Playing career Joyce played for the Brakettes from 1954 to 1963, the Lionettes from 1964 to 1966, and again the Brakettes from 1967 to 1975, In her career, she racked up many of the sport's records, which have yet to be broken: • Most consecutive all-star team selections (18) • Eight-time MVP in the National Tournament (1961, 1963, 1968, 1971 (co-MVP), 1973, 1974, and 1975) • Most victories in a season (42) (in 1974) • Two no-hit, no-run games in National Tournament (four times) • Shutouts in a season (38 in 1974) • Most innings pitched in a game (29 in 1968 against Perkasie) • Career doubles (153) • Doubles in a season (22 in 1968) • Career triples (67) • Brakettes team batting champion (1960, 1962, 1967–69, 1973) • Highest batting average (.467 in 1971) Her pitches were extremely fast at over 70 miles per hour. She pitched 150 no-hitters and 50 perfect games, with a lifetime earned run average of 0.09. In her record-setting 42-win season, she pitched 38 shutouts. Her 1974 Brakettes team was the first American team to win the world championship.
Coaching career Joyce was co-founder (with
Billie Jean King,
Jim Jorgensen and
Dennis Murphy) of the
Women's Professional Softball League in 1976 and the coach and part owner of the
Connecticut Falcons team, which won the Championship all four years of the league's history. She was a coach at
Florida Atlantic University, having coached softball since 1994 and women's golf since 1996. As of 2022, Joyce's Owls team won eleven conference championships and advanced to eleven
NCAA Division I softball tournaments. ==Golf==