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Ed Hill (Howard University), Lifetime Achievement Award
By Romanda Noble-Watson, Claflin University Sports Information Director
For more than 33 years, Edward (Ed) Hill, Jr. has served as the sports information director at Howard University. When one mentions Howard University athletics, the first person that comes to mind is Ed Hill.
On June 30, 2017, that will all change as Hill is shutting down his computer in Drew Hall for one last time. That will be the day he calls it quits as a member of the Howard University athletics staff for more than three decades.
With all the changes that have occurred within the athletics department at Howard University, the one thing that has been constant is Hill. He has outlasted 11 athletics directors as well as numerous coaches within every sports program.
Hill was honored for his 33+ years of service at Howard.
Since joining the staff at Howard in 1983, Hill has participated in several NCAA championships, among them men’s soccer, men’s and women’s basketball and softball. He has also worked as a volunteer during numerous NCAA men’s basketball regionals.
He holds an amazing streak of consecutive football games worked. Hill is among the national SID leaders in most consecutive football games staffed - ending the fall season
having worked 371 consecutive Howard football games.
Hill has been a member of the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) since 1983 and is also a member of the Black College Sports Information Directors of America (BCSIDA). He is a former member of the CoSIDA board and is currently a member of the CoSIDA Special Awards Committee and Scholarship Committee.
Hill has received numerous awards throughout his career. 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 recipient 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.
He is also a member of the Mid-Eastern Athletic Hall of Fame, the Howard University Athletic Hall of Fame, the Washington, D.C. Athletic Hall of Fame, and the Cardozo High School Hall of Fame.
In February of 2017, Hill was honored at the Washington D.C. Pigskin Club with the Pigskin Career Community Service Award.
In addition, under his direction at Howard Sports Information, Hill has had assistants and several students to go on to work on all level of sports, including the NBA, NFL, ESPN as well as NCAA Division I and II levels and conference offices.
When honored at the Howard University Hall of Fame ceremony, Hill remarked that “From Michael Wilbon to Jim Trotter to Gus Johnson, I’ve been able to work with some incredible people in my 33 years. This journey has been incredible.”
"It is indeed an honor to receive this prestigious award,” Hill said, speaking of CoSIDA’s Lifetime Achievement Award. “It is very gratifying when your peers and colleagues recognize your contributions to the profession. I am indeed humbled and grateful to all the people who helped make this possible."
Hill has set precedence for those who learned under his tutelage as well as those who will follow in his footsteps at Howard.
Photos courtesy of Ed Hill.
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