391:, tennis, athletics and swimming. With Vik, she started playing basketball at the age of 15. They played club and representative basketball for Northern Suburbs Basketball Association at both the junior and senior level. Mills took her first basketball coaching position at age 16, on many occasions co-coaching with her sister Vik.
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288:. 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 the team finished third.
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