Moroccos AS Sale have appointed Liz Mills as their Head Coach ahead of the upcoming Basketball Africa League (BAL) 2022. The Australian has spent a decade working in Africa at club and national level, including spells at Rwandan top-flight club Patriots and as an assistant coach with Zambia and Cameroon. Until early this year, she was serving as the head coach of the Kenyan national basketball team, a job that saw her make history as she became the first woman to ever coach at the AfroBasket tournament that unfolded in Kigali in September last year. As Sale was placed in the Sahara conference alongside REG (Rwanda), Dakar Universite Club (Senegal), Seydou Legacy Athletique Club (Guinea), and Ferroviário da Beira (Mozambique). Salé has won the Moroccan championship seven times and the Moroccan cup eleven times. The team won one continental title, the FIBA Africa Champions Cup which it won in 2017. Salé also participated in the inaugural 2021 season of the Basketball Africa League (BAL). On her twitter handle, Mills announced: “Excited to announce Im joining Salé as the Head Coach for the upcoming the BAL season. Meanwhile, Rwandan champions Rwanda Energy Group (REG) Basketball Club will start their Basketball Africa League (BAL) 2022 journey with a game against Association Sportive Salé (AS Salé) of Morocco on March 6.
