Greg Miller Receives the Charles Sweeney Award

On Friday, February 11th, the Michigan Interscholastic Track Coaches Association (MITCA) awarded long-time Track and Field and Cross Country coach Greg Miller with its highest honor – the Charles Sweeney Award.  This honor is presented at MITCA’s annual track and field coaches clinic and “is given in recognition for long and outstanding service to the sport, the association, and the community; it is awarded to someone who epitomizes all that a coach is supposed to be.”  Miller is the thirty-fifth recipient.  This award also places Miller in the MITCA Hall of Fame.

Along with six hundred guests attending the program were Greg's wife Cindy; daughter Jennifer Heath (CK '00); track and field coach Chris Rainwater; and long-time friend, former CK teacher, and fellow cross country and track coach Jim Meehan.

Greg arrived at Cranbrook in 1983 as a science teacher and swim coach.  Today, Miller is the Upper School science department head and has been the head boys and girls Cross Country coach for twenty-five seasons, and the head boys and girls Track and Field coach for twenty-one seasons. At the conclusion of the 2010 track season, Cranbrook’s eightieth consecutive year of the sport, Miller stepped down as head coach, passing the reins to valued assistant Chris Rainwater who becomes Cranbrook’s eighth track and field coach.