Rodney Hill joined Duke's athletic staff in January 2022, and serves as an assistant director of
sports performance, working primarily with the football program.
Hill comes to Durham after a one-year stint (2021) as the assistant strength and conditioning
coach for football at Louisiana State University (LSU). While in Baton Rouge, Hill oversaw the
Tigers' lifting, running, and mobility training programs, specifically for the offensive line and tight
ends groups. He also used velocity-based training systems (perch), global positioning systems
and heart rate monitor (polar) technologies to collect, monitor, and report findings in athlete
training and help monitor the athlete's physiological and mechanical outputs.
Prior to that. Hill spent two years in the National Football League (NFL) with the Buffalo Bills and
Detroit Lions. He served as an assistant strength and performance coach with the Lions for the
2019 season before joining the Bills in 2020, working as a seasonal intern of strength and
conditioning.
For the 2018 season, Hill was on staff at the University of Central Florida as an assistant
director of football sports performance and director of football sports nutrition and internship
coordinator. While there, he helped design and implement the strength training and conditioning
programs as well as oversee the implementation of weight room and field programming with a
focus on the offensive and defensive line position groups. The Knights claimed the American
Athletic Conference (AAC) Football Championship that season and finished with an impressive
12-1 mark, including an appearance in the PlayStation Fiesta Bowl.Hill made his first stop in the NFL during the 2017 season when he spent one year as a seasonal
intern with the New York Giants.
Prior to that. Hill was the director of strength and conditioning at his alma mater, Howard University, for the 2016 season. During his tenure with the Bison, he established and maintained
a strength and conditioning program for all sports with the objectives of increasing athletic
performance, reducing athletic injuries, and teaching fitness and movement skills.
In addition, Hill also made stops at Mercer University as a strength and conditioning graduate
assistant (2015), Penn State University as a strength and conditioning intern (2014) and
Kutztown University as the assistant defensive line coach (2013).
Hill earned his bachelor's degree in human performance with a concentration in sports medicine
from Howard in 2013 and was a four-year letterwinner, three-year starter, as a defensive
lineman for the football program. Hill added a master's degree in higher educational leadership
from Mercer in 2016.
Hill holds several certifications, including level 1 sports performance coach through USA
weightlifting and a strength and conditioning specialist through the National Strength and
Conditioning Association (NSCA). He is also a corrective exercise specialist, a certified USA
boxing coach, precision nutrition level 1 certified, velocity-based training certified and vertimax
certified.
A native of Philadelphia, Hill is married to the former Kim Mazzapica of Boston, Mass.