Mills has been hired by AS Salé, which competes in Morocco’s
top division, and she is set to be the first female head coach in the
Basketball Africa League when the joint NBA-FIBA competition starts its second
season next month.
“It’s with great pleasure that we confirm the hiring of
coach Liz Mills as head of AS Salé’s technical staff for the rest of the season
with the possibility to renew if mutually agreed,” the team said.
“This is a first in Morocco and in the Arab world,” it
added.
The Australian had already become the first female head
coach at a men’s Afrobasket tournament when she led Kenya at the continental
championship last summer.
“Excited to announce I’m joining (AS Salé) as the head coach
for the upcoming (BAL) season and the (Moroccan) national league,” Mills said
recently on Twitter.
Brigitte Affidehome Tonon was the first female head coach of
an African men’s national team in 2017 for Benin.
Mills, a Sydney native, had been an assistant at the club and national level in Africa for a decade before being hired as Kenya’s head coach.
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