Bobby Pierce (baseball coach, born 1959) explained

Bobby Pierce
Current Title:Assistant coach
Current Team:Chipola
Current Conference:Panhandle
Birth Date:18 July 1959
Birth Place:Marianna, Florida, U.S.
Player Years1:1981
Player Team1:Alabama
Player Positions:Outfield
Coach Years1:1982–1989
Coach Team1:Chipola
Coach Years2:1990–1994
Coach Team2:Alabama (assistant)
Coach Years3:1995–2002
Coach Team3:Alabama-Huntsville
Coach Years4:2003–2016
Coach Team4:Troy
Coach Years5:2021–present
Coach Team5:Chipola (asst)
Overall Record:930–459 (college)
259–92 (junior college)
Tournament Record:5–8 (NCAA)
Championships:2001 Gulf South Champions (UAH)
2005 Atlantic Sun Champions
2006 Sun Belt Champions
2011 Sun Belt Champions
2013 Sun Belt Champions
Awards:Alabama Baseball Coaches Hall of Fame
Wiregrass Sports Hall of Fame
2005 A-Sun Coach of the Year
2006 Sun Belt Coach of the Year
2011 Sun Belt Coach of the Year
2011 South Central Region Coach of the Year (ABCA)

Bobby Pierce (born July 18, 1959) is an American baseball coach and former outfielder. He is an assistant baseball coach at Chipola Junior College. He started his coaching career at Chipola Junior College, where he coached from 1982 to 1989. He posted a 259–92 record there with five berths in the state tournament. He was later hired as an assistant coach at his alma mater, Alabama. As an assistant, he went 158–122. In 1996, he was the head baseball coach at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, where he went 276–108. He also served as the head baseball coach of the Troy Trojans (2003–2016).

Since becoming head coach of Troy in 2003, Pierce has won an Atlantic Sun Conference regular season title (2005), two Sun Belt Conference regular season titles (2006, 2011), and one Sun Belt Conference tournament title (2006). He has coached Troy to multiple winning seasons, including three 40+ win seasons. Pierce has also led his program to four NCAA Regionals (2006, 2007, 2011, 2013) since becoming head coach.

In 2010, Pierce was inducted into the Alabama Baseball Coaches Hall of Fame.

Head coaching records

Below is a table of Pierce's yearly records as an NCAA Division I head baseball coach.[1] [2]

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: 2013 Atlantic Sun Conference Baseball Record Book . AtlanticSun.org . May 15, 2013 . https://web.archive.org/web/20130518002924/http://www.atlanticsun.org/media/2011-12/pdf/records-base.pdf . May 18, 2013 . dead .
  2. Web site: 2013 Sun Belt Conference Baseball Record Book . SunBeltSports.org . Sun Belt Conference . May 13, 2013 . https://web.archive.org/web/20130927120020/http://www.sunbeltsports.org/portals/0/content/Baseball/mediaguide/recordbook.pdf . September 27, 2013 . dead .