Joe Hoggatt has been hired as a CIF Southern Section assistant commissioner, the section office announced Thursday (June 26).
Hoggatt, 54, coached baseball at La Puente Bishop Amat since the 2015 season and has been a Bishop Amat athletic director the past three years. He was the Canyon baseball coach for 12 seasons before going to Bishop Amat.
He will be in charge of the Southern Section’s management of the fall sport of football, the winter sport of boys and girls wrestling, and of baseball. Hoggatt also will be involved in eligibility and transfer issues and will sit on various committees including the officials fees committee and the public/private committee.
Hoggatt replaces Richard Shearer who has retired after six years as a CIF-SS assistant commissioner.
Hoggatt has served on the CIF-SS baseball advisory committee and has worked as team liaison for CIF-SS baseball and football championship events. He said those experiences, and working with various CIF-SS officers — like former commissioner Rob Wigod and Glenn Martinez, who was an assistant commissioner — advanced his interest in the assistant commissioner position.
“Being around Rob and Glenn and Rick as well, seeing how they did things, their professionalism, that made an impact on me,” Hoggatt said. “I thought I would like to sit in that chair and do things they did.”
