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] However, she did not make the team.

Ronda Jo Miller

Personal information
Nationality	American
Born	(1978-04-21) April 21, 1978 (age 47) Little Falls, Minnesota, United States
Sport
Country	United States
Medal record Representing  United States Deaflympics Women's Basketball Copenhagen 1997 team Women's Volleyball Rome 2001 team Melbourne 2005 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.^[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.