Elon University Men's Golf

Hill enters his fourth season at the helm of the Elon men's golf program in 2016-17. Since joining the Phoenix in May of 2013, Hill's teams has been named to the GCAA All-Academic Team three consecutive seasons, four different players have won individual championships, and four players have been named conference player of the week. In addition, Jonathan DiIanni was a two-time All-Conference and Academic All-America honoree and was named the 2016 CAA Men's Golfer Scholar Athlete of the year. During his third season in 2015-16, the team posted the second-best stroke average (293.11) in the program's Division I era and had six different players record top-10 finishes, the most in the Colonial Athletic Association. Also, the team tied for second in program history since 1993 with the most team rounds under par (9) for the second time in the last three seasons. In addition, the Phoenix squad had 24 top-25 individual finishes between seven different players and Jonathan DiIanni was named to the All-CAA team for the second consecutive year. DiIanni also set the best single season stroke average since 1993 at 72.41 and freshman Philip Loeb set the best freshman scoring record since 1993 with a 74.10 stroke average. For the third time under Hill's tenure, the Phoenix earned a spot on the GCAA All-Academic Team, posting a 3.30 team GPA. DiIanni was also named CAA Men's Golf Scholar Athlete of the Year, earned GCAA All-America and CoSIDA Academic All-America honors. Hill also orchestrated the revival of Elon's home tournament, the Elon Phoenix Invitational at Alamance Country Club. In Elon's inagural season in the Colonial Athletic Association in 2014-15, Hill's squad had four players earn top-10 finishes, 19 top-25 finishers, and a fifth place finish in the 2015 CAA Championships. Junior Jonathan DiIanni earned his first-career All-Conference team honor, won two individual titles, which tied a program record for the most individual titles in a season, and was named to both the CoSIDA and GCAA Academic All-America teams. For the second time during Hill's tenure, the Phoenix earned a spot on the GCAA All-Academic Team with a 3.2 cumulative team GPA. In Hill's first season with the Phoenix in 2013-14, Elon earned two top-three and five top-five team finishes, had four top-10 finishing individuals and 18 top-25 individual finishers. The team posted the best stroke average in the program's Division I era (292.86). John Somers won the Wofford Invitational and tied two Elon scoring records and Jeff Krieger tied an Elon single-round record of 64 at the Donald Ross Intercollegiate. With a 3.2 team GPA, the Phoenix earned GCAA All-Academic Team honors and Will DiIanni earned GCAA and CoSIDA Academic All-America honors. Prior to Elon, Hill spent the previous two seasons as the associate head mens golf coach at South Carolina, helping the Gamecocks to outstanding success both in the Southeastern Conference (SEC) and nationally. In 2012-13, Hill helped South Carolina lock up an NCAA postseason bid for the second straight year. South Carolina had one of its most successful seasons in recent history in 2013. The Gamecocks recorded five top-three finishes, including a win at the Wendys Kiawah Classic, as well as a pair of runner-up finishes. South Carolina finished two strokes back of second-ranked Alabama at the SEC Championship this year. Individually, Hill helped guide sophomore Caleb Sturgeon to a runner-up finish at the SEC Championship with a total score of 205 (-5), which is the second lowest 54-hole SEC Championship score in USC history. Prior to joining head coach Bill McDonald's staff at USC, Hill spent eight years as assistant men's coach at North Carolina from 2004-2011. Hill assisted the UNC mens golf program in the day-to-day operations in addition to his on-course duties as coach and teacher. Hill joined the UNC coaching staff after working one year with UNC's Rams Club as a graduate intern. Prior to that, he played on golf mini tours from 1999-2001. In his time as North Carolina's assistant coach, the Tar Heels won 10 tournaments, including the ACC Championship in 2006 and the UNCG Bridgestone Golf Collegiate in the fall of 2010. Five Tar Heels captured seven individual championships during Hills tenure as well. Hill has coached three All-Americans, including Martin Ureta in 2005 and 2006, Dustin Bray in 2002-04 and Kevin O'Connell in 2008. Hill was a member of the UNC men's golf team (1995, 1997-99). He was a two-time All-ACC performer and two-time honorable mention All-American in 1998 and 1999. Hill helped lead North Carolina to 10th-place NCAA finishes in 1997 and 1999. He was the runner-up at the 1998 ACC Championship, one stroke behind Clemson's Charles Warren, and