Six new names will be enshrined in the LSU Athletics Hall of Fame on Sept. 19 at the Manship Theatre after the school announced the Class of 2025 on Monday.
The six inductees are men’s basketball coach John Brady, men’s golf coach J. Perry Cole, gymnast Rheagan Courville, men’s basketball player Ronald Dupree, women's basketball player Cornelia Gayden and women’s basketball player Temeka Johnson.
Here is a look at the inductees:
John Brady
Brady, who coached the men’s basketball team from 1997-2008, led the Tigers to Southeastern Conference regular-season titles in 2000 and 2006. He also guided the team to a Final Four in 2006, becoming the third LSU coach to do that, beating top-ranked Duke along the way.
The McComb, Mississippi, native was voted SEC Coach of the Year in 2000 and 2006 and coached three SEC Players of the Year: Stromile Swift (2000), Brandon Bass (2005) and Glen Davis (2006).
Brady, who now works as the color analyst on the LSU Sports Radio Network for the men’s basketball games, had a 192-139 record at LSU.
J. Perry Cole
Cole led the men’s golf team from 1933-43, winning national championships in 1940 and 1942. The Tigers won five SEC championships during his tenure.
Cole also was inducted into the Golf Coaches Association of America Hall of Fame in 2012.
Two of his standout golfers captured NCAA individual championships. Fred Haas was the national medalist at Oakmont Country Club in Oakmont, Pa., in 1937, and Earl Stewart earned a national title at The Scarlet Course in Columbus, Ohio, to lead the second-place Tigers in 1941.
Rheagan Courville
Courville was a 23-time gymnastics All-American from 2012-15, and captured NCAA vault national championships in 2013 and 2014. She was voted SEC Gymnast of the Year in 2013.
The Baton Rouge product was the SEC all-around and vault champion in 2013 and 2015, and the SEC beam champion in 2013. Courville was the first LSU gymnast to win three titles at a single SEC championship event.
Her 39.750 career-high all-around score ranks as the eighth-highest all-around total in school history, and the best all-around total ever for an LSU gymnast at the SEC championships
Ronald Dupree
Dupree, now the general manager of the men’s basketball program, played for the Tigers from 2000-03 and was a three-time All-SEC second-team selection. He most notably helped lead LSU to an SEC regular-season title and NCAA Tournament Sweet 16 appearance in 2000.
As a sophomore, he led the SEC in scoring, averaging 17.3 points per game, and was second in rebounding with 8.8 rebounds. He ended his college career eighth all-time on LSU's scoring list and sixth in total rebounds
He is one of only five LSU players to rank in the school’s career top 10 in both scoring and rebounding. Dupree played six seasons in the NBA.
Cornelia Gayden
Gayden is one of the most prolific players to don the purple and gold as she was a three-time All-SEC player and an All-American during her final season in 1995.
She has the most career 3-point field goals in program history with 337. She also has the record for most points in a game (49 vs. Jackson State on Feb. 9, 1995).
Gayden is currently fourth on LSU’s all-time scoring list (2,451 points), fifth in field goals made (829) and ninth in rebounding (894).
Temeka Johnson
Johnson is another one of the best basketball players to play at LSU, maintaining the No. 1 spot on the program’s all-time assist list with 945, which is No. 8 in NCAA Division I history.
Johnson, who is from New Orleans, led the Tigers to Final Four appearances in 2004 and 2005.
She was a four-time All-American (2002-05) and the winner of the 2005 Nancy Lieberman Award as the country’s best point guard.
Johnson has the record for most assists in a game with 17 against Georgia on March 5, 2005. She went on to play 11 years in the WNBA, winning WNBA Rookie of the Year in 2005 and a WNBA championship with the Phoenix Mercury in 2009.
