Women's Tennis
- Title:
- Director of Tennis/Women's Tennis Head Coach
- Email:
- paula.miller@qu.edu
- Phone:
- (203) 582-5322
Paula Miller is in her 11th season at the helm of the Bobcats, taking over the role in 2014-15 after working as an assistant for QU for 15 seasons, and playing for the Bobcats prior to that, graduating for QU in 1996.
Miller has been dominant in her career as a head coach, leading QU to atleast a share of 10 MAAC regular season titles and seven MAAC Tournament Championships, resulting in seven NCAA tournament appearances. Those seven NCAA tournament appearances are the most by any MAAC Women’s Tennis team. When joining the MAAC, Miller led QU to a 43-0 record before dropping their first MAAC match, a streak that lasted from 2013-2019. Her teams have combined to go 65-2 in MAAC regular season play, resulting in nine perfect regular seasons.
More recently, Miller was tabbed for her eighth MAAC Coach of the Year award, leading QU to another perfect regular season in 2025. First Year Willow Renton was named the MAAC Player and Rookie of the Year, while four other Bobcats (Caitlin Flower, Anagha Shankar, Vera Sekerina, and Caroline Schulson) each were named to All-MAAC teams. She led QU to their 10th regular season title, and eighth MAAC Tournament Championship, clinching an automatic invite to the NCAA Tournament.
In 2024, the Bobcats finished second in the MAAC, going 5-1 in league play and 10-12 overall to get the number two seed in the MAAC tournament. QU would end up falling to Fairfield in the championship, failing to three-peat. QU placed three players on All-MAAC teams, Caitlin Flower was First Team singles as well as First Team Doubles with Caroline Schulson, while Dominique Yeo was Second Team Singles.
A season prior in 2023, QU completed a repeat in the MAAC Championship, going 6-0 in MAAC play and winning the championship over Fairfield to get an NCAA tournament berth. They would end up facing No. 2 seeded Texas A&M in the opening round of the NCAA tournament, falling 4-0. That season the Bobcats had six players named to All-MAAC teams while Coach Miller was named MAAC Coach of the Year. Alessia Truden, Kamilla Nella, and Vera Sekerina were each named to First Team Singles while Claire Koscielski, Jordan Bradley, and Nikole Lisovyy got Second Team Singles honors. The tandems of Jordan Bradley / Nikole Lisovyy and Claire Koscielski / Vera Sekerina were named to the Second Team Doubles.
Miller and The Bobcats returned to the NCAA tournament in 2021-22, finishing the season 13-9 with another MAAC Championship under their belts. Claire Koscielski, Dominique Vasile, and Brittney Wilbur were all named First Team All-MAAC singles. Kamilla Nella and Alessia Truden were named First Team All-MAAC doubles.
QU had another undefeated season in MAAC play in 2020-21, finishing 6-0, continuing their undefeated MAAC record. Claire Koscielski was named MAAC Player of the Year while Madison Williams was named Rookie of the Year. The Bobcats reached the MAAC title match against Siena but fell 4-1.
During her stint with the Bobcats, Miller has helped over 100 student-athletes to the All-NEC and All-MAAC Conference Teams, including four Player of the Year and seven Rookie of the Year recipients. She was recognized for contributions when the Intercollegiate Tennis Association named her the 2008 East Region Assistant Coach of the Year.
Quinnipiac earned four wins during the 2019-20 season – which was cut short due to the COVID-19 virus before the Bobcats began MAAC play.
Miller and the Bobcats finished the 2018-19 season with an 11-14 overall record. Quinnipiac went a perfect 6-0 in regular season MAAC play, extending the program’s regular season conference winning streak to 43 games – the longest active streak in NCAA Division I tennis. The Bobcats topped Siena in the semifinal round of the 2019 MAAC Tournament, advancing to the conference’s title game for the sixth straight season since joining the MAAC in 2013-14. Miller helped Quinnipiac women’s tennis earn eight All-MAAC honors this past season, and the program placed a league-high eight student-athletes on the MAAC All-Academic list.
2017-18 was another successful season for Miller and the Bobcats, who reached their 11th NCAA Tournament Appearance in the Division I era after winning the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Championship title for the fifth straight year. Miller also earned her fourth consecutive MAAC Coach of the Year Award in 2017-18, as she guided the Bobcats to their fifth straight MAAC Regular Season Championship with a fifth straight perfect year in the MAAC. The Bobcats went 7-0 in the regular season before claiming two more wins in the MAAC Tournament, to improve to a perfect 47-0 against league opponents since joining the MAAC in 2013-14.
Miller took over as the Director of Tennis and Women's Tennis Head Coach in 2014-15 after 17 seasons as a member of the coaching staff of the Quinnipiac tennis program, previously serving for two seasons as Men's and Women's Tennis Associate Head Coach and 15 seasons as the Women's Tennis Assistant Coach. Miller has been instrumental in the Bobcats success at the Division I level, helping the women's tennis team to six NEC tournament titles. On the other side, Miller has been a part of four men's NEC tennis championships as well.
Miller - then Paula Rembac - was Coach Mike Quitko’s first recruit in 1992. She had a stellar career at Quinnipiac leading the Bobcats to three Northeast-10 Championships. Miller won 83 matches in her career. On October 10, 2010, the 1993 Quinnipiac Women's tennis team, which she was a member of, was inducted into the Quinnipiac Athletics Hall of Fame. Miller was also inducted into the Branford High School Athletics Hall of Fame on Nov. 20, 2015.
Miller is a U.S.P.T.A. Certified Tennis Professional, and received her degree from Quinnipiac in 1996 in Health Administration. She and her husband Greg, married in September, 2004, live in North Haven.
