Megan Miller enters her sixth season as the head cheerleading coach and second as the Assistant Director of Academic Services at Longwood after serving as a teacher at Prince Edward County High School from 2011 until her full-time status in athletics in 2015.
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In academic services Miller oversees team and individual student-athlete academic progress and success, monitors NCAA eligibility, oversees the tutoring and study table program, oversees the freshman ‘Lancer Legacy’ program, and helped to develop the senior life skills programming. As the cheerleading coach, she oversees the cheer program to develop student-athletes and enhance the basketball gameday atmosphere.
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Before her full-time status at Longwood, Miller began as a teacher at Saint Thomas More School in Decatur, Ga. where she taught literature, reading and social studies. Miller then moved to the Commonwealth and focused on American Literature, World Literature, and Fundamentals of Literature and Reading at Woodside High School in Newport News, Va. Miller also taught AP Language and Composition, World Literature and American Literature at Grafton High School before moving to Farmville and Prince Edward High School.
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Miller earned her Bachelor of Science in secondary education in English at Auburn University in 2002 before receiving a degree in Special Training: Trends and Legal Issues in Special Education at William & Mary in 2008 as well as a Master of Arts in literature from Longwood University.