Mildred Barnes

Mildred Barnes, known as Millie, is an American basketball coach and executive who helped bring women's basketball into the Olympics. A 1951 graduate of Boston University's Sargent College, she competed there in volleyball, basketball, field hockey, lacrosse, softball, soccer, tennis and other sports, and held national officiating ratings in five of them. She coached Iowa from 1966 to 1969, leading the team to fourth place in the first postseason intercollegiate invitational in 1969, and Central Missouri from 1971 to 1980, and led the US team at the first Jones Cup in 1977. She sat on the US Olympic women's basketball committee from 1965 and chaired it from 1974 to 1976. Her honours include the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame in 2000 and the United States Lacrosse Hall of Fame in 2005.