Florida Gators complete strength and conditioning staff

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Billy Napier has rounded out the Florida Gators strength and conditioning staff with two new hires. Rodney Hill as their director of player athletic development and Reed Roberts as an assistant director of player athletic development, a program source confirmed with Gators Online.

Hill will fill the roll vacated by Tyler Miles after he was promoted to Florida’s director of player athletic development.

Hill arrived in Durham after a one-year stint (2021) as the assistant strength and conditioning coach for football at Louisiana State University (LSU). While in Baton Rouge, Hill oversaw the Tigers’ lifting, running, and mobility training programs, specifically for the offensive line and tight ends groups. He also used velocity-based training systems (perch), global positioning systems and heart rate monitor (polar) technologies to collect, monitor, and report findings in athlete training and help monitor the athlete’s physiological and mechanical outputs.
 
Prior to that, Hill spent two years in the National Football League (NFL) with the Buffalo Bills and Detroit Lions. He served as an assistant strength and performance coach with the Lions for the 2019 season before joining the Bills in 2020, working as a seasonal intern of strength and conditioning.
 
For the 2018 season, Hill was on staff at the University of Central Florida as an assistant director of football sports performance and director of football sports nutrition and internship coordinator. While there, he helped design and implement the strength training and conditioning programs as well as oversee the implementation of weight room and field programming with a focus on the offensive and defensive line position groups. The Knights claimed the American Athletic Conference (AAC) Football Championship that season and finished with an impressive 12-1 mark, including an appearance in the PlayStation Fiesta Bowl.

Tyler Miles file

Tyler Miles enters his first season with the Gators after being hired as Florida’s director of player athletic development.

Prior to Florida, he spent the 2022 season at Duke, where he served as an assistant director of sports performance, working primarily with the football program.

Prior to Duke, he spent the 2021 season as an assistant strength and conditioning coach at the University of Miami.

Prior to that, he spent two years (2019-20) at Boost Performance in Nashville, working primarily with athletes on combine training, and National Football League (NFL) and college offseason workouts. During his time there, he assisted in training and prepping 25-30 athletes for their NFL combine and pro day. In his two years, Miles had 10 athletes selected in the NFL Draft and 30-plus athletes sign NFL free agent contracts.

In that same stretch, he worked at Tennessee State University as the head strength coach, working primarily with the football and volleyball programs as well as the track throwers.

Along with strength and conditioning training, Miles was responsible for athlete rehab and the return to play process. He also made stops at Northwestern State University as an assistant strength coach (2019), the University of Tennessee as a strength and conditioning intern (2018) and the University of South Carolina as a strength and conditioning intern (2017).

In addition, he worked with the Salt Lake City Stallions as an assistant strength coach and with the New York Jets as an intern for a brief time in 2019 and 2018, respectively.