BATON ROUGE – Former LSU basketball player Frederick “Rick” Eugene Wolfert, who played for Coach Dale Brown’s Tigers in the mid-1970s, passed away on April 9 in Greensboro, Georgia.
Wolfert was born on Aug. 3, 1954 in St. Louis, Missouri. He was 64.
Wolfert is one of the few father-son combinations who have both played basketball for the Tigers as his son, Paul, played for LSU and Coach John Brady from 2002-05.
Rick Wolfert attended Peru (Indiana) High School where he averaged 18 points and 16 rebounds as a senior earning all-conference, all-sectional, all-regional and all-state honors on the court as a senior in 1972.