UNB names new coach for women's volleyball
Lauren Hale-Miller is the new head coach for the 2023-24 AUS campaign
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The newest coach for the University of New Brunswick Reds is a Fredericton native who has numerous ties to coaching excellence in the province and the Atlantic region.
On Thursday, the Reds announced that Lauren Hale-Miller was the new head coach of their women’s volleyball team.
Hale-Miller joins the program after eight seasons as head coach in the Canadian Collegiate Athletics Association ranks.
“I’m thrilled to be coming home to the Reds,” said Hale-Miller in a press release. “As a proud Frederictonian and UNB alum, I’m honoured to be able to give back to the community that supported me throughout my volleyball career.
“This job has been a career goal of mine for quite some time, so being selected for the position is very exciting.”
Hale-Miller takes over the team after five seasons as head coach at Northwestern Polytechnic, in Grande Prairie, Alberta, as part of the Alberta Colleges Athletic Association.
Prior to that, she served as head coach of the UNB Saint John Seawolves, where, in 2019, she was named Atlantic Collegiate Athletic Association coach of the year.
She recently earned Chartered Professional Coach designation from the Coaching Association of Canada, and is a performance coach and coach evaluator with Volleyball Canada.
In 2021, she served as head coach of Alberta’s U17 girls’ team.
Between 2012-2019, she worked as a high-performance coach with Volleyball New Brunswick and was part of the coaching staff for Team New Brunswick at the 2017 Canada Summer Games, where the team captured the first indoor women’s volleyball medal in New Brunswick history, defeating Ontario in the bronze medal game.
From 2013-2018, Hale-Miller served as head coach of the junior varsity boys’ volleyball team and assistant coach of the girls’ varsity team at Fredericton’s Leo Hayes High School. During her time with the Lions, both programs won back-to-back New Brunswick Interscholastic Athletic Association.
At the club level, Hale-Miller has worked with numerous programs, serving in various roles from head coach to technical director to program coordinator and president.
Hale-Miller holds Bachelors of Recreation and Sport Studies and Education from UNB and is completing a Master of Human Kinetics and Recreation at Memorial University.
She begins her new role as the program’s 20th head coach on May 21.
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