Former Tusculum AD Jones Named D2 CCA 2024 Meritorious Service Award Recipient
CLEVELAND - The Division 2 Conference Commissioners Association (D2 CCA) is pleased to announce Dr. Paul Engelmann, Bob Hogue, Doug Jones, and Greg Moore as its D2 CCA Meritorious Service award recipients.
The D2 CCA Meritorious Service Award recognizes a commissioner with ten years of service once he/she leaves the position for the time and dedication they have made to Division II and is decided by the full CCA membership upon recommendation by the Awards Committee. In addition, other individuals, including but not limited to conference office staff, institutional staff members, or NCAA staff members are also eligible to be recognized with this award. The intent is to recognize these individuals once they retire or depart Division II; however, if an individual goes above and beyond in service to Division II, in particular, the CCA, they may be recognized even if they are still employed at a Division II conference office or institution.
Paul Engelmann – University of Central Missouri
Paul Engelmann served as the faculty athletics representative (FAR) at the University of Central Missouri (UCM) from 1981-2017. He was a professor of economics at UCM. His work as FAR allowed him to be heavily involved in the workings of the MIAA and the NCAA. In fact, Paul served as the Parliamentarian for more than 20 Division II business sessions at the NCAA Conventions. Englemann worked under five presidents during his nearly 40 years as the FAR at UCM, he served as the FAR Council chair for the MIAA and he served on numerous MIAA and NCAA committees, including being the chair for many years of the Division II Legislation Committee and he served as Chair of the NCAA Division II Management Council for 2 years.
Engelmann was inducted into the UCM Athletic Hall of Fame in 2013. Engelmann has been a leader in the NCAA Governance Structure since Division II gained greater autonomy and independence as a membership division in the mid-1990's. He served as Management Council Chair during an important period of Division II's development and growth, and he continues to serve the Division II membership each January as the Division II Parliamentarian at the Annual NCAA Convention.
Bob Hogue – Pacific West Conference (PacWest)
Bob Hogue, guided the PacWest through numerous expansion scenarios, Covid-19 and unprecedented success for the conference athletically and academically. He made an announcement to his schools that he will retire from his post at the end of the end of the 2023 athletics seasons. Hogue 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 PacWest win six NCAA DII national championships, with 13 additional national finalists.
Prior to his tenure with the PacWest, Hogue worked for nearly three decades in television and radio news and sports in Arizona, Montana, Iowa, California, and Hawai'i. Hogue 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.
Doug Jones – Tusculum University
Doug Jones served as Tusculum's vice president for athletics from 2015-23. He currently serves as the assistant vice president for student engagement at Tarleton State University. Jones is the winningest baseball coach in Tusculum University history. He guided Tusculum to winning seasons in 18 of his 21 years including a string of 17 consecutive winning seasons from 2002-2017. During his storied career, he posted an impressive 705-412-1 record. Jones directed the baseball program into one of its most successful and exciting periods from 2004-2017 as his teams posted 14 consecutive 30-win campaigns, including five that eclipsed the 40-win plateau. His teams captured five South Atlantic Conference Championships, four SAC Tournament titles and made seven trips to the NCAA Division II Tournament. For his efforts, he was named SAC Coach of the Year three times. Jones mentored 20 All-Americans, 47 All-Region honorees, 92 All-SAC players, four SAC Players of the Year, two SAC Freshmen of the Year and five SAC Pitchers of the Year.
Jones was recipient of the Art Argauer Award four times recognizing the Tusculum Coach of the Year, as by his coaching peers at the University. Jones' long tenure at Division II included serving on numerous SAC and NCAA Committees, including being the chair of the SAC Athletics Council in 2021-22 and 2022-23, serving on the NCAA Division II Baseball Committee 2013-2016 and serving as chair of the committee in 2014-15 and 2015-16. He was also Tusculum's male nominee for the NCAA Division II 50th Anniversary Gold Award.
Greg Moore – Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SIAC)
After serving nearly 14 years as commissioner of the SIAC, Gregory Moore retired at the end of June 2022. As the longest-tenured full-time commissioner in the 108-year history of the conference, Moore assumed responsibility of the SIAC when the league was grappling with unprecedented fiscal challenges. During his tenure, Moore confronted these challenges with intelligence, integrity, and entrepreneurial skill, while increasing league revenue by 450%, improving SIAC partnership revenue by 800%, and negotiating multi-year partnerships with companies such as The Coca-Cola Company, Nike, The Home Depot, GEICO, Cricket Wireless, UBS, TIAA, Academy Sports, the Google Foundation, Georgia Power, and Toyota among others.
A licensed attorney, Commissioner Moore also serves as an advisor or board member to sports tech startups and organizations such as The Doug Williams Center for the Study of Race & Politics in Sports, The First Point Volleyball Foundation which seeks to expand volleyball participation opportunities in the African-American community, and the Fan Controlled Football League (FCF), a $10m venture funded startup interactive football league. Prior to his arrival at the SIAC Commissioner Moore served as general counsel for the ABA franchise Jersey Express Basketball Club and served as deputy counsel with the State Legislature of New Jersey.
About D2 CCA: Initiated in 1992 to promote its member conferences and institutions, D2 CCA has made its mark in providing a united front for NCAA Division II athletics. Created after the break-up of the College Division Commissioners Association, the D2 CCA continues to create lines of communication and opportunities for its member conferences. The D2 CCA is administered by the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics (NACDA), which is in its 59th year. For more information on NACDA and the 18 professional associations that fall under its umbrella, please visit www.nacda.com.