College of Wooster’s Miller earns Academic All-America honor

For the first time since 2009, The College of Wooster men’s soccer team has a College Sports Communicators Academic All-American, as senior standout Elliot Miller was voted to the second team, as announced by the organization.

With his selection Miller becomes the first Fighting Scot men’s soccer player to earn All-America and Academic All-America honors in the same season. The North Coast Athletic Conference’s Offensive Player of the Year was voted a fourth-team United Soccer Coaches All-American and first-team all-region. Miller became Wooster’s first United Soccer Coaches All-American in two decades this fall and is the sixth in program history to be a four-time All-NCAC selection.

Miller led Wooster with 22 points on eight goals and six assists this fall. He was third in the NCAC in points and goals and ranked second in assists. Miller’s four game-winning goals led the NCAC and ranked within the top 40 nationally. Miller’s eight goals were headlined by one that helped the Scots draw with then-third-ranked Denison University. He broke a scoreless tie with a goal in the 80th minute against John Carroll University, then broke a tie in Wooster’s 2-1 win at Oberlin College with 2:52 remaining during the second-to-last week of the regular season. Miller led Wooster to an 11-2-6 season for the program’s top season since 2004.

Miller is an environmental geoscience major who is analyzing palagonite from Iceland’s western zone and the implications for Martian glaciovolcanism for his Independent Study. While at Wooster, Miller studied abroad in Ecuador and the Galapagos Islands. He spent a summer as a laboratory intern with the college’s earth sciences department and is a three-year student assistant athletic trainer. Miller also is actively involved in the college’s Geology Club.

Miller is the college’s 67th Academic All-American and the fourth from men’s soccer. Defender Tim Presto was a first-team Academic All-American in 2006 while defender Jay Keener earned third-team honors in 2008 and first-team status in 2009.