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Who is the former head athletic trainer that was inducted into the LSU Sports Hall of Fame?

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Who is the former head athletic trainer that was inducted into the LSU Sports Hall of Fame?

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There aren’t many former LSU athletes in the Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame that the late Martin J. “Marty” Broussard hasn’t inspected from head to toe. Soon, after induction ceremonies June 27 in Natchitoches, the man who didn’t have a medical degree but was affectionately known as “Doc,” will sit amongst them. Broussard’s 60-plus years of association with LSU as head athletic trainer has earned him a place in the Hall. Perhaps no other person in the history of the school’s athletic program was more beloved by athletes or touched more lives than Broussard, a former two-sport Tiger athlete himself, who took the job as head athletic trainer in 1948 and still had an office on campus in 2001. And those that knew him best would say no one loved LSU more deeply or passionately. A few months after being voted in as the first athletic trainer to be enshrined in the Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame, he was inducted into the LSU Sports Hall of Fame. “We’re very proud,” Broussard’s son, Martin “Budd

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