HAMPTON, Va. (Dec. 1, 2025) … Hampton University Director of Cross Country and Track and Field Maurice Pierce was recently named to the Board of Directors for the Peninsula Sports Club.

Pierce joins the board starting this month helping with several initiatives including their annual Headliners Night in June of 2026.

Founded in 1949, the Peninsula Sports Club is active in recognizing and honoring high school, college and professional athletes, coaches and citizens who have made outstanding contributions to our local athletic community. The Club also provides scholarships to local high school student athletes each year. Since its inception, the PSC has awarded over $260,000 in scholarship monies to deserving student athletes.

Pierce will enter his 27th season with the Hampton University track & field and cross country programs, and his 15th as the Director of Track & Field in 2025-26. He now oversees both the men's and women's cross country and track & field teams. Before stepping into this role, Pierce spent 10 years as head coach of the women's team, building a perennial conference power. Prior to that, Pierce spent four years at Hampton as an assistant.
 
In his years at the helm of the women's program, Pierce has guided the women's teams to four MEAC cross country titles (2004, 2006, 2010, 2011), 13 MEAC indoor championships (2003-09, 2011-16), 10 MEAC outdoor titles (2003-04, 06-10, 2012-14), one Big South indoor title (2019), one Big South outdoor title (2019) and one Coastal Athletic Association indoor title (2025). 

With the men, Pierce's teams have won one MEAC outdoor title (2013), one MEAC indoor crown (2014), one Big South indoor title (2019) and one Big South outdoor championship (2019). All total, Pierce has won 34 conference titles in his Hampton tenure.

In Hampton's first year in the Coastal Athletic Association in 2023, Hampton finished second in the indoor and outdoor track and field championships. He broke through that barrier in February of 2025 leading Hampton to its first-ever CAA Championship winning the women's title in Virginia Beach. Hampton's teams have had 16 runner-up finishes, 14 top three finishes in his tenure. 

Pierce has won 35 coach of the year awards, had 33 student-athletes earn All-American honors, two NCAA National Champions, six Olympians and five MEAC Hall of Famers. He is a member of the Athletic Hall of Fame of the Lower Virginia Peninsula and the Newport News Track and Field Hall of Fame.