Siena University Athletics

Former Siena Cross Country standout Nick Miller enters his eighth year as an Assistant Coach for Siena's Cross Country and Indoor & Outdoor Track programs for the 2024-25 season. 

Since joining his former coach John Kenworthy on staff at Siena, both of Siena's cross country programs have emerged among the top competition in the MAAC under Kenworthy's direction, while the Saints' indoor & outdoor track programs have picked up steam since re-commencing at the varsity level just eight years ago. Miller served as the program's Interim Head coach following Kenworthy's departure from August - November 2023. 

Siena's 2022-23 season featured new heights during all three seasons, beginning with a pair of second place finishes for both cross country squads at the 2022 MAAC Cross Country Championships. Fifth year Olivia Lomascolo claimed the program's firs individual MAAC cross country title and was named the Female Most Outstanding Runner of the Meet. Lomascolo would go on to win MAAC individual titles in the indoor 3k and outdoor 5k as well, leading top her being awarded Siena Female Student Athlete of the Year for the 2022-23 season. She achieved the program's best finish at the NCAA Northeast Regional Cross Country Championships (19th), and along with Delia McDade Clay (22nd) became the first Siena pair to take home All-Region accolades in the same race. 

Aside from breaking nearly every individual program record throughout the course of the year, both programs took home MAAC title in the distance medley relay events at the 2023 MAAC Indoor Track & Field Championships, with the women's team setting a conference record in the process. Senior Brandon Olden claimed his third consecutive MAAC Outdoor Track 10k title, while both Lomascolo and Olden qualified for the NCAA Outdoor Track East First Round in the 10k and 5k, respectively, with Lomascolo becoming the first female Siena runner to do so. 

Aside from garnering team APR awards for all four teams, the Saints also took home USTFCCCA All-Academic Team honors for both programs for the eighth year in a row and the 14th time in the last 16 seasons. A record 30 Saints were named to the MAAC All-Academic Team, including an unprecedented 15 per-squad. 

Siena marked the return to a full academic year of competition in 2021-22 with several new accomplishments, beginning during cross country season. The women finished second while the men took third at the 2021 MAAC Cross Country Championships, with senior Olivia Lomascolo (third) and junior Brandon Olden (fourth) each recording the top finishes in program history for their respective teams. Olden would go on to make history as the first Siena runner ever to claim the IC4A Cross Country Individual Title. 

Indoor track season saw both Siena standouts emerge as champions, with the pair each winning the MAAC Individual Title in the 3k at the 2022 MAAC Indoor Track Championships. Olden would once again parlay a solid conference performance into regional action, claiming the 3k and 5k titles at the 2022 IC4A Indoor Track Championships and winning IC4A Outstanding Runner honors. Olden would cap off an unprecedented season by winning the 10k individual title for the second straight year at the MAAC Outdoor Track Championships, and was joined by junior Tommy Anderson (3,000 steeplechase) and junior Aidan Gillooley (5k) in claiming MAAC gold that weekend. Olden was named the Siena Male Student Athlete of the Year at the end of the season, while Anderson was awards the Siena Male Rising Star award. 

A four-year runner from 2012-16, Miller placed inside the top-20 at the MAAC Cross Country Championships his senior season and was a member of the team's first indoor & outdoor track teams since they re-convened at the varsity level. A four-year NCAA Northeast Regional Cross Country Championship participant, he qualified for the 2015 IC4A/ECAC Cross Country Championships as a senior, placing 34th. 

A former school record holder in the freshman 8k, Miller currently holds the fifth best cross country and sixth best men's steeplechase times in program history. His finish of 74th at the 2015 NCAA XC Regionals is the sixth best finish at the meet in program history, and was the second best when it happened.