{"id":4694,"date":"2010-10-05T23:19:12","date_gmt":"2010-10-06T06:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/?p=4694"},"modified":"2010-10-05T23:19:56","modified_gmt":"2010-10-06T06:19:56","slug":"blake-miller-to-oregon-ducks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/?p=4694","title":{"rendered":"Blake Miller to Oregon Ducks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goducks.com\/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_LANG=C&#038;DB_OEM_ID=500&#038;ATCLID=205005537\"><br \/>\n<img src=\"http:\/\/www.goducks.com\/fls\/500\/headerfiles\/HeaderOverride-PhotoStore.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>EUGENE \u00e2\u20ac\u201c University of Oregon softball head coach Mike White announced Monday that the program is excited to add Blake Miller as an assistant coach for the 2010-11 season.<\/p>\n<p>The 10-year college coaching veteran joins the Ducks after serving as head coach at Texas A&#038;M-Kingsville the past three seasons. In prior stints, he served as the head coach at Darton College (2006-07) and an assistant coach at East Tennessee State (2005), Missouri Western State (2004) and Mesa State (2001-03).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We\u00e2\u20ac\u02dcre thrilled to add someone of Blake\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s caliber to our coaching staff,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d White said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153As a U.S. National Team member he was known for his competitiveness and was a leader by example. His versatility on the field and at the plate were impressive, as was his intelligence on the field &#8211; he looked for the little things which are big in our game. Adding in his experience as a head coach at two successful Division II programs, he will help our players, particularly our young ones, continually increase their softball knowledge.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Altogether during his coaching career, he coached two All-Americans, nine Academic All-Americans, and guided four teams to regional bids and one Junior College World Series trip. <\/p>\n<p>Miller played on International Softball Congress world championship gold medal teams in 2008 and \u00e2\u20ac\u212209 for the Kitchener, Ont., Riversharks, and the same team won the U.S. title in \u00e2\u20ac\u02dc10. A four-time first-team All-American (1999, 2002, \u00e2\u20ac\u212205, \u00e2\u20ac\u212207), he played on silver-medal U.S. teams in the 2003 Pan Am Games, 2007 European World Cup, the gold-medal squad in the 2007 American Challenge Series and fourth-place team in the 2009 ISF World Championships in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Click logo above for complete news story.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EUGENE \u00e2\u20ac\u201c University of Oregon softball head coach Mike White announced Monday that the program is excited to add Blake Miller as an assistant coach for the 2010-11 season. The 10-year college coaching veteran joins the Ducks after serving as head coach at Texas A&#038;M-Kingsville the past three seasons. In prior stints, he served as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15,24],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4694"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4694\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}