Coach Liz Mills has been coaching for over twenty years, predominately in Australia and Africa. Coach Mills has a Masters degree in Coaching, an undergraduate degree in Sports Science and Sports Management and is a qualified Basketball Australia Level 2 Coach. As a player she represented Northern Suburbs (Sydney, Australia) in junior and senior representative programs and toured with her team in t
he US. Coach Mills started coaching in Sydney working with junior club and representative teams before moving into the senior representative program in 2007. In 2008 Coach Mills, with her twin sister, travelled to Africa to help develop the sport on the continent. Since then she has gone on to win the Zambian Men's National Championships with Heroes Play United in her first season with the team, as well as coached the Zambian Men's National University team at CUCSA and FASU games in 2012. She has coached at FIBA Africa Zone VI Club Championships in Mozambique. She was also the strength and conditioning coach for the Zambian Under 20's men and women's basketball teams and Under 20's netball team for Zone VI Under 20 Games. During 2012 she was employed as the Higher Performance and Sports Academy Manager at the Olympic Youth Development Centre, the sports institution set up by the UN and IOC in collaboration with Zambian Olympic Committee. In 2013 Coach Mills returned to Australia to complete her Masters degree. During this time she coached the Northern Suburbs Under 21 Youth League Women's team. In 2014 she was invited to coach with club and national teams in Namibia and South Africa. Last year she attended her first NBA and FIBA Africa Basketball Without Borders program in Johannesburg. In December 2014 Coach Liz Mills and her twin sister Vik, launched the Mills Christmas Basketball Tournament in Zambia. The aim of the tournament is to foster sport, leadership and business skills within the basketball community in Zambia. It is their hope that this tournament is an annual event and in the future hope to expand to incorporate neighbouring countries. Since 2014 Coach Mills has been an assistant coach for the Zambian and Cameroon men's national teams, as well as head coached the Rwandan Club team Patriots BBC for the 2019 Basketball Africa League Qualifiers. She has consulted with a number of men's club teams and nationals teams across Africa providing in depth advanced stats analysis and film breakdown. In 2021 she became the head coach of the Kenyan men's national team, helping the team qualify to the 2021 FIBA AfroBasket, after an absence of 28 years at the tournament. She became the first woman to head coach a men's team at any major FIBA continental championship when she lead Kenya at the 2021 FIBA AfroBasket. In 2022 she continued to break barriers by becoming the head coach of Moroccan men's club team AS Sale. This was the first time a woman had lead a men's club team in Morocco and in the Arab world. She also became the first female to head coach a men's team in the NBA/FIBA Basketball Africa League, taking AS Sale through to the quarter finals of the 2022 season.
