Former SCSU Track & Field Star Heather Miller Selected for Thorpe Cup
7/12/2012 12:22:00 PM | Women's Track & Field
The Thorpe Cup is an international track and field competition between USA and Germany. Teams are made up of up to seven men and seven women who compete in decathlon and heptathlon. Athletes received a predetermined number of points based upon their performances in each of the events in the decathlon and heptathlon. The top five men's and top three women's scores are added together to determine the overall men's and women's team winners.
The decathlon consists of the 100m, long jump, shot put, high jump, 400m, 110m hurdles, discus, pole vault, javelin and 1500m. The heptathlon consists of the 100m hurdles, high jump, shot put, 200m, long jump, javelin and 800m.
Miller did not qualify for the 2012 USA Olympic Team but her 5,779 points in the heptathlon at the Olympic Trials was a personal best and it also helped her gain a spot on the United States squad for the upcoming Thorpe Cup.
USA Track and Field Thorpe Cup website
Marburg Thorpe Cup website
Miller is currently competing for the Central Park Track Club-New Balance out of New York, N.Y. She works as a registered nurse in the New York area. Miller hit the Trials' qualifying mark with a score of 5,628 at a recent meet in Texas. In 2012, Miller was also a member of the 4x100 relay team that won first place at the Penn Relays.
In 2010, Miller captured the NCAA Division II indoor track and field title in the pentathlon. A 10-time All-American, Miller won NSIC titles during her college career in the indoor 60 meter hurdles (2009 and 2010), indoor triple jump (2009 and 2010), indoor pentathlon (2010), outdoor triple jump (2009 and 2010), outdoor long jump (2010) and outdoor heptathlon (2010). She also set NSIC records as a college athlete in the indoor pentathlon and outdoor heptathlon.
Miller was selected as the 2010 USTFCCA Central Region Athlete of the Year (Indoor and Outdoor) and she was picked as the 2010 National Field Athlete of the Year (Indoor). A top academic performer at SCSU, Miller was selected to the prestigious ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America team during her collegiate career
