Inductees

Denver P. Miller is synonymous with Kirkwood High School varsity boy’s basketball. He coached basketball for 43 seasons, all at Kirkwood High School, and amassed 790 wins and five Missouri State Final Four appearances. At one time, he was the winningest coach in the nation. Miller’s squads were known throughout the state of Missouri as the Millermen.

On February 18, 1972, Miller coached in his 1,000th game, and fittingly the Millermen thumped rival Webster Groves 80-49. His 1971-72 squad earned the Tom Stanton Achievement Award as the number-one high school basketball team in the area. On December 15, 1972, the Kirkwood High School Gymnasium was officially dedicated and renamed the Denver P. Miller Gymnasium.

The National Association of Basketball Coaches of the United States honored Miller on March 30, 1975, for his 20+ years of coaching. On July 30, 1988, Miller was enshrined as a charter member in the Missouri Basketball Hall of Fame. If his basketball accomplishments were not enough, he even coached the KHS baseball team to the Missouri State Championship in 1961.

Miller received a B.S. in Education from the University of Missouri-Columbia and earned All-American honors as a member of the Tiger’s basketball team. He taught math at Kirkwood High School and retired in 1977.