The 2025 Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame Induction Celebration last Saturday night at the Natchitoches Events Center was a spectacular showcase of state sports greatness.
You can see this first-hand Sunday afternoon from 1:30-4 on Louisiana Public Broadcasting. LPB will replay its live coverage of the induction ceremony which has plenty of content showcasing local events during the three-day celebration.
The telecast is also available on the LaSportsHall.com website, the LPB.org website or their YouTube channel.
The Class of 2025 was headlined by two men pivotal in LSU’s 2003 football national championship – coach Nick Saban and Andrew Whitworth, a champion at West Monroe High School, LSU and in the NFL during a 16-year pro career. More sparkle was provided by pro basketball All-Stars Danny Granger and Vickie Johnson, the state’s winningest all-time college baseball coach Joe Scheuermann and Danny Broussard, one of the nation’s most successful high school basketball coaches, in this year’s induction class.
It also includes LSU gymnastics great and NCAA individual champion April Burkholder, transformational Catholic-Baton Rouge high school football coach Dale Weiner and George “Bobby” Soileau, a four-time high school and 1956 NCAA boxing champion at LSU who also won a state crown as a football coach at his alma mater, Sacred Heart High School in Ville Platte.
LSU graduate Herb Vincent, now a longstanding associate commissioner of the Southeastern Conference, received the Hall’s Dave Dixon Louisiana Sports Leadership Award with his enshrinement.
Also honored: Ed Daniels, a generational television sports broadcaster in New Orleans, and Glenn Guilbeau, one of the nation’s more decorated sportswriters in a career that has seen him cover LSU, state college, high school and pro sports along with stories across the South and around the SEC. They were inducted as recipients of the Louisiana Sports Writers Association’s Distinguished Service Award in Sports Journalism.
Additionally, more than two dozen previously inducted Hall of Fame members returned to the 2025 ceremony to participate in the opening Walk of Legends.