Hall of Fame
Before Jacqueline Wilson-Miller joined the Cal U volleyball team in 1989, the Vulcans had never won a conference match. When she concluded her brilliant career four years later, the program was a two-time state champion with a perfect PSAC record.
Wilson-Miller, a four-year starting setter, was recruited by former head coach and 1998 Cal Hall of Fame selection Lisa Olson. She came to Cal from volleyball power Norwin High School. During her scholastic days, Wilson-Miller played under legendary coach Sheron Watson and was a part of three PIAA state championship teams. She was an all-state selection in 1988.
After a rebuilding 1989 season, Cal compiled a 15-20 record in 1990 under first-year head coach Jing Pu. An eventual three-time team co-captain who was aptly called "The Franchise" by several media outlets, Wilson-Miller was Cal’s MVP in 1990 and was named to the Westminster and Kutztown all-tourney teams.
In 1991, Wilson-Miller was a catalyst behind Cal’s remarkable turn-around. The Vulcan Spikers went 26-7 overall in NCAA matches and qualified for the PSAC Final Four for the first time ever with an 8-2 divisional mark.
Seemingly against all odds, Cal U stunned PSAC-East champion and tourney host Shippensburg 3-2 in the semifinals and avenged regular season losses to defending conference champion Edinboro with a 3-1 victory in the finals. Cal’s stirring victory gave the school its third PSAC women’s team title in history and third in seven months, joining the 1991 state champion softball and tennis teams.
Wilson-Miller was a first-team, all-conference selection and was named to four all-tourney teams, including the PSAC Final Four.
A marked team in 1992, Cal U rolled to a school-best 36-3 overall record and won its first-ever PSAC-West title with a perfect 10-0 divisional mark. The division title enabled Cal U to host the PSAC Final Four tourney in Hamer Hall. Cal U volleyball became the first women’s athletic team in school history to win consecutive state championships when the Vulcans swept Shippensburg and then outlasted Edinboro in a classic four-game title match (17-15, 16-14, 16-18, 16-14).
Wilson-Miller received first-team all-conference honors for the second straight year. She was a repeat PSAC Final Four tourney pick and was also the MVP of Cal U’s season-opening Invitational. Cal compiled a 62-10 (.861) cumulative record over Wilson-Miller’s final two seasons.
A member of Kappa Delta Pi education fraternity, Wilson-Miller earned her bachelor’s degree in elementary/early childhood education in 1993. For the past seven years, Wilson-Miller has been a sixth-grade language arts and mathematics teacher at Moon Area High School. She was Moon’s head volleyball coach from 1994 through 1999. The daughter of Robert and Barbara Wilson, Jacqueline resides in Moon Township with her family. She is married to former Vulcan football defensive standout and 1991 Cal U graduate Bruce Miller. The couple has two sons, three-year-old Justin Patrick, and three-month old Cameron.
