The following is from the Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame:
NATCHITOCHES, La. (WAFB) – All-around champion, West Monroe, LSU, and NFL standout Andrew Whitworthput together by the pro basketball All-Stars Danny Granger and Vickie JohnsonAll-time winningest college baseball coach Joe Scheuermann and Danny Broussardone of the nation’s most successful high school basketball coaches, among an eight-member all-star group of candidates nominated for the Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame.
The LSHOF Class of 2025 also includes LSU gymnastics greats and NCAA champions April BurkholderCatholic high school turnaround coach-Baton Rouge Dale Weinerand George “Bobby” SoileauLSU’s NCAA boxing champion who won a national crown as the football coach at his alma mater, Sacred Heart High School in Ville Platte.
The new class will be installed next summer at the Hall of Fame’s home in Natchitoches to culminate the 66th Induction Ceremony. The dates for the three-day festival will be announced soon.
A 40-member committee of the Louisiana Sports Writers Association selected 2,025 candidates to complete the three-week process. The team considered 150 candidates from 27 different sports teams on page 34 of the contestants’ ballot.
Also highlighted next summer will be three more Hall of Fame inductees from the donor categories: the winner of the 2025 Dave Dixon Louisiana Sports Leadership Award and two Service Award recipients 2025 Honors in Sports Journalism presented by the Louisiana Sports Writers Association, parent. Hall of Fame organization. Those candidates will be selected and announced later this year.
The full 11-member class of 2024 will increase the Hall of Fame’s total to 503 men and women — athletes, coaches, managers and members of the sports media — who have been honored since its inception in 1958.
Whitworth won three national titles and two high school state crowns playing running back Don Shows at West Monroe, then helped LSU win its first football championship in 45 years under coach Nick Saban in 2003. “Big Whit” held a 16-year NFL career, especially in Cincinnati, starting with the offensive
How the Los Angeles Rams won Super Bowl LVI, just a few days after he received the 2021 Walter Payton NFL Man of the Year award for his community service. He made four Pro Bowls.
Granger, a New Orleans native and Grace King High School graduate, averaged 17 points per game in a 10-year NBA career that included an appearance in the 2009 All-Star Game and a gold medal. and Team USA at the 2010 World Championships.
Johnson, of Coushatta, is one of the greatest players in the history of the Louisiana Tech Lady Techster program under coach Leon Barmore, and was a two-time WNBA All-Star in 13 league seasons. She finished her pro career winning the WNBA’s Kim Perrot Sportsmanship Award in 2008.
Scheuermann will join his father Rags, a 1990 inductee, to form the fourth father-son combination in the Louisiana Hall of Fame. Others: football players Dub and son Bert Jones, USA Olympic track stars Glenn “Slats” Hardin and son Billy, and the football family of sons Eli and Peyton Manning, and their father, Archie.
Scheuermann succeeded his father as baseball coach at New Orleans’ Delgado Community College and last year surpassed the late Tony Robichaux of UL Lafayette as the all-time winningest Louisiana college coach with 1,179 wins per game. 34 times.
Broussard, who will make his 42nd basketball coaching start at St. Thomas More High School in Lafayette, has 27.5 wins per year while amassing 1,130 wins to rank seventh in the nation and second in the state after the 2019 LSHOF and waiting for the 2024 Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame. Charles Smith of Alexandria’s Peabody Magnet. Broussard’s Cougars won six state titles and were runner-up four more times.
Burkholder was a 14-time All-American in gymnastics and as a senior won the 2006 NCAA title to cap an LSU career that produced a school-record 108 victories, a help raise more interest in the Tigers program in your area as it stands out as a player. national power. He was a two-time Southeastern Conference Athlete of the Year.
Weiner retired in 2016 after posting 317 wins, which is now seventh in national history, in 35 seasons as a high school football head coach. The last 30 were at Catholic, where he built a mid-major program into one of the best in Louisiana while winning 282 games, 9.1 per year, including a title of the state in 2016. He also coached 18 state weightlifting teams with the Bears.
Soileau won four high school boxing crowns, starting in his eighth grade year, and won the NCAA 125-pound title in 1956 at the state and intercollegiate sports science days. He won 159 games in 30 seasons as the football coach at Sacred Heart, including the 1967 state championship, and is a 1988 Louisiana High School Sports Hall of Fame inductee and an inductee into the Louisiana High School Boxing Hall. of Fame.
The 2025 Induction Class will be on display at the Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame and the Northwest Louisiana History Museum. The center is operated by the Louisiana State Museum system in partnership with the Louisiana Sports Writers Association.
The stunning two-story, 27,500-square-foot building overlooks Cane River Lake in the Natchitoches National Historic Landmark District and has garnered worldwide architectural acclaim and rave reviews. since it opened during the 2013 Hall of Fame weekend.
The new tournament selections will raise the Hall of Fame’s total to 394 athletes and coaches honored since the first class – Baseball Hall of Famer Mel Ott, world boxing champion Tony Canzoneri, and LSU football player Gaynell Tinsley—was installed in 1959. after their election the year before.
The Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame already includes 25 members of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, 18 Olympic medalists (including 11 gold medalists), 14 members (including the inductees of the 2024 Semoine Augustus and Charles Smith) of the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame, seven. of the NBA’s 75 Greatest Players, seven National Baseball Hall of Fame inductees, 45 College Football Hall of Fame inductees, 10 Basketball Hall of Fame inductees, 10 Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame, nine members of the National High School Hall of Fame, nine College. Baseball Hall of Fame inductees, five National Museum of (Thoroughbred) Racing and Hall of Fame inductees. The LSHOF showcases a combined 16 jockeys who have won the Triple Crown, six world champions in boxing, four NBA Finals MVPs, four major golf tournament winners, and three Super Bowl MVPs.
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