Johns Hopkins University Athletics

Peter Milliman is in his fifth season as the head coach at Johns Hopkins in 2025.  Named the 23rd head coach in program history on April 27, 2020, Milliman came to Homewood after serving as the Richard M. Moran Head Coach of Men’s Lacrosse at Cornell University for three seasons.

Over the last two years (2023, 2024), Milliman has guided the Blue Jays to a 23-11 record with two trips to the NCAA Quarterfinals and two Big Ten regular season titles.  Johns Hopkins has finished the 2023 and 2024 seasons ranked fifth in the nation.

Milliman guided the Blue Jays to a 12-6 record, a share of the Big Ten regular season title and a trip to the NCAA Quarterfinals in 2023.  Johns Hopkins finished the season ranked fifth nationally, produced five USILA All-Americans, a then program-record five USILA Scholar All-Americans, 34 Academic All-Big Ten selections and nine Big Ten Distinguished Scholars.

The 2024 season included a second straight trip to the NCAA Quarterfinals, an outright Big Ten regular season title and a final record of 11-5 with Milliman being named the Big Ten Coach of the Year.  The Blue Jays produced six USILA All-Americans (the most since 2011), a program-record six USILA Scholar All-Americans, 38 Academic All-Big Ten selections and eight Big Ten Distinguished Scholars.

Under Milliman’s guidance, the Blue Jays have shown consistent improvement.  In his first season, he guided the Blue Jays to their third consecutive appearance in the Big Ten Championship game and, in the process, became the first number six seed in Division I men’s lacrosse history to advance to its conference title game; in the history of the Big Ten, the Blue Jays became just the third number six-seed in any sport to play in the conference championship game.

One year later, in Milliman’s second season, the Blue Jays bumped their win total to seven (7-9) and advanced to the Big Ten Semifinals.  Johns Hopkins played the third most difficult schedule in the nation during the 2022 season and laid the foundation for the breakthrough season the team enjoyed in 2023.

Prior to Johns Hopkins, Milliman took over as the head coach at Cornell in 2018 and amassed a record of 28-10, including an 8-4 mark in Ivy League play.  The Big Red went 13-5 in 2018, 10-5 in 2019 and were 5-0 and ranked second in the nation when the 2020 season ended.

Cornell advanced to the NCAA Quarterfinals in Milliman’s first season, when the Big Red also claimed the Ivy League Tournament title.  In two-and-a-half seasons, Milliman’s team beat the top-ranked team in the nation twice and picked up three victories against teams ranked in the top two in the nation at the time of the game; included was a win against top-ranked and eventual national champion Yale in the 2018 Ivy League Championship game.

Milliman arrived at Cornell in 2014 as an assistant coach and promptly helped the Big Red to back-to-back trips to the NCAA Tournament and a combined record of 21-11.  Cornell went 9-3 in Ivy League play in 2014 and 2015 and tied for first place in the final regular season standings in each of those two seasons.

Milliman served as Cornell’s defensive coordinator early in his tenure, but seamlessly transitioned to the offensive side and quickly turned the Big Red into one of the most dangerous teams in the nation.  Cornell finished fifth in the nation in scoring offense in 2019 (14.3) and the Big Red were averaging 18.4 goals per game when the 2020 season ended.

Before landing at Cornell, Milliman had successful assistant coaching stops at RIT (2006, 2008), Siena (2007), and Princeton (2013).  In his four seasons at those schools, he helped his teams to a combined record of 45-22 with a 9-6 mark at Princeton in 2013 immediately preceding his time at Cornell.

Milliman had his first head coaching stint from 2009-12 at Division II Pfeiffer.  There, he led the Falcons to a pair of appearances in the Conference Carolinas title game in 2011 and 2012 and was twice named the conference coach of the year (2009, 2011).

Milliman was a three-time All-American at Gettysburg and helped the Bullets to back-to-back appearances in the NCAA Division III Championship game during his career (2001, 2002).  He finished his career at Gettysburg ranked second in school history in points (232), fifth in goals (138) and third in assists (94).  He remains one of just three players in Bullet history with more than 125 goals and 90 assists.

After completing his career at Gettysburg, Milliman went on to play four seasons for the Rochester Rattlers in Major League Lacrosse.  The Rattlers won the MLL title during his last season with the team in 2008.

Milliman served as an assistant coach of the United States Indoor National Team in 2019 and was the head coach of the Russian National Team in 2014, when it made its debut at the FIL World Championships.  During the summer of 2022, he served as the head coach of the Iroquois Nationals Sixes Team at the World Games in Birmingham, Alabama.

A native of Rochester, New York, Milliman has three children - daughters, Reese and Lake, and son, Everett - and resides in nearby Roland Park.