Danny Broussard

Sport: Coach

Induction Year: 2025

University: UL-Lafayette

In 42 seasons at St, Thomas More in Lafayette, Broussard has made the Cougars one of the best and most consistent prep basketball programs anywhere. He has a career record of 1,162-354 (.766). At the end of the 2024-25 season, Broussard stood No. 7 all-time among U.S. coaches in total wins and No. 3 among active coaches, averaging 27.7 wins per season. He is second in state history in wins to 2024 Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame inductee Charles Smith (Peabody). STM has made the state playoffs 34 straight seasons, won 26 district championships and has advanced to the state quarterfinals 32 times with 20 appearances in the final four of the state tournament. He has won six state basketball championships (1986, 2013, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021) and finished as state runner-up five times (1987, 1999, 2003, 2024, 2025). In the 2019-20 season Broussard became only the fourth Louisiana prep basketball coach to reach the 1,000-win milestone. His teams have won 20 state championships in three different sports (tennis 13 times, baseball once). Broussard has been named LSWA Coach of Year three times (1986, 1997, 1999), and 24 times won district Coach of Year. He was inducted into the Louisiana High School Basketball Coaches Association Hall of Fame in 2018, and was head coach of the winning West team in the 2025 McDonald’s High School All-Star Game. STM was his first head coaching job in 1983 at the age of 23 when he took over from older brother Rickey. 57 former players have become coaches at some level, including three college coaches. Broussard was one of eight finalists for the 2022 NHSACA National Coach of the Year award. … Born Oct. 25, 1959 in Abbeville.