Mainieri coached 13 first-team All-Americans at LSU and as of September 2022, 25 Tigers have reached the major leagues with 88 players being selected in the MLB draft during his tenure from 2007-21. During his time at LSU, where he played as a freshman in 1976, Mainieri’s teams won a CWS title, five NCAA super regionals, nine NCAA regionals, four Southeastern Conference regular-season titles, six SEC tournament titles and six SEC Western Division crowns. His 2009 team won the CWS as the Tigers topped Texas, two games to one, in the championship series. The 1,505 wins put him seventh all-time among all NCAA Division I baseball coaches.ĭuring 15 seasons at LSU, he was 641-283-3 before stepping away because of recurring neck issues. A former player at LSU, then UNO, he was the winningest active coach in the NCAA ranks when he retired with an overall record of 1,505-775-8 for a winning percentage of 65.9 percent. Mainieri had his most success at LSU and Notre Dame, where he won 69.3 percent and 71.4 percent of his games, respectively.
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Mainieri retired after winning 1,505 games in 39 seasons at four stops as a college baseball coach, concluding with 641 at LSU highlighted by the 2009 College World Series championship. The complete 12-person Class of 2023 increases the overall membership in the Hall of Fame to 480 men and women honored since its founding in 1958. The panel considered 151 nominees from 28 different sport categories on a 36-page ballot.Īlso spotlighted were two other Hall of Fame inductees, Bruce Brown and Lori Lyons, recipients of the 2023 Distinguished Service Award in Sports Journalism presented by the Louisiana Sports Writers Association, the parent organization of the Hall of Fame. The Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame and Northwest Louisiana History Museum is operated by the Louisiana State Museum system in a partnership with the Louisiana Sports Writers Association.Ī 40-member Louisiana Sports Writers Association committee selected the 2023 inductees. The LSHOF’s Class of 2023 was enshrined at the Hall of Fame’s home in Natchitoches to culminate the 64th Induction Celebration. Completing the class is world class weightlifter Walter Imahara from UL-Lafayette.
Woodruff, who played his freshman season on the LSU baseball team with Mainieri.Īlso inducted on Saturday were two-time Super Bowl MVP Eli Manning four-time WNBA All-Star Alana Beard, New Orleans native Ron Washington, who managed the Texas Rangers to a pair of World Series appearance and Slidell native, Tulane and Chicago Bears running Matt Forte. The LSU connections also include retired Baton Rouge-Parkview Baptist baseball coach M.
The LSHOF Class of 23 includes College World Series champion, longtime LSU baseball coach Paul Mainieri two-time LSU track and field USA Olympian and world champion Walter Davis All-American LSU pitcher and 14-year Major League Baseball veteran Paul Byrd and, Shreveport native Wendell Davis, who shattered LSU football receiving records before heading to the NFL. – Five athletes and coaches with strong LSU ties were inducted Saturday night into the Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame.
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