Excerpt from the Dayton Daily News
By Tom Archdeacon
It took the fourth- and fifth-graders at Fairborn Intermediate School just a day to figure out what it took Horizon League voters a year to realize.
Michal Miller — in the words of Wright State women’s basketball coach Katrina Merriweather – “is just a phenomenal kid.”
Merriweather wasn’t just talking about her senior guard’s abilities on the basketball court, but about what she’s seen when Miller has “dragged” her and some of the Raiders players along to interact with the school kids
As part of an organizational leadership class she’s taking, Miller said she was told by her instructor to choose some type of community service involvement.
She decided to try mentoring young students and Merriweather said she’s been moved by Miller’s commitment: “She spends at least three days a week over there, much more time than her class requires. Whenever the teacher calls, she goes. The kids have really embraced her.”
Proof came this week when Miller met a boy serving an in-school detention.
“They call it reflection — it’s a better word for fourth- and fifth-graders,” she smiled. “I asked him what he had done and he said he disrespected a substitute teacher. He was up getting his math work out of his backpack and she yelled for him to sit down and he said something back.
