HI also appointed another Australian in Dr Ben Dascombe as the exercise physiologist with the primary objective of improving the fitness levels of the Indian women's team.
Hawgood represented Australia at the 1988 Seoul Olympics, where he played in seven games, scoring five goals.
After retiring from the game, Hawgood has been a full time coach since 1997. He was the assistant coach of the Australian women's team at the 2006 and 2010 World Cups and the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing.
Hawgood, who has been associated with the Western Australia Institute of Sports for the last 12 years, was also involved with Australian men's team and was Barry Dancer's assistant at 2001, 2002 and 2003 Champions Trophy.
Hawgood and Dascombe will leave for Bhopal tomorrow where the senior women's team is based.
Announcing the appointments, HI secretary general Narinder Batra said apart from looking after the senior women's team, Hawgood will also be in charge of the development team (junior side).
"Hawgood will look after both the senior as well as junior team. Right now he is employed with HI because Sports Authority of India's programme usually is from Olympics to Olympics. After the London Olympics, he will come under SAI," Batra said today.
Asked about Hawgood's tenure, Batra said, "We are planning to have him till 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics."
Batra also said that the present coach of the women's team C R Kumar will continue to work with the side under Hawgood. MORE
