Danny Miles

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Danny Miles
Sport(s) Basketball
Current position
Title Head coach
Team Oregon Tech
Conference CCC
Biographical details
Born (1945-10-09) October 9, 1945 (age 79)
Medford, Oregon
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1971–2016 Oregon Tech
Head coaching record
Overall 1,040–437 (.708)
Accomplishments and honors
Championships
Awards
  • Coach Wooden "Keys to Life" Award (2015)

Danny Miles (born October 9, 1945) is the head men's basketball coach at Oregon Institute of Technology. He achieved his one thousandth win on February 1, 2014, in his 43rd year of coaching at OIT.[1][2][3] This is the fourth most of any college basketball coach all-time (NCAA & NAIA).[4] The only four other coaches at a four-year school with 1,000 or more wins are Pat Summitt, former coach of the Tennessee Lady Volunteers basketball, Harry Statham, coach of McKendree University, Mike Krzyzewski, coach of Duke University, and Herb Magee, coach of Philadelphia University.

On July 17, 2014 Miles announced that he will retire effective July 2016.[5]

Awards

  • 3x NAIA National Basketball Coach of the Year (2004, 2008, 2012)
  • National Association of Basketball Coaches Coach of the Year (2012)
  • National winner of NAIA’s Champion of Character award for all sports in 2009
  • A.T. Slats Gill All-Sports Coach of the Year (2004)
  • 4x Conference All-Sport Coach of the Year
  • DNA Award at the Oregon Sports Award show (2013)
  • Guardians of the Game Pillar Award for Advocacy from the National Association of Basketball Coaches (2013)
  • 3x NAIA National Championships
  • Received the Coach Wooden "Keys to Life" Award at the Athletes in Action Legends of the Hardwood Breakfast (2015), held each year during the Final Four

See also

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