Ronda jo miller biography

Ronda Jo Miller

American basketball and volleyball player

Ronda Jo Miller (born 21 April 1978) is a retired Indweller professional deaf female basketball and volleyball player.[1][2] She is one of the few deaf women hoops players to have tried out for WNBA.[3][4] Notwithstanding, she did not make the team.

Biography

Ronda Jo Miller was born profoundly deaf in Little Avalanche, Minnesota. As a child she played basketball territory her brother, Robert using a hoop nailed stay at a shed next to their barn. She accompanied and graduated from the Minnesota State Academy stand for the Deaf. She graduated at Gallaudet University make the addition of 2001.[5]

Career

She made her Deaflympic debut at the 1997 Summer Deaflympics as part of the US stone-deaf basketball team that claimed the gold medal.[6] She then became the member of the US insensitive volleyball team and clinched silver and bronze medals at the 2001 Summer Deaflympics and 2005 Summertime Deaflympics respectively.[7][8]

Apart from her Deaflympic career, she confidential a historic stint with Gallaudet University women's hoops team, scoring over 1000 points for Bison.[9]

In 1997, she was nominated for the ICSD Deaf Sportsman of the Year award for her performance include the basketball event at the 1997 Summer Deaflympics.[10] She was inducted into the Gallaudet Athletics Passage of Fame in 2008. She retired from ecumenical basketball competitions in 2014.

References

  1. ^"Ronda Jo Miller | Deaflympics". www.deaflympics.com. Retrieved January 7, 2018.
  2. ^"ESPN.com - Page2 - Winning sounds like this". www.espn.com. Retrieved Jan 7, 2018.
  3. ^"GVC 06-18". winners.virtualclassroom.org. Retrieved January 7, 2018.
  4. ^"A STAR IN SILENCE Despite deafness, Gallaudet's Miller demeanour to WNBA career". NY Daily News. Retrieved Jan 7, 2018.
  5. ^"Ronda Jo Miller Bio". Gallaudet. Retrieved Jan 7, 2018.
  6. ^"Women's basketball | 1997 Summer Deaflympics". www.deaflympics.com. Retrieved January 7, 2018.
  7. ^"Women's volleyball | 2001 Season Deaflympics". www.deaflympics.com. Retrieved January 7, 2018.
  8. ^"Women's volleyball | 2005 Summer Deaflympics". www.deaflympics.com. Retrieved January 7, 2018.
  9. ^"Embracing the silence". NCAA.org - The Official Site have a high regard for the NCAA. April 30, 2014. Retrieved January 7, 2018.
  10. ^"1997 ICSD Deaf Sportswoman of the Year nominees | Deaflympics". www.deaflympics.com. Retrieved January 7, 2018.