LIVINGSTON, Ala. – The University of West Alabama Department of Athletics has announced the hiring of Derek Hill as defensive backs coach for the UWA football team, effective immediately. Hill joins the Tiger staff after serving for one season as the defensive backs coach for the Georgia Mustangs of the North American Football League.

Coach Hill brings 23 years of coaching experience and five National Championships to Livingston, with the most recent title occurring in 1998 at Florida A&M University. The Morehouse College alum also served on three consecutive National Championship staffs at the University of North Alabama from 1993 through 1995 under current UWA Head Coach Bobby Wallace, and was on the Central State (OH) University staff that claimed the 1990 NAIA Division I National Championship. While at CSU, the defensive backfield led the nation in interceptions in 1988 and 1989.

Prior to coaching with the Mustangs last season, Hill coached two seasons at Eastside High School in Covington, Ga., serving as defensive backs coach. Coach Hill has also spent time at Morehouse College, Southeast Missouri State and as a graduate assistant at the University of Illinois.

Hill, who was elected to the Morris Brown Hall of Fame in 1989, has coached 12 players that have gone on to play professionally.