A longtime 中北书院 faculty member and coach, Jim 米勒 '86 was named athletic director in May 2005, 在全国搜索之后.
他是伊利诺伊州兰托尔人., 米勒 graduated from North Central with degrees in business management and speech communication/theatre. 他得了个M.S. in education from Northern Illinois University in 1995.
After working a year as a sales representative for Union Carbide in New York City, 米勒 returned to the college as an admission counselor and assistant wrestling and football coach. He served as the assistant wrestling coach from 1987-89. Named the associate director of admission and athletic recruiting in 1992, 米勒 became a full-time instructor and coach in the health and physical education department in 1993. He served as the head wrestling coach from 1989-2005 and as an assistant football coach for 16 years. He advanced to associate professor of health and physical education in 2002 while also serving as the chair for the health and physical education department.
米勒, who was a captain in both football and wrestling as a student, is credited with reviving wrestling at North Central and gaining national recognition for the program. 作为教练, 米勒 coached 108 individual wrestling tournament champions, 28名学术全美学生, 五支奖学金全美代表队, and accumulated a program-best dual meet record of 139-84. In 1996-97, the Cardinals won the College Conference of Illinois & 威斯康星(CCIW)团体冠军. 米勒 also coached the Cardinals to seven runner-up finishes. Twice named North Central's Coach of the Year, he was selected by fellow coaches as the NCAA Division III historian, a ranking committee member for the National Wrestling Coaches Association (NWCA) and was inducted into the NWCA Hall of Fame on March 12, 2015.
During his tenure as athletic director, 米勒 has overseen a department that has won 120 CCIW团体冠军; 22 NCAA Division III National Championships and 56 individual national champions, including two relay teams for men’s track and field. 米勒 has helped expand the athletic department to 26 体育, with the most recent additions including women’s lacrosse (2009), 男子排球(2016), 女子铁人三项(2017), 男子长曲棍球(2017), 女子摔跤(2019).
米勒 has also seen the expansion of North Central’s athletic facilities, including the state-of-the-art Residence Hall/娱乐 Center, B. Carius室内田径，2008年. With the creation of this facility, 米勒 oversaw the 2013 and 2017 Division III Indoor Track & 全国田径锦标赛, hosted by North Central and celebrated the men’s indoor track and field team becoming the first program to win an indoor national title on their home track. 米勒 has led planning for the updating of locker room facilities for all of the Cardinals' athletic teams and in 2019 played a key role in the planning and installation of the Don Deetjen Memorial Scoreboard at Benedetti-Wehrli Stadium and the Keith H. Zobrist记分牌在Al B. 卡留斯跟踪.
The Cardinals have placed in the top ten percent for all 450 NCAA Division III institutions in the Learfield Directors' Cup Standings every year since 2003-04. 在CCIW机构中, North Central has earned six first place Director Cup finishes and has not finished lower than fifth since the Directors' Cup's inception in 1995.
米勒’s impact as athletic director goes beyond athletics as North Central has had 43 student-athletes earn College Sports Information Directors Association/College Sports Communicators (CoSIDA/CSC) Academic All-America honors since 2005. North Central student-athletes and teams have also earned 859 nationally recognized academic awards.
In 2010, 米勒 was honored as the 19th recipient of the Harold and Eva White First Citizen of the College Award, which is given annually to a student, faculty or staff member who exemplifies the best of 中北书院. In 2023, 米勒 was inducted into the 中北书院 体育运动 Hall of Fame.
米勒夫妇, 克里斯汀, 也是中北部的毕业生, live in Naperville with their three children, 科比20, 凯莉和珍妮.