Aaron Hill joined the Tigers’ men’s basketball staff for the 2014-15 season as an assistant coach and was promoted to associate head coach for the 2017-18 season.
Hill has helped the Tigers make great improvements in the last three seasons, including earning the team’s first two Great American Conference regular-season titles in 2015-16 and 2016-17, the 2016-17 GAC Championship Tournament title and the team’s first trip to the NCAA Central Regional.
In 2014-15, the Tigers advanced all the way to the GAC tournament championship game, the first time to be in a league title game since 1997-98.
In the past three seasons ECU has seen seven GAC honors bestowed on players. Braxton Reeves has also been honored three times, as an honorable mention pick in 2014-15, a first team selection in 2015-16 and the unanimous All-GAC Player of the Year and an All-GAC First Team pick in 2016-17. Stirling Thomas as a two-time All-GAC First Team selection, and was the first player to earn GAC First Team honors in school history. Ishmael Donzo rounds out the group as an honorable mention pick in 2015-16.
Hill spent two seasons at Eastern Arizona College as an assistant coach. While with the Gila Monsters, he helped the team to 39 victories in two seasons, including multiple wins over nationally ranked teams in the NJCAA. At EAC he assisted with recruiting, creating strength & conditioning programs, scouting and working with post and perimeter players.
The program produced five all-conference and three all-region players as well as a conference freshman and player of the year and a two-time all-American.
A two-time Missouri All-State and Mr. Basketball Finalist himself, Hill has also coached at the high school level, as an assistant at Quincy High School in Illinois from 2010-12. In his final season the team claimed the Western Big Six Conference Championship and finished 20-7 in 4A.
Hill spent four seasons at Rockhurst University where he ended his time with the Hawks at No. 5 on the school’s career scoring list. The two-time All-American and Great Lakes Valley Conference Player of the Year also set school records for three-point field goals made in a season and career. Hill was also a two-time GLVC Scholar Athlete of the Year and earned two Capital One Academic All-America honors.
After college Hill moved on to play professionally in Australia for the Ringwood Hawks for one season. In 2011 he was selected as a BigV League All-Star and was among the league’s leaders in scoring, three-point shooting and steals.
The Canton, Mo., native earned a bachelor’s degree in accounting in 2008 and a master’s degree in business administration from Rockhurst in 2010. Hill is married to the former Andrea Knapp and the couple have a son, Noah (1).