finished 10th at the 1999 NCAA Championship. Hill posted 13 top-10 finishes during his four-year collegiate career and 23 top-25 finishes. He posted a 72.88 stroke average in 1997-98 and a 73.03 average in 1998-99. Hill, a native of Mount Olive, N.C., and a four-year golf standout at Southern Wayne High School, graduated from North Carolina in 1999 with a degree in communications. What Others Are Saying About Coach Hill: Don Hill has emerged as one of the premier young coaches in the country. Having excelled at each level he has a unique ability to relate with his players both on and off the golf course. I have followed Don's growth and progress since his outstanding collegiate career at UNC and included him in our list of candidates in our coaching search in 2007. Since his arrival as associate head coach two years ago he has been a vital and integral part of our success. There is no doubt he will carry Elon golf to unprecedented heights and success.   Puggy Blackmon University of South Carolina, Director of Golf   Coach Hill has done a tremendous job in helping build a national-caliber program here at the University of South Carolina. Elon has made a great choice in hiring him to lead their men's golf program. We wish him and his wife Lizzie the very best. They will be ambassadors and leaders in the Phoenix community."   Ray Tanner University of South Carolina, Director of Athletics "Coach Hill has been an invaluable asset to me for the past two years and he has done an incredible job of impacting our golf program here at South Carolina. His ability to relate to our players on all levels, recruit relentlessly, and his organizational abilities, have been crucial to our success as a golf program. Coach Hill's influence on our golf program has had a direct impact on our resurgence nationally and I have no doubt he will excel as a head coach. Coach Hill will be sorely missed here in Columbia and we all wish him great success at Elon. Go Phoenix!"   Bill McDonald University of South Carolina, Head Mens Golf Coach    Having watched Don develop into an All-American as a player at UNC and watch him develop his coaching skills over the past decade at an ACC school and an SEC school, I know he is well prepared to take on the challenge of being a head coach. Elon has made a wonderful choice in Don Hill and the golf program will have much success under his leadership for years to come. Andrew Sapp University of North Carolina, Head Men's Golf Coach Don Hill Director of Golf and Head Men's Golf Coach Twitter: @elonphoenixgolf Don Hill enters his fourth season at the helm of the Elon men's golf program in 2016-17. Since joining the Phoenix in May of 2013, Hill's teams has been named to the GCAA All-Academic Team three consecutive seasons, four different players have won individual championships, and four players have been named conference player of the week. In addition, Jonathan DiIanni was a two-time All-Conference and Academic All-America honoree and was named the 2016 CAA Men's Golfer Scholar Athlete of the year. During his third season in 2015-16, the team posted the second-best stroke average (293.11) in the program's Division I era and had six different players record top-10 finishes, the most in the Colonial Athletic Association. Also, the team tied for second in program history since 1993 with the most team rounds under par (9) for the second time in the last three seasons. In addition, the Phoenix squad had 24 top-25 individual finishes between seven different players and Jonathan DiIanni was named to the All-CAA team for the second consecutive year. DiIanni also set the best single season stroke average since 1993 at 72.41 and freshman Philip Loeb set the best freshman scoring record since 1993 with a 74.10 stroke average. For the third time under Hill's tenure, the Phoenix earned a spot on the GCAA All-Academic Team, posting a 3.30 team GPA. DiIanni was also named CAA Men's Golf Scholar Athlete of the Year, earned GCAA All-America and CoSIDA Academic All-America honors. Hill also orchestrated the revival of Elon's home tournament, the Elon Phoenix Invitational at Alamance Country Club. In Elon's inagural season in the Colonial Athletic Association in 2014-15, Hill's squad had four players earn top-10 finishes, 19 top-25 finishers, and a fifth place finish in the 2015 CAA Championships. Junior Jonathan DiIanni earned his first-career All-Conference team honor, won two individual titles, which tied a program record for the most individual titles in a season, and was named to both the CoSIDA and GCAA Academic All-America teams. For the second time during Hill's tenure, the Phoenix earned a spot on the GCAA All-Academic Team with a 3.2 cumulative team GPA. In Hill's first season with