BATON ROUGE - The Louisiana High School Athletic Association recently announced its 2026 Hall of Fame class and for the first time the association is going bowling.

The sport of bowling has its first inductee in the home of state high school greatness and this time the inductee is the guy that helped put the sport on the state high school map.

Rick Bourgeois, who earlier this year was honored by the national Bowling Proprietors Association of America, is now be part of the 10-member induction class for 2026

Bourgeois, the longtime director of bowling for the Malco Theater division, is also one of the fathers of Louisiana’s ultra-successful high school bowling program.

He lobbied to make bowling an LHSAA sport starting in 1999 and after a trial run was able to move it through the execut

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