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2000 Torero Baseball

US[) Coaching Staff

Rich Hill Head Coach 2nd Season (Cal Lutheran, 1984) USO head coach Rich Hill enters hi s second season directing the University of San Diego baseball program. Last season he led the Toreros to a 28-27-1 overall record , the team's first winning season since the 1994 campaign. Entering hi s 13th season as a head coach at the collegiate level , Hill has recorded nine winning seasons and enters the 2000 campaign with a career record of 361-247-1. In January of 1998, Hill became one of the youngest coaches in NCAA hi story to reach 300 career wins. The 37-year-old Hill has a proven record of success in head coaching stops - first at hi s alma mater, Cal Lutheran, where he was head coach between 1988-1993, and then fiv e years at the University of San Francisco ( 1994-1998). Before coming to USO he guided the San Francisco Dons to a school-record 34 victories in 1998, inc luding a school best 18 wins in the West Coast Conference as the Dons fini shed tied with USO for third place in the WCC . Over

hi s fina l three seasons there, Hill guided USF to upper divi sion fin- ishes in the WCC ; and posted three straight winning seasons, includ– ing two campaigns of 30 or more victories. Previous to hi s tenure at USF, Hill led Cal Lutheran to a record of 194-76 (.7 19) over six seasons, including two World Se– ries appearances. His 1992 squad posted a 43-6 record before fall– ing a couple of outs shy of the NCAA Division III title, whi le the 1993 team fini shed first in the Western Region with a 32-7 record. Under Hill 's guidance, the Kingsmen knocked off Division I oppo– nents such as USC, Pe erdine, San Diego State, UC Santa Barbara

Hill's Coaching File

Year 1999 1998 1997 1996 1995 1994 1993 1992 1991 1990 1989 1988

School

Record 28-27-1

Conference Record

San Diego

13- 16-1 (3 rd Coast/WCC)

USF USF USF USF USF

34-24 29-27 30-25 24-35 22-33

18- 12(T-3rdWCC) 17- 1I (3rd WCC) 15-13 (4th WCC) 11-17 (5 th WCC) 9-2 1 (6th WCC) Ist (West Region) Ist (NAIA Dist. 3) Ist (NAIA Dist 3) 2nd (NAIA Dist. 3) 6th (NAIA Dist. 3) Ist (SCIAC)

Cal Lutheran Cal Lutheran Cal Lutheran Cal Lutheran Cal Lutheran Cal Lutheran

32-7 43-6 32-8

and Cal State Northridge. During hi s six seasons at Cal Lutheran , 92 percent of his players received their de– grees. In addition to hi s colle-

35- 16 3 1- 18 2 1-2 1

12 Years (Overall)

361-247-1 (.602 Winning Percent)

giate coaching positions, Hill was head coach for the Chatham A's of the Cape Cod League between 1990-93, winning the league title in 1992 with a franchise record of 35- 11 . He has twice been recogni zed as the ABCA West Region Coach of the Year ( 1992, 1993); was the 1992 Cape Cod Baseball League "Manager of the Year"; was twice named the Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Coach of the Year ( 1992, 1993); and twice was the recipient of the California Lutheran Alumni Career Excellence Award ( 1993, 1994). Hill has made hi s mark off the field as well. The past five years he has served on the American Baseball Coaches Association , Editorial Committee; and has been an advi sor with the Fellowship of Christian Athletes. He started an innovative peer mentoring pro– gram with hi s USF team. Dons players and coaching staff volunteered at the nearby

Hamilton Community Center, reading storie s and playing games with homeless children. Fur– thermore, Hill is a speaker and clinician at various conventions and camps through– out the region . Hill earned hi s Bachelor of Arts degree (Physical Educa– tion) in 1984 from California Lutheran University. After playing one season with the St. Louis Cardinals organization in 1985 (Single A affiliate in Savannah, Georgia), he returned to hi s alma mater where he earned hi s Master of Science degree in Education in 1988. Rich and hi s wife, Lori , live in San Diego with their two children, Robbie (8) and Lindsey (5).

The Hill Family: Rich & Lori with kids Robbie & Lindsey