Bio

His Plaque Reads: Matthew Hill, a three-season athete who played soccer, basketball and baseball at Bath-Haverling High School, was a member of the soccer teams that won two sectional championships and went to the state finals once. In 2011, he was inducted into the Haverling Athlete's Wall of Fame. Though he graduated from high school unsure which career to pursue, he knew he wanted to enter college and play soccer and baseball. Matter entered this College when it was CCFL, played soccer and baseball for two years and graduated after the name was changed to FLCC in 1992. During his sophomore year, he was captain on the soccer team, led the NJCAA Region III in goals and was named first team All-Region. That year, Matt also helped lead the baseball team to the College's first-ever regional championship which resulted in a trip to the NJCAA World Series where the Lakers finished fourth in the country. 

Matt transferred to Keuka College and played soccer for two more years. He graduated in 1994 with a bachelor's degree in secondary math education. Matt credits his math teachers ,Tom Hagadorn in high school, and Ike Dunham and Len Malinowski at FLCC, for his decision to become a secondary math teacher. Two weeks before school started that fall, he accepted what he believed would be a temporary position teaching math at his high school, Bath-Haverling. After 17 years, during which he earned a master's degree from Elmira College and his permanent teaching certification, he and his wife, Lindsay, still call Bath home. 

In addition to teaching, Matt has been both assistant coach and head coach at the junior high, JV and varsity levels for track, baseball, basketball and soccer. For the past 11 years, he has been the varsity boys head soccer coach, and during that time, his teams have won six sectional championships and reached the state quarterfinals four times.

A small town like Bath can only support such a successful varsity team when the residents sponosr teams for the younger children who live there. Matt has taken a leadership position to provide youth soccer leagues in Bath to help children learn and practice the sport.

The first alumni were inducted into the Finger Lakes Community College Athletic Hall of Fame in 1991. Induction recognizes alumni who excelled as athletes on College teams who, since graduating, serve as role models for current student athletes. The College and FLCC Department of Athletics are thrilled to honor Matthew J. Hill '92 with induction into the FLCC Athletic Hall of Fame.