West Liberty University Athletics

Entering his third season on the sidelines at West Liberty University, former West Virginia University standout Julian Miller has made an immediate impact as the Hilltoppers' defensive line coach.
 
With the Hilltoppers, Miller has coached three players to four All-MEC honors with Trevor Hoosier (2021 – First Team), David Gilcreast (2021 & 2022 - Second Team), and Cameron Rice (2022 – Second Team). In 2021 he saw Hoosier lead the nation in sacks and tackles-for-loss before going down with a late-season injury, and in 2022 he coached Rice to MEC Defensive Freshman of the Year honors as he tied for the conference lead in tackles-for-loss (13.5) and was seventh in the league in sacks (5.5).
 
Miller began his coaching career with a 3-year stint at West Port High School in Ocala, Fla. before returning to Morgantown in 2018 as a defensive graduate assistant at WVU. In three seasons on the Mountaineer staff, he helped develop multiple All-Big 12 honorees, highlighted by consensus NCAA All-American Darius Stills, former Freshman All-American Dante Stills and 2020 Freshman All-American Akheem Mesidor.
 
An All-Big East defensive lineman who racked up nearly 200 tackles with the Mountaineers from 2007-11, Miller still ranks No. 2 all-time at WVU in quarterback sacks (27.5) and No. 3 in tackles-for-loss (42.5). He set the single-game sacks record (4.0) during a 21-20 win against Pitt in the Backyard Brawl on Nov. 26, 2011.
 
A former All-Ohio standout at Columbus (Ohio) Beechcroft High School, Miller is a 2011 graduate of West Virginia University (Multidisciplinary Studies). He also holds master's degrees in Sports Management and Communications from WVU.
 
After graduating from WVU, Miller signed as an undrafted free agent with the Cincinnati Bengals and participated in their preseason camp. Miller spent one season with the Saskatchewan Roughriders of the Canadian Football League and two years in the Arena Football League with the Utah Blaze and Cleveland Gladiators before hanging up his cleats.
 
Julian and his wife, Alexis, welcomed their first child in November.