Click Here to listen to Interview with Joanette Batiste Boutte along with notes, transcript, pictures  and videos. In 1975, the first African American woman to play varsity basketball and volleyball at LSU. She ranks 4th all-time at LSU in rebounds with 1,017 in 121 career games. Our Living Legend discusses the impact of Title IX on her life, and becoming a professional athlete,  educator, mother and wife.