Ronda Jo Miller

Ronda Jo Miller
Personal information
Nationality American
Born (1978-04-21) April 21, 1978
Little Falls, Minnesota, United States
Sport
Country  United States
Medal record
Representing  United States
Deaflympics
Women's Basketball
Copenhagen 1997team
Women's Volleyball
Rome 2001team
Melbourne 2005team

Ronda Jo Miller (born 21 April 1978) is an American retired professional deaf female basketball and volleyball player.[1][2] She is considered as one of the most famous deaf basketball players in history as she is only one of the fewest deaf women basketball players to have applied for WNBA.[3][4] Ronda is the first deaf woman to make an attempt to play in the WNBA league in 2005.[5] However, she was not selected to play in the league and was ignored mainly due to being deaf.[6]

Biography

Ronda Jo Miller was born profoundly deaf in the Little Falls, Minnesota. As a child, during her childhood age she played basketball with her brother, Robert using a hoop on the shed of their barn. She was educated at the Minnesota State High School for the Deaf and at the Metro Deaf School. She graduated at the Gallaudet University in 2001.[7]

Career

She made her Deaflympic debut at the 1997 Summer Deaflympics and was part of the US deaf basketball team that claimed gold medal in the team event.[8] She then became the member of the US deaf volleyball team and clinched silver and bronze medals at the 2001 Summer Deaflympics and 2005 Summer Deaflympics respectively.[9][10]

Apart from Deaflympic career, she had a great stint with the Gallaudet University in the women's basketball. She was a great basketball player at Gallaudet University especially she scored over 1000 points for Bison. Ronda Jo Miller also certainly considered the greatest ever basketball player in the NCAA Division III at the Gallaudet University.[11]

In 1997, she was nominated for the ICSD Deaf Sportswoman of the Year award for her splendid performance in the basketball event at the 1997 Summer Deaflympics.[12] She was inducted into the Gallaudet Athletics Hall of Fame in 2008. She retired from playing international basketball competitions in 2014.

References

  1. ↑ "Ronda Jo Miller | Deaflympics". www.deaflympics.com. Retrieved 2018-01-07.
  2. ↑ "ESPN.com - Page2 - Winning sounds like this". www.espn.com. Retrieved 2018-01-07.
  3. ↑ "GVC 06-18". winners.virtualclassroom.org. Retrieved 2018-01-07.
  4. ↑ "A STAR IN SILENCE Despite deafness, Gallaudet's Miller looks to WNBA career". NY Daily News. Retrieved 2018-01-07.
  5. ↑ "Ronda Jo Miller & The WNBA". NPR.org. Retrieved 2018-01-07.
  6. ↑ "Deaf Is | Sports | Ronda Jo Miller". www.deafis.org. Retrieved 2018-01-07.
  7. ↑ "Ronda Jo Miller Bio". Gallaudet. Retrieved 2018-01-07.
  8. ↑ "Women's basketball | 1997 Summer Deaflympics". www.deaflympics.com. Retrieved 2018-01-07.
  9. ↑ "Women's volleyball | 2001 Summer Deaflympics". www.deaflympics.com. Retrieved 2018-01-07.
  10. ↑ "Women's volleyball | 2005 Summer Deaflympics". www.deaflympics.com. Retrieved 2018-01-07.
  11. ↑ smeyers@ncaa.org (2014-04-30). "Embracing the silence". NCAA.org - The Official Site of the NCAA. Retrieved 2018-01-07.
  12. ↑ "1997 ICSD Deaf Sportswoman of the Year nominees | Deaflympics". www.deaflympics.com. Retrieved 2018-01-07.
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