Ed Hill
Howard University
With 33 years of service at Howard University, Athletic Media Relations Director
Edward (Ed) Hill, Jr. has announced his retirement, effective June 30, 2017. Hill was honored in 2005 by CoSIDA with the Bob Kenworthy Award for his community service outside the profession and received a 25-Year Award in 2009 marking his quarter century of service to the profession. In 2014, Hill was the receipient of the CoSIDA Mary Jo Haverbeck Trailblazer Award, given annually to a member of the organization who is a pioneer in the field of sports information and who has mentored and helped improve the level of ethnic and gender diversity within the organization.
Hill is also an adjunct professor at Howard University where he teaches a Sports and the Media course every spring. During his tenure, he has mentored numerous students and former assistants who remain in the athletic communications field in college and professional sports.
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View from the Hilltop: Episode 5
Ed Hill, the face of Howard athletics for three decades, will step down next year
by Jerry Bembry and Morgan Moody
When a friend invited Ed Hill to join Howard University as the school’s assistant sports information director back in 1983, the North Carolina native jumped at the opportunity. Within months, that friend was gone, and Hill assumed the role as the school’s sports information director (SID) on an interim basis.
He’s been there ever since.
After 33 years, Hill is an institution. He’s worked more consecutive football games (371) than any SID in the country. And some of the greatest minds in media relations got their start working with Hill at Howard, including Teri Washington (former director of communications for the NBA and the Denver Nuggets), Chevonne Mansfield (director of media relations, American Athletic Conference), Bruce Speight (senior director of media relations, New York Jets), Romanda Noble-Watson (sports information director, Claflin University) and Tiffany White (communications coordinator, Los Angeles Rams).
Hill was honored at the Howard University Hall of Fame ceremony recently. “From Michael Wilbon to Jim Trotter to Gus Johnson, I’ve been able to work with some incredible people in my 33 years,” he said. “This journey has been incredible.”