John Mills
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- Email:
- JAM141@mailbox.sc.edu
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- Year:
- 2025-2026
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- Title:
- Women's Head Soccer Coach
Bio
Mills comes to us from Denmark Technical College where he was the men’s soccer coach for two seasons. Before that he was an assistant coach with the Columbia College women’s soccer program for 6 seasons. Mills also coaches high school soccer. He coaches boys at American Leadership Academy in Lexington. He has coached girls at Richland Northeast and Lexington High Schools. Throughout his time as a high school coach, he has been selected three times to coach in the North/South All-Star Classic Soccer game. He also has been selected as Region Coach of the Year five different times.
Outside of coaching, Mills served in public education for 32 years before retiring in 2019. He has been a Special Education teacher, a Physical Education teacher, an assistant principal and a principal. He loves traveling and has served on short term mission trips to Tanzania, Kazakhstan, Honduras, Turkey and Peru. Ther is nothing like a soccer ball to help you overcome a language barrier.
Mills and his wife, Krisy, have been married since 1988. They have two grown sons, Evan and Adam.
Coach Mills will be restarting the Women’s soccer program for the fall of 2025.