LAS VEGAS, Nev. – When San Francisco and Kansas City take to the gridiron for Super LVIII Sunday night, the contest will feature a key cog from Carson-Newman.
Tom Hill played baseball for legendary Carson-Newman coach Bobby Wilson in the 1970s. He'll be concluding an illustrious officiating career on the grandest stage as the field judge for the big game.
In doing so, he and line judge Mark Perlman will become the 13th and 14th officials to ever retire after officiating a Super Bowl.
This will be the fifth Super Bowl Hill has worked. He has two previous games under his belt as a field judge and two as a side judge.
Hill has been officiating NFL games since 1999. He has worked 26 postseason games and nine conference championships.
Carson-Newman has a long lineage of producing high-level officials. Greg Parman and Harold Denton both are now official observers for the South Atlantic Conference after officiating games throughout the Southeast for three decades. Matt Hollifield, husband of former Carson-Newman head softball coach Vickee Kazee-Hollifield, and a C-N football alum, officiates SEC games. Finally, former Eagle baseball player and son of AD Emeritus David Barger, Paul Barger, is a South Atlantic Conference official.