Ronda jo miller accomplishments in life
Ronda jo miller accomplishments in life
Examples of accomplishments in life.
Ronda Jo Miller
American basketball and volleyball player
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.
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 and graduated from the Minnesota State Academy for the Deaf.
She graduated at Gallaudet University in 2001.[5]
Career
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.