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| Nationality | American | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | April 21, 1978 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country |  United States | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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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] However, she did not make the team.
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 and graduated from the Minnesota State Academy for the Deaf. She graduated at Gallaudet University in 2001. [5]
She made her Deaflympic debut at the 1997 Summer Deaflympics as part of the US deaf basketball team that claimed the gold medal. [6] 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. [7] [8]
Apart from her Deaflympic career, she had a historic stint with Gallaudet University women's basketball team, scoring over 1000 points for Bison. [9]
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. [10] She was inducted into the Gallaudet Athletics Hall of Fame in 2008. She retired from international basketball competitions in 2014.
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