NORFOLK, Va. – Former Norfolk State University Director of Athletics Marty Miller and men's basketball standout
Jermaine Bishop will receive prestigious awards at the Norfolk Sports Club Jamboree this December.
Miller, who retired as athletics director in June, will receive the club's Lifetime Achievement Award. Bishop, a first-team All-MEAC selection for the Spartans last season, will be presented with the Leigh Williams Memorial Award as Virginia's top collegiate athlete from the past year.
Following an All-American career as a baseball player with the Spartans, Miller spent nearly 50 years in the NSU athletics department as a coach and administrator. Miller won 718 games as NSU's baseball coach, including 17 CIAA championships and 15 CIAA Coach of the Year Awards. He was also MEAC Coach of the Year once after NSU moved to the Division I level.
At more than 15 years (2004-20), Miller had the longest tenure of any athletics director in Spartan history. A seven-time Hall of Famer, Miller's presided over a program that won 26 MEAC team championships and 10 conference all-sports awards. NSU also made numerous facility and academic enhancements during his tenure.
Miller joins a prestigious list of past NSC Lifetime Achievement honorees, including Curtis Strange, Frank Beamer and former NSU football and track coach and AD Dick Price.
Bishop competed for one season with NSU after sitting out the previous year following a transfer from Saint Louis. He averaged 15.6 points, 3.5 rebounds, 2.2 assists and 1.0 steal per game in 2019-20. Bishop earned both NABC All-District 15 and BOXTOROW HBCU Division I All-America second-team honors after setting the school record for 3-pointers (98) and topping the Division I record for free-throw percentage (85.5) in a season.
Bishop led the Spartans to a second-place finish in the league at 12-4. They went 16-15 overall, the eighth .500 or better season in the last nine years for the program, before the season was shut down due to COVID-19. Bishop signed with a professional team in Germany earlier this year.
Bishop's award is named after Leigh Williams, a former Maury High School standout who earned four letters apiece in football, baseball, basketball and track at Washington & Lee University. NSU's last winner of the award was football All-American Lynden Trail in 2014.
The 75th annual Norfolk Sports Club Jamboree will take place on Monday, Dec. 7 at 6 p.m. at the Norfolk Waterside Marriott. Tickets are $90 per person or $500 for a table of six. For more information, call (757) 497-9583 or 497-3095.
