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Millinder graduated from North Torrance High School.
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He coached collegiate soccer for twenty-nine years. He then played soccer at El Camino College where he was a 1977 Junior College All American. He was inducted into the El Camino Athletic Hall of Fame in 1992.
In 1978, he turned professional with the New York Cosmos of the North American Soccer League.
He saw no first team games and in 1978, he moved to the Los Angeles Aztecs. He played four games for the Aztecs then was sent to the Tulsa Roughnecks for the 1979-1980 NASL indoor season.
He played no games for the Strikers before being released. In 1982, he joined the Oklahoma City Slickers of the American Soccer League.
He was a 1983 Advanced Systems Limited All Star with the Slickers.
That fall, he signed with the Los Angeles Lazers of the Major Indoor Soccer League. He spent two indoor seasons with the Lazers. In 1984, he spent the summer with the Oklahoma City Stampede of the United Soccer League.
In 1985, he played for the Tulsa Tornados.
In 1990, he briefly played for the San Diego Nomads of the American Professional Soccer League. In 1976, Millinder played for the United States U-20 men"s national soccer team during its unsuccessful qualification campaign for the 1977 Fédération internationale de football association World Youth Championship.
In 1978, Millinder became an assistant coach to both the men"s and women"s soccer teams at El Camino College. In 1990, he was elevated to the position of head coach of the women"s team and took the team to the 1990 California Junior College State Championship.
He finished his tenure with a 66-8-16 record.
He also coached the men"s team during the 1992 and 1993 seasons to a 43-9-17 record. In 1994, Millinder became the head coach at Loyola Marymount University. He compiled am 8-27-4 record over two seasons.
In May 1996, the University of Southern California hired Millinder as the head coach of the women"s soccer team
On November 16, 2006, the university announced it would not renew Millinder"s contract. He had compiled a 136-70-21 record, but had never taken a team past the second round of the National Collegiate Athletic Association post-season tournament.
Millender became head coach of the University of San Francisco in 2012.
