Seimone Augustus To Receive Statue On LSU Campus

Seimone Augustus, the most decorated female athlete in LSU sports history, will be immortalized in a statue outside the PMAC, LSU announced Monday.

The Baton Rouge native guided the Tigers to three straight Final Fours, while also receiving numerous accolades including Naismith Player of the Year, SEC Player of the Year, the Wooden Award, the Honda Award and Wade Trophy. She won all five of those awards in 2005 and 2006. Her 2,702 points are second in program history.

She went on to have a stellar 15-year WNBA career, most of which with the Minnesota Lynx who selected Augustus first overall in 2006. In her 14 years in Minnesota she won four championships and was 2011 WNBA Finals MVP. She was…