Former Pacific West Conference Commissioner Bob Hogue is one of four receipients to receive the 2024 D2 CCA Meritorious Service award, announced today.

Hogue, who spent 16 years as the PacWest Commissioner before retiring last June, will receive the award at the PacWest Basketball Championships this week in San Diego at Point Loma Nazarene University. Current PacWest Commissioner Jessica Harbison Weaver and Point Loma athletic director Ethan Hamilton will present the award at halftime of the 2 p.m. men's championship.

Hogue guided the PacWest through numerous expansion scenarios, Covid-19 and unprecedented success for the conference athletically and academically.

He became the PacWest’s first full-time commissioner at a critical juncture in the conference’s history in the summer of 2007. When Hogue began, the conference had only five active NCAA Division II members and seven schools total, covering a geographical area from Hawaii to California to Utah and Arizona. After his first year, he successfully petitioned the NCAA to reinstate the PacWest’s automatic qualifiers for postseason play.

Within five years, he led the effort to double the size of the conference to 14 schools, becoming the largest Division II conference in the west region. He helped the conference add five new sports to the conference championships program, going from 10 conference sports to 15, while eventually seeing the PacWest win six NCAA DII national championships, with 13 additional national finalists. Prior to his retirement, he spearheaded the addition of three new conference members, bringing the PacWest membership to 14 for 2024-25.

He was also active on several key NCAA committees. In 2013, he was named to the NCAA DII Management Council and the NCAA DII Membership Committee, which he served through 2017. In 2017 and 2018, Hogue worked with the men's and women's tennis national committee. From 2019-23, Hogue served on the NCAA DII Nominating Committee.

Prior to his tenure with the PacWest, Hogue worked for nearly three decades in sports television and radio in Arizona, Montana, Iowa, California, and Hawai'i. Hogue was also a state senator in Hawai`i and is also an author. He and his wife Sherri now live in Arizona, splitting their time between Surprise and Sedona.

The Division 2 Conference Commissioners Association (D2 CCA) also announced Dr. Paul Engelmann (Central Missouri University), Doug Jones (Tusculum), and Greg Moore (Southern Intercollegiate Conference) as its D2 CCA Meritorious Service award recipients.