When Noah Miller was starting out in water polo, having a player from the prairies crack the national team was a rarity.
Miller spent nine years on the Canadian men’s national water polo team, serving as captain for five of those years, as part of a wave of talented players that helped put Saskatchewan on the national map.
Growing up, Miller was training seven days a week as a competitive swimmer with the Regina Optimist Dolphins while also playing soccer, football, basketball, racquet sports and gymnastics. He was exposed to water polo through a camp while his mother, fellow 2025 inductee Klara Kesmarky Miller, was the Executive Director of Water Polo Saskatchewan. Miller loved the team aspect of water polo and was hooked, stepping away from competitive swimming.
He was selected to be part of the Canadian under-20 junior national team program at 15 by coach David Hart and was soon joined by a pair of Regina Squids teammates. That generation of Saskatchewan players finished second at junior nationals in 1999, the highest finish in the province’s history in age-group competition. Miller was named the tournament’s most valuable player.
On the international stage, he represented Canada twice at the FINA (Fédération Internationale de Natation) water polo junior world championships – finishing eighth in Kuwait in 1999, the junior team’s highest finish at that competition.
Miller moved to Calgary to train at the Canadian National Men’s Training Center and established himself on the national team. During his national team career, he competed at the senior FINA World Aquatic Championships four time, represented Canada at three FISU (Fédération Internationale du Sport Universitaire) World University Games, and won bronze medals at the Pan American Games in 2003 (Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic) and 2007 (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil). He led Canada in scoring at the 2003 Pan Am competition.
Miller played in over 40 international events, representing Canada on every continent except Antarctica. He also played professionally in Australia in 2006 for the Victorian Tigers.
He was also incredibly successful at the club level in Canada. Miller won six Canadian national championships with three different clubs, tying Kent Hardisty for the most titles by a Saskatchewan water polo athlete. While he was still based in Calgary, Miller reunited the Regina Squids, leading them to win the 2006 Tier I Canadian National League championship — Saskatchewan’s only men’s senior national title.
In 2009, he founded the Bowness Monster Water Polo Club in Calgary, serving as a player, head coach and general manager. The team found quick success, winning two national water polo titles in their three years of existence. He has given back to the sport as a coach in Alberta and Saskatchewan and most recently served as the Calgary Torpedoes program director and head coach.
Installed in the Saskatchewan Sports Hall of Fame on September 20, 2025.