Wofford College Athletics

Josh Schulman returned to the Wofford baseball staff in the fall of 2021 as the pitching coach and the recruiting coordinator for the Terriers and was elevated to associate head coach in the summer of 2023. He enters his second season in that role and fourth season in his return stint in Spartanburg.
    
In 2024, Wofford tied its program record for wins with a 42-20 mark, the third-straight 40-win campaign for the program. The Terriers also boasted a 12-8 league clip and returned to the SoCon Championship for a third-straight year, defeating Samford twice to secure Wofford’s second SoCon Tournament title. The Terriers were selected as the No. 3 seed in the Chapel Hill Regional and secured their first SoCon Tournament victory with a 5-2 triumph over Long Island. Heading up the squad’s baserunning efforts, Schulman guided Wofford to 147 stolen bases, seventh most in the country. Marshall Toole swiped 43 of those, checking at second in the nation while setting a new single-season program record. Toole was one of seven different Terriers to steal 10 or more bases, and he was named First-Team All-SoCon at season’s end. He was joined by Dixon Black and Zac Cowan. Daniel Jackson was named SoCon Freshman of the Year, and Tyler Bak, Kenny Michaels and Camden Wicker joined him on the SoCon All-Freshman Team.

The Terriers posted a 40-19 record in 2023 with a 12-9 league clip. It was Wofford’s second-straight 40-win campaign and just the second ever in program history. Wofford returned to the SoCon Championship for a second-straight season. Schulman’s pitching staff was well-represented in the SoCon year-end awards, highlighted by Lucas Mahlstedt earning All-SoCon First-Team honors. Matthew Marchal and Coulson Buchanan were named to the second team, and all three of Wofford’s SoCon All-Freshman Team honorees were pitchers: Zac Cowan, Branton Little and Charlie Weber. Mahlstedt also became the first hurler in program history to be named a semifinalist for the National Pitcher of the Year Award. The Terriers led the nation in walks allowed per nine innings, issuing just 2.38. Wofford’s 5.23 ERA topped the conference, as did its 3.43 strikeout-to-walk ratio, which also checked in at third-best in the country. 

In the 2022 campaign, Schulman’s first returning to the Terriers, Wofford posted a 42-16-1 record with a 16-4-1 league clip. The 42 wins are a program record and the school’s first 40-win season, and the Terriers repeated as regular season Southern Conference Champions. The Terriers reached the championship series of the SoCon Tournament for the third time in school history before falling short to UNCG. Five Terriers earned First-Team All-Southern Conference honors, including starting pitcher Matthew Marchal. Among Schulman’s pitching staff, Josh Vitus and Dalton Rhadans garnered second-team selections, and Carter Bailey and Coulson Buchanan earned All-Freshman Team recognition. Wofford’s 4.66 ERA led the Southern Conference, and the 506 strikeouts pitched were a school record.

Schulman began his second stint with the Terriers after serving as an assistant coach and recruiting coordinator for Yale from 2018-21, handling baserunning and catching. He helped the Bulldogs steal an Ivy League-best 114 bases in 2019. Though the Bulldogs went 18-23 overall that year, they were 12-8 in league play, which was third in the conference. In 2020, Yale went 3-7 before the season was cut short due to the Covid-19 pandemic, and the Ivy league did not play a 2021 season.
    
He joined the Wofford baseball staff for the first time in the fall of 2016 as the volunteer assistant coach, working with the pitching staff along with Seth Cutler-Voltz.  During the 2018 season, Wofford posted a 36-23 overall record, the second-most wins in school history. In Southern Conference play, the Terriers were 15-9 to finish third overall and set a new school record for league wins. The pitching staff had an ERA of 4.95 to rank fourth in the SoCon and the 454 strikeouts also ranked fourth. One key to the success of the staff was senior Adam Scott, who was drafted in the 4th round (133rd overall) by the Cleveland Indians. Scott set a new school record with 137 strikeouts (first in the SoCon) in 103.1 innings.
    
In his first season with the Terriers, the team won 28 games overall and were 13-11 in the Southern Conference, just the second winning season in league play in school history. The pitching staff had an ERA of 5.42, which was ranked fifth in the SoCon. Spencer Kulman signed a free agent contract with the San Diego Padres after leading the team with eight wins on the season.
    
In 2016 he worked as an assistant coach with the Pomona-Pitzer baseball program on the pitching staff and served as the recruiting coordinator. The team posted a 20-19 overall record and were 13-15 in the SCIAC. Six players received All-Conference honors with David Gerics, Tanner Nishioka and Bryce Rogan earning First Team All-SCIAC honors. Gerics went a perfect 7-0 and led the conference with a 2.31 earned run average at the top of the Sagehen rotation. He also finished in fourth place in the conference in strikeouts with 63. Tanner Nishioka earned First Team All-West and Gerics earned Third Team All-West as announced by D3Baseball.com.
    
Schulman joined the Sagehens after competing for four years at the University of Rochester, where he was a left-handed pitcher. He became a volunteer assistant coach after graduating in 2015, after also serving as an assistant coach with the Victor RailRiders in the PGCBL.
    
As a player at Rochester, Schulman earned honorable-mention All-Liberty League honors as a senior, and was named to the Capital One Academic All-District team. During his senior year, he led the team in starts, innings pitched, complete games, shutouts and strikeouts, led starting pitchers in ERA and batting average against. He led the UAA and Liberty League in shutouts in 2015, breaking the school record.
    
Schulman also helped his Rochester squad to a school record 17 straight wins in 2015. He was a part of a program that reached the 25-win plateau as both a junior and senior, and qualified for the Liberty League Tournament Championship for the first time in school history.
    
In addition to playing for Rochester, Schulman was also a two-year member of the Niagara Power of the New York Collegiate Baseball League in the summers of 2013 and 2014, serving as a team captain his second year. He also was a communications intern for the Rochester Red Wings, the AAA affiliate of the Minnesota Twins.
    
A Dean’s List student in five of a possible seven semesters, Schulman served as the baseball representative to the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee at Rochester, and was a founder and president of the campus chapter of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes.  
    
A native of College Station, Texas, he attended A&M Consolidated. Schulman played baseball for the Tigers that were ranked second in the state and 12th nationally during his senior season. He batted .380 as a senior and was a First Team All-District honoree, All-State Academic and Brazos Valley All-Academic team. Schulman graduated from Rochester in 2015 with degrees in Political Science and English and received his Masters in Sports Management from Texas A&M in 2017.

Schulman and his wife, Allison, married in 2022. She played tennis at Notre Dame.