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LSU Athletics Director Skip Bertman was inducted Tuesday, July 4, into the new College Baseball Hall of Fame in Lubbock, Texas. Bertman, who led LSU to five national championships during his 18-year tenure as baseball coach, is one of 10 members of the Hall’s first induction class.
The Class of 2006 also includes legendary coaches Bobby Winkles of Arizona State, Ron Fraser of Miami, Cliff Gustafson of Texas and Rod Dedeaux of USC, and standout former players Bob Horner of Arizona State, Robin Ventura of Oklahoma State, Dave Winfield of Minnesota, Will Clark of Mississippi State and Brooks Kieschnick of Texas.
“ I’m very excited to be included in the very first College Baseball Hall of Fame class,” Bertman said. “For me to be honored with these coaches and players that I have grown to admire and respect is very special.”
Bertman guided LSU to five NCAA baseball titles (1991, ‘93, ‘96, ‘97, 2000), seven SEC championships and a record of 870-330-3 (.724) in 18 seasons (1984-2001). He was named National Coach of the Year six times, and his teams drew huge crowds to venerable Alex Box Stadium, as LSU led the nation in attendance in each of his final six seasons (1996–2001). The man also served as head coach of the 1996 U.S. Olympic team that captured the bronze medal in Atlanta. He was inducted into the American Baseball Coaches Association Hall of Fame in January 2003. In a Baseball America poll released in January 1999, Bertman was voted the second greatest college baseball coach of the 20th century, trailing only Dedeaux.
The collegiate legends participated in a two-day celebration of college baseball on Monday and Tuesday, July 3-4. The College Baseball Foundation kicked off the festivities on Monday, July 3, with the third annual Brooks Wallace College Baseball Player of the Year Award dinner held at the United Spirit Arena on the campus of Texas Tech University. The Hall of Fame Class was recognized during the ceremony.
On Tuesday at 11 a.m., the inductees participated in the Fourth on Broadway Parade, followed by a “Fan Fest.” The coaches and players were formally inducted into the Hall of Fame as part of the annual Fourth on Broadway Festival, considered the “Largest Free Festival in the State of Texas.” The inductees attended the ending musical concert and Fourth of July fireworks spectacular to cap off the ceremonies.
L. Max Scott, radiation safety officer for the LSU System and adjunct associate professor of physics and astronomy at LSU, has been awarded the Health Physics Society Founders, or HPS, award honoring outstanding professional accomplishments in radiation protection.
Scott received the award during the HPS Annual Meeting in Providence, R.I. on June 27. The award recognizes exceptional service to the HPS and the health physics profession and earns Scott lifetime membership in the society.
Scott, a certified health physicist and a fellow of the HPS, has spent more than 45 years in the practice of health physics. He began his professional experience at the Oak Ridge, Tenn., Y-12 Plant in 1961, where he administered the first in vivo monitoring program for uranium. He has coauthored defining papers on uranium detection and exposure evaluation, and has earned a reputation as an international authority on internal dosimetry bioassay and in vivo monitoring.
Since 1985, Scott has served as the radiation safety officer for the LSU System, which includes the medical schools, dental school and satellite campuses. He is directly responsible for the implementation and review of compliance with regulations and policies to assure the proper and safe usage of sources of radiation. Scott continues to teach medical physics courses on a part-time basis.