About Us

Nicholas Hills is the founder and owner of Hillsy Keeper Academy LLC, which operates in central Ohio. Hillsy began his coaching career in the fall of 2015 with Zanesville Arsenal SC. By the fall of 2017, he was a certified goalkeeper trainer and coach in both central and eastern Ohio. Coach Hillsy has served as a goalkeeper coach for clubs such as Ohio Premier SC, Zanesville Arsenal SC, Ohio Extreme SC, and Columbus United SC.

His school coaching career began in 2016, serving as the goalkeepers coach for Zanesville Bishop Rosecrans High School. He would join the Muskingum University men’s soccer coaching staff in 2017 until 2020 to begin his college coaching career. Hillsy then moved on to coach the GKs at Ashland University men’s and women’s soccer in 2020. After his return to Columbus Ohio in 2022, he joined the coaching staffs at Soccer Field Academy, Ohio Dominican University and Bexley High School.