the Phoenix in 2013-14, Elon earned two top-three and five top-five team finishes, had four top-10 finishing individuals and 18 top-25 individual finishers. The team posted the best stroke average in the program's Division I era (292.86). John Somers won the Wofford Invitational and tied two Elon scoring records and Jeff Krieger tied an Elon single-round record of 64 at the Donald Ross Intercollegiate. With a 3.2 team GPA, the Phoenix earned GCAA All-Academic Team honors and Will DiIanni earned GCAA and CoSIDA Academic All-America honors. Prior to Elon, Hill spent the previous two seasons as the associate head mens golf coach at South Carolina, helping the Gamecocks to outstanding success both in the Southeastern Conference (SEC) and nationally. In 2012-13, Hill helped South Carolina lock up an NCAA postseason bid for the second straight year. South Carolina had one of its most successful seasons in recent history in 2013. The Gamecocks recorded five top-three finishes, including a win at the Wendys Kiawah Classic, as well as a pair of runner-up finishes. South Carolina finished two strokes back of second-ranked Alabama at the SEC Championship this year. Individually, Hill helped guide sophomore Caleb Sturgeon to a runner-up finish at the SEC Championship with a total score of 205 (-5), which is the second lowest 54-hole SEC Championship score in USC history. Prior to joining head coach Bill McDonald's staff at USC, Hill spent eight years as assistant men's coach at North Carolina from 2004-2011. Hill assisted the UNC mens golf program in the day-to-day operations in addition to his on-course duties as coach and teacher. Hill joined the UNC coaching staff after working one year with UNC's Rams Club as a graduate intern. Prior to that, he played on golf mini tours from 1999-2001. In his time as North Carolina's assistant coach, the Tar Heels won 10 tournaments, including the ACC Championship in 2006 and the UNCG Bridgestone Golf Collegiate in the fall of 2010. Five Tar Heels captured seven individual championships during Hills tenure as well. Hill has coached three All-Americans, including Martin Ureta in 2005 and 2006, Dustin Bray in 2002-04 and Kevin O'Connell in 2008. Hill was a member of the UNC men's golf team (1995, 1997-99). He was a two-time All-ACC performer and two-time honorable mention All-American in 1998 and 1999. Hill helped lead North Carolina to 10th-place NCAA finishes in 1997 and 1999. He was the runner-up at the 1998 ACC Championship, one stroke behind Clemson's Charles Warren, and finished 10th at the 1999 NCAA Championship. Hill posted 13 top-10 finishes during his four-year collegiate career and 23 top-25 finishes. He posted a 72.88 stroke average in 1997-98 and a 73.03 average in 1998-99. Hill, a native of Mount Olive, N.C., and a four-year golf standout at Southern Wayne High School, graduated from North Carolina in 1999 with a degree in communications. What Others Are Saying About Coach Hill: Don Hill has emerged as one of the premier young coaches in the country. Having excelled at each level he has a unique ability to relate with his players both on and off the golf course. I have followed Don's growth and progress since his outstanding collegiate career at UNC and included him in our list of candidates in our coaching search in 2007. Since his arrival as associate head coach two years ago he has been a vital and integral part of our success. There is no doubt he will carry Elon golf to unprecedented heights and success.     Coach Hill has done a tremendous job in helping build a national-caliber program here at the University of South Carolina. Elon has made a great choice in hiring him to lead their men's golf program. We wish him and his wife Lizzie the very best. They will be ambassadors and leaders in the Phoenix community."   "Coach Hill has been an invaluable asset to me for the past two years and he has done an incredible job of impacting our golf program here at South Carolina. His ability to relate to our players on all levels, recruit relentlessly, and his organizational abilities, have been crucial to our success as a golf program. Coach Hill's influence on our golf program has had a direct impact on our resurgence nationally and I have no doubt he will excel as a head coach. Coach Hill will be sorely missed here in Columbia and we all wish him great success at Elon. Go Phoenix!"      Having watched Don develop into an All-American as a player at UNC and watch him develop his coaching skills over the past decade at an ACC school and an SEC school, I know he is well prepared to take on the challenge of being a head coach. Elon has made a wonderful choice in Don Hill and the golf program will have much success under his leadership for years to come.

