Former USC athletic director Pat Haden was hospitalized Tuesday morning after being taken from USC’s campus by an ambulance, according to Tim Tessalone, USC’s sports information director.

Haden had experienced lightheadedness, Tessalone said, and was being evaluated at the hospital.

He was “alert and talkative,” Tessalone said.

Haden, who retired as athletic director on June 30 but has remained at USC to guide the $270-million renovation of the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, experienced a similar incident in February and underwent an unspecified medical procedure shortly afterward.


The news was first reported by Paolo Uggetti, a reporter for the Annenberg Media, the student-run organization at USC. Uggetti reported that Haden was taken by stretcher into an ambulance but was sitting upright.

Haden has a pacemaker that predates the February incident and has required medical attention several times in the last 2 ½ years.

In August 2014, he was treated for exhaustion that forced him to miss USC’s annual “Salute to Troy” event. In a 2015 game at Notre Dame, Haden experienced lightheadedness later attributed to dehydration. And in September of that year, he told The Times that he was “not in good health,” though he later told USC’s website that his health was “fine.”

zach.helfand@latimes.com


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