USD Baseball 2006

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RICH HILL Head Coach 8th-year Cal Lutheran '84

• No. 1 among active WCC coaches in career (372) and league (188) victories as well as winning% (.587) and wins per season (31.4) • 15 winning seasons in 18 years as a head coach • Over 500 career victories (566-395-3) • Has averaged 34 wins per season at USD since 2000 • Back-to-back West Coast Conference Championships 2002-2003 • WCC Coach of the Year 2002 • Two NCAA Regional teams at USD • Eight players, including seven graduating seniors sign pro contracts following the 2004 season • Inducted into the Cal Lutheran Hall of Fame (2005)

San Diego's Rich Hill is one of the youngest coaches in NCAA history to reach 500 career victories.

San Diego's Rich Hill has built the USD Toreros into one of the most successful Division I baseball programs on the West Coast. The 2006 spring season will be Hill's 19th year as a head coach at the collegiate level , and eighth at USD, having enjoyed 15 winning seasons in 18 years. Since taking over at USD in 1999, Hill has been remarkable in leading the Toreros to seven consecutive winning campaigns, re-writing the school record book en route to claiming back-to-back West Coast Conference Championship titles in 2002 and 2003.

Under his leadership San Diego has averaged 34 wins per season, including winning a school record 39 games in 2002 , a year in which Hill was honored by his peers as the WCC Coach of the Year. Hill became one of the young– est coaches in collegiate history to reach 500 career victories in 2003, taking USD into postseason play and a second consecutive NCAA Regional ap– pearance. Scheduling the nation's top competition , Hill owns a 233-176-3 (.570) overall record as San Diego's manager, improving the Toreros' record in each of his first four seasons at USD. In turn , Hill has brought the school national notoriety, earning a No. 15 national ranking by Baseball America (4/02/02), its highest in school history. Entering the 2005 season the publication included San Diego as one of the top 50 division I baseball programs in the country. Following a 35-21 season in 2004, a record 10 Torero players were recognized as AII– WCC performers. Seven of Hill's eight graduating seniors signed professional contracts following the 2004 season , with five players overall being selected in the '04 MLB First Year Player Draft. The 43-year-old Hill is a proven winner. He has a record of success in each of his three head coaching stops - first at his alma mater Cal Lutheran. In his first head coaching job as the manager at Cal Lutheran , he won 83% of his games during his final three seasons (1991-93). Hill led Cal Lutheran to a record of 194-76 (.719) over six seasons, including two World Series appearances. His 1992 squad posted a 43-6 record before falling a couple of outs shy of the NCAA Division Ill title, while the 1993 team finished first in the Western Region with a 32-7 record . Under Hill's guidance, the Kingsmen knocked off Division I opponents such as USC, Pepperdine, San Diego State, UC Santa Barbara and Cal State Northridge. During his six seasons at Cal Lutheran , 92 percent of his players received their degrees. Hill was hired by The University of San Francisco in 1994, taking the Dons from the WCC cellar to a school record 34-win season in his final year in 1998. During a five-year coaching stint at San Francisco (1994-1998), Hill posted three consecutive winning seasons, including a school best 18 wins in the West Coast Conference in 1998 as the Dons finished tied with USD for third place in the WCC. Over his final three seasons there, Hill guided USF

Rich Hill and his wife Lori with their two children, Robbie (12) and Lindsey (9) riding on Splash Mountain at Disneyland.

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