Baseball Coaching Staff

Bruce Joyce
Head Baseball Coach

Bruce Joyce enters his 21st season as head baseball coach at Southern New Hampshire University.

He guided the Penmen to the ECAC Division II Tournament crown--the program’s first-ever post season tournament championship--and a share of the New England Collegiate Conference title in 1997. The 1993 and 1997 NECC Coach of the Year, Joyce led SNHU to its first-ever ECAC Tournament appearance in 1994.

An active member of the New England Intercollegiate Baseball Association (NEIBA), he was appointed to a two-year term as president in 2004 and served as the association’s vice president from 2002-2004.  He has also served as chairman of the NEIBA New England Division II Polling Committee since 2004. In addition, Joyce has served as Division II Northeast Region Chairman for the American Baseball Coaches Association (ABCA) since 1998.  He has also spent time on the NCAA Division II Northeast Regional Advisory Committee, which is responsible for selecting teams for the Northeast Regional of the NCAA Division II Tournament.

Joyce has 21 years of experience with various camps and clinics and is the owner of the Granite State Baseball School, which he conducts every summer on the SNHU campus.

A native of Londonderry, NH, Joyce is a 1982 graduate of Londonderry High School and was inducted into its Hall of Fame in 1989.

He began his collegiate career at Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, FL and later transferred to Southern New Hampshire University. A four-year standout for the Penmen, he posted a career batting average of .341 and was regarded as one of the top catchers in New England.

He received his degree in business administration in 1987 and went on to play one year of single A baseball in the Empire State Baseball League.

Joyce resides in Exeter, NH and has a son Ethan, 12, and a daughter Darci, 8.