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Cheryl Miller is one of the greatest players in the history of women's basketball. Miller burst onto the national scene in the early 1980s when she led USC to consecutive national titles in 1983 and 1984. She was the first player to "elevate" the women's game with her superior leaping ability. Her overall basketball and athletic skills enabled her to dominate games at every level she played. In 1984, she led the U.S. women to their first Olympic gold medal. Two years later, she led the U.S. to titles in the World Championship of Basketball and the Goodwill Games.
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Guide Note:Cheryl Miller is a former basketball player and coach of the Phoenix Mercury. Cheryl is known for her outstanding athletic ability that allowed her to be inducted into the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame.
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Miller's enthusiasm and leadership on the court carried over into her professional life where she excelled in both broadcasting and coaching. Miller first worked as a broadcaster for ABC, where she handled a variety of assignments including reports for Wide World of Sports. In 1995, she joined Turner Sports as an analyst and reporter for NBA coverage on TNT and TBS. In November 1996, she became the first female analyst to work on a nationally televised NBA game. Miller returned to USC in 1993 as the head coach, and, again she excelled. During her two seasons as coach, USC had a 44-14 record for a .759 winning percentage, and in 1994, USC won the Pacific-10 Conference title.
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At the international level, Miller guided the United States to a gold medal in the 1984 Olympic Games, and gold medals at the 1983 Pan American and 1986 Goodwill Games. In 1986, Miller became the first female ever nominated for the prestigious Sullivan Award, and in March of that year, USC retired her jersey, making Miller the first Trojan athlete so honored. Following a brief, but successful coaching stint at USC, Miller turned to broadcasting as an NBA studio analyst for TNT along with assorted national networks. For the past three seasons, she has been head coach of the WNBA's Phoenix Mercury, and in the 1998 season, led Phoenix to the WNBA Finals against eventual champion Houston.
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In 1996, during the Atlanta summer games, Miller was selected to represent his native United States as a member of Team USA. In the gold medal game it was the Americans overtaking the Yugoslavian national team giving Miller his first and only Olympic medal.
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In addition to Miller's experience at the college level, she has been an international coach as well. Four summers ago, she served as a court coach at the 2000 USA Basketball Women's Summer Development Camp in Colorado Springs, Colo. The camp developed not only the elite players in the United States, but ... acted as the trials to select the U.S. Jones Cup team.
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