Kelli Hill

Kelli Hill (born c. 1960) is an American artistic gymnastics coach best known for coaching Olympians Dominique Dawes, Elise Ray, and Courtney Kupets, and Olympic reserves Corrie Lothrop and Kayla DiCello. She was the head coach of the United States women's national artistic gymnastics team for the 2000 and 2004 Olympic games and the 1994, 1996, 1999, 2000, and 2003 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships. From 1989 until 2011, Hill coached at least one member of the U.S. women's national artistic gymnastics team, excluding 2006. Hill also coached at least one gymnast or alternate on every Olympic team from 1992 through 2008. She is the owner of Hill's Gymnastics Training Center (Hill's Angels) in Gaithersburg, Maryland, and was inducted into the USA Gymnastics Hall of Fame in 2005. 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 attended the University of Maryland, College Park, 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. When the gym moved to its new location in 1991, Dominique moved into Kelli's home in order to be closer to the gym. Hill coached Dawes to three consecutive Olympic games: Barcelona in 1992, in Atlanta in 1996, and in Sydney in 2000. Dawes later attended the University of Maryland and continued to see her Hill on a regular basis. Both Hill and Dawes described their relationship as close, and Dawes once said "I wouldn't be where I am without her support and guidance...I didn't get here on my own. In my 18 years in the sport, she did a very good job protecting me from everything that was going on outside of gymnastics. She made me focus on the things I had control of and everything else was just put aside in a stack...everything from how the judges felt about me to the temperature of the gym. She was very big on instilling that lesson." At that time, Dawes said that she no longer spoke to Hill.

In 1996, the U.S. Elite Coaches Association named Hill the organization's Coach of the Year for the third time. In 1998, Hill coached Elise Ray to the Goodwill Games, where she earned a silver medal. Originally, China won the bronze medal for the team all-around competition. But in 2010, the Chinese gymnasts were stripped of their medals following an investigation which revealed that the Chinese team had falsified documents to allow the underage Dong Fangxiao to compete.

In 2002, Kupets won the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships. In 2003, Kupets won the U.S. Classic while coached by Hill, becoming the national champion. Following the 2003 season, Hill was named Coach of the Year by USA Gymnastics for the third time and by U.S. Elite Coaches Association for the fifth time.

In 2004, 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.

Kayla DiCello joined Hill's Gymnastics in 2006, when she was two years old. In 2012, Hill was elected to serve a term on the USA Gymnastics Board of Directors, representing women's gymnastics. In 2020, DiCello was an Olympic alternate at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. Following the 2020 Olympics, DiCello attended the University of Florida, competing on their women's gymnastics team, and Hill retired. Following her 2023 college season, DiCello decided she wanted to try to make the 2024 Olympic team. She was inducted into the USA Gymnastics Hall of Fame in 2005.