Reynolds Tabs Brad Hill for Coaching Staff

EVANSTON, Unwell. – Northwestern interim head baseball mentor Josh Reynolds announced the addition of Brad Hill to the system as an assistant mentor.
 
“Brad have a prosperity of baseball expertise and practical experience that we are fortunate to have be a part of the Northwestern baseball family members,” Reynolds claimed. “His potential to hook up with scholar-athletes and aid them establish on and off the industry is admired through the baseball group.”
 
Hill comes to Evanston with an exceptional coaching record as the all-time winningest mentor at Kansas Condition, in which he served from 2004 to 2018. Hill led the KSU to four NCAA Regional berths, a Major 12 Championship, and was named Major 12 Coach of the Year in 2009 and 2013.
 
The Brad Hill File:
Hill joins the Wildcats as an Assistant Coach following a productive fifteen-calendar year tenure (2004-eighteen) as the head mentor at Kansas Condition.
 
A two-time Major 12 Coach of the Year, Hill finished as the program’s all-time winningest mentor with 468 occupation victories, surpassing the earlier system record of 435 wins.
 
In his fifteen seasons with Kansas Condition, Hill guided the Wildcats to four NCAA Regional appearances, a Tremendous Regional berth and the program’s 1st convention championship considering that 1933. The good results reached an all-time substantial in 2013, as the Wildcats won the Major 12 title and reached their 1st-ever Tremendous Regional.
 
Hill provides to Evanston an intensive monitor record of creating talent, owning coached 64 gamers that were chosen in the Main League Baseball Draft.
 
Hill’s tenure noticed eighty two Wildcats get paid All-Major 12 accolades–including convention gamers of the calendar year Nick Martini (2010) and Ross Kivett (2013)–while producing eighteen All-Us residents, 84 Tutorial All-Major 12 honorees, 8 freshman All-Us residents, a few academic All-Us residents and a few Major 12 pitchers of the calendar year though at K-Condition.
 
On his arrival in 2004, Hill promptly transformed the Kansas Condition system that noticed just just one profitable time from 1998 to 2003. The Wildcats finished above .500 in seven of his 1st 8 seasons at the helm, like a vacation to the Major 12 Championship in his fourth time (2007).
 
Predicted to finish ninth in the convention in 2009, Hill guided K-Condition to a then-university record 43-gain time and its 1st-ever NCAA Regional appearance. Hill, who also garnered ABCA Midwest Location Coach of the Year in 2009, aided the Cats get paid their 1st top-10 rating and finished the time in the national polls for the 1st time in university historical past.
 
Hill went on to direct the Wildcats to four regional berths in 5 seasons, capped by achieving the Corvallis Tremendous Regional in 2013 and were a sport absent from achieving the Higher education Earth Series. 2013 noticed the Cats gain a system-record 45 online games.
 
Prior to his time in Manhattan, Hill guided Central Missouri Condition to a national championship in 2003 and boasted a occupation profitable proportion of .821 (418-ninety one) more than his 9 seasons coaching the Mules.
 
A native of Galva, Kansas, Hill has much more than thirty many years of support as a head mentor or assistant at the collegiate degree, like stints at Hutchinson Community Higher education and Kansas prior to his time at CMSU and K-Condition.
 
HILL’S Occupation Accomplishments
K-State’s all-time winningest head mentor (468-391-three)
Two-time Major 12 Coach of the Year (2009, 2013)
Two-time ABCA Midwest Coach of the Year (2009, 2013)
Led K-Condition to its 1st Major 12 championship in 2013
Four NCAA Regional berths and 1st-ever Tremendous Regional appearance
2003 NCAA Division II Nationwide Championship
2003 NCAA Division II Nationwide Coach of the Year
64 MLB Draft picks (46 at K-Condition)