Chuck Miller, who won 855 games as a boys and girls basketball coach before finishing his career as Henry County High’s athletic director, died Thursday night. He was 79.
Miller was inducted into the GACA Hall of Fame in 2013, three years after retiring from a 45-year career as coach and athletic director, the final 27 at Henry County, now known as McDonough High. Miller also was a long-time executive-committee member of the Georgia High School Association.
A graduate of Southwest DeKalb and West Georgia College, Miller began his coaching career in 1965 at Woodbury High. He also coached at Milner, Monticello, Cartersville and Henry County. His girls teams won 400 games, and his boys teams won 455.
Miller led the Monticello boys to the Class A final in 1973 and took Cartersville’s boys to semifinals in 1977, 1979 and 1981. Two of his top Cartersville players, Lamar Heard and Lisa O’Connor, played on Georgia’s NCAA men’s and women’s Final Four teams in 1983.
Miller was the high school coach of his son, Curt Miller, who followed his father as a basketball coach and athletic director. Curt Miller is the athletic director at Oconee County High and a GHSA board-of-trustees member.
To the man that I always wanted to be and the one that helped so many. I hope you know how much of an impact you made on me but also to all of your players and coaches across this state. I love you, Dad! #Warhawk4Life pic.twitter.com/jMOdonsum6
— Curt Miller (@Curt_Miller30) February 17, 2023
Curt Miller posted a tribute to his father Thursday evening on Twitter, which read, “To the man that I always wanted to be and the one that helped so many. I hope that you know how much of an impact you made on me but also to all of your players and coaches across this state. I love you, Dad!”
The funeral will be held Monday at 1 p.m. at the East Chapel of Cannon Cleveland Funeral Directors in McDonough with interment to follow at Lamar Memory Gardens in Barnesville.
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