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