CHARLESTON, Ill. – First-year head women's basketball coach Lee Buchanan has finalized his first coaching staff with the addition of assistant coaches Jessica Bogia and Antoya Miller. The two assistants join John Swickrath who was added as an assistant coach last Friday (June 22).
“I am excited that Jessica and Antoya have joined the EIU women's basketball staff,” said Buchanan. “They both have valuable Division I experience that will assist our program in continuing both its academic and athletic success.”
Bogia joins the Panthers after previously working as an assistant coach at Buffalo for the 2011-12 season. At Buffalo, she was the position coach for the guards and coached Brittany Hedderson to Mid-American Conference First Team honors. She also served as the program's assistant recruiting coordinator.
Bogia brings collegiate head coaching experience to EIU as she was the head women's basketball coach at Keystone College from 2008-10. She was also an assistant coach at the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy (2007-08) and Goldey-Beacom College (2005-07) prior to Keystone College.
She brings experience of working with elite amateur prospects having previously served as the event director of the U.S. Junior Nationals & Blue Star National Invitational Camp from 2005-07 while also serving as the head coach of the Philadelphia Belles 13U Team in 2011.
She obtained two bachelor's degrees from Lafayette College in 2005, one is business and economics and the other in government and law. She earned a master's of business administration from Goldey-Beacom in 2007.
Miller joins the Panther women's basketball program after spending the previous four seasons at George Mason as the director of basketball operations. With the Patriots, she was responsible for overseeing film exchange, team travel and team camps while assisting in the day-to-day operations of the program.
Prior to George Mason, Miller was a graduate assistant on the women's basketball staff at North Alabama (2005-06). She also served as Teen Club Unit Director for the Boys and Girls Club of Northwest Alabama during her time in Alabama.
Miller earned a bachelor's degree in social work from North Alabama in 2004 and a master's degree in criminal justice from North Alabama in 2006.
