Cheryl Miller, one of the greatest female basketball players ever, is leading the Phoenix Mercury (of which she is head coach and general manager) to a Western Conference title. The team is made up of some wonderful players: Monique Ambers (Arizona State '93), Marlies Askamp (Germany), Toni Foster (Iowa '93), Jennifer Gillom (Mississippi '86), Mikiko Hagiwara (Japan), Tia Jackson (Iowa '95), Nancy Lieberman-Cline (Old Dominion '80), Bridget Pettis (Florida '93), Michele Timms (Australia), Umeki Webb (North Carolina State '97), Tara Williams (Auburn '97), and a great coach.
Cheryl, along with being the older sister of the Indiana Pacers' Reggie Miller, is an incedible woman. She was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1995 - one of only 11 women who have been so honored. She graduated from USC in 1985 after leading them to consecutive national titles in 1983 and 1984. She earned All-America honors four consecutive years. During her last three years at USC, she was the national college player of the year. Cheryl was the first athlete of either gender to have her number retired at USC. She led the US women to the gold medal at the 1984 Olympics. Two years later, she led the U.S. to titles in the World Championship of Basketball and the Goodwill Games. She was voted ESPN Woman Athlete of the Year in 1985, and in 1986 she was the first woman basketball player to be nominated for the prestigious Sullivan Award (1985-86). Cheryl coached the USC women during the 1993-94 and 94-95 seasons. 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. She joined Turner Sports in 1995 as an analyst and NBA reporter on TNT and TBS. She was commissioner of the 1985 Los Angeles Olympic Committee Summer Youth Games and has been a spokesperson for the 1985-86 Los Angeles Literacy Campaign, as well as the American Lung, Diabetes and Cancer Associations and Muscular Dystrophy Association. Cheryl and Reggie have been titled the best brother-sister basketball combination in history. That's pretty amazing.
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