Olivia Miles (born January 29, 2003) is an American

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player for the

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of the

Atlantic Coast Conference The Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) is a collegiate athletic conference located in the eastern United States. Headquartered in Greensboro, North Carolina, the ACC's fifteen member universities compete in the National Collegiate Athletic Associa ...

(ACC).

High school career

Born in

Summit, New Jersey Summit is a city in Union County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. The city is located on a ridge in northern- central New Jersey, within the Raritan Valley and Rahway Valley regions in the New York metropolitan area. At the 2010 United Sta ...

and later a resident of

Phillipsburg, New Jersey Phillipsburg is a town located along the Delaware River in Warren County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. It is located across the river directly east from Easton, Pennsylvania. Phillipsburg is the most populous municipality in Warren County w ...

, Miles played basketball for

Blair Academy Blair Academy is a coeducational, boarding and day school for students in high school. The school serves students from ninth through twelfth grades as well as a small post-graduate class. The school's campus is located on a campus in Blairs ...

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circuit, with whom she won a

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title in June 2019. In addition to basketball, she played

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in high school. Miles was selected to the

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roster. Rated a five-star

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, she committed to play college basketball for Notre Dame after also considering

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and North Carolina.

College career

Miles opted to enroll early at Notre Dame and joined the team on January 25, 2021. Over six games in her first season, she averaged 9.3 points and 3.5 assists per game. On November 21, 2021, Miles posted 14 points and 14 assists, three short of the program single-game record, in a 94–35 win over

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. On December 8, she joined

Marina Mabrey Marina Mabrey (born September 14, 1996) is an American professional basketball player for the Dallas Wings of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). Mabrey was drafted in the second round (19th pick overall) by the Los Angeles Sparks ...

as the only Notre Dame freshmen to record a triple-double, with 11 points, 13 rebounds and 13 assists in a 73–56 win against Valparaiso. Miles scored a season-high 30 points in a 74–61 win against

Boston College Boston College (BC) is a private Jesuit research university in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. Founded in 1863, the university has more than 9,300 full-time undergraduates and nearly 5,000 graduate students. Although Boston College is classifie ...

on January 30, 2022. In the first round of the NCAA tournament, she became the first freshman in women's or men's tournament history to register a triple-double, with 12 points, 11 rebounds and 11 assists in an 89–78 victory over

UMass The University of Massachusetts is the five-campus public university system and the only public research system in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The university system includes five campuses (Amherst, Boston, Dartmouth, Lowell, and a medical ...

. As a freshman, Miles averaged 13.7 points, 5.7 rebounds and 7.4 assists per game, ranking second to

Caitlin Clark Caitlin Clark (born January 22, 2002) is an American college basketball player for the Iowa Hawkeyes of the Big Ten Conference. She plays the point guard position. At Dowling Catholic High School in West Des Moines, Iowa, Clark was named a M ...

in assists among NCAA Division I players. She was named first-team All-

(ACC).

National team career

Miles played for the United States national under-16 team at the

2019 FIBA Under-16 Americas Championship The 2019 FIBA Under-16 Americas Championship was the men's international basketball competition that was held in Belém, Brazil from 3 to 9 June 2019. The top four teams qualified for the 2020 FIBA Under-17 Basketball World Cup in Bulgaria. Qual ...

in Chile. She averaged 5.2 points, 2.2 rebounds and 7.5 assists per game, helping her team win the gold medal.

Career Statistics

College

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References

External links

Notre Dame Fighting Irish bioUSA Basketball bioESPN Player Overview
{{DEFAULTSORT:Miles, Olivia 2003 births Living people American women's basketball players Blair Academy alumni Sportspeople from Summit, New Jersey Basketball players from Union County, New Jersey Sportspeople from Warren County, New Jersey People from Phillipsburg, New Jersey Notre Dame Fighting Irish women's basketball players Point guards American sportspeople of Jamaican descent All-American college women's basketball players