John Shulman
John Shulman (born June 28, 1966)
Current position: Head men’s basketball coach
Current team: Central Arkansas Bears
Current conference: ASUN Conference
Chattanooga record: 145-146 (.498)
Alabama-Huntsville record: 112-39 (.742)
Central Arkansas record: 0-0 (.000)
Overall record: 257-185 (.581)
Career Accomplishments:
- NCAA National Championships: 0
- NCAA Tournament Appearances: 2 (2005, 2009)
- NCAA Tournament Sweet Sixteen: 0
- NIT Championships: 0
- NIT Appearances: 0
- ASUN Regular Season Champion: 0
- SoCon Regular Season Champion: 4 (2005, 2008, 2009, 2011)
- ASUN Tournament Champion: 0
- SoCon Tournament Champion: 2 (2005, 2009)
- Gulf South (Div II) Tournament Champion: 1 (2020)
- NCAA Division II Tournament Appearances: 5 (2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024)
Coaching Career (head coach, unless noted):
| 2024-present | Central Arkansas |
| 2019-2024 | Alabama-Huntsville |
| 2004-2013 | Chattanooga |
| 2002-2004 | Chattanooga (assoc. HC) |
| 1998-2002 | Tennessee Tech (asst) |
| 1996-1998 | Wofford (asst) |
| 1990-1996 | East Tennessee State (asst) |
| 1989-1990 | Wofford (asst) |
John Shulman Facts
- John Shulman
- Born June 28, 1966
- Hometown: Johnson City, Tennessee
- Alma Mater: East Tennessee State University (BS, 1989 & M.Ed, 1992)
- First coaching job was at University HS (TN), where he spent one year as an assistant boys’ basketball coach
- Early collegiate assistant coaching jobs include two stints at Wofford (both under Richard Johnson) and a six-year run working under Alan LeForce at alma mater ETSU, during which the Bucs won two SoCon titles and went to back-to-back NCAA Tournaments (1991 and 1992)
- Hired by Jeff Lebo in 1998 to be an assistant at Tennessee Tech and followed him to Chattanooga as associate head coach in 2002
- Elevated to head coach at Chattanooga in 2004 and led the Mocs for the next nine seasons
- Went 145-146 overall, won shares of four SoCon titles and twice won the SoCon Tournament to go to the Big Dance
- Fired in 2013 following a second-straight sub-.500 record (and third in the previous four years)
- Took a year off to work in the private sector in Tennessee, specifically as Director of Sales at Access America Transport
- Returned to basketball in 2014, spending four years as the varsity head coach at The McCallie School in Chattanooga
- Hired in 2019 to be the head coach at D-II Alabama-Huntsville
- Went to the D-II NCAA Tournament in each of his five seasons at the helm; 112-39 overall record
- Announced as the new head coach at D-I Central Arkansas in March 2024
- His nephew is Jeremy Shulman, a long-time NCJAA head coach who is now at the helm at Tennessee-Martin in the OVC
John Shulman Coaching Tree
- Rick Cabrera (Northwestern State)
- Charlton Young (Georgia Southern)
^ overall record includes head coaching positions at the NCAA Division I and Division II levels only
