Army West Point Athletics
Women's Track and Field
- Title:
- Assistant Track and Field Coach
- Email:
- jonathan.hill@usma.edu
- Phone:
- 4326
Oregon native Jon Hill enters his third season as the jumps, pole vault and multi-event coach for Army track and field in 2014-15. Hill came to West Point after four years of coaching at Eastern Washington University.
In his second year with the Black Knights, Hill coached two school record setters, two indoor conference champions, one outdoor conference champion, the Indoor Patriot League Scholar Athlete of the Year, one indoor and one outdoor all-conference honoree and an All-ECAC recipient.
Ashley Zeitvogel set a new Academy mark in the indoor pole vault and was the Patriot League indoor pole vault champion. Competing in pole vault during the outdoor season, Megan Gemar set an Academy record while earning a spot on the outdoor all-conference team and the All-ECAC squad.
Hill coached Chris Kittle to an indoor heptathlon conference title, an outdoor decathlon conference title and was named the Patriot League Scholar Athlete of the Year for the indoor season.
In addition, Laurel Neposchlan was also a member of the indoor all-conference squad and Hill coached four cadet-athletes to Academy all-time top 10 records.
Continuing his coaching development, Hill was named the Upper Northeast Regional USATF L1 School Coordinator, a coaching education program through the national governing body for track & field.
In his first season at the Academy, eight marks were added to the Academy record book, including six pole vault heights and a pair of heptathlon point totals. Newcomer Megan Gemar recorded the second-best pole vault height in program history during both the indoor and outdoor seasons. Gemar earned ECAC invites during the indoor and outdoor seasons.
Kittle and Nathan Weir highlighted the multi-event performances during 2013. Kittle and Weir added their names to the Academy record book in the heptathlon, ranking fourth and seventh, respectively. Kittle finished in the top five in the multis at both Patriot League Championships, while Weir placed fourth at the outdoor meet.
While with the Eagles, Hill oversaw the jumping and multi-event competition groups, while also managing recruiting and scholarship allocation, home competitions and monitoring academic performance. During his tenure, Hill's student-athletes broke 11 school records, established 44 top-10 historical marks, collected 24 all-conference certificates and earned five bids to the NCAA Regional Championships.
A proven recruiter, notable EWU signees scouted by Hill included six high school valedictorians, a national record holder, 12 state champions and one junior national champion.
"Jon is coming off a couple of great years at Eastern Washington," said Engle. "For his efforts he's been recognized as one of the bright and rising stars of coaching by USA Track & Field, as evidenced by his participation at the Olympic Trials Mentorship Program and Emerging Elite Coaches Program. There really wasn't a choice. He was the first name that came to my mind and the first name that came off the lips of most of my coaching peers.
"We have the right combination now. Our previous multis coach did a great job developing that event group and has a solid group of incoming athletes for Jon to work with."
Prior to his time in Cheney, Wash., Hill spent the 2007-08 season as the head track and field coach at La Salle Catholic College Preparatory in Milwaukie, Ore. Hill's teams excelled both on the track and in the classroom, establishing three school records and 17 all-state nods, while earning a pair of all-state academic team certificates.
