{"id":227290,"date":"2025-12-19T14:10:18","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T00:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=227290"},"modified":"2025-12-19T14:10:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T00:10:18","slug":"contract-extension-manoa-baseball-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2025\/12\/19\/contract-extension-manoa-baseball-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"Contract extension announced for <abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> M\u0101noa baseball head coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/manoa-baseball-hill-contract.jpg\" alt=\"Baseball graphic\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-227286\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/manoa-baseball-hill-contract.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/manoa-baseball-hill-contract-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/manoa-baseball-hill-contract-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>University of <span lang=\"haw\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> at M\u0101noa <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/sports\/baseball\">baseball<\/a> head coach Rich Hill received a contract extension through the 2029 season, Director of Athletics Matt Elliott announced on December 19.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The winning culture that Coach Hill has created has made Rainbow Warrior baseball one of the most exciting programs in the country,&rdquo; said Elliott. &ldquo;We are thrilled that Coach will continue to develop student-athletes both on and off the field here in <span lang=\"haw\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span>, and look forward to his leadership contributing many more memorable moments to a storied program.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Through four seasons with <abbr title=\"东精影业\">东精影业<\/abbr> M\u0101noa, Hill has led the Rainbow Warriors to a record of 129\u201381, including a 73\u201341 record in Big West play. Hill led the &#8216;Bows to their first four winning seasons since joining the Big West and has guided the program to back-to-back 35-win seasons.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I really want to express my sincere and enthusiastic gratitude to President Wendy Hensel and Athletic Director Matt Elliott. With this next step for <span lang=\"haw\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> baseball it is clear we mean business,&rdquo; said Hill. &ldquo;I am honored to serve as the Rainbow Baseball head coach and look forward to continuing to bring out the best in our student-athletes, represent the amazing community of <span lang=\"haw\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span>, and foster excellence in the classroom.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Under Hill, <span lang=\"haw\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> has turned Les Murakami Stadium into one of the toughest places to play in the nation. The \u02bbBows are 70\u201327 at home over the last three seasons.<\/p>\n<p>Hill starts his fifth season leading the Rainbow Warrior baseball program on February 13 with the opening game of a four-game series against Gonzaga.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/news\/2025\/12\/19\/baseball-hill-receives-contract-extension.aspx\">Hawaiiathletics.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rich Hill will continue to lead the Rainbow Warrior baseball team through the 2029 season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":227286,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1362],"tags":[58,1491,9,550],"class_list":["post-227290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","tag-athletics","tag-baseball","tag-uh-manoa","tag-manoa-athletics","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/manoa-baseball-hill-contract.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227290"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":227292,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227290\/revisions\/227292"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}