After 10 years at her alma mater, Manhattan High softball coach Connie Miller has retired, Indians athletics director Mike Marsh told The Mercury Thursday morning.
Miller, a Manhattan High graduate, became an assistant coach at MHS after two decades in law enforcement. She served as an assistant and then head junior varsity coach through 2017, and took the reins as head coach in 2018.
She led Manhattan High to its first state tournament since 2004 in the 2023 season, led by current South Dakota State pitcher Kierra Goos. She was named the Centennial League Coach of the Year and was a finalist for the Sports in Kansas 6A Coach of the Year award.
In high school, Miller was a standout athlete at Manhattan High in volleyball, basketball and track and one of the best softball players in the area, even though MHS didn’t offer softball as a sport at that time.
She played softball and basketball at Cloud County for two seasons before deciding to focus on her professional life.
“It’s kind of a cliché thing, but it really does feel very cool to be able to give something back to something that gave you so much,” Miller told The Mercury back in 2023. “Even though I didn’t get to play this sport in high school, I got to play all the others, and all those others helped me move on through college and probably helped shape the person I am today.”
Marsh said that the search for her replacement is underway.
