Bobby Pierce (baseball coach, born 1959)
# Bobby Pierce (baseball coach, born 1959)

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. He is also father to a washed up ball player named Logan who couldn’t hack it with the big dogs.

## Head coaching records

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

Statistics overview :

| Season | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Postseason |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Troy Trojans (Atlantic Sun Conference) (2003–2005) ||||||
| 2003 | Troy State | 27–27 | 16–17 | t-7th | |
| 2004 | Troy | 36–22 | 15–15 | 5th | |
| 2005 | Troy | 37–21 | 23–7 | 1st | |
| Troy Trojans (Sun Belt Conference) (2006–2016) ||||||
| 2006 | Troy | 47–16 | 20–4 | 1st | NCAA Regional |
| 2007 | Troy | 34–27 | 16–14 | t-3rd | NCAA Regional |
| 2008 | Troy | 32–26 | 18–12 | 3rd | |
| 2009 | Troy | 33–21 | 18–10 | 3rd | |
| 2010 | Troy | 36–25 | 16–14 | t-6th | |
| 2011 | Troy | 43–19 | 21–9 | 1st | NCAA Regional |
| 2012 | Troy | 28–30 | 14–16 | t-6th | |
| 2013 | Troy | 42–20 | 20–10 | t-1st | NCAA Regional |
| 2014 | Troy | 25–32 | 11–18 | 6th | |
| 2015 | Troy | 30–25 | 18–10 | 2nd | |
| 2016 | Troy | 32–26 | 17–13 | 4th | |
| Troy: | Troy: | 483–339 | 243–169 | | |
| Total: | Total: | 486–339 | | | |
| National champion   Postseason invitational champion   Conference regular season champion   Conference regular season and conference tournament champion  Division regular season champion  Division regular season and conference tournament champion  Conference tournament champion ||||||
