Jay Artigues

After a successful eight-season stint as the baseball head coach at Southeastern, Jay Artigues was appointed Director of Athletics on Oct. 14, 2013. Named one of the rising head coaches in the college game prior to the 2013 season, Artigues built a foundation of success for the baseball program and now is doing the same for the entire athletic department.

Under Artigues, Lion baseball established itself as a growing force in the region by producing three All-Americans, four Freshman All-Americans, a Capital One Academic All-American, the NCBWA National Stopper of the Year, the Southland Conference’s Player, Hitter, Relief Pitcher, and Freshman of the Year, numerous All-Conference and Southland All-Academic players, as well as Southeastern single-season and career record holders.

During the spring of 2017, Artigues was inducted into the Mississippi Community College Sports Hall of Fame. He was previously inducted into the Pearl River Community College Athletics Hall of Fame in 2009 and the St. Stanislaus Great Wall of Rocks in 2007.

A 1992 graduate of Belhaven, where he earned a B.S. in business administration, Artigues also holds a master’s degree in sports coaching from the United States Sports Academy (1993).