ASU #6

CoCo Hillary



Wide Receiver - WR

Height: 5-10 Weight: 190

Senior

Previous Affiliations
Strom Thurmond
Previous Experience
Edgefield, S.C.

One of the Mountaineers’ most explosive weapons was playing the best football of his career when his junior season came to a sudden halt in early November due to a right knee injury suffered during a non-contact practice drill ... has diligently rehabilitated the injury and is expected to be at or near 100 percent when fall camp opens ... after missing the final two months of the 2009 season and all of spring drills, he enters 2010 listed as the backup to fellow senior B.J. Frazier at the ‘Z’ wide receiver position but is expected to return as a major contributor at receiver and on special teams if healthy ... is already ASU’s all-time leader with 2,253 career kickoff-return yards (the only player in school history with 2,000 yards on kickoff returns) ... also comes into his final season as the sixth-leading receiver in ASU history with 116 career receptions and ranked seventh in ASU’s all-time annals 1,588 receiving yards.

2009: Served as the Mountaineers’ primary ‘Z’ wide receiver for the first eight games of the season before suffering a season-ending right knee injury during a non-contact drill at practice on Nov. 3 ... despite playing in only eight games, earned second-team all-Southern Conference recognition as a wide receiver and kick returner from the league’s coaches and was voted the SoCon’s first-team return specialist by the conference’s media ... led team with four touchdown receptions, ranked second with 37 receptions and third with 514 receiving yards at the time of his injury ... was also the SoCon’s leading kickoff returner when his season came to a close with a 24.9-yard average ... after amassing just 231 yards and a touchdown on 18 catches over the first five games of the season, he exploded for 283 yards and three touchdowns on 19 receptions over the next three outings (at Wofford, vs. Georgia Southern, at Furman) ... caught six passes for a then-career-high 96 yards in comeback win at Wofford ... erupted for the first 100-yard and multi-touchdown games of his career in the next week’s rout over GSU, finishing with seven receptions for 104 yards and two scores in the 52-16 win ... continued the stellar play with six catches for 84 yards and a touchdown the next week at Furman ... suffered the season-ending knee injury at practice three days after the win at FU ... returned 21 kickoffs for 522 yards on the season ... had at least one return of 30 yards or longer in 5-of-8 games, including each of his final four.

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