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Athletics Administration Miriam Segar
Neal Lamonica
Senior Associate AD/Senior Woman Administrator
Assistant AD/Fiscal Operations
Former LSU women’s basketball player Miriam Segar has been a part of the athletics administration since June of 1995 and was most recently named Senior Associate AD and the department’s Senior Woman Administrator after having served as Associate Athletics Director for Student Services since April 2007. She had served as Assistant Athletics Director since 2004. As LSU’s Senior Woman Administrator, Segar’s responsibilities include oversight of the highly successful Tiger Olympic Sports program including 17 men’s and women’s sports. She also supervises the Tiger baseball program and the LSU cheerleaders. Segar began her administrative career at LSU as the compliance coordinator where she served for three years. Following that, in 1998, Segar was named the director of the CHAMPS/Life Skills Program where she worked until 2001 when she became the Director of Student Services. While working with CHAMPS/Life Skills, Segar guided the program to the Division I Athletic Directors Program of Excellence Award in 2001. Prior to returning to her alma mater, Segar spent one year at the SEC office as the championships assistant and the officiating assistant, assisting in the management of all SEC championships and tournaments and the coordination of women’s basketball officials. Segar, the 2006 Athletic Department Female Alumnus of the Year, was a threeyear captain for the Lady Tigers basketball team and received four letters from 1990 to 1994. She earned the 1994 NCAA Post-graduate Scholarship and was a member of the 1994 NCAA All-Academic team. Segar and her husband Jamie have four children -- Grant, Reid, Maggie and Hayes.
Brian Broussard Associate AD/Ticket Sales and Operations An 18-year veteran of the Athletics Department, including 14 years as ticket manager, Brian Broussard was promoted to Assistant Athletics Director for Ticket Operations in July 2007 and Associate AD in 2012. Broussard is responsible for revenue in excess of $50 million, which includes the management of ticket and parking sales and renewals for all sports, as well as Tradition Fund donations for football, men’s basketball and baseball. Broussard began at LSU in August 1996 as an assistant ticket manager responsible for men’s basketball sales and the day-to-day operations of ticket office. In March 2000, he was promoted to ticket manager, becoming responsible for the ticketing in all sports. Prior to joining the LSU staff, Broussard was the ticket manager at Northwestern State in 1996. He worked as a promotions assistant at the University of Miami in 1995 and was the gameday club manager for the New Orleans Saints in 1994. The Gretna native earned his bachelor’s degree in political science from LSU in 1993. He is married to the former Aimee Hodges of Alexandria.
Emmett David Associate AD/Facility and Project Development Emmett David joined the LSU Athletics Department in 2012 after serving as Director of the Office of Planning Design and Construction at LSU since June of 1996. He will assist in facility and project development for the Athletic Department including the newly completed South Stadium addition and future projects for such sports as tennis and gymnastics and other property holding enhancements. Among his responsibilities for the University was to serve as facility officer for Doctoral I Research Institution consisting of 11.2 million gross square feet with 250 primary buildings. He also was responsible for the 5-year Capital Outlay project planning of some $484 million, deferred maintenance reporting and funding; and, ADA and Life Safety Code deficiency projects, budgets and tracking of expenditures of some $200 million. He was responsible for nearly $800,000 in physical development on campus with projects such as Choppin Annex, Residential College, Business Education Complex, Raphael Semmes Parking Garage and numerous major maintenance, repair and restoration projects. He also coordinated and implemented master plans for such departments as Parking and Traffic, Athletics, Veterinary Medicine, Student Health Center, Union, University Recreation, South Campus and Residential Life. David developed long range planning of future projects and the impact of associated displacement and monitored and managed space inventory and he has served as a Staff Senator. David graduated from LSU with a Bachelor of Architecture in 1982 and his Master of Public Administration in 2006. He is a registered licensed architect by the state of Louisiana. Emmett and his wife Maurine have two children Chloe and Gabe, who are both residents of Baton Rouge.
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Neal Lamonica, a member of the LSU Athletic Department staff since January 2000, was promoted to Assistant Athletic Director for Fiscal Operations in August 2013. His primary duties include monitoring the Athletic Department’s over $109 million budget, and assisting coaches and administrators in formulating budgets for future years. He also serves as the liaison to the athletic department’s retail sales operations and Tiger Booster Clubs. Lamonica began his professional career at LSU in 2000 in the athletic department compliance office before moving to the business office in June 2003. He served as Coordinator of Athletic Business until December 2005, when he was named Business Manager. Lamonica was promoted to Director of Fiscal Operations in November 2009. Lamonica received a bachelor’s degree in mass communications from LSU in 1998, and he earned an LSU master’s degree in business administration in 2003. Lamonica and his wife, Blythe, are the parents of three sons – Davis, Sam Henry and Luke.
Mathew Shanklin Assistant AD/Marketing Mathew Shanklin begins his fourth year at LSU serving as the Assistant Athletic Director of Marketing and as the General Business Manager for LSU Sports Properties, the multi-media rights holder for Tiger Athletics. Previously, Shanklin served 20 years as the Associate Athletic Director of Marketing and Licensing at the University of Arkansas. Shanklin supervises all operations and client services for LSU Sports Properties, while also managing the LSU Marketing efforts. Since joining LSU, he has implemented several new initiatives including the Bengal Brigade Street team and the new Band pre-game presentation for men’s basketball. While at Arkansas, Shanklin was in charge of all department marketing/ promotions, corporate sponsorships, advertising sales and coordinated all sales and programming for the football, basketball and baseball video boards. He was instrumental in developing the HogPen, a tailgating area for fans inside Baum Stadium, the Hog Spa hot tub area at Baum Stadium and the RBI Girls. Shanklin was instrumental in establishing the school’s first baseball radio network in 1992, one of the nation’s largest with more than 25 affiliates statewide as well as creating the first Hispanic radio network for the University of Arkansas. In 1998, Shanklin became the university’s licensing coordinator and under his direction, licensing revenues increased every quarter. Shanklin was assistant marketing director at East Carolina University for a year before going to Arkansas. He had served as an intern at Arkansas for five months before joining the ECU staff. A 1984 graduate of South Mecklenburg (N.C.) High School in Charlotte, N.C., where he lettered in baseball and soccer, Shanklin earned his degree in communications from North Carolina-Wilmington in 1988. A graduate of Ohio University’s highly respected sports administration program, Shanklin earned a master’s degree in that program in the fall of 1989. An avid golfer, Shanklin married the former Missy Emmerson of Jacksonville, Texas, in 2003. She has a daughter, Jordan (18) who attends LSU, and they are also the parents of Barbara Blake (8) and Isabella Grace (6).
David Taylor Assistant AD/Game-Event Management David Taylor, who has been a part of LSU’s game management team since September 2005, was promoted in August 2014 to Assistant Athletic Director of Game and Event Management. Taylor handles all aspects regarding game management of athletic events while overseeing a staff that helps coordinate all events within the LSU Athletic Department grounds. Taylor, who started as game management coordinator, was promoted to Assistant Director in 2006 and Associate Director in 2008. He assumed the directorship of Game and Event Management in September 2011. Prior to that, Taylor served as Assistant Coordinator of Athletic Facilities and Game Operations at Texas State University from 2003 to 2005. Taylor earned his B.S. degree from Texas-El Paso in 1999 and his Masters in Sports Management in 2003.