Justinger helped lead the Dragons to one of the most historic seasons since the program's inception. The team finished 18-9, the second-highest win total in school history following the 21-7 campaign of 2011-12 and equaling the 18-9 mark of the 1990-91 Dragons.

Unlike those two squads, however, this team competed at the NCAA Division II level and progressed all the way to the NCAA Sweet Sixteen. They won the GMAC Tournament Championship with dramatic victories over Ohio Dominican, Cedarville, and Kentucky Wesleyan.

Automatically qualifying for the NCAA Atlantic Regional due to winning the GMAC tourney, the team dispatched Kentucky Wesleyan in a rematch 70-56 before staging the biggest comeback in team history, erasing an 18 point deficit with 5:55 to play to beat Glenville State 85-83 and advance to the Sweet Sixteen. They lost to Charleston 82-52 in the Atlantic Region Championship game.

The 18-9 record, highlighted by the seven-game winning streak during the postseason, equals the best debut ever for a women's basketball head coach. 

The team set five new school Division II records during the season, including best season field goal percentage (.426).

Before becoming Head Coach, Justinger spent 2018-19 and 2019-20 as the top assistant and was promoted to Recruiting Coordinator for the 2019-20 campaign. Justinger has been an integral part of Tiffin's turnaround, improving by two wins each year and reaching the conference tournament in 2019-20 for the first time as a program since 2012. Tiffin also earned their first All-Conference honoree since the 2012-13 season with Aarion Nichols receiving Second Team All-GMAC honors in 2019-20. The Dragons have also established over 15 new DII-era program records during Justinger's time in Tiffin.

 

Justinger was selected in 2016 to be part of WBCA's "So you want to be a coach program." She followed that up with serving as part of the coaching staff at Seton Hill University for the last two seasons. She helped lead the Griffins to one of their best year's in program history in 2017-18, as they posted a 20 win season and made it into the 2nd round play of the PSAC tournament. She also helped the Griffins to impressive performances in the classroom by helping the team to their fourth consecutive season in the Top 25 WBCA Academic honors. 

 

 

Justinger, a Carlisle, Pennsylvania native, graduated from Bowling Green with a degree in Exercise Science and a minor in Gerontology. She finished with a cumulative GPA of 3.59, earning Dean's List honors over her final three seasons. Her playing career was noteworthy. She was a four-year starter, finishing her career with 1,027 points and tying for 25th on the school’s career scoring list. She also posted career totals of 460 rebounds, 267 assists, 130 steals, and 114 three-pointers made. She had career marks of 37.9% field goal percentage, scored 114 triples with a 32.5 percentage, averaged 3.7 rpg, and 2.1 apg. She was the team's Most Improved player in her freshman year, helping the Falcons to reach the third round WNIT in postseason play and an overall season record of 24-11. She was part of a regular-season MAC conference champion team, posting a 30-5 record and reaching the quarterfinals of the WNIT. She earned All-MAC Team honors as well as being voted Team's Playmaker of the year and Impact Player of the Year her Junior and Senior Seasons. She was selected to the Academic All-MAC Team in 2014, 2015, and 2016, and earned the MAC Distinguished Scholar-Athlete award in the 2015-16 season. 

Her collegiate career was an extension of the success she had in high school at Sylvania Northview High School. She earned three letters playing for coach Jerry Sigler and was a First-Team All-Ohio selection as a senior, averaging 19.6 points, 4.9 rebounds, and 3.9 assists as the LadyKats went 21-2 and posted a district runner-up finish. She led the Northern Lakes League in scoring in that senior campaign and was also the District I Player of the Year in 2011-12. She helped Northview to NLL championships in each of her last three years. A third-team all-state selection in her junior season, she also was a three-time All-NLL First-Team choice and averaged 16.5 ppg as a junior and 11.9 ppg as a sophomore, leading to sectional titles in both seasons. The LadyKats went 57-8 in her final three years at the school. She is a two-time team MVP, the District 7 Player of the Year as a senior, and finished her high school career with 1,109 points while earning three selections to the All-(Toledo) Blade Team. 

 

Miriam also holds a Master's of Business Administration degree from Seton Hill University.