Marty Broussard

Sport: Sports Medicine

Induction Year: 2009

University: LSU

Induction Year: 2009

Broussard, a trainer for the USA in the 1960 Rome Olympic Games and the 1955 Pan American Games, was one of the nation’s most innovative trainers and a fixture at LSU for five decades. Among his accomplishments are being co-developer of the Drury-Broussard Torque Table to test muscular strength, co-authoring booklets on functional isometric contraction for football and functional isometric contraction for golf and writing the noted Athletic Training Guide. He developed the Quickkick energy drink. An Abbeville native and 1944 graduate of LSU, Broussard lettered in track and baseball during his undergraduate days and was high point scorer in the 1944 SEC meet. He also served as trainer at Florida and Texas A&M before returning to LSU in 1948.. He was selected National Trainer of the Year by the Rockne Foundation in 1963. Broussard was elected to the National Athletic Trainers Association Hall of Fame, after being among the organization’s five founding fathers years earlier. He was one of three founders of the Southeastern Conference Trainers’ Association. In 1982 he was named to the LSU L Club Hall of Fame. He lectured frequently at clinics both in the U.S. and abroad. He was a beloved figure at LSU, revered by iconic figures such as Billy Cannon,Shaquille O’Neal, Jimmy Taylor, Joe Dean, Pete Maravich and Dale Brown before passing away in 2003. He is the first from his field elected to the Hall of Fame, and was enshrined in the LSU Athletic Hall of Fame earlier this year.