{"id":3706,"date":"2021-02-15T15:38:40","date_gmt":"2021-02-15T21:38:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/utrgvradio.com\/?p=3706"},"modified":"2021-02-15T18:02:15","modified_gmt":"2021-02-16T00:02:15","slug":"remembering-coach-hill-the-coaches-perspective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/utrgvradio.com\/index.php\/2021\/02\/15\/remembering-coach-hill-the-coaches-perspective\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembering coach Hill: the coaches perspective"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"686\" src=\"https:\/\/utrgvradio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/20181019_UTRGV_Madness_EC_DP_536-1-1024x686.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3710\" srcset=\"https:\/\/utrgvradio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/20181019_UTRGV_Madness_EC_DP_536-1-1024x686.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/utrgvradio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/20181019_UTRGV_Madness_EC_DP_536-1-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/utrgvradio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/20181019_UTRGV_Madness_EC_DP_536-1-768x515.jpg 768w, https:\/\/utrgvradio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/20181019_UTRGV_Madness_EC_DP_536-1-1536x1030.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/utrgvradio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/20181019_UTRGV_Madness_EC_DP_536-1-2048x1373.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/utrgvradio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/20181019_UTRGV_Madness_EC_DP_536-1-380x254.jpg 380w, https:\/\/utrgvradio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/20181019_UTRGV_Madness_EC_DP_536-1-285x190.jpg 285w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>UTRGV men\u2019s basketball Head Coach Lew Hill during Midnight Madness in 2019 at the Fieldhouse in Edinburg. UTRGV PHOTO BY DAVID PIKE UTRGV <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/utrgvradio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Remebering-Coach-Hill_mixdown.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">In what has been a difficult week in and around the UTRGV Athletics department and community after the <a href=\"https:\/\/utrgvradio.com\/index.php\/2021\/02\/07\/utrgv-head-coach-lew-hill-dies-at-55\/\"><strong>death<\/strong><\/a> of 55-year-old men\u2019s basketball Head Coach Lew Hill on Feb. 7.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Vaquero Radio asked coaches from different sports at UTRGV on their favorite memories, moments or conversations they had with coach Hill in the past five years since he joined the department back in March 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>UTRGV Baseball Head Coach, Derek Matlock<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cWell when I come down on the interview he\u2019s the one that took me to lunch for an hour, spent a lot of time in that hour and of course\u2026he was just such a great person and made you feel so welcomed and comfortable and as our years went on here,&#8221; Matlock said. &#8220;Even, the first year was a rough one and he was always, \u2019hey man this first one\u2019s tough just keep fighting it,\u2019 and he was always real supportive and of course when we won our championship that was the first phone call I got just congratulating me. He was a good person and he just cared for people and you don\u2019t run into people like that every day that care for other people more than he cares about himself.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>UTRGV men\u2019s and women\u2019s XC and T&amp;F Head Coach, Darren Flowers<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cOne of my fondest memories and it was under some unfortunate circumstances, but after the George Floyd murders, I reached out to him just to let him know that I was supporting him and that he had an ally cause it was just a really hard time,&#8221; Flowers said. &#8220;We had a good conversation and I learned a lot from him. We got to do an interview with the paper [The Monitor] together and just hearing him speak about his experience, some of the hard time that he went through, the perseverance that he had, the strength that he had, it\u2019s just so evident of how strong coach Hill is as a personality and has overcome so much. I really saw him as a beacon on light and a beacon of hope for UTRGV and our community.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>UTRGV Volleyball Head Coach, Todd Lowery<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cI don\u2019t know if there is any one moment that I really lean on,&#8221; Lowery said. &#8220;Coach Hill and I had a handful of really good conversations over the years, just his approach to everything. His ability to see big picture, I think if anything, and I think that\u2019s what I\u2019ve been trying to take away from this year. When he first came here and the team wasn\u2019t quite where he wanted it to be and they took some lumps and they had some injuries and they gone through some injuries where they have a bunch of kids out and his ability to just come in and be steady every day and not ride those emotions and see big picture if there is something that I can take away from him that\u2019s probably the biggest thing and like everyone says, his quote, \u2018love and peace\u2019, that\u2019s probably something that always sticks with me. He just wanted to be happy, wanted to be doing what he was doing every day.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>UTRGV Men\u2019s Soccer Head Coach, Bryheem Hancock<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cThe first conversation I had with coach Hill; he was the first person that reached out to me once I got the job,&#8221; Hancock said. &#8220;First guy to get a phone call from, which is not normal for a men\u2019s basketball coach to be calling a men\u2019s soccer coach anywhere you go, so that just shows the type of person he is and you hear tons and tons of stories about how he was worried about everyone else, the well-being of everyone, how to make everyone feel like they were somebody he had known for years and I felt that connection. I\u2019m from the northeast, he\u2019s a Mount Vernon guy from New York so obviously with the accent I felt comfort there and there\u2019s a few people that he knew that I know from my days being at UCONN, there\u2019s a few guys at UCONN that he knew, so obviously we had some commonality there. But obviously the passing of coach Hill shocked all of us, we were all saddened by it, we are to this day and for us it\u2019s what can we do to help, initially, his family, his staff and his student-athletes. And again, we are all trying to do all we can do to help in such a tough time.