Eastern Connecticut State University

James J. Schult, hit and pitched the baseball team to four NCAA tournaments and three Little East Conference regular-season and tournament titles in four years.
 
A 6-0, 200 pound right-handed hitter and pitcher, Schult led or shared the team lead in 18 hitting and pitching categories as a senior in 2011 when he was named National College Baseball Writers of America (NCBWA) and ABCA Player-of-the-Year as well as ECAC and Little East Conference Pitcher-of-the-Year. That season, he led the Little East in four pitching and three hitting categories, setting or equalling personal career-highs in 12 offensive categories, among them hits (76), extra-base hits (35), home runs (11), RBI (64), total bases (138) and stolen bases (20). On the mound, he was 10-1 with a career-high 92 strikeouts in a career-high 87 innings.
 
Two facts accurately define Schult’s talent, consistency, and  versatility: 1. He was named to the All-Little East team five times at three different positions. He was a first-team pitcher as a senior and a first-team outfielder as a junior, and a second-team pick in the outfield as a sophomore, as a pitcher as a junior and as a DH as a senior; 2. twelve years after graduation, Schult remains ranked among the all-time Top 10 in 13 of a possible 15 career hitting categories. In seven categories, he is still ranks fifth or higher: second in extra-base hits (105) and doubles (63), third in total bases (417), fourth in runs (199) and RBI (189) and fifth in hits (242) and triples (14).
 
In 2011, Schult collected at least 50 hits and 50 RBI for the second time in three years and remains one of only three players in program history to achieve that more than once in a career. His extra-base hit total that year is the fifth-highest in a season, with his total bases equalling the fifth-most. That year, he collected exactly 19 doubles (three shy of the season record) for the third straight year (no player has had as many as 19 doubles more than once in a career).
 
As a pitcher in 2011, Schult never lost a start – in all, winning his final eight decisions. In post-season play, he threw complete games in his final two career starts, striking out ten UMass Boston batters in an 8-4 win in an elimination game of the Little East tournament in the final home start of his career, and throwing his first career shutout with 12 strikeouts in a 2-0 five-hit win over College at Brockport in the opening round of the NCAA Division III regional tournament at Auburn, NY.
 
During that 2011 season, Eastern was ranked as high as No. 5 nationally (first in New England) following a 25-4 start, had two nine-game winning streaks, lost as many as two straight games only twice in the regular season and won the Little East regular-season title for the 11^th time in 15 years. For his part offensively during  his final season, Schult had a 13-game hitting streak, reached safely in 36 of 38 regular-season games, went 33 straight games without going hitless in as many as two straight, and contributed 16 multi-hit games (four times collecting four hits in a game).
 
Schult holds B.S. Degrees in Business from Eastern and in Accounting from Marist College and is an accounting supervisor at the Blue Bell, PA office for RSM, the nation’s fifth-largest accounting firm in the U.S. Jim and Jade Schult reside in Suffield.