Kelly and Coco Miller Named 2019 SEC Legends
January 23, 2019 | Women's Basketball
ATHENS, Ga. — Kelly and Coco Miller, twin sisters from Rochester, Minnesota who rank No. 4 and No. 5 respectively on the Georgia Lady Bulldogs' all-time career scoring list, have been named 2019 Southeastern Conference Legends,
Each year, the SEC honors outstanding former female student-athletes from each member institution. The Miller twins will take part in several festivities during the week of the SEC Tournament in Greenville, South Carolina on March 6-10. They will then be recognized at halftime of the Lady Bulldogs' first game.
Kelly and Coco were both four-year starters for the Lady Bulldogs from 1997-2001 and helped Georgia advance to the 1999 Final Four, capture the 2000 SEC Championship and win the 2001 SEC Tournament title. Kelly (2,177 points) and Coco (2,131 points) are two of only five Lady Bulldogs to score more than 2,000 points. They also rank among Georgia's top-10 career leaders in field goals made and attempted as well as steals.
They were both named All-SEC during each of their four seasons in Athens, and Kelly Miller was named 2000 and 2001 SEC Player of the Year. The Millers were co-recipients of the AAU's James E. Sullivan Memorial Award as the top amateur athletes in the nation in all sports in 1999. Kelly and Coco also earned All-America and Academic All-America honors while at Georgia. They graduated with degrees in Biology and went on to have long professional playing careers in the WNBA and overseas.
They were each selected in the first round of the 2001 WNBA draft, with Kelly going second overall to the Charlotte Sting, while Coco was drafted sixth overall by the Washington Mystics.
After spending three seasons with the Sting, Kelly went on to play for the WNBA's Indiana Fever, Phoenix Mercury, Minnesota Lynx, Atlanta Dream, Washington Mystics and New York Liberty, winning a WNBA title in 2007 with the Mercury. Coco's 12-year career included stops with the Washington Mystics, Atlanta Dream and Los Angeles Sparks.
In 2017, both Kelly and Coco were inducted in the University of Georgia's prestigious Circle of Honor.
