Rodney Hill enters his first season as an assistant coach with the LU women’s basketball team.
He joins the Lamar staff after spending time at Texas State, TCU and in the WNBA with the Dallas Wings. During his time at Texas State, he was responsible for coaching the forwards and post players as well as assisting with recruiting and scouting.
The 2016-17 season, Hill's first in San Marcos, saw the Bobcats finish 16-15 overall, including an 11-7 record in Sun Belt play, which garnered the No. 4 seed in the Sun Belt Championship and earned an at-large berth to the WBI. The Bobcats, which won 10 of 12 games during the heart of the Sun Belt schedule, were the only team in the league to defeat each of the top three teams in the final conference standings.
In addition to conference success, the Bobcats posted key nonconference wins over Houston, North Texas and Texas A&M-Corpus Christi. Guard Taeler Deer earned Third Team All-Sun Belt honors after averaging a career-high 10.8 points per game. Guard Toshua Leavitt sank 77 3-pointers to rank second on the Texas State single-season list, including a program-record tying seven in the quarterfinal round of the Sun Belt Championship.
Prior to joining Texas State, Hill worked with the WNBA’s Dallas Wings during its 2016 preseason camp. With the Wings, Hill assisted the coaching staff with on-court workouts and practices. Hill also handled video and other miscellaneous tasks. He also a practice player.
Hill also spent time working under the direction of TCU head coach Raegan Pebley as a video coordinator. He prepared multiple scouting reports for Big XII and non-conference opponents as well as creating team and individual highlights for players, staff, and recruits. In addition to video, Hill assisted the coaching staff during all practices as well as providing assistance with recruiting and camps.
Prior to his time at TCU, Hill spent a season as an assistant coach at Urbana University where he was the lead recruiter for four of the 2015 Urbana freshman class recruits. Two of those recruits ranked in the top 64 in the Ohio Girls Basketball Reports. Day-to-day responsibilities included film breakdown, opponent scouting reports, assisting the head coach in offensive implementation, and creating defensive schemes that take away opponents’ strengths. Hill was also in charge of the academic success of the women’s basketball team who finished with a 3.3 team GPA in the fall of 2014.
Hill is a 2014 graduate of Texas A&M with a major in sociology.
