcher of the Year winners in Serayah Neiss (2025) and Taylor Gilmore (2024), as well as NFCA All-Region selections in 2024-25, three all-conference pitching accolades, eight conference weekly awards and seven all-WAC selections.

In 2025, she helped lead Fresno State to a 2025 Mountain West Tournament Championship game appearance with the lowest ERA in the conference at 2.78, good for 32^nd in the nation.

Miller also guided the Bulldogs to multiple top three finishes in key pitching categories including ERA, strikeouts and opponent batting average. She has also made stops at Utah Valley University and Kansas Wesleyan University.

Miller served as an assistant coach at Utah Valley during the 2019–20 season before being elevated to interim head coach in 2020 where she produced a Western Athletic Conference Second-Team pitcher accolade.

At Kansas Wesleyan, Miller climbed the ranks starting as a graduate assistant before moving up to assistant coach and interim head coach from 2016–18.

During her time with KWU, Miller propelled the Coyotes to a Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference Championship while coaching up five first-team All-Conference selections, three second-team honorees, six honorable mentions, and one Golden Glove winner.

As a player, Miller spent four seasons as a pitcher at Florida International University from 2012–15, earning Sun Belt Conference All-Tournament Team honors as a freshman.

She earned her bachelor's degree in hospitality and tourism management before earning an MBA at Kansas Wesleyan.