Submitted by Trent Angers
Veteran journalist Trent Angers will speak at the Youngsville Rotary Club meeting on Thursday, October 24, 2024, at 7:30 a.m. at Mendez Restaurant in Youngsville, Louisiana, and the public is invited to attend.
The primary subject of his talk will be former LSU men’s basketball coach Dale Brown, who is being recognized as a national hero for his highly successful campaign to reform the NCAA rule book, which governs college student-athletes nationwide. For 35 years, Coach Brown was the nation’s leading advocate of NCAA reform.
“One of the biggest scoops of my career as a journalist came when I discovered that as a result of the rules that were changed partly due to Coach Brown’s campaign, some 500,000 student-athletes are benefitting today – in all 50 states, in all 1,100 NCAA colleges and universities,” Angers said. “Anyone who can help that many people is a true national hero in my book.”
Details of Coach Brown’s story are revealed in Angers’ newly published book, “Dale Brown Court: … and the Battle for Human Dignity.”
Angers’ Rotary speech will include information he developed while researching books about three different national heroes from south Louisiana. In addition to the Dale Brown story, he will discuss what he discovered while writing two other books: “An Airboat on the Streets of New Orleans” (dealing with Hurricane Katrina rescues); and “The Forgotten Hero of My Lai: The Hugh Thompson Story” (about the U.S. Army helicopter pilot who stopped the infamous My Lai Massacre in 1968 during the Vietnam War).
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Those who want to attend this event are encouraged to indicate their plans on the Rotary Club of Youngsville’s Facebook Event page.
