Weber State will be retiring the jersey of a women’s athlete for the first time.

Women’s basketball great and Ogden native Kathy Miller will have her No. 44 jersey retired Saturday, Feb. 12, when the Wildcats host Idaho at the Dee Events Center in a game that tips off at 1 p.m.

“We are excited to honor Kathy Miller with a jersey retirement,” WSU athletic director Tim Crompton said in a statement. “Kathy laid a foundation of excellence not only for women’s basketball but for all women’s sports. It is appropriate that Kathy Miller’s jersey is the first women’s athletic jersey retired at Weber State University.”

Miller is the fifth WSU athlete to be honored with a jersey retirement. She’ll join three of them in the rafters at the Dee Events Center: men’s basketball players Damian Lillard (No. 1), Bruce Collins (No. 22) and Willie Sojourner (No. 35). Award-winning football quarterback Jamie Martin (No. 10) is the other player so honored.

Miller played from 1976-79 and is still the program’s all-time record holder in career scoring and scoring average despite playing before the 3-point line was instituted. She totaled 2,745 career points at an average of 27.5 points per game. She also still holds program records for career rebounding average at 13.0 and is first in career field goals made with 1,082.

She set several single-game and single-season records that still stand, including scoring 50 points in a game against Utah State on Dec. 16, 1976. She scored 40 or more points nine times and 35 or more points 14 times.

She averaged 31.5 points per game as a sophomore, still a record for single-season scoring average.

Miller was a multi-sport star at Ogden High School and continued that at Weber State, where she also played volleyball and softball. She was a four-time all-conference player in softball.

She was part of the first-ever class inducted into the Weber State Athletics Hall of Fame in 1989.

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