Mareike Miller
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Mareike Miller (
Biography
Mareike Miller was born on 3 August 1990,[1] the daughter of Karl-Heinz and Kristin. She has a brother, Nils.[2] She is nicknamed "MA".[1]
Miller began playing basketball at the age of seven, and made her debut with a women's senior club team in Germany when she was 14.[3] In that first game, she suffered a torn anterior cruciate ligament.[3] Over the next four years, she underwent knee surgery four times, three in the right knee, and once in the left, leaving her knees scarred.[4] On each occasion she took eight months to recover, and ruptured an anterior cruciate ligament within weeks of returning to playing.[4][5]
At the age of 18, Miller was forced to give up her dream of playing basketball.
One of the greatest pleasures of life is doing the things that others say you can not do.
— Mareike Miller[6]
When Miller took up wheelchair basketball in 2008, she was not thinking of making the national team, but with hard work and daily practice,
In 2011, she captained the German Under 25 (U25) National team, competing at their first ever World Championships.[2]
In March 2012, her UWW Warhawks team, coached by Daniel T. Price, defeated the
In the Gold Medal match in London, the team faced the
It was the first gold medal that Germany had won in women's wheelchair basketball at the Paralympics since 1984.[11] They were awarded the Silver Laurel Leaf by President Joachim Gauck in November 2012,[12] and were named German Team of the Year for 2012.[11] "Many times, I was told that after winning a gold medal, I have achieved the most I can, so I could quit now," Miller later wrote, "But I disagree."[13]
After a devastating loss in the European Championship final on home soil in 2013, the German team claimed silver at the 2014 Women's World Wheelchair Basketball Championship in Toronto, Canada,[14]
2015, Miller had to have more surgeries on her knees and thus could not play with the German team. At the
After the 2016 Paralympic Games, several athletes and the German national team head coach retired. Miller remained as one of the experienced players of the team, now playing for Martin Otto, the PE teacher who got her to play the sport in the first place. As part of the captain trio, she led her team to another European Championship silver medal in 2017, showing that the team even with many changes is continuing on a high level.
2018 marks the year of World Championships in Hamburg, Germany.[16] Miller will captain the team competing in front of her home crowds as she also currently lives in Hamburg and plays for the professional team BG Baskets Hamburg.
Achievements
- 2009: Gold at the European Championships[2]
- 2009: Silver at German Women's National Championships[2]
- 2010: Silver at the Women's World Championships[2]
- 2010: Bronze at the U22 mixed European Championships[2]
- 2010: Gold at German Women's National Championships[2]
- 2011: Silver at German Women's National Championships[2]
- 2011: Gold at the European Championships (Nazareth, Israel)[17]
- 2012: Intercollegiate Champion
- 2012: Silver at German Women's National Championships[2]
- 2012: Gold at the Paralympic Games (London, England)[8]
- 2013: Intercollegiate Champion
- 2013: Silver European Championships (Frankfurt, Germany)[18]
- 2014: Intercollegiate Champion
- 2014: Silver at the World Championships (Toronto, Canada)[14]
- 2016: Silver at the Paralympic Games (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)[15][19]
- 2017: Silver European Championships
- 2018: Bronze at the World Championships (Hamburg, Germany)
Awards
References
- ^ a b c "Mareike Adermann – Wheelchair Basketball – Paralympic Athlete – London 2012". Official site of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 7 April 2013. Retrieved 3 March 2013.
- ^ University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. Archived from the originalon 26 March 2014. Retrieved 3 March 2013.
- ^ a b "Mareike Adermann: GOLD bei den Paralympics 2012 in London" (in German). Sportland Nordrhein-Westfalen. Archived from the original on 24 July 2020. Retrieved 27 June 2015.
- ^ a b c d e f Mauer, Dietmar (15 July 2011). "Mareike Adermann: Die zweite Karriere". Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung (in German). Archived from the original on 24 July 2020. Retrieved 3 March 2013.
- ^ a b c "Adermann wakes up a champion". Official site of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. 8 September 2012. Retrieved 3 March 2013.
- ^ University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. 12 March 2012. Retrieved 3 March 2013.
- University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. 12 August 2012. Archived from the originalon 9 October 2013. Retrieved 3 March 2013.
- ^ a b c "Germany claim women's crown". Official site of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. 7 September 2012. Archived from the original on 30 April 2013. Retrieved 6 February 2013.
- ^ Mannion, Tim (21 July 2012). "Victory for Rollers and Gliders as London Awaits". Archived from the original on 28 April 2013. Retrieved 17 February 2012.
- ^ a b "No. 22: Germany bucket first gold since 1984". Official site of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. 10 December 2012. Retrieved 3 March 2013.
- ^ a b c "Rollstuhlbasketballerinnen sind Mannschaft des Jahres" (in German). HSV-Rollstuhlsport. 26 November 2012. Archived from the original on 27 June 2015. Retrieved 27 June 2015.
- ^ a b "Verleihung des Silbernen Lorbeerblattes" (in German). Bundespräsidialamt. 7 November 2012. Archived from the original on 19 November 2018. Retrieved 6 February 2013.
- ^ "Mareike Adermann: Experiences never end". Official site of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. 29 October 2012. Retrieved 3 March 2013.
- ^ a b "2014 WWWBC: Germany". Wheelchair Basketball Canada. Archived from the original on 2 February 2015. Retrieved 28 June 2014.
- ^ a b "USA clinch women's basketball gold". International Paralympic Committee. 16 September 2016. Retrieved 17 September 2016.
- ^ "ZaDonk! Rollstuhlbasketball Weltmeisterschaft 2018". 2018wbwc.de. Archived from the original on 14 June 2018. Retrieved 25 July 2018.
- ^ "Nu Nguyen-Thi darf nicht mit: Holger Glinicki benennt Kader für die Paralympics". Rolling Planet (in German). 12 June 2012. Retrieved 17 February 2012.
- ^ "Rollstuhlbasketball-EM: Deutsche Damen nach über einem Jahrzehnt entthront". Rolling Planet (in German). 6 July 2013. Retrieved 29 March 2014.
- ^ "Paralympic – Wheelchair Basketball Women Germany". Rio 2016. Archived from the original on 23 September 2016. Retrieved 17 September 2016.
External links
- Mareike Miller at the International Paralympic Committee
- Mareike Miller at Team Deutschland Paralympics (in German)