Kelli Hill

Kelli Hill (born 1960 in Silver Spring, Maryland) is a United States Artistic gymnastics coach who coached Olympians Dominique Dawes, Elise Ray, Courtney Kupets, and Corrie Lothrop. She was the head coach of the 2000 and 2004 Olympic teams and of the 1994, 1996, 1999, and 2003 World Championship teams for Women's artistic gymnastics. She is the owner of Hill's Gymnastics Training Center (Hill's Angels) in Gaithersburg, Maryland

Hill was born in Silver Spring, Maryland and attended Montgomery Blair High School. She did gymnastics as a child and a teen, however she has described herself as a "low level" gymnast who was "not good at it."

She went to the University of Maryland where she walked on to the gymnastics team. She intended to major in physical education, with the goal of coaching gymnastics. However, she dropped out months before graduation due to the requirement that she spend eight weeks as a student-teacher.

In 1981, at age 21, she bought a gym in Wheaton, Maryland. She moved the gym to Gaithersburg, Maryland in 1991.

After opening her gym in 1981, Kelli's mother ran the gym's office for her while she coached. Because she had no formal training in coaching gymnastics, she learned how to coach by "trial and error".

She coached Dominique Dawes to three consecutive Olympic games; Barcelona in 1992, Atlanta in 1996, and Sydney in 2000. In 2000 both Dominique Dawes and teammate Elise Ray competed and won a team bronze medal*. In 2004, Hill's gymnast Courtney Kupets scored highest in the Olympic trials, and traveled to Athens where she won bronze on uneven bars and contributed scores on bars and floor to the team's 2nd place finish. Hill's gymnast Corrie Lothrop was an alternate on the 2008 Olympic team, but did not compete.

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