West Virginia native Brian Hill is back for his third season as defensive line coach with the Hilltopper football team and will once again be serving as WLU’s special teams coordinator.
Coach Hill also serves as the university's Athletics Diversity and Inclusion Designee (ADID). Drawing on more than two decades of coaching and administrative experience at multiple institutions of higher learning, Coach Hill is West Liberty’s primary contact and conduit for diversity and inclusion-related information from the NCAA and Mountain East Conference along with other institutions and athletic departments.
The well-traveled grid mentor came to the hilltop following a 2-year stint as associate head coach and defensive line coach at Lenoir-Rhyne (N.C.). Prior to his stop at LRU, Coach Hill had a 5-year run as special teams coordinator, strength and conditioning coach and defensive line coach at Georgia Military College (2011-15).
He also served as defensive line coach at Furman in 2010 and was associate head coach, defensive coordinator and defensive line coach at Concord in 2009. Hill came to Concord after his initial stint at Lenoir-Rhyne (2002-08), holding down various positions including defensive coordinator, assistant head coach and associate head coach. After four years as assistant head coach and defensive coordinator at Union (Ky.) College, he was promoted to head coach in 1999 and led the program for the next three seasons.
Coach Hill also had coaching stops at Cumberland (Ky.), Virginia Military Institute and Glenville State after wrapping up a stellar playing career at Glenville.
As a player, Hill was a four-year regular in the middle of the Pioneers' defensive line before graduating in 1992 with a Physical Education degree. He also holds a master's in Physical Education from Union (Ky.).
Brian and his wife, Jamie, have one daughter, Emma Jaye.
