SAN MARCOS, Texas — Former LSU football standout and Associate Athletics Director Greg LaFleur was named the Athletics Director at Southwest Texas, it was announced by Southwest Texas President Jerome Supple at a 10 a.m. press conference on Wednesday.
LaFleur, who was a three-year letterman on the LSU football team in 1977, ’79 and ’80, left his position as Associate Athletics Director in charge of Internal Operations to accept the top position in the Southwest Texas athletics department.
He follows Jim Wacker, who has taken on the role of Special Assistant to the President of Southwest Texas University.
Located 50 miles northeast of San Antonio in San Marcos, Southwest Texas State University has an enrollment of more than 21,000 students and sponsors seven men’s and eight women’s varsity sports in the Southland Conference.
LaFleur, 42, served two years as events coordinator in the LSU athletics department before being promoted to Assistant Athletics Director in April of 1991. He was elevated to the associate position in December of 1992. For three years, he supervised LSU’s Olympic sports before taking on management of the concessions and merchandise profit centers in 1996.
As a student-athlete at LSU, he caught 29 passes for 254 yards under coaches Charles McClendon and Jerry Stovall.
After graduating from LSU in 1981, he was selected in the third round of the 1981 NFL Draft by the Philadelphia Eagles and played six season with the St. Louis Cardinals before finishing his career in 1986 with the Indianapolis Colts.
A native of Ville Platte, La., and a graduate of Ville Platte High School, LaFleur was a graduate assistant with the LSU football team in 1987 and, after two years in private business, rejoined the LSU athletics department in 1988.