USD Baseball 2001

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USD Coaching Staff Rich Hill Head Coach 3rd Season (Cal Lutheran, 1984) USO head coach Ri ch Hill enters hi s th ird season direc ting the USO baseball program. Last season he led the Toreros to a 34-27-1 overa ll record . including a school -best 31 wins aga inst Di vi– sion I competition. and the 3rd highest RPI in the WCC. The Toreros beat USC & UCLA in the same season fo r th e first time; we re co-champ ions of the San Diego Baseba ll Inv it at ional; and won season series agai nst eight schools. Ente ri ng hi s 14th season as a head coach at the co ll egia te leve l. Hill has recorded ten winning seasons and enters the 200 I campa ign with a caree r record of 395-274-2. Thi s season he will become one of the you nge st coaches to notch 400 wi ns in NCAA history. In Jan uary of 1998. Hill became one of the yo ungest coaches in NCAA hi story to reach 300 career wins. The 38-year-old Hill has a proven record of success in head coach ing stops - first at hi s alma mater. Ca l Lutheran. where he was head coach between 1988- 1993, and then five yea rs at the Un i– versity of San Francisco ( 1994- 1998). Befo re coming to USO he guided the San Franci sco Dons to a schoo l-record 34 victories in 1998. including a schoo l best 18 wi ns in the West Coast Conference

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as the Dons fini shed tied with USO for third place in the WCC. Over hi s final three seasons there , Hill gu ided USF to upper division fin ishes in the WCC; and posted three straight winn ing seasons. including two cam– paigns of 30 or more victories . Hi s teams have set school records for wins in a season at every stop - Ca l Lu (43), USF (34). USO (3 1 Div. I wins) and Chath am in Cape League (35), as well as new team marks in Prev ious to hi s tenure at USF, Hill led Cal Lutheran to a record of 194-76 (.719) over six seasons, including two World Series appeara nces. Hi s 1992 squad posted a 43-6 record before fa ll ing a coup le of out s shy homeruns.

Hill's Coaching File

Conference Record 14- 16 (3rd Coast/WCC) I 3- 16- 1 (3rd Coast/WCC) 18- 12 (T-.1rd WCC )

Record 34-27- 1 28-27-1

Year 2000 1999 1998 1997 1996 1995 1994 1993 1992

San Diego San Diego

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

USF USF USF USF USF

17- 11 (3 rd WCC) 15- 1:l (4th WCC) 11- 17 (5t h WCC) 9-2 1 (6th WCC) I sl (West Reg ion) 1st (SC IAC )

of the NCAA Division III titl e, while the 1993 team fini shed first in the Western Region with a 32-7 record. Under Hill's guidance. the Kingsmen knocked off Di– vis ion I opponents such as USC, Pepperdi 11e, San Di–

32-7 -i:i-6 32-8

Cal L utheran Cal L ut heran Cal Lutheran Cal Lutheran Cal L utheran Cal Lutheran

Isl (NA IA D ist. .1) Isl (NA I A Di st 3) 2nd (NA IA Dist. .1) 6t h (NA I A D ist. .1) (.590 Winning Percent)

199 1 1990 1989 1988

35- 16 3 1- 18 2 1-2 1 395-274-2

13 Years (Overall)

ego State . UC Santa Barbara L'.:::======================:::'.J and Ca l State No rthridge. During his six seasons at Ca l Lutheran . 92 percent of hi s players rece ived their deg rees. In addi ti on to his co ll eg iate coaching posi ti ons. Hill was head coach for the Chat ham As of the Cape Cod League between 1990-93. winning the league titl e in 1992 with a fran– chise record of 35- 11. He has twice been recogni zed as the ABCA Wes t Region Coach of the Yea r ( 1992 , 1993) ; wa~ the 1992 Cape Cod Baseba ll League ..Manager of the Yea r.. : was twice named the Southern Cal ifornia Intercoll eg iate At hl eti c Conference Coach of the Yea r ( 1992. 1993) ; and twice was the rec ipi en t of the Ca li fornia Lu theran Alumni Caree r Exce l– lence Award ( 1993 . 1994). Hill's ass istants have gone on to successfu l careers in baseball . including five earn ing head coaching pos iti ons. and two wi th administrat ive posi tion s with Major League clu bs. Hill ha s mad e hi s

mark off the field as we ll . The past seven yea rs he has served on the American Baseba ll Coaches Associa-

tion Ed itorial Committee; and has been an advisor with the Fe ll owship of Chri stian Athl etes . He sta rted an innova ti ve peer mentoring program with hi s USF team. Dons players and coaching staff vo lun tee red at the nea rby Ham ilton Commun ity Center, reading stories and playi ng games with homeless ch il dren. Furthermore, Hill is a speaker and clini cian at vari ous conve ntions and camps throughout the reg ion. Hill earn ed hi s Bache lor of Arts deg ree (Physica l Educati on) in 1984 from Ca li fo rnia Lutheran Uni versi ty. After playing one season with th e St. Loui s Card inals orga ni zation in 1985 (S ingle A affi li ate in Savannah , Georgia), he returned to hi s alma mater where he earned hi s Master of Science degree in Educati on in 1988. Ri ch and hi s wife, Lori , li ve in San Diego with their two chi ldren, Robbie (9) and Lindsey (6).

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