Paul Mainieri to be Honored as a Louisiana Legend on Thursday Night

BATON ROUGE, La. – Former LSU baseball coach Paul Mainieri is amongst six people that might be honored Thursday evening as “Louisiana Legends” by Mates of Louisiana Public Broadcasting.

The occasion might be held on the Outdated State Capitol in downtown Baton Rouge, and it is going to be televised reside on LPB associates all through the state starting at 8:30 p.m. CT.

For greater than 30 years, Mates of Louisiana Public Broadcasting have honored Louisiana’s finest and brightest with the Louisiana Legends Awards Gala and Public sale. The 2022 honorees have distinguished themselves in fields as numerous as philanthropy, the sciences, sports activities, environmental conservation and the humanities.

The 2022 honorees be part of a prestigious record of 149 former Louisiana Legends that features Academy and Grammy Award winners, star athletes, Pulitzer Prize winners and esteemed dignitaries, together with the present United States Ambassador to the United Nations, Linda Thomas-Greenfield.

Mainieri, who retired because the Tigers’ coach on the finish of the 2021 season, accomplished his 39-season profession with a 1,505-777-8 document, together with a 641-285-3 mark in 15 seasons at LSU.

LSU gained a outstanding 31 workforce championships throughout Mainieri’s tenure, together with the 2009 nationwide championship, 9 NCAA Regional championships, 5 NCAA Tremendous Regional championships, 4 SEC regular-season titles, six SEC Event titles and 6 SEC Western Division crowns.

Mainieri accomplished his profession No. 7 amongst NCAA Baseball Division I coaches in wins, and he’s one in every of solely 5 coaches in NCAA Division I Baseball historical past to earn 1,500 victories and a nationwide championship. He was inducted in 2014 into the American Baseball Coaches Affiliation Corridor of Fame.

Together with Mainieri, the 2022 Class of Louisiana Legends contains:

• Arthur Favre – CEO and Founding father of Efficiency Contractors, philanthropist, stalwart supporter of American Army Veterans

• Dr. Saundra McGuire – Director Emerita of the Middle for Tutorial Success and retired Assistant Vice Chancellor and Professor of Chemistry at LSU; recipient of the Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Arithmetic, and Engineering Mentoring

• Dr. Stephen McGuire – James and Ruth Smith Endowed Emeritus Professor of Physics at Southern College and A&M, Southern College Principal Investigator to the LIGO Scientific Collaboration; awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics, 2017

• Valsin Marmillion – President and CEO Marmillion & Firm, Managing Director of the America’s Wetlands Basis

• Thomas Whitehead – Professor Emeritus at Northwestern State College, Knowledgeable and Preservationist of the Clementine Hunter Assortment, and biographer

Mainieri will be part of a prestigious record of LSU student-athletes and coaches who’ve been honored in prior years as Mates of LPB Louisiana Legends, together with:

• Johnny Robinson, Soccer (2021)
• D-D Breaux, Gymnastics coach (2018)
• Dale Brown, Males’s Basketball coach (2014)
• Jerry Stovall, Soccer (2011)
• Paul Dietzel, Soccer coach (2005)
• Sue Gunter, Girls’s Basketball coach (2005)
• Skip Bertman, Baseball coach (2000)
• Jimmy Taylor, Soccer (1999)
• Bert Jones, Soccer (1994)
• Bob Pettit, Males’s Basketball (1991)