CAPE TOWN – Liz Mills’ decision to look more professional when coaching basketball games by wearing high-heeled leather boots instead of sneakers was somehow seen as provocation.
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 years ago that she may as well confront the issue.
The woman in the room, if you like. And so, the boots. “I think it was a way of looking more professional but also reminding everybody that I’m a woman and I’m not afraid of that and I want you to know that,” Mills said in an