Jaime Wohlbach enters her fourth season as head softball coach at East Stroudsburg University in 2018-19.

The Warriors have had seven All-PSAC East selections in Wohlbach’s first three years at ESU, including Mary Wallick (3B) and Kaitlyn Caleen (At-Large/C) in 2018. Wallick additionally became the first ESU player in six years to earn NFCA First Team All-Atlantic Region accolades as a junior in 2017.

ESU has improved its PSAC East record by two games in each of the past two seasons. The Warriors have led the PSAC in stolen bases per game in all three seasons under Wohlbach, and the team’s .301 batting average in 2018 was the second highest single-season mark in program history.

In addition to her collegiate coaching, Wohlbach has maintained a strong presence internationally, serving as an assistant coach for Peru’s national team at the Women’s Softball World Championships and also leading a USA Northeast Region team at the U12 All-American Games in 2017.

Wohlbach, formerly head coach at the University of Delaware for five years, arrived at ESU with eight years of collegiate head coaching experience, all at the Division I level.

Wohlbach was head coach at Delaware from 2011 through 2015, making three Colonial Athletic Association playoff appearances during that span. The Blue Hens won 35 games in 2013, second-most in program history, and made three straight postseason trips (2011-13) for the first time since 2002-04.

She was previously head coach at Iona from 2008-10, earning Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Coach of the Year honors in her final season after leading the Gaels to their first MAAC Championship title in 25 years. With the conference title, Iona advanced to the NCAA DI tournament for the first time in program history.

Wohlbach began her coaching career as a student assistant at Kutztown (2000-01), volunteer assistant at Muhlenberg (1999-01) and Lehigh (2001-02) and as an assistant at the University of Pennsylvania (2002-03).

She served on the NCAA rules committee in 2013, and has been selected as a conference representative for the head coaches committee at both of her previous positions.

Since 2002, Wohlbach has run a national and international softball clinic, J9 Fastpitch Performance. The camps and clinics have included instruction in the United Kingdom, Switzerland, New Zealand, the Netherlands, Italy, Greece, Czech Republic, Belgium and Australia.

As a player, Wohlbach earned All-PSAC East honors at catcher in her junior and senior seasons at Kutztown, and she added All-Region recognition as a senior in 2000. She was a three-time team captain and Kutztown’s team MVP in 1999.

Professionally, she signed with the Tampa Bay FireStix in the former Women’s Professional Softball League for the 2001 season. She was selected in the fourth round of the December 2003 draft in the National Pro Fastpitch League by the California Sunbirds in Sacramento. She additionally played for the independent league Nebraska Comets and the NPF’s Philadelphia Force in 2006.

Wohlbach participated in tours in the Czech Republic, Great Britain and Italy, and played professionally in New Zealand in 2004 and 2005. She also competed on a world all-star select team which included players from the U.S., New Zealand, Australia, Japan and South Africa.

In 2004, Wohlbach played for the Great Britain National Team in Athens, Greece as a test run for the 2004 Athens Olympics. From 2001-04, she coached an 18-under USA All-Star team in Australia following the 2000 Sydney Olympics. She also played professionally in the Netherlands, Czech Republic and Switzerland, and coached a youth all-star team in Italy.

She appeared as a catcher for the USA Team in the 2010 movie “How Do You Know”, directed by James L. Brooks and starring Reese Witherspoon, Paul Rudd, Owen Wilson and Jack Nicholson.

Wohlbach earned a bachelor’s degree with honors in Elementary Education and Special Education from Kutztown in 2000, and a Master’s degree in student affairs of higher education from Kutztown in 2002.


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