Born March 6, 1936 to Emery and Izola Soileau, George Willard Soileau started to put together a legendary boxing career before he reached high school.
She picked up a basketball as a challenge when she was 9 and used it to prove a point, first in the back yard against her brother and two cousins in Coushatta, then on her way to becoming a two-time Kodak All-American at Louisiana Tech, then through 13 seasons in the WNBA and a concurrent 15 overseas, and now through another 15 seasons as a WNBA coach.
By definition of the Dave Dixon Louisiana Sports Leadership Award we have found the perfect recipient.
Few on the journalism side took a longer and more winding road there, although most of it has at least been based in Baton Rouge, covering LSU’s always-wild sports scene.
Daniels applied all of hise abilities in building a distinguished broadcasting career that earned him posthumous inclusion in this year’s Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame induction class, as a recipient of the LSWA’s Distinguished Service Award in Sports Journalism.
Former Northwestern State All-American linebacker Gary Reasons already had one Top 100 designation on his resume after his alma master bestowed it upon him 17 years ago as part of the Demons’ centennial celebration.
The 12 members of the Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame Class of 2024 brought worldwide acclaim to their home state – adopted or natural.
Thursday afternoon’s introductory press conference for the Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame Class of 2024, presented by La Capitol Federal Credit Union, felt like a love letter to the state and its people.
Nobody could have seen what the future held when the first-time NFL head coach took the quarterback with still-fresh surgical scars on his throwing shoulder on a free-agent tour through a leveled city.
One car ride home from Greenville Elementary changed Seimone Augustus.
