Jeannette Haydel
July 20, 2018
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Thibodaux High School has a new baseball coach.
He’s not pulling any punches, nor steering clear from bold proclamations.
He’s making it clear during the early stages of building the program that deep playoff runs are expected and trips to Sulphur will be the eventual norm once everything is in place.
The Tigers hired longtime coach and school alum Shane Trosclair earlier this summer, a move which sparks the beginning of a new era for a Tigers’ baseball team, which struggled to an 8-24 record last season under 2018 coach Marc Gonzales, who resigned at the end of the season after a four-season ride with the team.
Trosclair is battle-tested and highly successful as a head coach.
He coached E.D. White for 9 seasons, posting a 243-48 record — his last season coming in 2017. The Cardinals won the district championship every season of Trosclair’s tenure and went deep in the state tournament several times, including trips to Sulphur.
Trosclair coached last
season as the pitching coach at East Ascension, but said that the opportunity to coach back at his alma mater is a blessing — one which he doesn’t plan to take for granted.
“It’s a dream come true to make my way back to Thibodaux High School,” Trosclair said. “I’m glad to be back at Thibodaux. It’s home. It’s more special to me to be able to wear that purple and gold again and get our baseball program back on its feet again like it was in the late-90s and early-2000s and get that ball rolling again. We’re excited. It’s not just me. It’s our whole community. It’s an all-in effort with our alumni, our families and so-forth. Our players are excited and we’re all just ready to go.”
Trosclair has a clear plan for how to make Thibodaux High into a winner again.
It will look familiar to E.D. White fans.
It’s the same exact blueprint he used while wearing red and white in his old job just down the road.
Trosclair said he will work tirelessly with his pitching staff in hopes of building as much depth with that group as possible.
That’s not a bad place to start, given the problems the team had last season.
The Tigers gave up 10 or more runs 14 times in 32 games last season. In 10 of those games, the team gave up 12 or more runs
