USD Baseball 2010

Head Coach RICH HILL 12th Season as Head Coach

Pitcher of the Year award and the No. 4 overall pick in the MLB draft. Hill also guided 10 Toreros to AII– WCC honors. Hill was also tabbed as the wee Coach of the Year for the second consecutive season. In 2007, Hill directed the Toreros to the program's first 40-win sea– son, a program-best No.4 national ranking and a No. 8 national seed in the NCAA Regionals, becoming the first school in the history of the conference to receive this honor. The Toreros also hosted the NCAA Regionals, bringing this event to the city of San Diego for the first time ever. The Toreros posted an impressive 18-3 record in theWCC, including five consecutive series sweeps, a first at USO as well. Hill also eclipsed the 600 career-win mark and moved over 300 wins as the USO skipper. For his efforts, he was awarded the wee Coach of the Year distinction. In the 2006 season, not only did Hill lead USO back to the postsea– son, but he also helped guide the Toreros to a, then program-best No. 8 national ranking in the Col– legiate Baseball top-25 poll on Feb. 2, 2006. Another milestone that Hill achieved during this historic season was the team recorded its first win over a No. 1 ranked oppo– nent as they swept the defending national champion Texas Long– horns in the opening weekend. Hill became the third coach in the history of the wee to eclipse the 200 conference-wins mark and has an overall coaching record of 715- 481-3.

Rich Hill has built the USO Toreros into one of the most successful Di– vision I baseball programs on the West Coast.The 201 O spring season will be Hill's 22nd year as a head coach at the collegiate level, and 12th at USO, having enjoyed 19 winning seasons in 21 years. Since taking over at USO in 1999, Hill has been remarkable in re-writing the school record book en route to claiming back-to-back West Coast Conference Championship titles in 2002 and 2003, as well as also claiming the WCC crown in 2007 and 2008.

In 2008, Hill led the Tore– ros to a second consecu– tive WCC title and his freshmen class was rated the No. 1 recruiting class in America according to Baseball America. USO posted the program's sec– ond 40-win season by set-

ting the program re– cordwith a44-17 mark. The Toreros received a program-best No. 5 preseason national ranking by Rivals. com, and USO

remained in the top-25 all sea– son long and ended the regular-sea–

son ranked No. 6. Hill helped guide Brian Matusz to the wee