Sonja Hogg

Sport: Basketball

Induction Year: 2009

University: Louisiana Tech

Induction Year: 2009

Starting from scratch, without any previous basketball experience, Sonja Hogg engineered the development of one of the country’s iconic women’s basketball programs, the Lady Techsters of Louisiana Tech. The Alexandria native was the first head coach, coined the nickname of Lady Techsters while also teaching in the College of Education, and became Women’s Athletic Director in 1976 and continued coaching at the same time. Her overall coaching record at Tech was 307 wins and 55 losses in 11 seasons (1974-85), featuring six consecutive Final Four appearances (1978-1984), including two national championships. In 1981, Tech won the AIAW national crown while posting perfect record of 34-0 and then rolled to the first ever NCAA sanctioned national title in 1982 with mark of 35-1. The Techsters had a national record winning streak of 54 games during her stay at the school. Hogg ‘s 1980 team set a national mark for most wins in a single season with 40. She coached five All-Americans, four Academic All-Americans and two Olympians, both of the latter being in 1984 and both being already enshrined Louisiana Sports Hall of Famers (Kim Mulkey, Janice Lawrence-Braxton). Hogg also coached four NCAA post-graduate scholarship recipients. Hogg coached two Wade Trophy recipients, a Naismith national Player of the Year, a national Small Player of the Year, and a Broderick Cup recipient, also bringing eventual Basketball Hall of Fame coach Leon Barmore from Ruston High onto her coaching staff. She was recently inducted in the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame, and won the Naismith Women’s Outstanding Contribution to Basketball award in 2004.