TAWAS CITY \u2013 A road hockey game helped lead Tawas Area senior Zack Miller to a life-changing opportunity. Miller officially cashed in on that opportunity when he signed to join the hockey program at Oakland University.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe coach came out to one of my games in Anchor Bay and watched me play, I talked to him a little bit after the game and since then we stayed in touch more,\u201d Miller said. \u201cFrom there it has been going well.\u201d<\/p>\n
Miller went for a visit to Oakland back in January, which eventually led to the signing in front of family, friends, coaches and teammates.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s awesome,\u201d Miller, who plans to study finance, said of his signing day. \u201cIt\u2019s totally unreal, an unreal feeling. I have to thank all my teammates along the years, they\u2019re the reason I\u2019m here and my parents and the sacrifices they\u2019ve made for me over the years and especially my coaches over the years and sacrifices and belief in me as time went on.\u201d<\/p>\n
It\u2019s easy to see why Miller\u2019s talents were coveted at the next level. Just this year alone he scored 33 goals and had 16 assists. He finished with 120 career points.<\/p>\n
\u201cHockey has been a really big part of my life, that\u2019s probably the reason I do a lot of things the way I do it,\u201d he said. \u201cMy uncles played hockey when they were younger and my grandparents live on a lake, so I started skating on a pond when I was three years old. Just having the success that I\u2019ve had, I just owe it all to my team.\u201d<\/p>\n
Miller plans to keep putting in the work too, as he preps for his time as a college athlete; which is just around the corner.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m going to keep skating on the ice here at Tawas and working out every day and just, whenever I can, get out on the ice,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019m just very happy and excited to start my new journey.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAWAS CITY \u2013 A road hockey game helped lead Tawas Area senior Zack Miller to a life-changing opportunity.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":267738,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[4629,143,145,144,127],"class_list":["post-267737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-ice-hockey","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267737\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/267738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}