Glenn Quebedeaux

Sport: Distinguished Service Award in Sports Journalism

Induction Year: 2015

University: UL-Lafayette

An innovative editor and skilled writer who in a 38-year career helped usher in the modern era of sports coverage in Louisiana, Quebedeaux started full-time in 1975 at the Abbeville Meridional and two years later opened a 15-year run as sports editor at the New Iberia Daily Iberian. After entering private business, he continued as a sportswriter until 2005 as a correspondent for the Baton Rouge Advocate and other publications, primarily with UL Lafayette coverage. His service to the LSWA has included stints as president, serving on the Hall of Fame selection committee since its inception, and managing the organization’s expansive writing contest annually since 1993. Before taking over contest oversight, he won 54 awards in categories such as deadline writing, columns, spot news, headlines, makeup, section design, special section design and the LSWA’s Prep Writer of the Year honor in a dozen years from 1980-92. Quebedeaux’s Daily Iberian sports section was the state’s first to feature a full agate page, regarded as absurd by some colleagues at larger dailies. The coverage included hockey results at the dawn of its regional interest; racing entries with morning odds for two Louisiana tracks (Evangeline and Delta Downs), believed to be a first by any state daily; and morning betting lines on pro and college sports, not acceptable at the time at many papers. Quebedeaux also was one of the state’s early trailblazers in recruiting coverage. In his term as LSWA president, membership reached an all-time high of 165.