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>UTRGV Women\u2019s Soccer Head Coach, Glad Bugariu<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cCoach Hill, I\u2019ve known him a long time \u2013 I\u2019m the longest-serving coach besides Todd [Lowery], we came from UT Brownsville so I was here from the moment he was hired \u2013 the thing I\u2019ll remember most was a couple years ago we had a recruit to campus and he was just walking from somewhere and we just ran into each other with the recruit,&#8221; Bugariu said. &#8220;I just said, \u2018hey, this is our head men\u2019s basketball coach Lew,\u2019 and he took his time and he spoke to the recruit for 10-15 minutes. It was brilliant, she\u2019s playing for us now, and it was brilliant, and it was a moment where he didn\u2019t have to say anything, he could have just said hello and kept walking. But to have the head men\u2019s basketball coach take time and really help the recruiting process with someone he doesn\u2019t know and it\u2019s not in his sport it was real special and it\u2019s a testament to his character for sure and we\u2019ll all miss him in this department.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>UTRGV Women\u2019s Golf Head Coach, Bryan Novoa<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cWe were at TopGolf doing a general outing for the student body and it was funny, the role of the coaches \u2013 Phillip Tate and myself \u2013 we were going down the line basically giving people tips and free lessons, advice on how to strike a ball better and lucky I was privileged with the opportunity to give our men\u2019s head basketball coach kind of his first real golf lesson,&#8221; Novoa said. &#8220;Man, after about two-and-a-half minutes I was like, \u2018hey, move like this, look at this part of the golf ball, hold it like this,\u2019 and [he] started hitting the ball a lot better and got pretty decent, fairly quickly and he kind of looked at me with this look \u2013 it was very flattering \u2013 and he\u2019s like, \u2018you kind of know what you are doing,\u2019 and I was like, \u2018yes I do,\u2019 and he looked at me with a lot of confidence and said, \u2018I see why a lot of people like this sports, this is fun,\u2019 and he looks right at me and he says, \u2018I want you to give my daughter golf lessons.\u201d Unfortunately I never got a chance to give his daughter golf lessons, and I would in a heartbeat, \u2013 I love teaching the game \u2013 but it was our first real bonding experience where I felt, \u2018wow,\u2019 I just got complimented by one of the \u2013 in my opinion the best coaches that I know \u2013 and it struck a chord with me. We kind of built our relationship off that golf experience and got to know each other based on that level and his door was always open.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>UTRGV Men\u2019s Golf Head Coach, Philip Tate<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cI have one anecdote that I\u2019ll share,&#8221; Tate said. &#8220;It was at his press conference when he was first hired and met with the media and he said, \u2018the winning starts now,\u2019 and I was a little skeptical. I didn\u2019t know exactly what he mean or how quickly he meant, I didn\u2019t know all the aspect that he meant, did he mean X\u2019s and O\u2019s, W\u2019s and L\u2019s but I think what he meant was the winning starts now as far as the mentality, as far as the culture, as far as the program goes. He really wanted to change things around here and he really did a lot to change the dynamic of that program and the face of the program, so I\u2019ll always remember his confidence and his way of saying winning starts now.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>UTRGV Women\u2019s Basketball Head Coach, Lane Lord<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cI don\u2019t know if I have a favorite memory but last summer every day for about two months Coach Hill and I met and we just talked basketball every single day,&#8221; Lord said. &#8220;When you lose a friend and someone that was so important to you, not just me, it\u2019s not about me, you lose a buddy but what he\u2019s done for this community, for the diversity of this university, Vaqueros United, the great father he is, the great mentor he is to his players it\u2019s really tough Luis, it\u2019s a hard, hard day.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>UTRGV Men\u2019s Basketball Assistant Coach, Luke Mackay<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cHow willing and how much he enjoyed sitting down and having a chat, having a talk with you,&#8221; Mackay said. &#8220;He was always willing to talk to whoever and what might start as a quick hello often turned into an hour, two hours later of him just sitting and talking, not necessarily about basketball but the conversation or topic would just meander off into a lot of different things, basketball life, family, where ever it took us. Those are the things you take for granted. In the moment you don\u2019t realize how much you\u2019re really enjoying it while you are there, it\u2019s just another conversation or chat whether it was in the hotel lobby, in the office, in the plane, in an airport, after practice, on the road recruiting riding somewhere to watch a game. Whatever it is those things\u2026memories I\u2019m going to have, really nothing specific just random times together we sat and talked about anything that came up and those are the things I\u2019m going to certainly miss the most.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Twitter: <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Radio_Rubio\"><em><strong>@Radio_Rubio<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In what has been a difficult week in and around the UTRGV Athletics department and community after the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":3710,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21,6,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-basketball","category-radio","category-sports"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.4 - 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