Shannon Miller, the University of Minnesota—Duluth’s 5-time national champion women’s hockey coach, has been let go because, according to the current athletic director, UMD is “not able to sustain the highest paid coach in Division I hockey’s salary.” The Tucker Center‘s associate director Dr. Nicole M. LaVoi, faculty in the School of Kinesiology, whose research examines male and female coaching demographics, is quoted in a KARE-11 article and video, “UMD lets go of women’s hockey coach,” saying, “I have never in my entire career heard of a male coach being let go because he’s being paid too much.”