A lifelong athlete, Royce was drafted by the Seattle Mariners out of high school in the 27th round of the 2002 MLB Draft. He went on to start for the Western Michigan Broncos baseball team for four years, then play a year of professional baseball before starting his career in sports television in 2008. Royce began his career traveling around the country for ESPN’s Monday Night Baseball, also producing shows for the MLB All-Star game and World Series for ESPN's Baseball Tonight. Royce later moved to Los Angeles to help launch ESPN’s SportsNation. He soon moved over to FOX Sports to launch their new Sports Network, FS1 where he developed and produced FS1’s nightly news and highlights show, FOX Sports Live. Later joining the MLB production team, Royce won three Sports Emmys for his work on the MLB on FOX postseason. In 2018, Royce was asked to help develop, launch and produce FS1’s groundbreaking sports Gambling Show, Lock It In. Prior to the start of season two in 2019, Royce was given daily oversight of Lock It In and in 2020 oversaw the rebrand of the show to FOX Bet Live.In September of 2020, Royce joined Electronic Arts as the Executive Producer of Content and Programming for Madden Competitive Gaming. In his short time at EA, Royce helped the Madden Championship Series set viewership records on Twitch and YouTube, won a Telly Award for his work on “Derwin James vs The World, a Hashtag Sports Award for the Best Virtual Brand Experience, The Pro Bowl: The Madden 21 NFL Edition and most recently, picked up a Sports Emmy Nomination for the Madden 22 Bowl Finale.In April of 2022, Royce joined Apple as their Head of Production and Executive Producer for Live Sports, where he helped Apple launch Friday Night Baseball on Apple TV+ and MLS Season Pass on Apple TV.Royce resides in Woodland Hills, CA, with his wife Sara and their twin boys.