Mareike Miller (née Adermann; born 3 August 1990) is a 4.5 point wheelchair basketball player, who played for the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater in the United States.
President Joachim Gauck awarded the team Germany's highest sporting honour, the Silbernes Lorbeerblatt (Silver Laurel Leaf), twice (2012 and 2016).
[2] 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.
[5] One of the greatest pleasures of life is doing the things that others say you can not do.When Miller took up wheelchair basketball in 2008, she was not thinking of making the national team, but with hard work and daily practice,[6] she made it in just one year.
[3] In March 2012, her UWW Warhawks team, coached by Daniel T. Price, defeated the University of Alabama 63–34 to win the US Intercollegiate National Championships in a game in which Miller scored 17 points and had 13 rebounds.
[7] Later that year, Miller headed to Australia, Netherlands and Charlotte, North Carolina for training camps with the German women's wheelchair basketball national team before the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London.
[12] They were awarded the Silver Laurel Leaf by President Joachim Gauck in November 2012,[13] and were named German Team of the Year for 2012.
"[14] 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,[15] 2015, Miller had to have more surgeries on her knees and thus could not play with the German team.