#16 Brandt Broussard Season 2024
LSU Graduate (Spring 2019 – General Business)
2019 SEC All-Tournament Team
2019 SEC Academic Honor Roll
2018 SEC First-Year Academic Honor Roll
Talented player that started 97 games, primarily at second base, during his two seasons at LSU … was the product of the same Delgado Community College program that produced Cole Freeman, LSU’s second baseman in 2016 and 2017 … Broussard was a two-time member of the SEC Academic Honor Roll as a general business major, and he earned his LSU degree in May 2019 … Brandt is the son of Burke Broussard, the starting second baseman for LSU’s first College World Series team in 1986.
2019 Season
Hit .255 (42-for-165) on the year with four doubles, one triple, one homer, 20 RBI, 32 runs and 10 steals in 15 attempts … batted .389 (14-for-36) in LSU’s 2019 postseason games (SEC & NCAA combined) with two doubles, one homer, six RBI, eight runs and four stolen bases … batted .429 (6-for-14) in the 2019 NCAA Baton Rouge Regional with one double, one homer, four RBI and three runs … belted his first career LSU homer on May 31 versus Stony Brook in the NCAA Baton Rouge Regiona; he was 3-for-4 in the game with a home and a career-best four RBI … voted to the 2019 SEC All-Tournament Team after hitting .462 (6-for-13) with one double, one RBI, three steals and five runs … 3-for-5 with three runs scored on May 5 versus Ole Miss … led LSU at the plate in the Missouri series (April 12-14), batting .385 (5-for-13) with two doubles and four RBI … in LSU’s 12-11 win over Mizzou on April 12, Broussard was 2-for-5 with a double and three RBI to lead LSU’s 13-hit output.
2018 Season
Played in 52 games, starting 51 games at second base … batted .260 (45-for-173) on the season with four doubles, two triples, 21 RBI, 28 runs and 14 stolen bases in 18 attempts … diagnosed with a broken left thumb on March 26 and missed 13 games before returning to the starting lineup on April 18 at Tulane … he suffered the injury when he was hit by a pitch on March 23 at Vanderbilt … at the time of his injury, he was LSU’s leader in batting average (.363) and stolen bases (nine), and he was second on the club in RBI (16) … finished the season No. 2 on the team in steals with 14 … batted .309 (21-for-68) on the year with runners in scoring position … collected five hits, one RBI, three runs and two stolen bases in six games at the SEC Tournament (May 22-27) … hit .400 (4-for-10) in the Missouri series (March 16-18) with one triple, one RBI, two runs, one stolen base and three walks … 4-for-5 versus Texas (Feb. 23) with one double, two runs and four RBI.
Prior to LSU
Batted .429 with two home runs, 16 doubles, three triples, two home runs and 15 stolen bases with a .531 on-base percentage last season at Delgado CC … committed only six errors during the year … named the National Junior College Athletic Association Player of the Week during the 2017 season, when batted .567 in one week with 17 hits … named to the Dean’s List at Delgado with a 3.8 cumulative GPA … batted .404 with 43 stolen bases (school record) and a .991 fielding percentage (only four errors) in his senior year of high school at University High … an all-state, two-time all-district and two-time all-metro selection in high school … also a first-team all-district selection in football (wide receiver) at University HS … earned Academic All-State recognition in both baseball and football.
Personal
Full name is Brandt Andrew Broussard … parents are Burke and Myra Broussard … father played second base at LSU in 1985 and 1986 and now works as a teacher and coach at the LSU Laboratory School … mother is the elementary school principal at the LSU Laboratory School … has two older sisters, Blakeley and Brooke, and one younger sister, Brittany… on attending LSU – “My family has always had very strong ties to LSU since my father played here, and it’s always been a dream of mine to get to play in my hometown at LSU.” … majoring in general business at LSU … born September 1, 1995, in Baton Rouge, La.
Broussard’s LSU Career Highs
At-Bats: 6 vs. Mississippi State (5/22/19)
Hits: 4 vs. Texas (2/23/18)
Runs Scored: 3 three times; most recently vs. Ole Miss (5/5/19)
Doubles: 1 10 times; most recently vs. Southern Miss (6/1/19)
Triples: 1 three times; most recently vs. Florida (4/18/19)
Home Runs: 1 vs. Stony Brook (5/31/19)
RBI: 4 vs. Texas (2/23/18); vs. Stony Brook (5/31/19)