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Liz Mills breaking down barriers for female coaches as leader of Kenya men’s basketball team
Liz Mills’s decision to look more professional when coaching basketball games by wearing high-heeled leather boots instead of sneakers was somehow seen as provocation.
Key points:
- Liz Mills is the only female currently coaching a men’s international basketball team
- Mills lead Kenya to qualification for the African championships for the first time since 1993
- Mills said national federations are “absolutely” at fault for there not being more female coaches
To make sense of that, you have to understand her environment.
Mills coaches men’s basketball. She has for a decade in Africa at both the club and national level. The Australian is now head coach of Kenya, the only woman in the world currently in charge of a men’s national team.
She decided…
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