Bio

Adam Goss enters his third year at the helm of the Blue Jays in 2025 after officially being named the first-ever head coach of the newly-added University of Saint Joseph (USJ) baseball team in 2022. Goss is a Connecticut native (Waterford), a former baseball student-athlete at Division II powerhouse Franklin Pierce University, and was an assistant coach at Division III Nichols College for three seasons before joining the Blue Jays.

During the first season in program history in 2023-24, Goss led the Blue Jays to a 17-22-1 record overall, including an 8-8 mark in Great Northeast Athletic Conference (GNAC) play, securing a postseason berth in the teams innaugural season. USJ, who entered the postseason as the sixth-seed, defeated Lasell in the opening game of pod play, picking up the first postseason win in program history. In the 2024 campaign, Goss coached five All-GNAC selections, and three GNAC Player of the Weeks.

Goss arrived at USJ by way of Nichols College, where he was the lead assistant coach and recruiting coordinator for the Bison's baseball program for the last three seasons. Nichols is coming off a 15-9 (.625) 2021 campaign, which marked the highest winning percentage for the Bison since 2005. The Bison were off to a roaring start in 2020, posting an 8-2 record before the COVID-19 shutdown. In 2019, his first season in Dudley, Massachusetts, Nichols finished 21-20 and made the Commonwealth Coast Conference (CCC) Tournament, before falling in the first round. Overall, Nichols posted a 44-31 record while Goss was with the program.

Working directly with head coach Tim Mayo, the Bison established several single-season school records in his time with the program, including in 2019, when the pace was set for home runs (29), on-base percentage (.444), and slugging percentage (.542), as well as the second-highest team batting average (.343) all-time. Additionally, Nichols' pitchers held opponents to a .256 batting average in 2021, the fourth-lowest mark ever recorded by a Nichols team.

Seven Bison received All-CCC honors in 2021, highlighted by CCC Player of the Year Kyle Bouchard, Pitcher of the Year Jack Dicenso, and Rookie of the Year Brennan Hyde. Bouchard and Dicenso, along with Nate Cormier and DJ Caron, went on to grab All-New England Honors, while Bouchard was named to the D3baseball.com All-America Fourth Team, marking the first All-American in program history. Additionally, two members of the 2021 team went on to sign professional baseball contracts for the 2022 season.

In Goss' first season on the bench at Nichols, the Bison won 21 games - which was the fourth-highest mark in program history - and set the single-season record for earned run average (ERA) (3.77) in the process. Five student-athletes were named All-CCC: Christian Naccari (First Team), Kyle Bouchard (Second Team), Joe Assenza (Second Team), Nathaniel Cormier (Third Team), and Brendan Duffy (Second Team); while Duffy was also named CCC Rookie of the Year. Four student-athletes garnered CCC Academic All-Conference honors.

Goss is a 2018 graduate of Franklin Pierce University, where he was a four-year member of the Ravens baseball program, the same program that was nationally-ranked No. 1 in the country in 2016.

A left-handed specialist, Goss struck out 47 batters in 34.2 innings of work during his career, good for an average of 12.2 strikeouts per nine innings. The Ravens made three NCAA Division II Tournament appearances during that span (2015-18), advancing to the Division II College World Series in 2016. Franklin Pierce posted a combined record of 162-43-1 while Goss was a member of the program, which equates to a .789 winning percentage.

Goss earned his undergraduate degee in management with a minor in sports & recreation from Franklin Pierce, and was one of just seven students in his class to graduate with high honors from the Franklin Pierce University College of Business. He was also a member of the National Honor Society. Goss went on to earn a master's degree from Nichols College in organizational leadership in 2020.

Goss currently resides in Coventry Conn., with his wife Megan.