Jordan Miller enters the 2021 season in his first year as the volunteer assistant coach of the James Madison baseball program.



The Winter Springs, Fla. native comes to JMU after a year as the hitting coach at Eastern Mennonite University where he helped the Royals average six runs a game in the CoVID shortened season.



Prior to EMU, Miller coached a season in the Great Lakes Collegiate League, serving as the head assistant for the Grand Lake Mariners where he worked with the offense.



Miller got his coaching career started in the fall of 2017, becoming the hitting coach of Mauldin High School in Mauldin, S.C. He helped raise the batting average of the team from .240 to .320 and also helped the team see improvements in stolen bases, triples, and home runs.



He spent the last four years before going into coaching as a two-way player at University of South Carolina – Upstate. He was a four-year starter as a pitcher and catcher, appearing in more than 30 games as either pitcher or catcher each season with the Spartans.



He graduated with a degree in business management in 2017.