Nate Mulberg is an American assistant coach of the

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team, and of the

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. In college, he played

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for the Yellowjackets at the

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Early and personal life

Raised in

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, Mulberg played prep baseball at

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, where he graduated in 2010. He played baseball for the high school for four years, and ran cross country for two years. After high school, he attended the

where he captained the baseball team. He completed a Master of Education from

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in 2016, a

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(MBA) from the

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in 2022, and a Master of Non-Profit Management from the

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in 2022. Mulberg now lives in

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with his wife Kristen Litchfield Mulberg.

College playing career

Mulberg was a four-year starting

for the Yellowjackets at the

('14), where he studied English and Business. He graduated cum laude and

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. He is in the top 10 in school history in sacrifice hits, assists, double plays turned, and most times hit by a pitch. He is a two-time

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First Team Academic All-District selection, and a three-time

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All-Academic team. In his senior year in 2014 he batted .359 with a .468 on base percentage, and was the 6th-toughest batter to strike out in

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. As team captain, he helped lead Rochester to its first ever Liberty League Championship Game while being named to the 2014 Liberty League Championship All-Tournament Team.

College coaching career

Mulberg was Assistant Baseball Coach/Recruiting Coordinator at

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from 2014-16. He was then Assistant Baseball Coach at

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for the Bisons in 2016. He has been a

Assistant Baseball Coach/Recruiting Coordinator and infield/catching instructor for the Spiders since 2017.

Team Israel

Mulberg has been the baseball assistant

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of the

since 2019. The team played in the

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in early July 2019 in

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, winning all five of its games and advancing to the playoffs against Team Lithuania in the 2019 Playoff Series at the end of July 2019 for the last qualifying spot for the 2019 European Baseball Championship. In September 2019, Mulberg coached Team Israel to a fourth-place finish at the

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in Germany. Among the teams Team Israel defeated was Team Germany. He also was on the coaching staff for Israel at the Africa/Europe 2020 Olympic Qualification tournament in Italy in September 2019, which Israel won to qualify to play

baseball at the 2020 Summer Olympics Baseball was featured at the 2020 Summer Olympics, in Tokyo, for the first time since the 2008 Summer Olympics. Six national teams competed in the tournament: Israel, Japan (host), Mexico, South Korea, the United States, and the Dominican Republ ...

in Tokyo. Mulberg was the first base coach for Team Israel at the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games. Israel won the country’s first-ever Olympic baseball game after defeating Mexico, en route to finishing in fifth-place in Tokyo. In October 2021, Mulberg was the recipient of the Outstanding Achievement Award at the 11th annual Katz JCC Sports Award Dinner for his work as a coach for Israel.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Mulberg, Nate Living people Cherry Hill High School East alumni People from Cherry Hill, New Jersey Richmond Spiders baseball coaches Rochester Yellowjackets baseball players Sportspeople from Camden County, New Jersey Baseball players from Richmond, Virginia Year of birth missing (living people)