Former Drury University women’s basketball head coach Nyla Milleson headlined a group of five individuals inducted into the Drury Athletics Hall of Fame Saturday. We caught up with the former Glendale, Drury and Missouri State head coach, now at George Mason, to discuss her honor.
Milleson was the first coach for the Drury Lady Panthers basketball team. She was the head coach for a program that enjoyed tremendous success beginning in its first season, and the architect for a program whose success continues today at the conference, regional and national level.
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In her seven years at Drury, Milleson’s teams had a cumulative record of 185-36, good for an incredible .837 winning percentage. Five of her seven Lady Panthers teams qualified for the NCAA-II national championship tournament. Her 2003 and 2006 teams made the NCAA-II Sweet 16 while her 2007 team made the NCAA-II Elite Eight.
Her seven-year stint as the Lady Panthers head coach was punctuated by her 2004 squad advancing to the NCAA-II National Championship game. She was named Heartland Conference Coach-of-the-Year four times and in her two years in the Great Lakes Valley Conference she was 19-0 in 2005-06 and 14-5 2006-07 in conference games.
Milleson was the head women’s basketball coach at Missouri State University for six years (2007-2013) and is now in her fourth season as the head coach of the George Mason University women’s basketball team.
