Edith (Yambert) Miller

Edith (Yambert) Miller

Edith (Yambert) Miller competed in Tiffin's pre-collegiate era, enjoying a banner season in 1936. At the time, Tiffin University's women's basketball team was one of the top programs in Northwest Ohio, posting only one losing record in the previous 15 years. She was the marquee player for the Dragons at that time. Miller was the leading scorer on a Dragons team that won 7 games, at the time the most in school history. She scored 113 points (10.3 per game), representing 40 percent of her team's points. She was the Most Valuable Player and was the most dominant Tiffin University's women's basketball player in the pre-World War II era. After graduating with a degree in Bookkeeping, she became Sales Manager at Murphy's Department Store for eight years and then moved on to the Tiffin City School Food Department, where she served as a manager for 23 years.