Tanya Miller ’97 is in her ninth year as an assistant director of sports medicine at Shippensburg University in 2021-22.
Miller is a nationally board-certified athletic trainer with a license in Pennsylvania and is a member of the National Athletic Trainers’ Association (NATA), Eastern Athletic Trainers’ Association (EATA) and Pennsylvania Athletic Trainers’ Society (PATS).
At Shippensburg, she provides injury prevention, emergency care, treatment, and develops rehabilitation protocols for student athletes. Miller also holds additional responsibilities in the sports medicine department – helping to administer physicals, providing medical coverage for summer athletic camps, and assisting with the drug testing of student-athletes.
Prior to her arrival at Shippensburg, Miller worked 12 years as a licensed athletic trainer at Elizabethtown College. Miller served as either the associate or assistant athletic trainer from August 2001 through July 2010 before an appointment to the role of Head Athletic Trainer, a title she held for the three years preceding her appointment at Shippensburg.
Miller first completed an accredited athletic training program through West Chester University in August 1997 while she was still an undergraduate at Shippensburg. She earned her bachelor’s degree in biology from SU in December 1997.
After graduation, Miller was an assistant athletic trainer at Susquehanna University for the 1998-99 academic year. She then worked as the head athletic trainer at Bloomsburg High School (1999-00) and Central Columbia High School (2000-01) while also serving as a graduate assistant athletic trainer at Bloomsburg University. In August 2001, Miller earned her master’s degree in exercise science and adult fitness from Bloomsburg.
Among her numerous professional experiences includes three stints as a medical preceptor for the Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center’s Pediatric Physician Residence program. She educated the physicians on proper techniques, skills and protocols utilized in athletic training.
In June 2014, Miller was recognized with a Pennsylvania Athletic Trainers’ Society (PATS) Service Award. She was recognized for “outstanding contributions to PATS and the Commonwealth’s athletic trainers.”
Her professional service includes her current role as the PATS Governmental Affairs Committee Chair and a six-year term on the PATS Board of Directors as the South Central representative.
Miller lives in Newville, her hometown.
