Rodney Hill

Rodney Hill joins the Arkansas staff after spending the 2022 season at Duke as an assistant director of sports performance, working primarily with the football program.

Prior to Duke, Hill was at LSU in 2021 as the assistant strength and conditioning coach for football. 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 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 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 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.