Emporia State athletics announced Friday that the interim tag would be removed from Megan Hill and that she would be the head coach moving forward for Emporia State softball. Hill had spent the previous two years with the Lady Hornets as assistant coach. Hill previously was the head coach at Northern Oklahoma College-Enid. There she led the Jets to a 64-114 record while going 35-63 in the Bi-State Conference. She won three games in her first year in 2020 and led the team to a 26-23 record in her final season in 2023. Before that she was head coach at El Dorado High School and was the AVCTL Coach of the Year in 2017. The former Megan Davison, she is a two-time inductee into the ESU Hall of Honor – individually in 2018 and again in 2023 as a part of the 2006 Lady Hornet national runner-up team. She was a four-time All-MIAA, three-time All-Region, and two-time All-American for the Lady Hornets at third base. She departed as the school and conference record holder in hits, doubles, homers, and RBIs. Hill played her prep ball in Derby and is a member of the DHS Hall of Fame. ESU (26-15, 12-8 MIAA) was ranked in the initial alphabetical Central Region ranking this week and sits idle this weekend. E-State returns to action for a critical makeup series against fellow regionally ranked opponent Central Missouri on Tuesday. First pitch is set for 1:00 p.m.
Interim Title Removed from Hill at ESU Softball
Interim head coach Megan Hill discusses strategy with Taryn Burkhardt (8). Courtesy ESU Athletics.
