cass hargis

 

Coach Cass Hargis is entering his 1st season coaching with the East Coast Sox.

Coach Hargis is entering his 14th year of coaching, with 5 years experience as a high school head coach and 2 years experience as a division 1 assistant coach. He is currently a recruiting advisor with SportsForce Baseball

Hargis spent the 2023 and 2024 season as the head coach at St. Thomas More in Lafayette, LA. His team's reached the Division 2 semi-finals in both years.

Prior to his time at St. Thomas More, he was an assistant at McNeese St. University, where he was the offensive coordinator and outfield coach, as well as camp coordinator.

Hargis was the head coach at his alma mater, Holy Cross School in New Orleans, from 2015-2018. As the head coach of the Tigers, he averaged 21 wins a season, made the State Semi-Finals twice, in 2017 and 2018, and was American Legion State Runner-up in 2016.

In 2017, he was inducted into the Southeastern Louisiana University Athletic Hall of Fame where he played centerfield for the Lions. Hargis earned his degree and played four years of baseball at SE Louisiana from 2008-2011.

In those years, he was named a 2008 Louisville Slugger/PING Baseball Freshman All-American, was a two-time member of the All-Conference Teams (2008, 2009), and is Southeastern La.’s all-time leader in hits, runs, and triples, and is second all-time in doubles.

After graduating, Hargis became an Assistant Coach at Southeastern La. in 2013 helping lead them to a 35-win season and a birth to the Southland Conference Championship Game.

In 2014, Hargis went back to St. Thomas Aquinas as the Assistant Baseball/Football coach in Hammond, LA where after leaving in 2012.

Hargis currently resides in Youngsville, LA with his wife, Matte, and their newborn son, Cooper.