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USA v. Soviet Union - El Paso, Texas August 1975
L-R Mike Cram, Gerald Gregory,
Doug Beal, Tim Bonny, Mike Cote,
Chris 'Sy' Marlowe, Hillski Age 19,
Paul Sunderland (behind) , John Zajak, Tom Read
US Junior National Team Members
Sinjin Smith,
Dusty Dvorak,
Coach Hill - Fishermen's Warf, San Francisco Aug. 1976
Headhunting at the
AVP Boulder, CO 1983
Mother Lode Open, Aspen, CO, 1982 Photo Courtesy of LA Times Inc.
Wedding Day! Deborah Hill at the Mother
Lode Tournament, Aspen, CO, 9/3/83
Walking on Water at Sherman Island, California
Walking on Water Again...
Where do we go from here?
We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
T.S. Eliot
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The New California Workshop
With Chuck Yeager and Tim's (Redding Medical Center)
Air-Med-Team Air Ambulance, Grass Valley, CA 1991
Getting Big Air Over Woodland with Napa Valley in
the background, March 9th, 1996
With High School Coach Bill Lovelace... the never-famous team of Lovelace &
Hill
prepares to defeat Kiraly & Kiraly in the 1975 finals of the Marina Del Rey
'B'. (Mr. Karch was 14 and played with his father - we served Laszlo)
Tim Hill started playing volleyball at
Newport and Huntington beaches in the early seventies. He played on a
Fountain Valley HS team which participated in the first year of CIF and
finished second in the prestigious Orange County Tournament defeating then
powerhouse teams; Huntington Beach, Newport Harbor, and Corona Del Mar. Tim went on to play for Long
Beach State where he earned USVBA All-American honors, NCAA Academic
All-American honors, President's Honor List 1976, Dean's List '77, '78, and
'79, Senior Scholarship Award (Top Student Athlete 1978), and a AAA beach
rating. After his freshman year in 1975 he was selected to the US National
Team and was named to the 1976 Olympic Team participating in the 1975 Pan Am
Games and the final Olympic Qualification Tournament in January 1976 in
Rome. He continued to play for Team USA on the national and junior level.
In 1978 he received offers to play for
San Diego and the Orange County Stars of the IVA before signing with the El Paso Sol
while maintaining his amateur status or international volleyball. In
the early eighties Tim played in regional beach tournaments in Colorado and
select AVP Tour events.
Tim began coaching in clinics and served as a skills
demonstrator at summer camps as an undergraduate and member of the US team.
He started coaching club teams in Colorado and Texas in the early '80s and
went on to coach and train individual players and teams in Southern
California through the '80s.
Tim started coaching in the Sacramento area in 2001; his team won the NCVA Silver division
that Fall. In Spring 2002 Tim
coached a team which finished tied for third in the JOs 18s Club Division at
Louisville and named two players to the All-American Team.. He is
currently serving as Club Director for Sacramento Volleyball Club. In
the Spring of 2003 the Sacramento Volleyball Club organized three teams for
post-season play in Southern California and the Junior Olympics in Phoenix.
In 2004 Tim organized five boys teams who participated in that year's Junior
Olympics.
Tim has a BS
in Finance from Long Beach State and a MBA degree from Regis University in
Denver, CO. He is also a Diplomat of the American College of
Healthcare Executives and lives in Orangevale, CA.
Fountain Valley High School
All-Orange County First Team (6 players) 1974
Orange County Player of the Year 1974
Inaugural All-CIF First Team 1974
Scholarship Offers: USC, UCLA, Santa Barbara, Pepperdine, San Diego
State, Long Beach State
Long Beach State
Four-Year Starting Middle Blocker (OH for Side out)
USVBA All-American, Reno, NV 1975
All-League 1975 - 1978
Academic All-American
President's List '76, Dean's List '77, '78, '79
Senior Scholarship Award 1978 (Outstanding Student Athlete)
Beach Volleyball Highlights
Junior AAA Rating (Won Inaugural Junior AAA
Tournament Santa Monica Pier, 1974)
AAA Rating, Won Santa Barbara AA, 1976
Colorado Beach Tour, Aspen Motherload, Vail King of the
Mountain, Colorado Springs Open, Boulder Open, Denver Open Champion 1983
(Five tournaments with five different partners)
Various AVP Events 1980 - 1984
Indoor Professional Highlights
El Paso Sol, Summer 1978
International Highlights
US National Team Training Camp Dayton, OH, 1975
NORCECA Qualifier Los Angeles, CA 1975
US-Soviet Tour, August/Sept. 1975
Pan American Games Team 1975
Olympic Qualification Rome, Italy January 1976
Injured, Double dislocation and torn ligaments, March 1976,
Pepperdine University
US Junior National Team July/Aug 1976 (Events in Canada,
Mexico, San Francisco)
World University Games Team
1980 Olympic Team
Coaching and Clinician Highlights
Front Range Volleyball Club, Aurora, CO 1981 - 1983
Dallas Volleyball Club 1984
Golden West College Trainer 1985 - 1987
Summer Camps and Selected Training 1980 - 1998
US Junior National Team Trainer (the guy who runs drills)
Men's and Women's Teams
Beach Volleyball Clinics Colorado 1980 - 1983
Sacramento Area Coaching Highlights
NCVA Boy's Silver Division Champs 2001
JO's Boys 18s Club Division, 3rd Place 2002
Organized Sacramento Volleyball Club, Director & Coach
Phoenix JOs 2003, Three Teams
Austin JOs 2004 Five Teams
96 Hours Free Lessons Summer 2005
Gold Cal Jrs. 13-1 Girls 2006
250 Hours Free Lessons, Five Tournaments, One Clinic -
Summer 2005
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