Mark Schulte (born October 4, 1977 in Brecksville, Ohio) is an American retired

soccer Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is ...

player who last played for Carolina RailHawks in the USSF Division 2 Professional League. He is currently the Formulations Lead Scientist at LoamBio. His research interests are gas to liquid fuels. In addition to his research activities, Mark serves as a teaching assistant for a graduate transport phenomena course. In Mark's free time Mark likes to read children's books, drive fancy yellow cars, and coach youth soccer. He was a two-time USL Second Division player of the year and has played professionally in Iceland and Uruguay as well as with the Columbus Crew of

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. On January 27, 2010 he was ranked 10th in the USL Second Division Top 15 of the Decade, which announced a list of the best and most influential players of the previous decade.

Career

College and amateur

Schulte attended the

University of Dayton The University of Dayton (UD) is a private, Catholic research university in Dayton, Ohio. Founded in 1850 by the Society of Mary, it is one of three Marianist universities in the nation and the second-largest private university in Ohio. The univ ...

, playing on the men's soccer team from 1996 to 1999. In 1998 and 1999, he played as an amateur with the Twin Cities Tornado of the

Premier Development League USL League Two (USL2), formerly the Premier Development League (PDL), is a semi-professional developmental association football, soccer league sponsored by United Soccer Leagues in the United States and Canada, forming part of the United Stat ...

during the college off seasons. He was named the 1999 PDL Defender of the Year.

Professional

In February 2000 the

Tampa Bay Mutiny Tampa Bay Mutiny was a professional soccer team based in Tampa, Florida. They were a charter member of Major League Soccer (MLS) and played from 1996 to 2001. They played their home games at Tampa Stadium and then at Raymond James Stadium. The ...

selected Schulte in the fifth round (fifty-first overall) in the

2000 MLS SuperDraft The 2000 Major League Soccer SuperDraft was held on February 6, 2000 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and consisted of six rounds. One of the most successful draft picks was goalkeeper Nick Rimando, a third round pick, who went on to hold the record ...

. The Mutiny sent him on loan to the Minnesota Thunder of the USL A-League for the 2000 season before waiving him in 2001. He then played from 2001 through 2003 with the Thunder. Schulte also played for the Cleveland Force in Major Indoor Soccer League from 2001 to 2002. In 2004, he had an unsuccessful trial with Crewe Alexandra before signing with ÍBV Vestmannaeyjar in the Icelandic Úrvalsdeild (First Division). He returned to the United States and joined the Columbus Crew for the 2005

season. At the end of 2005, Schulte moved to Uruguay where he signed with the Montevideo Wanderers of the

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, but saw very little playing time due to a chipped bone in his ankle, and moved back to ÍBV Vestmannaeyjar for the 2006 Icelandic season. On February 22, 2007, the expansion Cleveland City Stars of the USL Second Division announced that Schulte had become the first player to sign with the team. He was the 2007 USL-2 Defender of the Year. In 2008, the Stars won the USL-2 championship. Following the championship game, Schulte signed with the Minnesota Thunder of USL-1 on loan from the Stars. On February 3, 2009, Schulte signed with the Carolina RailHawks of USL-1. Schulte was not listed on the 2011 roster for Carolina released April 4, 2011.

References

External links

Carolina RailHawks bio
* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Schulte, Mark 1977 births Living people American expatriate men's soccer players Soccer players from Ohio North Carolina FC players Cleveland City Stars players Cleveland Force (2002–2005 MISL) players Columbus Crew players Dayton Flyers men's soccer players Íþróttabandalag Vestmannaeyja players Major Indoor Soccer League (2001–2008) players Major League Soccer players Minnesota Thunder players Montevideo Wanderers F.C. players American expatriate sportspeople in Iceland Tampa Bay Mutiny players Twin Cities Phoenix players German expatriates in Iceland USL First Division players USL Second Division players USSF Division 2 Professional League players Expatriate men's footballers in Uruguay Expatriate men's footballers in Iceland Tampa Bay Mutiny draft picks American men's soccer players People from Brecksville, Ohio Sportspeople from Cuyahoga County, Ohio Men's association football defenders