CU HONORS ENTREPENEURIAL ALUM
FOOTBALL LOCKER ROOM NAMED FOR ERIC HILLMAN
8/26/2010 11:22:43 PM
Kevin Garrett, Eric Hillman
One of Mike Kellar’s goals after taking the Concord Football head coaching job was updating the Mountain Lions’ facilities.
Thanks to a CU alumnus, one of those goals is achieved.
In a ceremony at the Carter Center Thursday afternoon, Concord Athletics honored Eric H. Hillman for his contribution to the Mountain Lions Football team’s new locker room by unveiling a plaque bearing Hillman’s likeness.
The renovated locker room first hosted the Concord team during the 2009 season. It will be known as the ‘Eric H. Hillman/Jeffery D. Compton Athletic Locker Room.’
“Facilities are very important in this day and age,” Concord Director of Athletics Kevin Garrett said during Thursday’s ceremony. “They can be the difference when a student-athlete decides where to go to college. Up-to-date facilities like this locker room will make us competitive in our conference and in the region.”
“When you’re recruiting a top-flight student-athlete, you’re recruiting a young person who has options,” CU Football head coach Mike Kellar (right) said. “By upgrading our facilities like this, we can offer a young person something that makes Concord more attractive.”
Hillman, an entrepreneur who heads Europa Sports Products, one of the largest sports supplement distributors in the country, said, “It was Concord that developed me and made me what I am today. The way I run my business comes from what I learned at Concord.
In his CU student days in the early 1980s, Hillman played football, was president of the American Marketing Association and a public defender in the Student Government Association.