McConnell-Miller Leaves Trinity, Returns to College Ranks

Kathy McConnell-Miller led the Trinity girls basketball team to consecutive 21-win seasons and a pair of WPIAL runner-up finishes. Earlier this week, McConnell-Miller was named as the new women’s head basketball coach at Gulf Coast State College in Panama City FL.  The Seton-La Salle & Virginia graduate previously was head coach at Tulsa and Colorado and served as a collegiate assistant at Pitt, Illinois and Rutgers. Back in January, McConnell-Miller led the Hillers to a 49-42 win over Chartiers Valley, snapping the Colts’ state-record 64-game winning streak. CV, coached by Tim McConnell, the Trinity coach’s brother, avenged that loss by beating the Hillers in the WPIAL Finals, 62-40. Trinity did not advance to the state playoffs due to COVID-19. A year earlier, after losing to Chartiers Valley in the WPIAL Finals, the Hillers reached the state quarterfinals but their game vs. Gettysburg was paused, then cancelled by the pandemic.