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Former Long Beach State track and field standout Azaria Hill continues a family legacy after earning a spot as Team USA bobsled brakeman in the two-woman sled piloted by Kaysha Love. This will be Hill’s first Olympics. 
 

The feat marks a historic milestone for Hill, a Big West champion, LBSU record-holder and NCAA relay competitor for the Beach, who will now transition from the track to the world’s biggest winter-sport stage while following in her parental footsteps. 
 

Hill joins a list of four other Big West Olympic bobsledders and the first since 2014. The five represent four schools (Long Beach State, UC Davis, UC Riverside, UC Santa Barbara) with two fellow Big West sledders coming to the sport after collegiate track and field careers. 
 

Hill’s journey — from Big West track champion to Winter Olympian — highlights the diverse pathways athletes may take to reach the Olympic stage and underscores the growing tradition of track athletes finding success in bobsled. 
 

A key member of the LBSU team from 2017-20, Hill’s sophomore outdoor season in 2018 was punctuated by a school record in the 4x100 meter relay, Big West title  in the discipline and an NCAA Championship qualifier which resulted in honorable mention All-America status. In 2019 as a junior, Hill again qualified for NCAA regionals in the relay as well as in the 100 meters. After a senior season was halted nearly before it began by the COVID-19 pandemic, Hill completed her collegiate track career at UNLV as a teammate of Love’s before both made the shift to winter sport. The sprinting prowess helped Hill develop the speed and power that would later fuel the transition to bobsled. 
 

Hill’s bobsled debut come in late 2023 and the brakeman quickly showed promise, contributing to a first-place finish in a two-woman North American Cup alongside Love. The tandem finished fourth at the 2024 International Bobsleigh & Skeleton Federation (IBSF) World Championships before earning selection to the Olympic team completing a months-long selection process shaped by World Cup results, IBSF rankings, performance metrics and team needs. 
 

Hill is slated to compete in the two-woman bobsled event at the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics, which run February 6–22, 2026 in northern Italy. The sliding events, including bobsled, are scheduled in the middle of the Games, with Hill’s official training runs beginning Feb. 17 with competition slated for Feb. 20-21 from the new Cortina Sliding Centre (Eugenio Monti Sliding Centre) in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, which was rebuilt on the site of the historic 1956 Olympic track. 
 

Hill’s selection to the Olympic team continues a family legacy of elite athletic achievement. Hill is the daughter of Olympic medalists Denean Howard-Hill (track and field, 1984 - gold, ’88 - silver, ’92 - silver) and Virgil Hill Sr. (boxing, 1984 - silver), who met at the Los Angeles Games. Now Azaria joins the ranks of athletes who have successfully transitioned from collegiate competition to world-class sport.  
 

Friday, Feb. 6 – Opening Ceremony – 8 p.m. Olympic Time/11 a.m. PT 

Friday, Feb. 20 – Two-Woman Bobsled  

Saturday, Feb. 21 – Two-Woman Bobsled  

Sunday, Feb. 22 – Closing Ceremony – 8 p.m. Olympic Time/11 a.m. PT