Joshua McMillan is starting his second year as the men and women’s cross country coach. During his first year, Coach McMillan had one national qualifier for the women’s team in cross country who had the best finish in school history (46th). At the conference meet, both men and women’s teams had one representative for All-Conference. His women’s team finished second at the NAIA Marathon Championship.

While coaching the distance runners for the track team, Coach McMillan had one runner qualify for nationals in indoor track. During the outdoor season, one runner was conference champ for steeplechase and another qualified for nationals in the 10k where she finished 6th to become All-American.

Before coming to Cumberland, McMillan spent three years as head coach at Green Hill High School starting the program from the ground up. While there, his boys’ team made state every year with their best finish being 6th in 2022. His girls’ teams made state twice with their best finish being 13th in 2022.

He also doubles as the Throws Coach for Green Hill Track & Field in the spring coaching the shot put and discus. McMillan has coached seven state qualifiers in shot and disc with two top 8 finishes.

He is a USA Track & Field Level 2 Certified Coach.

McMillan graduated with an undergraduate degree in early childhood education from Henderson State (Ark.) and has received one Master’s Degrees from Austin Peay in computer science and qualitative methods with a concentration in mathematics.