Johns Hopkins University Athletics

Updated:  July 23, 2025
First Day at Johns Hopkins:  July 1, 2025

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Nate Mulberg was named the head baseball coach at Johns Hopkins on July 1, 2025.  Mulberg came to Johns Hopkins after serving as a full-time assistant coach at the University of Richmond since 2017.
 
Mulberg replaced Bob Babb as the Blue Jays' head coach.  Babb wrapped up a remarkable 46-year run as the head coach at Johns Hopkins at the conclusion of the 2025 season.
  
A 2014 graduate of the University of Rochester, Mulberg joined the Richmond coaching staff in January 2017.  There, he focused his work with the infielders and catchers while also serving as a hitting instructor.  The Spiders ranked among the Atlantic 10 leaders in numerous offensive categories in recent years while also being one of the league's soundest defensive teams.  The longest tenured member of the Richmond staff at the conclusion of the 2025 season, Mulberg also served as the program's recruiting coordinator since 2018 and developed a national recruiting base that helped build a roster that featured players from 15 different states in 2025.
  
Mulberg got his start in coaching as an assistant coach at Franklin & Marshall, which competes alongside Johns Hopkins in the Centennial Conference.  He spent two seasons at F&M (2015, 2016) and helped guide the Diplomats to an appearance in the 2015 Centennial Conference title game.  He was involved in all facets of the program at F&M, including offense, defense, scouting and recruiting.
 
After a brief stop as an assistant at Bucknell in the fall of 2016, he moved on to Richmond in January 2017 and has been an integral part of the staff since then.  In addition to his current on-field and recruiting duties, he has been instrumental in Richmond's year-round player development model that has helped the Spiders reach a pair of Atlantic 10 Championship games (2022, 2024).  Richmond has led the Atlantic 10 in batting average twice in the last three years, while the achievements in recent years for his catching corps include a perfect fielding percentage in 2021, when they also led the Atlantic 10 by throwing out nearly 38% of opposing base stealers.
  
During his time at Richmond, Mulberg also recruited and coached 15 players who went on to play professional baseball, including Vinny Capra, who made his major league debut with the Toronto Blue Jays in 2022.
 
In addition to his extensive work at Richmond, Mulberg was also as an assistant coach with Team Israel at the 2021 Tokyo Olympics.  Serving as the first base coach, Mulberg helped guide Israel to a fifth-place finish in the Olympic Games and had the opportunity to coach, among others, Ian Kinsler, Danny Valencia and Ryan Lavarnway, who have all played in the major leagues.  Israel won the WBSC European qualifier for the first time in 2020 to advance to the Olympic Games.
 
Mulberg graduated cum laude from Rochester in 2014 with a bachelor's degree in English and minor in business and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He earned his Master of Education in Sport Management from Millersville University in 2016 and a Master of Business Administration from the University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign as well as a Master of Non-Profit Management from the University of Richmond in 2022.
 
A four-year starting shortstop at Rochester, Mulberg and the Yellowjackets reached the first Liberty League Championship game program history in 2014, a season in which Mulberg served as a team captain and hit .359 with an on-base percentage of .468.  He was named to the Liberty League All-Tournament Team that year and finished as the sixth toughest batter to strike out in Division III.
 
At Rochester, he was a two-time CoSIDA Academic All-District selection, was named to the Liberty League and UAA All-Academic Teams three times and was honored by the Rochester Department of Athletics with the John Vitone Sportsmanship Award in 2014.