Grant Miller
Head Assistant Coach (6th Year)

Grant Miller is now in his sixth full season as a Claim Jumper assistant coach. His duties include scouting opponents, on-floor coaching, game preparation, study hall monitor and fundraising.

 Prior to his arrival at Columbia, Miller spent one season (2002-2003) as Rien’s second assistant at Oakdale High School. Before that Miller coached girls’ basketball for seven seasons, three of those as the Varsity head coach. He led the Lady Mustangs to two CIF Sac-Joaquin Division III Section Playoff berths in three years.

In turn Miller has also had a more than respectable high school coaching career as Oakdale High’s Tennis coach. He has led the Men’s squad to one Valley Oak League title (1997) and the Women’s squad to three Valley Oak League titles (1997, 2000 & 2005). His women’s teams have reached the playoffs six out of the past nine years.
Miller, a 1994 graduate of California State University, Fresno, with a bachelor’s degree in Language Arts, played at Reedley High School from 1986-1990. He also played collegiate Tennis for Kings River Community College, now renamed Reedley College (1991-1992).

“Grant and I have been colleagues for ten years,” said Rien. “We worked together in the English Department at Oakdale High School and now in coordinating fundraising efforts and individual player work for the Columbia Basketball Program.” According to Miller, “I think our tight-knit relationship (Coach Rien and myself) has made us a very compatible and efficient tandem whose primary focus is to nurture the emotional and physical well-being of our student-athletes. In turn, the addition of coach Cuslidge will make our coaching unit even tighter. He is an excellent teacher of the game and shares the same philosophy of the game that the rest of us do.”

Miller, 36, is married to his wife of twelve years, Camille LeAnn. They have two boys- David Richard, 18, Zackary John, 10- and a brand new daughter Riley, 1. The family resides in Oakdale, where Miller teaches at Oakdale High School.