Desiree Miller
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Paralympic Games | ||
Wheelchair basketball | ||
2016 Rio | Women's team |
Desiree Miller (born August 12, 1987) is a paralympic athlete from United States of America competing mainly in wheelchair basketball. Miller is the oldest of four children from Eugene and Denise Miller, and has a rare form of spina bifida.[1] Miller believed her disability would bar her from sports activities until she discovered wheelchair basketball.[2]
Miller competed at the 2012 Summer Paralympics and at the 2016 Summer Paralympics. As the captain of the U.S. Women’s Wheelchair Basketball Team, the team won the team gold medal in women's wheelchair basketball.[1][3]
Miller was married to Mareike Miller (Adermann), who is a member of the German Wheelchair Basketball Team,[4] and recently lives with her partner Abby Dunkin in Texas.[1]
References
- ^ a b c "Desiree L. Miller MS '14 | University of Wisconsin-Whitewater". www.uww.edu. Retrieved 2019-10-07.
- ^ Myhre, Rich (2016-07-11). "Desiree Miller preparing for second trip to Paralympic Games". HeraldNet.com. Retrieved 2019-10-07.
- ^ "Desiree Miller". Team USA. 2019. Retrieved October 7, 2019.
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ NWBA (2015-11-11). "NWBA Athlete of the Week - Desi Miller". National Wheelchair Basketball Association. Retrieved 2019-10-07.
- Paralympic gold medalists for the United States
- Living people
- Paralympic medalists in wheelchair basketball
- 1987 births
- Medalists at the 2016 Summer Paralympics
- Wheelchair basketball players at the 2016 Summer Paralympics
- Paralympic wheelchair basketball players of the United States
- American track and field athletics biography stubs
- American Paralympic medalist stubs