Bob Hogue Biography
Bob Hogue is an American athletic conference commissioner, author, columnist, and sportscaster. He is also a former Republican member of the Hawaii State Senate. Bob represents the 24th district of Kailua-Kaneohe for six years from 2000 to 2006.
He was the Republican nominee for U.S. Congress in Hawaii’s 2nd congressional district, to replace Ed Case. Unfortunately, he lost in the 2006 general election to former Lieutenant Governor Mazie Hirono. Hogue is currently the commissioner of the Pacific West Conference, a position he has held since 2007.
Bob Hogue Age
Hogue was born on September 7, 1953, in Whittier, California, United States of America. He is sixty-five years of age as of 2018. He was born Robert Charles Hogue.
Bob Hogue Education
He graduated from the University of Southern California in 1975 where he played baseball and earned a degree in business with an emphasis in accounting. He earned his CPA certificate working for Price Waterhouse & Co. in southern California from 1975 to 1977.
Bob Hogue Broadcasting Career
He was the lead sportscaster with three top-rated news stations such as; KWWL-TV in Waterloo, Iowa and the Iowa Television Network (1979–1984), KCRA-TV in Sacramento, California (1984–1988), and KHON-TV in Honolulu, Hawaii (1988–1999).
He worked at KTIV in Sioux City, Iowa, KFBB-TV in Great Falls, Montana. Additionally, he worked at various radio stations in Honolulu, HI, Sacramento, CA, and Prescott, AZ.
He was the play-by-play announcer for the University of Iowa basketball on television in the 1980s. Some of the universities include; University of Hawaii football and basketball on the radio in the 1990s, and then Hawaii Pacific University basketball on radio and television in the 2000s.
Bob Hogue Net Worth
Bob Hogue Wife | Bob Hogue Children
When it comes to his love life, Bob is married to Sherri Kingsley Hogue and resides in Newport Beach, California. The happy couple is blessed with three daughters. He coached all three of his daughters, Jesica, Becky, and Amanda, in basketball.
Bob Hogue Coaching and athletic administration career
Hogue was the head boys’ basketball coach at Academy of the Pacific in Honolulu from 2004 to 2006. This after earlier serving as head girls’ basketball coach at St. Anthony’s and Trinity Christian in Kailua. In 2007, he was named the commissioner of the Pacific West Conference. Currently, the conference is now the largest NCAA Division II conference in the west. In 2013, he was named to the DII Management Council and DII Membership Committee, serving a full year term on each committee until 2017. He currently chairs the Sports Administration committee for the DII Conference Commissioners Association.
Bob Hogue Television Hosting and Writing
Hogue served with Wayne Coito as host of PacWest Magazine television on OC-16 and ww.thepacwest.com. He wrote a weekly sports and recreation column, called “Keeping Score”, for MidWeek magazine since 1988. Bob is a frequent contributor to other magazine publications.
He published his first novel in late 2009. The novel was called Sands of Lanikai. It was Published, by Island Heritage. It is historical fiction, mystery, and romance set in Kailua, Oahu around the time of the Attack on Pearl Harbor. Sands of Lanikai was #1 on The Honolulu Advertiser bestseller list on November 29, 2009, and remained on the Advertiser bestseller list for the next several months. The novel was later nominated for a Po’okela Award for excellence in literature.