Seimone's Greatest Moment #1: Signing Day
Seimone Augustus is the greatest player to ever don an LSU Lady Tiger basketball jersey, and this Sunday she will become the first female student-athlete in LSU history to have her jersey retired when LSU hosts No. 4 Tennessee at 5 p.m. CST on ESPNU. The jersey retirement takes place at 4:30 p.m. Seimone Augustus' career was filled with brilliant moments in her four years. Defining which lasting images rank at the top is no easy chore, but this week on LSUsports.net, we will do our best to remember some of those great moments.Our panel of LSU associate head coach Bob Starkey, women's basketball SID Bill Martin, senior associate sports information director Kent Lowe, radio announcer Patrick Wright and former LSU women's basketball SID Brian Miller, who covered Augustus' four years, has selected a top five. The top five moments will be unveiled throughout the week leading up to Sunday's 4:30 p.m. jersey retirement.Today, we take a look at the greatest moment.Former LSU Athletics Director Skip Bertman called her "the single most important recruit in the history of LSU Athletics." That moment became a reality on April 30, 2002, when the nation's top high school prospect Seimone Augustus pledged her commitment to the LSU Lady Tigers on national signing day.The Lady Tiger coaching staff had no idea Augustus would announce her intentions to her hometown university. At a gathering of a few hundred students, teachers and fans at Capitol High School, Augustus arrived in an orange cap and shirt. Her choices had come down to two schools - LSU and Tennessee.The attire proved to be anything but the truth. Minutes later the high school phenol uttered, "This has been a very long and hard recruiting process for me, but I've finally narrowed it down to one school. Next year I will be attending Louisiana State University."The words forever changed the landscape of women's college basketball at LSU. They sent the late Sue Gunter running through the halls of the LSU women's basketball office as she watched local television coverage."This is not only great for LSU, I also think it's great for Seimone and her family and for the people at Capitol," Gunter said. "She's a great addition for our program and she can play a lot of different positions."