GREENSBORO, N.C. --- The Guilford College Athletics Department is pleased to announce the addition of Chris Miron as the sixth head coach in the history of the Quakers Volleyball program, the department announced on Thursday.
“I am very pleased to welcome Head Coach Chris Miron to Guilford Athletics. Coach Miron is a highly accomplished coach with a long track record of coaching highly competitive teams,” Director of Athletics, Bill Foti said. “His experience in identifying and recruiting talented volleyball players really stood out to our search committee. I am very confident in his ability to continue that work at Guilford as we look to improve our standing among the very best volleyball programs in the ODAC."
"I am very excited to join the Guilford College family,” Miron added. “After meeting the team and staff, and visiting campus, I knew that Guilford would be a strong match for me. I feel extremely grateful and honored to be named the next Head Women's Volleyball Coach at Guilford and I look forward to continuing to grow the strong volleyball culture already present at Guilford, along with being an active and visible member of the Guilford campus community.”
Miron comes to Greensboro by way of NAIA Clarke University in Dubuque, Iowa where he served in the role of Director of Volleyball and Head Coach for 17 total seasons over two stints with the Pride. With Clarke, he accumulated a 306-259 (.542) record, racking up ten winning seasons, nine with 20-or-more victories, and a peak of a 31-9 2013 campaign. He also spent three years heading the men’s volleyball program for the Pride, going 56-16. At the time of his departure from Clarke, he ranks within the top-25 of winningest active NAIA volleyball coaches having reset the program record for total wins and winning percentage six separate times. He coached 54 All-Conference players, had three All-Region selections, and a pair of AVCA All-Americans. Emphasizing academic and athletic balance, Miron saw over 50 players receive All-Conference Academic Team recognition, his squad get recognized as an AVCA National Scholar Team eight times, and as an NAIA National Scholar Team ten times. For his own accolades, he was the 2006 MIVA Coach of the Year, the 2012 and 2013 Midwest Collegiate Conference Coach of Character Recipient, getting nominated for the national version of that award on three occasions.
During a four-year hiatus as coach of Clarke, Miron remained involved in coaching at the high school ranks at Dubuque Senior High School for two years, in addition to being a Physical Education teacher.
While this will be his first role as bench boss at an NCAA institution, Miron is no stranger to the Division-III ranks with a highly-successful two-year run as the lead assistant at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse. In that time, the Eagles went 64-12 overall, captured two NCAA Midwest Region championships and advanced to the NCAA Elite Eight in both 2003 and 2004. In the first of those two seasons, UW-La Crosse were the champions of the Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (WIAC) tournament and WIAC regular-season co-champions.
A member of the class of 1997 at Winona State University, earning a coaching licensure and Bachelor’s in Physical Education, Miron played collegiate intramural volleyball, qualifying for the National Intramural Recreation Sports Association (NIRSA) Club National Tournament in 1996 and 1997. He then earned his Master’s in Exercise & Sport Sciences and Pedagogy from Wisconsin-La Crosse in 2002.
Miron inherits a Guilford program that surged down the stretch last fall to finish 13-13, but 7-5 in Old Dominion Athletic Conference (ODAC) play, good for their top mark since 2019, clinching their second-straight ODAC Tournament berth in the process.