• National junior champion in the 1500m in 1969.
• Part of the University of Alberta 4 x 400m relay team that held the Canada West record for almost 20 years.
• In 1978, won the 3000m in the National Championships and finished fourth at the Commonwealth Games.
• Dominated the road-racing circuit in Alberta and ran world class times in international events.
• Received outstanding athlete citations and achievement awards from the city and the province.

Rarely does a university athlete dominate a sport for a decade. Yet from the time Shauna Miller entered the University of Alberta through the completion of her law degree in 1978, she was a leading Canadian distance runner in both university and open competition.

In cross-country alone, Shauna won almost 20 major championships, including six provincial, three prairie province and three CWUAA titles. She won the Canadian championship in 1970 and still represented Canada in two World Cross-Country Championships ten years later. These outstanding performances alone would justify a Sports Wall of Fame nomination, but they are only a part of Shauna's achievements.

Her track career began in high school and continued for two decades, paralleling the development of women's distance running. Young women racing today owe their current opportunities to Shauna and athletes like her, whose achievements simply demanded that the sport advance.

She started as an 800m runner, the longest event then open to women. With the advent of the 1500m, new challenges emerged, as she became National Junior Champion in 1969. In the 1970's, horizons expanded further with yet longer events. Still, Shauna maintained enough of her sprinting background to be part of the University of Alberta 4 x 400m relay team that held the CWUAA record for almost 20 years. But it was the 3000m that revealed her true talent. After taking time to concentrate on studies, she returned to competition in the third year of law school, racing brilliantly to win the 1978 National Championships. This win helped her earn a selection to the Commonwealth Games in Edmonton and established her as a force on National Teams into the 1980's. She finished fourth in the Commonwealth Games before the home crowd; thereafter, she regularly took on the might of the Europeans on their tracks, achieving lifetime best results.

In the then-new sport of road racing, Shauna was simply dominant. In one of her later races, she finished fifth in the final of a continental race series that brought together the best runners in North America. Her time (33:40) was, and remains, world class. Before handing her yet another first place award in the early 1980's, one race organizer decided to impress the crowd by announcing the last time Shauna had lost an Alberta road race of 5 km or longer. The announcement was impressive indeed: she never had!

These accomplishments brought with them recognition in the form of Outstanding Athlete citations and Achievement Awards from the city and the province. This great athlete's university education served her well, transferring the skills learned in the classroom to her professional life as a partner with Fraser Milner Casgram LLB in the city of Edmonton. Shauna has also served as a director on a number of boards including the YMCA, the Edmonton Symphony, the United Way, the Capital Care Health Foundation, the Phoenix Theatre and the steering committee for the NorQuest College Foundation.

Nationally and internationally ranked as a track athlete and a world class cross-country and road racer, Shauna Miller is now a respected professional and community leader. The University of Alberta is proud to add Shauna Miller to the Sports Wall of Fame.