She was finishing up her master’s degree and working as an intern for a sports marketing research company in London last summer when she received calls from Coach David Quinn and the athletic director, Drew Marrochello. The Terriers had an opening on their coaching staff, and both men thought Miller was the perfect candidate. Now she is in charge of all of the teams’ travel logistics, ensures players handle their academic work and helps track statistics.

Miller said Quinn and the rest of the staff had treated her as an equal since she accepted the job in September.

“They trust me to do a good job, and they know that I can do this job just as good if not better than any guy,” she said.

Marrochello said he had known early on that Miller would be successful in any endeavor she chose.

“I’m frankly glad it is in hockey, in college sports,” he said. “I know she’s got a high ceiling.”

While Miller’s love for hockey has burned since her youth, Feaster’s was more like rekindling an old flame.

As a young child in the mid-1990s, Feaster was a regular at the rink and aboard the team bus when her father was the general manager of the Hershey Bears of the American Hockey League. Jay Feaster remembered his 3-year-old daughter sitting on the training table talking hockey with Mitch Lamoureux, a center who had played parts of three seasons in the N.H.L. but was by then a minor-league lifer on the wrong side of 30.