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Carl Miller
Carl Miller

Carl Miller joined the CSU staff in February 2019 as assistant football strength and conditioning coach. He came to the Rams' program from Mercer University, where he had spent the previous six years, including his final year as director of strength and conditioning.

Over the course of his six years at Mercer, Miller's responsibilities included overseeing strength and conditioning for the football, baseball, softball, men's lacrosse & women's lacrosse and men's and women's tennis programs. He was promoted to the head of the department in August 2018 after five years as an assistant director, and had been put in charge of the football program in January 2017.

In Miller's time at Mercer he also was in charge of the three-time conference champion baseball program that included 2016 Golden Spikes Award winner Kyle Lewis, who was drafted 11th overall that year by the Seattle Mariners.

Prior to assuming the full-time assistant role in 2014, Miller was an intern for Mercer's strength & conditioning department for one year.

Miller previously was an intern strength & conditioning coach at Wayne State University (2012), Eastern Michigan University (2011-12) and Chelsea High School.

Certified by both USA Weightlifting and the National Strength and Conditioning Association, Miller received his bachelor of science degree in exercise science from Eastern Michigan. He and his wife Yukari were married May 10, 2016.