Mark Hogan, a native of Cape Girardeau enters his 18th season with a total of 888 wins between the NCAA Division I, NCAA Division II and NJCAA Division I ranks.
Hogan became the program’s fourth head coach in 1995, and has since compiled a 503-420-1 record in 17 seasons as the Redhawks skipper.
Southeast has become one of the elite teams in the Ohio Valley Conference under Hogan’s watch. Not only have the Redhawks made the OVC Tournament 17-straight years, but they racked up 236 conference victories, one regular-season title (2002) and two OVC Tournament championships (1998, 2002) along the way. Southeast also played in the OVC Tournament title game seven times and made two NCAA Regional appearances. Hogan’s clubs have earned 15 or more league wins in eight of his 16 seasons.
Hogan has achieved many milestones throughout his illustrious coaching career. He earned his 500th victory as head coach of the Redhawks on May 20, 2011 against Eastern Illinois. He earned his 850th career victory with a win against Central Arkansas, 13-11, on April 28, 2010. He recorded his 800th victory with an 8-4 win at then-No. 16 Alabama on Feb. 22, 2009. In 2008, Hogan became the first head coach in Southeast baseball history to win 400 games. A year before that, he became the Redhawks all-time winningest coach, surpassing the legendary Joe Uhls. Hogan, who has 30 years of head coaching experience, also became the first in school history to win 30 games in a season, a feat he has accomplished on nine occasions.
In 2011, Southeast posted a 34-22 and a 14-8 record in the OVC, the Redhawks’ 34 wins rank as the third most in school history. The Redhawks were 20-14 outside the Ohio Valley Conference with a 6-5 win over #16 Arkansas to highlight non-conference play.
Southeast finished the 2011season eighth in the nation in batting average at .316. The Redhawks also finished the season eighth in the country in home runs per game at 1.02 as Southeast slugged 57 homers. The Redhawks offense scored 387 runs, leading the OVC and ranking fifth in school history.
In 2002, Hogan led Southeast to a school-record 37 wins and was named the OVC’s Coach-of-the-Year.
The Redhawks have enjoyed unprecedented success both on and off the field with Hogan as their coach.
In fact, 13 of his players have earned either OVC Rookie, Player or Pitcher-of-the-Year honors. Hogan has had 41 players named to the All-OVC First-Team, 33 All-OVC Second-Team players and six players named to the All-Freshman Team under his tutelage. Hogan has also coached 14 All-Americans, with the most current being third baseman Trenton Moses, who was named Third-Team Louisville Slugger All-American. Moses earned the honor of OVC Player of the Year in 2011. Hogan has coached 11 MLB draft picks with the most recent being pitcher Logan Mahon who was a 22nd round selection of the Colorado Rockies in 2011.
Former Redhawk Justin Christian saw time with the San Francisco Giants in 2011. Christian was named an All-American and OVC Rookie of the Year under Hogan in 2003.
Academically, the Southeast baseball team recorded a 3.24 grade point average for the 2011 fall semester. In all, 27 players registered at least a 3.0 GPA and two earned a perfect 4.0 during that term. In addition, the Redhawks earned the Team Academic Achievement Award for the most student-athletes with a GPA of 3.25 or higher. Additionally, 15 players make the OVC Commissioner’s Honor Roll and two Redhawks earned the OVC Medal of Honor, which goes to those student-athletes who achieve the highest GPA in a conference-sponsored sport.
As a player, Hogan transferred to Southeast Missouri State from Mineral Area College. He was a member of Southeast’s 1976 baseball team which finished third at the NCAA Division II College World Series. The 1976 squad later became the first baseball team to be inducted into the Southeast Missouri State Athletics Hall of Fame in 2006.
He graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree from Southeast in 1977 and went on to serve as a graduate assistant at Mississippi State in 1978-79.
Hogan then accepted his first head coaching position at Lurleen B. Wallace College in 1982. He went 230-147 in eight seasons at Lurleen and led his 1988 squad to a 38-16 record, AJCAA title and NJCAA Region XXII Championship. In addition, Hogan was named Alabama Junior College Athletics Association Coach-of-the-Year.
In 1990, Hogan moved to the NCAA Division II level. In five years at West Alabama, he registered a 155-110-2 record, won two Gulf South Conference Championships (1992, 1994), one NCAA Division II South Central Region Championship (1992) and finished fifth at the 1992 NCAA Division II College World Series. His colleagues voted him Gulf South and South Central Region Coach-of-the-Year for his efforts.
Hogan resides in Cape Girardeau with his wife, Becky. They have three daughters: Julie, Christie and Betsy. Julie resides in Jackson, Miss., with her husband, Mitch Ogles, daughter, Caroline Mae and son, Chapman Lee Ogles. Chapman Lee is Mark and Becky’s first grandchild. Christie and her husband, Billy Puckett, live in Aledo, Ill. Betsy is currently a graduate student at Southeast foucusing on speech pathology.
