Education
Southern Methodist University.
Southern Methodist University.
Mills competed at the age of 17 at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City. He swam the backstroke leg for the gold medal-winning United States. team in the preliminary heats of the men"s 4×100-meter medley relay. After the Olympics, he attended Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, where he swam for the SMU Mustangs swimming and diving team in National Collegiate Athletic Association (National Collegiate Athletic Association) competition.
He also swam on an American record-setting relay team, and was later inducted into the Texas Swimming & Diving Hall of Fame.