Billy Mills Middle School will have a new assistant principal and athletics director come July. The school’s principal, Andrew Taylor, announced Monday that Sara (Reichenberger) Murray would be taking ...

INDIANAPOLIS – Kansas track & field alumnus and Olympic gold medalist Billy Mills is to receive the Theodore Roosevelt Award the NCAA announced Friday morning. The award, which the NCAA considers its ...

Billy Mills was running the 10,000-meter race at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics. It was the final lap, and he was behind the pack. But in the final stretch, Mills moved to lane 4 and began passing the other ...

BROOKINGS — For 60 years, American distance runners have dreamed of repeating the Olympic 10K victory that Billy Mills notched in 1964. As the XXXIII Olympiad takes place in Paris, Mills remains the ...

NEW THIS MORNING. LEGENDARY OLYMPIC GOLD MEDALIST BILLY MILLS IS SHARING HIS STORY IN A WHOLE NEW WAY. MILLS WON THE 10,000M AT THE 1964 OLYMPICS, BECOMING THE SECOND INDIGENOUS ATHLETE TO WIN GOLD.

Billy Mills has mixed emotions when it comes to Lawrence and returning to KU. In his words, it’s where he never had a great race as a long-distance runner. And like most campuses across America at the ...

Olympic Gold medalist Billy Mills (Oglala Lakota) announced that Running Strong for American Indian Youth will host the SACRED Arts Festival in Sacramento on Saturday, April 13, and Sunday, April 14.

MITCHELL, S.D. (KELO) — Olympic gold medalist Billy Mills is back in his home state of South Dakota this week. Mills was honored Wednesday morning at a special ceremony at the Corn Palace in Mitchell ...

The assistant principal and athletic director of Billy Mills Middle School has been selected to be the principal of Quail Run Elementary. Sara Murray will be replacing Cynthia Emery, a former Quail ...

BOX ELDER – Before the day’s festivities began, Billy Mills paid a visit to Julie MacDonald’s classroom at Box Elder School Tuesday afternoon. Smiles and wide eyes were abound as the 1964 Olympic gold ...

At 86, Oglala Lakota Native Billy Mills is as sharp as a tack, and vividly recalls how he won the Gold Medal at the 1964 Olympics. He was the first American to top the field in the 10,000-metres race ...

Mills is a member of the Oglala Sioux Tribe. The Olympic runner grew up on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. He attended Haskell Indian Nations University and the University of Kansas on scholarship.