Northwestern State University Athletics

Dr. Rich, a three-year football letterman as an offensive lineman at LSU from 1976-78, was NSU’s Director of Sports Medicine and Head Team Physician from 1990-2010 and then continued to serve as a voluntary consulting role with NSU’s medical staff, and the athletic administration … played a key role in stewardship of financial resources related to medical care for NSU Athletics … during his tenure as the Demons’ chief physician and orthopaedic surgeon, over 500 competitors required surgery and 99 percent were able to resume playing … inducted in the LATA Hall of Fame in 2005.