LYNN MILER ('74): Without question, Lynn Miller was one of the finest all-around student-athletes ever to wear the green and white of Plymouth State College.
In an era when women’s athletics were making great strides toward achieving equity with men’s programs, Lynn Miller’s exploits on four different teams during the early 1970s served notice that women’s athletics involved student-athletes who not only took their sports seriously, but who were also quite skillful, athletic, and technically proficient.
Miller played field hockey, basketball, and lacrosse as an undergraduate at PSC excelling in each of these team sports but it was on the tennis courts where Miller really left her mark.
The top singles player on several fine PSC teams, Miller was also an outstanding doubles player. In 1972, she teamed up with Lil Peltz to win the New England doubles title at Yale University. Miller and Hall of Famer Lillian Peltz Petow '73 (HOF 1990) would defeat a duo from the University of Bridgeport in the finals of this prestigious tournament, which was sponsored by the US Lawn Tennis Association.
Having reached the heights in women’s tennis, Miller took on a new challenge in 1973 - playing on the men’s tennis team. Her singles record was among the best on the squad, and she teamed up with Steve Gallagher to provide a formidable doubles combination. In a sense, Miller became PSC’s first and only “5-sport” student-athlete.
