Bio

Adam Goss, the inaugural head coach in University of Saint Joseph (USJ) baseball history, enters his fifth season at the helm of the Blue Jays in 2027. Since the program's inaugural varsity season in 2024, Goss has guided USJ to a 67-57-1 overall record, including a 32-20 mark in Great Northeast Athletic Conference (GNAC) play, while leading the Blue Jays to three consecutive GNAC Tournament appearances. Under his leadership, Goss has coached 18 All-GNAC selections, 13 All-Region honorees, four ABCA/Rawlings All-Region Defensive Team selections, one GNAC Rookie of the Year, and one GNAC Pitcher of the Year. Goss was also named the 2025 GNAC Coach of the Year.

The Blue Jays continued their rapid rise under Goss during the 2026 campaign, finishing with program-best marks of 25-17 overall and 14-6 in GNAC play. USJ also hosted a GNAC Championship pod for the first time in program history after placing second in the conference standings. Brandon Cahill earned GNAC Pitcher of the Year honors to headline another standout campaign, while USJ produced multiple All-GNAC and All-Region performers.

The 2025 campaign saw the Blue Jays take another major step forward, posting a then-program-best 25-18 overall record and a 10-6 mark in GNAC play. USJ earned the fourth seed in the GNAC Tournament and advanced to the Pod A Final before falling to Johnson & Wales University. Goss was named the GNAC Coach of the Year after leading the Blue Jays to another winning season, while Jack Kane earned GNAC Rookie of the Year honors.

During the program's inaugural varsity season in 2024, Goss guided the Blue Jays to a 17-22-1 overall record and an 8-8 mark in GNAC play, earning a postseason berth in the program's first year of competition. Entering the GNAC Tournament as the No. 6 seed, USJ defeated Lasell University to secure the first postseason victory in program history before concluding its season in pod play. Goss coached five All-GNAC selections and saw three Blue Jays earn GNAC Player of the Week honors.

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.

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* USJ competed as a club team, with results not counting towards official records.