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Biography
Bobby Pierce (born July 18, 1959) is the head baseball coach at Troy University. 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 at Huntsville, where he went 276–108.
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.
| 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–present) | |||||||||
| 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: | 483-339 | 243-169 | |||||||
| Total: | 486-339 | ||||||||
National champion Postseason invitational champion | |||||||||