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American basketball and volleyball player

Ronda Jo Miller (born 21 April ) 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.

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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 ^[5]

Career

She made her Deaflympic debut at the 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 Summer Deaflympics and Summer Deaflympics respectively.^[7][8]