Liz Mills

Mills began her coaching career in Sydney, Australia in 2002 whilst still in high school. She has coached junior boys and girls club and representative teams for Northern Suburbs Basketball Association (NSBA), as well as senior women's representative teams at Norths. Whilst in Australia she completed an undergraduate degree in Sports Science and Sports Management (2008) from the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS) and in 2014 completed a Masters of Education in Sports Coaching from the University of Sydney (USYD).

Since 2011 Mills has been a head coach and assistant coach for men's club teams, national university teams and national teams in Africa. Before 2011, Mills had never coached men.[1] Mills started her coaching career in Africa in Zambia, where she was the head coach for Zambia's senior men's national league team Heroes Play United during the 2011-2012 season and guided them to a national championship win.[3] She went on to win another national title in Zambia's senior men's league in 2015/2016 as head coach of team Matero Magic. Whilst coaching in Zambia Mills was also named as Head Coach for the Zambian men's national university team. This team competed in the 2012 CUCSA Zone VI University Games, finishing second and competed in All Africa University Games (FASU) later that year where they finished third.

At the club level Mills most recently worked with Rwandan men's club team Patriots BBC for the 2019 Basketball Africa League Qualifiers. She led the team to the East Division Qualification Title, with the team going undefeated in the two rounds of qualifiers. The team went on to compete in the 2021 Basketball Africa League.

Having served as assistant coach of the national Zambia for the 2017 Afrobasket Zone VI qualifiers and Cameroon men's basketball teams for 2019 FIBA World Cup African Qualifiers, Mills joined the Kenyan Morans as Head Coach in January 2021. She steered them to qualifying for Kenya's first AfroBasket championship in 28 years, after beating 11-time African champions Angola 74-73 in Cameroon in February 2021 at the 2021 FIBA AfroBasket Qualifiers.[3] Previously Kenya had never beaten Angola. As Head Coach of the Morans at the 2021 FIBA Afrobasket Mills led Kenya to a 1-3 record. Kenya defeated Mali to pick up their first win at an AfroBasket and for the first time progressed past the first round group stage.

Mills grew up in Sydney with a passion for coaching basketball since an early age.[3] She and her identical twin sister, Vic,[1] grew up playing multiple sports and started playing basketball at 15. Mills took her first coaching position at age 16.[1] In 2021, Liz Mills stated that she is proud to be a "pioneer" as a female coach.[3] When coaching Mills' wears high heeled boots, which have become her trademark. Whilst remaining very private about her personal life it is believed that she is not married.

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