Chad Miller was born in Monrovia, Liberia. He is the son of Beindu Kamara and Joshua Sackey.
Miller's major is exercise science.
Athletic Career
Miller prepped at Wasatch Academy in Mt. Pleasant, Utah, where he was named All-State.
As a senior, he scored 21 goals, including six in one game.
Freshman (2015): Miller appeared in 14 games, starting one time. He scored his first career goal in a 4-1 win over Incarnate Word.
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Sophomore (2016): He played in 19 games and scored a pair of goals, including the game's only goal in a 1-0 victory over Houston Baptist. Miller also scored a goal and added an assist in a 2-1 win over UNLV on Oct.
Miller's achievements can be summarized in the following table:
| Year | Games Played | Goals Scored | Assists |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 14 | 1 | 0 |
| 2016 | 19 | 2 | 1 |
Diagram of a soccer field.
Additional Information
This section contains information that, while not directly related to Chad Miller's biography, provides context about Liberia and Monrovia.
Beginning in 1822, agents of the American Colonization Society established a small settlement at Cape Mesurado, a former slave-trading base on the Windward Coast of Africa. The colony served as a refuge for emancipated slaves and their descendants, thousands of whom emigrated from the United States. It also served as a landing point for African captives rescued from the transatlantic slave trade.
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Robert G. Harper (‘1785), a Maryland slaveholder, proposed that the new settlement be called “Liberia,” from the Latin word for freedom. Harper’s colleagues named the capital Monrovia, after American President James Monroe, who held an honorary degree from Princeton.
Map of Liberia.
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf: A Prominent Figure from Monrovia, Liberia
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf (born October 29, 1938, Monrovia, Liberia) is a Liberian politician and economist who was president of Liberia (2006-18). She was the first woman to be elected head of state of an African country.
Sirleaf was one of three recipients, along with Leymah Gbowee and Tawakkul Karmān, of the 2011 Nobel Prize for Peace for their efforts to further women’s rights.
After obtaining a master’s degree (1971) in public administration from Harvard University, she entered government service in Liberia. Sirleaf served as assistant minister of finance (1972-73) under Pres. William Tolbert and as finance minister (1980-85) in Samuel K. Doe’s military dictatorship.
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During 12 years of exile in Kenya and the United States, during which time Liberia collapsed into civil war, Sirleaf became an influential economist for the World Bank, Citibank, and other international financial institutions. From 1992 to 1997 she was the director of the Regional Bureau for Africa of the United Nations Development Programme.
After Taylor went into exile in 2003, Sirleaf returned to Liberia to chair the Commission on Good Governance, which oversaw preparations for democratic elections. In 2005 she again ran for president, vowing to end civil strife and corruption, establish unity, and rebuild the country’s devastated infrastructure.
Known as the “Iron Lady,” she placed second in the first round of voting, and on November 8, 2005, she won the runoff election, defeating football (soccer) legend George Weah. Sirleaf was sworn in as president of Liberia on January 16, 2006.
With more than 15,000 United Nations peacekeepers in the country and unemployment running at 80 percent, Sirleaf faced serious challenges. She immediately sought debt amelioration and aid from the international community. By late 2010 Liberia’s entire debt had been erased, and Sirleaf had secured millions of dollars of foreign investment in the country.
Despite having previously pledged to serve only one term as president, in 2010 Sirleaf announced her intent to stand in the October 2011 presidential election, stating that she still had work to do.
In February 2018 she was awarded the 2017 Ibrahim Prize for Achievement in African Leadership. The award provided $5 million, disbursed over 10 years, followed by an annual $200,000 stipend for the rest of Sirleaf’s life.
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