Mills won a world championship silver medal in the 200 metres individual medley behind one of the world's great swimmers, Olympic champion Yana Klochkova, and did it from seventh at the final turn.
Mills' face crumpled again when, after accepting her medal, she saw her teammates come down from the stands to cheer.
Mills does not look much bigger now, and Rollason expects her to keep swimming the medley until she has the physical maturity to fulfil her potential as a classy sprint freestyler.
Alice ends up looking through glass | Sport | The Australian(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Mills has been out-of-sorts at this meet but at her best is a sub-54sec 100m freestyler, a speed that none of her possible replacements can match.
Mills has been a fixture in the Australian team for four years, but she also failed to qualify in the 100m when she finished a shock seventh, in a time almost two seconds outside her best.
However Mills appeared to be demoralised at the Commonwealth Games in March after she finished third behind team-mates in three different events.
Nicknamed “Pocket Rocket” Alice competes in 50 and 100m freestyle, 50 and 100m butterfly as well as the 200m individual medley, for which she currently holds the Commonwealth Record.
Alice was the youngest member of the world-record breaking, gold medal winning 4 x 100m Relay Team at the 2004 Athens Olympic Games and has her eyes firmly set on Beijing.
Alice is currently attending university and training at the AIS in Canberra.
She repeated this at the 2002 Pan Pacific Championships in Yokohama, Japan.
She also picked up a gold by swimming in the heats for the victorious 4x100 m medley relay team.
She collected a gold medal as part of the 4x100 m freestyle relay team.
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AliceMills has a unique attitude to the sport of swimming outside of the pool.
Mills has mixed feelings about her chances going into battle between with the some of the world’s best sprinters who all just happen to represent Australia.
Mills says her health (a popular trend among swimmers in 2006) this year has affected her confidence, but her relaxed attitude and focus on swimming her best and not going for a goal time will carry her to the podium next month.
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BARCELONA silver medalist AliceMills trimmed 0.28 off her 200m IM Commonwealth and Aussie record to touch in 2:12.47 in one of several semifinal highlights today.
Mills went 28.06 for the fly leg - 0.75 under Wu Yanyan's ’97 world record split so look to expect some further improvement tomorrow night, although she will also contest the 100 free semifinals.
Five Aussie women under 2-minutes and AliceMills who skipped the race to concentrate on the 200IM would certainly be in the frame for a place on the 800 relay.
The Barcelona silver medalist in the 50 free, AliceMills, clocked a swift 25.37 to convincingly beat her teammate and bronze medalist Libby Lenton, 26.07, in Brisbane.
Mills who also took silver in the 200IM at the World Champs in Barcelona also took the fly in 27.98.
Munz suffered serious injuries leading into the Sydney Olympics and did not qualify for the team and has worked hard to be in a position to have another shot four years later.
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At FDU: AliceMills, Ph.D. The Counseling Service offers individual and group counseling for students seeking to work through personal problems.
AliceMills, Ph.D. Co-Director, Student Counseling and Psychological Services, Metropolitan Campus; Adjunct Professor of Psychology; Adjunct Professor of Athletics
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