Shawn Eddy enters his fourth year as the head trainer for the LSU men’s basketball program.

Prior to joining the basketball program, he served nine years as the head baseball trainer at Alex Box Stadium for the LSU Baseball Tigers.

This is Eddy’s 13th season at LSU, arriving in July of 1996 from Vanderbilt University, where he worked as a graduate assistant trainer for two years. He was promoted to senior associate athletic trainer in 2005 in the athletic department and also oversees training activities for the soccer and women’s golf programs. He also is the supervisor for the daily training activities in the Dr. Martin J. Broussard training center, LSU’s state-of-the-art training facility attached to Tiger Stadium.

Eddy earned a bachelor’s degree in exercise physiology in 1994 from the University of West Virginia. He also earned a master’s degree from Vanderbilt in health promotion and education.

The 37-year-old Eddy was born on Nov. 23, 1971.

The Eddy File
Year at LSU: 13th
Birth Date: Nov. 23, 1971
Age: 37
College: University of West Virginia, ‘94
Post-Graduate Education: Vanderbilt University (Masters), ‘96