Cheryl Miller
(Announcer)

TURNER SPORTS

Miller will work as a sideline reporter for TNT NBA Thursday coverage and will team up with play-by-play announcer Kevin Harlan and analyst Doug Collins.

For a segment of TNT's NBA Planet, Miller traveled across the Pacific to Melbourne, Australia for a tour of #1 draft pick Andrew Bogut's (Milwaukee Bucks) stomping grounds.

A member of the basketball Hall of Fame, Miller joined Turner Sports in September 1995 as an analyst and reporter for coverage of the NBA on TNT and TBS. In November, 1996, she became the first female analyst to call a nationally televised NBA game (TBS).

She worked as a basketball reporter and called weightlifting for the 2001 Goodwill Games.

CAREER

In January 1997, Miller was named Head Coach and General Manager of the WNBA's Phoenix Mercury. She retired from coaching in December 2000.

Miller served as women's basketball analyst for NBC's coverage of the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta.

Before joining Turner Sports, Miller was head coach at the University of Southern California, her alma mater, from 1993-1995.

Miller also worked for ABC, where she served as a reporter for "Wide World of Sports" and a commentator for the network's college basketball telecasts.

A four-time all-American and three-time Player-of-the-Year at USC, Miller was a member of the 1984 U.S. Olympic gold medal women's basketball team. In 1986, she led the U.S. team to the Women's World Basketball Championship title in Moscow. Earlier in the year, she led the American women past the Soviet women for the gold medal at the Goodwill Games.

The first USC basketball player - male or female - to have her number retired, she was the MVP of the Final Four tournament in both her freshman and sophomore years as she led USC to the national championship in 1982-83 and 1983-84.

A recipient of the 1986 YWCA Silver Achievement Award, Miller was the first woman basketball player to be nominated for the Sullivan Award (1985-86). She was also voted the 1984-85 ESPN Woman Athlete of the Year.

PERSONAL

Miller was commissioner for 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.

Miller is the older sister of TNT analyst Reggie Miller.