Willy Miranda

Willy Miranda Jr. (born 1947) is an American former sports coach. The son of Major League Baseball player Willy Miranda, he coached numerous sports at various high schools in Delaware. He was inducted into the Delaware Sports Museum and Hall of Fame in 2025.

Early life Miranda was born in 1947 in Cuba, the son of Major League Baseball player Willy Miranda. He grew up in many different states in the U.S. as his father moved between teams, before the family settled in Baltimore, Maryland, at the end of Miranda Sr.'s career. and attended Forest Park High School before entering Baltimore Junior College, where he played baseball. Following his stint at UD, he tried out for a professional baseball league in the Dominican Republic, but chose not to play there on the advice of his father.

Career After attending the University of Delaware, Miranda began teaching foreign languages at local high schools. He sometimes taught and coached at the same time he held teaching and coaching positions at other schools. In his career, he coached football, swimming, baseball, softball, girls basketball, boys basketball, field hockey, and girls lacrosse.

Miranda started coaching girls basketball at Wilmington High School as an assistant in 1973, then becoming the head coach in 1974. He served as a coach in baseball, field hockey, lacrosse and boys basketball at Brandywine, and his tenure with their field hockey team spanned 38 years until his retirement in 2019. He formed Brandywine's lacrosse team in 1994 and in total, all the teams he coached won over 1,200 games. He was inducted into the Delaware Lacrosse Hall of Fame in 2006 and to the Maryland Baseball Hall of Fame in 2021. In 2025, he was inducted into the Delaware Sports Museum and Hall of Fame.