WASHINGTON D.C. -- The LSU Shreveport baseball team, the first-ever college baseball squad to put together a perfect season, were feted like royalty Monday at the White House and the U.S. Capitol.
The Pilots rubbed elbows with President Donald Trump, Speaker of the House Mike Johnson and other U.S. and Louisiana dignitaries throughout the day.
LSUS and LSU baseball won their respective national titles as the eyes of the college baseball world were on Louisiana and the White House.
“Louisiana is a special state, and it’s an honor to celebrate two college baseball national champions from that great state,” Trump said in the team’s afternoon visit to the White House. “Both teams brought incredible pride, grit and glory to their schools and their state, and they are bringing that same Louis