Women's basketball strength and conditioning coach Amanda Mills joined the Missouri State staff in July 2019 and has an extensive basketball background as a player, coach, and strength and conditioning coach.
Mills spent the 2018-19 season as Director of Player Development for the North Carolina A&T women’s basketball program, where she was in charge of a year-round, comprehensive strength and conditioning and nutrition program, which helped the Aggies to the program’s first unbeaten season in Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference play.
Prior to her time in the Tar Heel State, Mills spent four years at Occidental College in Los Angeles as assistant women’s basketball coach and strength and conditioning coach. The Oregon City, Ore., native focused guard development, defense, recruiting, and scouting and film breakdown, while designing and implementing strength and conditioning programs for men’s and women’s basketball, women’s soccer, baseball and softball.
Mills spent the summer of 2012 as a strength and conditioning intern at the University of Denver, working with six different DU teams.
Mills began her playing career at San Diego Mesa College, where she earned first-team all-conference honors as a freshman after averaging 18.1 points, 4.5 rebounds and 3.5 assists. She transferred to Presbyterian College in Clinton, S.C., after one season, where she earned academic all-Big South Conference honors three times, and scored 722 points with 153 3-pointers in 87 career games.
She owns bachelor’s degrees in biology and history from Presbyterian, and earned her Master’s in applied exercise science from Concordia University Chicago in August 2019.
Coach Mox on Mills:
“I’m so excited about Amanda! First of all, to have a strength and conditioning coach just for women’s basketball is a blessing, but to have one that embodies the FAB philosophy as well is amazing. Amanda believes not only in the physical development of the student-athlete but in the mental evolution as well. She has already impacted our program in a short period of time as she came in and hit the ground running.”
