Three-time All-American Penn State alumnus and 2016 Olympian Darrell Hill '15 was announced as assistant coach in July 2025. Hill returns to his alma mater to coach the throws group.
Hill returns to his alma mater after spending the last two years on staff at Delaware, including serving as associate head coach for the 2024-25 season. Hill mentored Olamide Ayeni to a CAA championship in the discus throw and coached two NCAA East Regional qualifiers during the 2025 outdoor season. Five throws athletes earned podium finishes at the 2025 outdoor CAA Championships under Hill’s tutelage.
Hill spent his first season at Delaware as assistant coach in 2023-24, coaching the throws group as well as the multi-event student-athletes. He mentored Alicia Lehman-Woodyard to heptathlon bronze and All-CAA honors at the 2024 CAA Outdoor Championships and coached two student-athletes to the 2024 NCAA East Regional prelims.
Hill arrived to Delaware following a stint as a volunteer assistant at San Diego State from 2017-19 and an illustrious professional career competing at the world’s highest levels. He represented the United State at the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, finishing 12th in the shot put. Hill achieved his personal-best mark of 22.44 meters in 2017 at Bruxelles Memorial Van Damme in Belgium to win the Diamond League Championship, a mark that ranks him 15th all-time in the shot put. In addition to his Olympian status, Hill is a three-time World Championship finalist, the 2018 USA Outdoor US Champion and was named the USATF Thrower of the Year in 2018.
Hill was a three-time All-American and three-time Big Ten Champion as a student-athlete at Penn State. He still owns the Penn State indoor shot put (20.51m) school record and is second all-time in school history in the outdoor shot put (20.86m). He was named both the 2015 USTFCCCA Mid-Atlantic Region Indoor and Outdoor Men’s Field Athlete of the Year, in addition to earning Big Ten Field Athlete of the Year honors.
Hill, a Philadelphia, Pa. native, graduated with a bachelor’s degree in rehabilitation and human services from Penn State in 2015.