{"id":21375,"date":"2015-01-29T19:24:09","date_gmt":"2015-01-30T01:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=21375"},"modified":"2015-10-27T15:15:02","modified_gmt":"2015-10-27T20:15:02","slug":"oxford-chargers-head-football-coach-and-athletic-director-johnny-hill-announces-retirement-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/oxford-chargers-head-football-coach-and-athletic-director-johnny-hill-announces-retirement-plans\/","title":{"rendered":"Oxford Chargers Head Football Coach and Athletic Director Johnny Hill Announces Retirement Plans"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oxford, Miss. (OSD)\u00a0\u2014 Oxford Chargers<\/strong> Head Football Coach and Athletic Director Johnny Hill<\/strong> announced his retirement from the Oxford School District will be effective December 31, 2015. Hill has served as head football coach for 22 years and athletic director for 14 years at Oxford High School<\/strong> with 39 and a half years in education all together.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI would like to thank the Oxford community for their continued support of me as a coach and for their dedication to our athletic program,\u201d said Hill. \u201cA special thanks goes to school district administrators, Superintendent Brian Harvey<\/strong>, the Board of Trustees, school principals, coaches, teachers and staff who have helped build up the overall athletic program to where it is today, which is a first-class program.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Oxford Chargers Head Coach Johnny Hill coaching in the 2013 State Championship Game against the Picayune Maroon Wave. Photograph by Shelby Hooker Rayburn – \u00a9 2013 The Local Voice.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Hill started coaching at Oxford High School in 1989 when he joined the Oxford Chargers athletic program after coaching at Warren Central<\/strong> in Vicksburg<\/strong>. During his time in the athletic program, several athletic teams have been added to the high school and middle school athletic programs. <\/span><\/p>\n

Under Hill\u2019s leadership, the Oxford Chargers athletic program has added soccer, fast pitch softball, slow pitch softball, swimming, powerlifting, and golf. Also, the Oxford Chargers athletic program has been named by The Clarion-Ledger<\/em> as the MHSAA 5A All-Sports Award winner several times during Hill\u2019s tenure.<\/span><\/p>\n

According to Hill, about 700 students were enrolled Oxford High School, which has now grown to over 1,100. When Hill joined the athletic program, Oxford High School athletic teams were competing at the 4A level, a time when 5A was the largest athletic class in the state. Now, the Oxford Chargers compete in Class 5A with the 6A class being the largest athletic class in Mississippi high school athletics.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cCoach Hill\u2019s leadership is a major reason that our athletic program has had the success that it has,\u201d said Oxford School District Superintendent Brian Harvey. \u201cOur community and school district is very blessed to have someone like Coach Hill in our school district. He made sure that our student-athletes were a part of a top-notch program where they competed at the highest level athletically and academically with other high school athletic programs not just in our region, but in the state.\u201d\u00a0\"The<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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