BATON ROUGE, La. -- Six former student-athletes and two former athletic trainers will be inducted into the LSU Athletic Hall of Fame on Friday, Sept. 4, at the L’Auberge Baton Rouge Event Center.
The event begins with a reception at 6 p.m., followed by dinner at 7 p.m. Tickets for the event are available for $50 each or $500 for a table of 10. Tickets may be purchased by contacting Courtney Albritton of the Tiger Athletic Foundation at (225) 578-0159 or calbritton@lsu.edu.
New inductees to the LSU Athletic Hall of Fame are 14-time All-American gymnast April Burkholder; seven-time All-American hurdler Kim Carson; two-time All-American javelin thrower and five-time Olympic Games competitor Laverne Eve; two-time women’s basketball All-American and two-time Olympic gold medalist Sylvia Fowles; 14-time All-American swimmer Todd Torres; LSU football team captain and NFL All-Pro Ebert Van Buren; athletic trainer Mike Chambers, for whom LSU’s live mascot “Mike” The Tiger is named; and Herman Lang, a member of the Louisiana Athletic Trainers Hall of Fame who worked with three generations of LSU athletes.