Dockrill heads into his 17th season as Elon's head women's golf coach in 2016-17 and has guided the Phoenix program to much success. Dockrill, a two-time league coach of the year (2000 Big South Conference, 2007 Southern Conference), has seen 15 different players earn All-America Scholar honors and Elon has been represented on those teams a total of 23 times.  Of those, the Phoenix squad placed a program-record four players on both the 2013 and 2014 WGCA All-America Scholars list. In his first two seasons as part of the Colonial Athletic Association, Dockrill has guided the Phoenix to five tournament titles and 13 top-five finishes in 19 total tournaments. In 2015-16, Elon finished in the top-five as a team in nine of the 10 total tournaments. Kelsey Badmaev and Heather Munro earned First Team All-CAA honors and Emily Brooks earned a spot on the All-Academic team. The Phoenix also won two tournament titles at the MSU Spring Citrus Challenge and the John Kirk Panther Intercollegiate. During the 2014-2015 campaign, Elon set a single-season program record of three tournament titles, Heather Munro became the first Phoenix to earn Rookie of the Year honors and three players made the all-conference teams. In the 11 seasons that Elon was been a member of the Southern Conference, Dockrill's players collected all-conference accolades 12 times and three players earned SoCon All-Freshman distinction. In that same span, the team won 12 tournament titles and had 12 individual medalists while consistently playing against some of the best competition in the nation. As an NCAA Division I program, Elon has collected 12 top-five finishes in the league tournament in 15 seasons. Prior to 1999-2000 , Dockrill served two years as an assistant under head coach Bill Morningstar. A 1986 graduate of Elon, Dockrill was both an All-American and an Academic All-American for Morningstar. He played in the Canadian Amateurs from 1982-83. Dockrill started his heralded golf career as the National 16 & under Canadian Champion in 1979. In 2014, Dockrill was selected to the Elon Sports Hall of Fame. Dockrill is married to the former Theresa Brosnan of Rockville, Md., and they have two daughters, Heather and Claire, and a son, Jack.   Chris Dockrill Head Women's Golf Coach Twitter: @elonphoenixgolf Chris Dockrill heads into his 17th season as Elon's head women's golf coach in 2016-17 and has guided the Phoenix program to much success. Dockrill, a two-time league coach of the year (2000 Big South Conference, 2007 Southern Conference), has seen 15 different players earn All-America Scholar honors and Elon has been represented on those teams a total of 23 times.  Of those, the Phoenix squad placed a program-record four players on both the 2013 and 2014 WGCA All-America Scholars list. In his first two seasons as part of the Colonial Athletic Association, Dockrill has guided the Phoenix to five tournament titles and 13 top-five finishes in 19 total tournaments. In 2015-16, Elon finished in the top-five as a team in nine of the 10 total tournaments. Kelsey Badmaev and Heather Munro earned First Team All-CAA honors and Emily Brooks earned a spot on the All-Academic team. The Phoenix also won two tournament titles at the MSU Spring Citrus Challenge and the John Kirk Panther Intercollegiate. During the 2014-2015 campaign, Elon set a single-season program record of three tournament titles, Heather Munro became the first Phoenix to earn Rookie of the Year honors and three players made the all-conference teams. In the 11 seasons that Elon was been a member of the Southern Conference, Dockrill's players collected all-conference accolades 12 times and three players earned SoCon All-Freshman distinction. In that same span, the team won 12 tournament titles and had 12 individual medalists while consistently playing against some of the best competition in the nation. As an NCAA Division I program, Elon has collected 12 top-five finishes in the league tournament in 15 seasons. Prior to 1999-2000 , Dockrill served two years as an assistant under head coach Bill Morningstar. A 1986 graduate of Elon, Dockrill was both an All-American and an Academic All-American for Morningstar. He played in the Canadian Amateurs from 1982-83. Dockrill started his heralded golf career as the National 16 & under Canadian Champion in 1979. In 2014, Dockrill was selected to the Elon Sports Hall of Fame. Dockrill is married to the former Theresa Brosnan of Rockville, Md., and they have two daughters, Heather and Claire, and a son, Jack.