Autumn Mills Explained

Height Ft:5
Height In:3
Weight Lb:130
Team:York Lions
League:OUA
Ntl Team:Canada
Sex:f
Birth Date:24 July 1988
Birth Place:London, Ontario, Canada
Career Start:2007
Career End:2011

Autumn Mills (born July 24, 1988) is a former competitor with the York Lions women's ice hockey program. She is a member of the Canada women's national baseball team which won a silver medal at the 2015 Pan American Games.[1] [2] [3]

Playing career

Hockey

In 2009, she was recognized by Ontario University Athletics as one of the top female scholar-athletes. She was recognized at the sixth annual Women of Influence Luncheon on February 10, 2009.[4]

On January 29, 2011, she registered five points in a 6–4 victory over the Western Mustangs women's ice hockey team.[5] The game took place in her hometown of London, Ontario. After the 2010–11 season, Mills was the Ontario University Athletics (OUA) nominee for the 2011 Canadian Interuniversity Sport (CIS) Marion Hillard Award.[6]

Baseball

Mills joined the Canadian national women's baseball team at the age of 16 years. She has been a pitcher with the squad since 2005 and won a national championship with Team Ontario.She has competed in five IBAF World Cup competitions, capturing three medals (two bronze and one silver). At the 2012 Women's Baseball World Cup, Mills got the save in the bronze medal game victory over Australia in Edmonton, Alberta.During 2015, she was one of three women (including teammate Ashley Stephenson that served as instructors at the Toronto Blue Jays Baseball Academy.

Awards and honours

Personal

Earned a Bachelor of Arts Degree in kinesiology from York University. Currently, she is employed as a police officer

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Baseball - Event Overview - Women . Toronto2015.org . Pan American Games . January 13, 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150924184709/http://results.toronto2015.org/IRS/en/baseball/event-overview-women.htm . September 24, 2015 . dead .
  2. Web site: Baseball: Women: Team Roster: CAN - Canada . Toronto2015.org . Pan American Games . January 13, 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160304111427/http://results.toronto2015.org/IRS/resTO2015/pdf/TO2015/BB/TO2015_BB_C33_BBW400000C_CAN.pdf . March 4, 2016 . dead .
  3. Web site: Baseball Canada | Canadian Women's Baseball Team Named For TORONTO 2015 Pan Am Games. Baseball.ca. 27 October 2021.
  4. http://www.yorku.ca/yfile/archive/index.asp?Article=11925
  5. Web site: MILLS' FIVE POINTS TAKE DOWN MUSTANGS: York Lions . 2015-07-02 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110706213728/http://www.yorkulions.ca/sports/wice/2010-11/releases/20110131s72gk4 . 2011-07-06 . dead .
  6. Web site: MILLS RECEIVES Oua's MARION HILLARD AWARD: York Lions . 2015-07-02 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120314152219/http://www.yorkulions.ca/sports/wice/2010-11/releases/02-16_Mills_OUA . 2012-03-14 . dead .
  7. Web site: LIONS COMPETING AT THE TORONTO 2015 PAN AM GAMES. Yorkulions.ca. 9 July 2015 . 27 October 2021.
  8. Web site: 2010-11 YORK AWARD WINNERS. Yorkulions.ca. 27 October 2021.
  9. Web site: MILLS NAMED OUA ATHLETE OF THE WEEK: York Lions . 2015-07-02 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110706213746/http://www.yorkulions.ca/sports/wice/2010-11/releases/02-01_Mills_AotW . 2011-07-06 . dead .