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LHSCA director Eric Held Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The LHSCA is in the market for a new director. Eric Held, who has served as the LHSCA leader within the LHSAA’s framework for six years, has been hired as the new director of alumni/high schools relations by the LSU football program. “To say it’s a dream job is kind of cliché .
.. but it is,” Held said.
“Especially for somebody like me who has worked their whole life in football the way I have. “This means so much for me because of the relationship I had with coach Bags (the late Charles Baglio). To be able to serve in the role he did is special.
” Held, 54, said he begins work at LSU on Monday. The New Orleans native is a Brother Martin graduate who spent 25 years as a high school coach before taking the LHSCA job in the spring of 2019. Baglio, a successful football coach at Independence High and the founder if the Louisiana Football Coaches Association, was hired by Nick Saban as the first liaison to high schools and held the job for 20 years before retiring.
Former University High and LSU running back Nick Brossette most recently held the job through the 2024 season. It was previously announced that Brossette was being retained. “I am going to miss the staff and everyone at the LHSAA,” Held said.
“I will miss working championship events and conventions. “Building relationships across the state was something an important part of the LHSCA job for me. I think it will also be a great job for the next person who is hired.
” Held was a placekicker at Nicholls State and spent the first 10 years of his career as an assistant in the Catholic League. He spent two years as head football coach at St. Mary’s-Natchitoches and five years as a head at St.
Michael. He was an assistant coach in the Baton Rouge area at Redemptorist and at Catholic High..
