Coach Hill is starting his eighth year as an Assistant Coach with the Athenas basketball program.  He played basketball at Tarkio College (Missouri--NAIA), where he graduated in 1970.  He continued playing basketball while a member of the L.A. Sheriff's Department, competing annually in the California Police Summer Games.  Hill coached youth basketball in Claremont for two years prior to joining the Athenas staff.  He took a leave from coaching three years ago to volunteer with the Katrina rebuilding project in the Mississippi and New Orleans Gulf Coast region.  John lives in Claremont with his wife, Brenda Barham Hill.