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Hayley Hills

Coming from Canada to become an Eagle for the second time, former Eastern Washington University volleyball standout Hayley Hills has joined the EWU volleyball coaching staff, head coach Leslie Flores-Cloud has announced. The start of the 2021-22 season marks her first at Eastern Washington.
 
Hills, the Big Sky Conference MVP in 2008 and a three-time first team All-BSC selection, will join the staff as a volunteer assistant. She will work on her master's degree at Eastern, having earned her bachelor's degree from EWU in 2010 in communication studies.
 
She has spent the past 10 seasons coaching in Canada, including 2012-14 when she worked for Volleyball Canada as a head coach at their Center of Excellence in Kamloops, B.C. She trained and developed athletes of all ages and levels using specific program guidelines, lesson plans and resources provided by Volleyball Canada.
 
Most recently, from 2015-2020 she was with the East Kootenay Volleyball Club in Cranbrook, B.C., as head coach of the U15, U16, U17 and U18 programs. In 2017, her U18 squad was the Division 2 national champion in Canada.
 
In addition, she spent three seasons in 2011-2013 as an assistant coach at Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops, helping the program to its first-ever playoff berth in 2012.
 
After graduating from Correlieu Secondary in Quesnel, British Columbia, in 2006, Hills helped EWU win 71 matches from 2006-09. She played for three different Eastern coaches – Wade Benson, Irene Matlock and Miles Kydd – and helped Eastern to a Big Sky Conference record of 46-18 (.719) and overall mark of 71-46 (.607).
 
Hills was selected to the All-Big Sky Conference first team for a third-straight year in 2009, including the Big Sky Conference Most Valuable Player award as a junior. She and former Eagle Kim Exner are the only two Eagles on the list of just 14 players to earn first team All-Big Sky honors three or four times in league history (entering 2021 season).
 
In addition, she was All-Tournament at the 2008 Big Sky Championships when EWU finished as the runner-up. Hills and the Eagles finished the 2008 campaign 18-11 overall and were 12-4 in Big Sky play to claim their first regular-season title since 2004.
 
She climbed into the second spot on Eastern Washington's career kills list with 1,428 (still second entering 2021). Her total at the time trailed only the school record of 1,860 set by Exner (1995-98), and also ranked 13th all-time in Big Sky Conference history (now 17th entering 2021). Her career average per set of 3.85 remains second in school history and 15th in the Big Sky entering 2021.
 
Twice she had 30 kills in a single match, ranking her second in school history at the time (third overall entering 2021) and a record for a four-set match (both remain as records entering 2021). She at least 20 kills on 23 occasions, ranking her second behind Exner's 37 (still second entering 2021), including a record seven-straight matches in 2007.
 
She finished her senior season with a team-leading 375 kills (3.50 per set to rank fourth in the Big Sky) and ranked second on the team in digs with 292 (2.73 per set). Following impressive performances in wins over Montana and Montana State in September of 2009, Hills was named the Big Sky Conference Player of the Week. Hills also earned POW honors on four occasions as a junior in 2008 and once as a sophomore in 2007, and also was honored as EWU's Scholar-Athlete of the Month.
 
She earned Big Sky Conference Player of the Year honors as a junior in 2008 when she averaged 4.58 kills per set, an average that led the conference and ranked her eighth among all NCAA Division I players. She also earned CVU.com honorable mention Stellar Spiker accolades in 2008, becoming one of just two Big Sky Conference players to be honored by the organization.
 
She had 491 kills as a sophomore and 490 as a junior to rank fourth and fifth all-time at EWU (both at the time and entering 2021).
 
In her final three seasons at EWU (2007, 2008 and 2009), the Eagles were 26-6 at home at Reese Court, including 19-3 the last final seasons.
 
Hills is the second former Eagle to join the coaching staff under Flores-Cloud. Angela Spoja (formerly Angela Frederick) played for EWU in 1995-96 under Eastern Athletics Hall of Fame head coach Pamela Parks.