USD Baseball 2005

UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO BASEBALL

USD Coaching Staff

RICH HILL Head Coach 7th-year Cal Lutheran '84

• No. 1 among active WCC coaches in career (342) and league (172) victories as well as winning% (.537) and wins per season (31 .1) • 14 winning seasons in 17 years as a head coach • Over 500 career victories (536-369-2) • Has averaged 35 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

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 USO Toreros into one of the most successful Division I baseball programs on the West Coast. The 2005 spring season will be Hill's 18th year as a head coach at the collegiate level, and seventh at USO, having enjoyed 14 winning seasons in 17 yea rs. Since taking over at USO in 1999, Hill has been remarkable in leading the Toreros to six 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 33 wins per season, includ ing winning a school record 39 games in 2002, a year in which Hill was honored by his peers as the wee Coach of the Year. Hill became one of the youngest coaches in collegiate history to reach 500 career victories in 2003, taking USO into postseason play and a second consecutive NCAA Regional appearance.

Scheduling the nation's top competition, Hill owns a 203-149-2 (.573) overall record as San Diego's manager, improving the To– reros' record in each of his first four seasons at USO. In turn, Hill has brought the school national notoriety, earning a No. 15 national ranking by Baseball America (4/02), 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. Fol– lowing a 35-21 season in 2004, a record 10 Torero players were recognized asAII-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 42-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 Lu , 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.

Rich Hill and his wife Lori with their two children, Robbie (11) and Lindsey (8).

Hill was hired by The University of San Francisco in 1994, taking the Dons from the wee 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),

www.usdtoreros.com

8