Lachlan Miller awarded as inaugural recipient of the QUT AusCycling Scholarship

University of Queensland Cycle Club member and Queensland University of Technology (QUT) student-athlete Lachlan Miller has been awarded as the inaugural recipient of the QUT AusCycling Scholarship, valued at $3,000.

Twenty-one-year-old Miller is one of 54 QUT students to be awarded new sport scholarships for 2025.

QUT has a long history of supporting student athletes, with the university this year announced as the first gold tier member of the Australian Institute of Sport (AIS)’s Elite Sport Education Network (ESEN).

QUT Director of Sport Emily Rosemond, who won a bronze medal in track sprint at the Delhi 2010 Commonwealth Games, said the 54 new scholarships awarded for 2025 took the university’s total number of current students studying on sports scholarships to 131.

“We’re pleased to be partnering with leading elite sport organisations including the AIS, Queensland Academy of Sport (QAS) and AusCycling to support high-performing student-athletes,” she said.

“These partnerships align with sport industry expectations and enable us to deliver integrated academic and sporting outcomes.”

Road cyclist Miller will now receive a $3,000 leg-up that will help with his racing plans and Bachelor of Engineering (Honours) / Bachelor of Mathematics.

The QUT Elite Sport Program is also helping with flexible study arrangements so that he can spend part of the year racing in Europe with the Dutch Food Valley Cycling Team, an amateur Dutch team.

He’s one of two Australian riders on the team, joining fellow Brisbane rider Matson McAdam, and was looking forward to meeting his new team mates when he flew out for the Netherlands last week.

“I am very fortunate that as a member of the QUT Elite Sport Program I receive off campus support and am able to defer my exams if the timetable clashes with my overseas racing block,” he said.

“In 2024, I was able to successfully combine multiple racing blocks across Europe and Asia whilst still successfully completing all my units.”

Miller returns to Europe having spent the past three seasons racing for ARA Skip Capital and was the junior individual time trial national champion in 2021.