Henri Lartigue - Baseball Coach - East Carolina University Athletics

Henri Lartigue

Title:
Assistant Coach - Hitting Coach
Email:
lartigueh23@ecu.edu
Phone:
(252) 737-1989

Henri Lartigue was named assistant coach and hitting coach for the East Carolina baseball program in August of 2023.

The Pirate offense excelled under Lartigue’s leadership in 2024 as ECU slotted among the national statistical leaders – ranking in the top 30 in five categories. The Pirates were eighth in hits (671), 15th in sacrifice bunts (46), 16th in sacrifice flies (35), 20th in runs scored (498) and 24th in batting average (.309). Individually, Jacob Jenkins-Cowart was 10th in RBI (79) and 33rd in RBI per game (1.25) while Carter Cunningham placed 17th in runs scored (77) and Riley Johnson was 19th in runs scored (75) and triples (5).

With Lartigue’s assistance, East Carolina captured its fifth consecutive American Athletic Conference title and Cunningham was tabbed the league’s Player of the Year. ECU paced the conference statistically in batting average, slugging percentage (.485), on base percentage (.399), runs scored, hits, RBI (464) and total bases (1,055).

Lartigue joined the Pirate program after serving as the volunteer assistant coach at Arkansas State where he tutored the Red Wolves' catchers while also assisting with hitting and other operations during the 2023 season. He was elevated to an assistant coach role in July.

Lartigue spent the 2022 season as a student assistant at Ole Miss, helping the Rebels capture the first national title in program history with two wins over Oklahoma in the national championship series.

Lettering for 2022 National Coach of the Year Mike Bianco from 2014-2016, Lartigue was one of the nation's top catchers in his final year in Oxford. He was a semifinalist for the Johnny Bench Award, awarded to the best catcher in college baseball, while also being a First Team All-SEC honoree and SEC All-Tournament team member. The switch hitter led all SEC catchers in hitting with a team-best .353 clip, including a stellar .371 mark in league play.

Lartigue was also a standout in the classroom, earning CoSIDA Academic All-District First Team laurels and was a three-time selection to the SEC Academic Honor Roll.

Following his collegiate career, the Southaven, Miss., native spent six seasons in professional baseball after the Philadelphia Phillies selected him with the first pick of the seventh round in the 2016 Major League Baseball Draft.