This past week, FAU Athletics honored the late softball coaching legend by renaming their stadium to Joan Joyce Field.
Joyce helped build the softball program at FAU after signing on as their first head coach in 1995. Up until her passing in 2022, she led the Owls to 1,002 career wins, eight straight American Sun Championships from 1997 to 2004, and NCAA Tournament appearances in each of those eight years. She was a six-time Coach of the Year (5 in the American Sun conference and one in the Sun Belt Conference).
Joyce passed away in March 2022 at the age of 82.