Ronda Jo Miller

Ronda Jo Miller (born 21 April 1978) is a retired American professional deaf female basketball and volleyball player.[1][2] She is one of the few deaf women basketball players to have tried out for WNBA.[3][4] Miller is the first deaf woman to make an attempt to play in the WNBA league in 2005.[5] However, she did not make the team.

Ronda Jo Miller
Personal information
NationalityAmerican
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
Gold medal – first placeCopenhagen 1997team
Women's Volleyball
Silver medal – second placeRome 2001team
Bronze medal – third placeMelbourne 2005team

Biography

Ronda Jo Miller was born profoundly deaf in Little Falls, Minnesota. As a child she played basketball with her brother, Robert using a hoop nailed to a shed next to their barn. She attended the Minnesota State Academy for the Deaf and at the Metro Deaf School. She graduated at Gallaudet University in 2001.[6]

Career

She made her Deaflympic debut at the 1997 Summer Deaflympics as part of the US deaf basketball team that claimed the gold medal.[7] 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.[8][9]

Apart from her Deaflympic career, she had a historic stint with Gallaudet University women's basketball team, scoring over 1000 points for Bison.[10]

In 1997, she was nominated for the ICSD Deaf Sportswoman of the Year award for her performance in the basketball event at the 1997 Summer Deaflympics.[11] She was inducted into the Gallaudet Athletics Hall of Fame in 2008. She retired from 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. "Ronda Jo Miller Bio". Gallaudet. Retrieved 2018-01-07.
  7. "Women's basketball | 1997 Summer Deaflympics". www.deaflympics.com. Retrieved 2018-01-07.
  8. "Women's volleyball | 2001 Summer Deaflympics". www.deaflympics.com. Retrieved 2018-01-07.
  9. "Women's volleyball | 2005 Summer Deaflympics". www.deaflympics.com. Retrieved 2018-01-07.
  10. "Embracing the silence". NCAA.org - The Official Site of the NCAA. 2014-04-30. Retrieved 2018-01-07.
  11. "1997 ICSD Deaf Sportswoman of the Year nominees | Deaflympics". www.deaflympics.com. Retrieved 2018-01-07.


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