Hartford, Conn., June 6 - Angela Mills (Amherst, Mass.) has been hired as the head volleyball coach at Trinity College. She will take over a team that posted a 15-18 overall record in 2000 and finished fourth in the New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) Championship Tournament.

Most recently, Mills has served as the assistant girl’s volleyball and girl’s lacrosse coach at the Northfield-Mount Hermon School in Massachusetts for the past two seasons. In addition, Mills was a residential life director and a Spanish teacher at the school.

Prior to her stint at Northfield-Mount Hermon, Mills was the girl’s volleyball, girl’s basketball, and girl’s lacrosse coach, as well as assistant athletic director at Miss Porter’s School in Farmington, Conn. in 1998-99. She has also been the head girl’s volleyball coach at the Stoneleigh-Burnham School in Massachusetts.

Mills has collegiate experience as the head women’s volleyball coach at Mount Holyoke College in 1996 and 1997, as an assistant volleyball and basketball coach at Amherst College, and as an assistant lacrosse coach at Springfield College. At Mount Holyoke, Mills compiled a 9-23 record over two seasons.

A native of Columbus, Ohio, Mills graduated from Amherst College in 1995 with a bachelor of arts degree in Spanish and political science. At Amherst, Mills starred in both volleyball and lacrosse. She was elected as captain of both teams in her senior season, and earned all-league honors in volleyball. She will also serve as an assistant softball coach at Trinity.