A lifelong New Hampshire native, Hogan has dedicated his career to directing, teaching and coaching. Over his very distinguished career in education, Paul Hogan has been recognized as one of the premier instructors of the game of basketball in the Greater New England and New York area. For the past 45 plus years, Coach Hogan has been coaching basketball at many different levels, directing camps and clinics in New Hampshire to improve basketball skills, develop positive self-esteem and to learn the necessary ingredients to be a successful member of a “team.”

In 2005, NHTI captured the USCAA national championship this year completing a record setting 31-3 season defeating Golden State Baptist 72-70 in the Division II championship game. Hogan’s basketball teams are well known for their relentless fast paced style of play and aggressive full-court defensive effort.

On November 2, 2019, Hogan earned his 600th career coaching win with the Lynx defeating rival Williamson College of the Trades 75-46. Hogan has been honored numerous times with YSCC Coach of the Year.

March 11, 2020 marked another historic day for NHTI with our Lynx capturing the USCAA D-2 Men’s National Championship defeating Penn. St. Greater Allegheny 74-70 in the tourney held in Uniontown, PA.  With the win, NHTI finished a 27-3 overall season capturing their fourth straight YSCC regular season championship and their third straight YSCC tourney championship as well.

In 2017-18 season, Hogan was once again presented with the USCAA National
Basketball Coach of the year award along with the YSCC award. In February 2019, Hogan received the prestigious James W. Desmarais award for his continued service to NH Athletics.

The NHTI Capitals (now Lynx) are recognized as a leader in small college hoops comprising winning seasons and a program that is often visited for recruiting purposes by Division II and Division III coaches. In 2002, NHTI was the USCAA Division II National Runner-Up finishing with an astonishing 29-4 record. Hogan’s NHTI teams have become recognized as teams that will competed for the USCAA national tourney the last four years.

In his eight years at Plymouth State College, Paul Hogan composed the highest winning percentage of any men’s basketball coach in the school’s history at 136-80. His unique coaching style and dedication to the fundamentals of the game guided the Plymouth State Panthers to postseason play in the prestigious NCAA Tournament and numerous ECAC berths. Hogan was recognized as the Little East Coach of the Year in 1991 and 1998.

Hogan remains active in his many duties at NHTI continuing to support the annual NHTI/Delta Dental 5 K Benefit road race at NHTI every April that raises scholarship money for the Jen Kemp Scholarship fund and the Boys and Girls Club Scholarship for NHTI students. And now assisting with fundraising for the Tom & Deb Walton Scholarship that was created for NHTI students in the late spring of 2023.

In 2012, the Boys and Girls Club Classic was established as a series of yearly basketball contests between Plymouth State University and Rivier University with proceeds from the men’s/women’s doubleheader being put into another scholarship fund for NHTI students named the NHTI Boys and Girls Club scholarship.

Hogan is a regular speaker at graduation ceremonies, team banquets, youth coaches clinics and at career days around New England. The NHAHPERD conference in Waterville Valley  or the NH Scholar Athlete Awards Ceremony in Concord are examples of Hogan’s commitment to the youth of NH and the professionals that serve the greater New England area.

Hogan retired during the summer of 2022 as the Athletic Director, Men’s Basketball Coach and Professor of Sports Management at NHTI. In addition to his past NHTI duties, Hogan served the Yankee Small College Conference as the conference President from 2005-2016. Prior to the YSCC formation, Hogan served as the NNESCC President and YSCAA Vice-President from 1999-2005.

Hogan’s background in physical education, coaching and recreation has proven to be very helpful with creating camps and clinics that offer campers a special experience growing on the court and off the court.

An adjunct for NHTI, Plymouth State University and Southern NH University are other examples of Hogan’s commitment to continuing to educate the future leaders of education, sports business, administration and coaching.