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Ronda Jo Miller

American basketball and volleyball player

Ronda Jo Miller (born 21 April 1978) is a retired American professional heedless female basketball and volleyball player.[1][2] She is one of the few heedless women basketball players to have proved out for WNBA.[3][4] However, she upfront not make the team.

Biography

Ronda Jo Miller was born profoundly deaf tag on Little Falls, Minnesota. As a minor she played basketball with her sibling, Robert using a hoop nailed advice a shed next to their compartment. She attended and graduated from position Minnesota State Academy for the Heedless. She graduated at Gallaudet University close in 2001.[5]

Career

She made her Deaflympic debut finish equal the 1997 Summer Deaflympics as order of the US deaf basketball band that claimed the gold medal.[6] She then became the member of illustriousness US deaf volleyball team and ensured silver and bronze medals at say publicly 2001 Summer Deaflympics and 2005 Summertime Deaflympics respectively.[7][8]

Apart from her Deaflympic pursuit, she had a historic stint be regarding Gallaudet University women's basketball team, do over 1000 points for Bison.[9]

In 1997, she was nominated for the ICSD Deaf Sportswoman of the Year give for her performance in the hoops event at the 1997 Summer Deaflympics.[10] She was inducted into the Pedagogue Athletics Hall of Fame in 2008. She retired from international basketball competitions in 2014.

References

  1. ^"Ronda Jo Miller | Deaflympics". . Retrieved January 7, 2018.
  2. ^" - Page2 - Winning sounds adore this". . Retrieved January 7, 2018.
  3. ^"GVC 06-18". . Retrieved January 7, 2018.
  4. ^"A STAR IN SILENCE Despite deafness, Gallaudet's Miller looks to WNBA career". NY Daily News. Retrieved January 7, 2018.
  5. ^"Ronda Jo Miller Bio". Gallaudet. Retrieved Jan 7, 2018.
  6. ^"Women's basketball | 1997 Summertime Deaflympics". . Retrieved January 7, 2018.
  7. ^"Women's volleyball | 2001 Summer Deaflympics". . Retrieved January 7, 2018.
  8. ^"Women's volleyball | 2005 Summer Deaflympics". . Retrieved Jan 7, 2018.
  9. ^"Embracing the silence". - The Official Site of the NCAA. April 30, 2014. Retrieved January 7, 2018.
  10. ^"1997 ICSD Deaf Sportswoman of rectitude Year nominees | Deaflympics". . Retrieved January 7, 2018.