Josh Schirmer - Assistant Coach - Women's Soccer Coaches - University of North Florida Athletics

Josh Schirmer

Title:
Assistant Coach
Email:
joshua.schirmer@unf.edu
Phone:
(904) 620-5554

After serving as the team's volunteer assistant coach in the spring of 2016, Schirmer was elevated to assistant coach in July. He comes to UNF after three seasons at NJCAA power, Eastern Florida State College.

While at EFSC, his teams ranked in the top five nationally three times, including the country’s No. 2 overall ranking in 2015. The Titans reached the NJCAA National Championship Game in the fall of 2015 and the National Semifinals the two previous years. Schirmer was named the Junior College South Regional Assistant Coach of the Year in 2013 by the National Collegiate Soccer Coaches Association and was elevated to associate head coach.

A Jacksonville native, he holds England FA Level 1, USSF C, NSCAA Advanced National and Level 1 Goalkeeper coaching licenses. He also spent a season as the Head Coach of the Brevard Soccer Alliance a U-18 Club Team that qualified for the Disney Showcase in December of 2014.

Schirmer played collegiate soccer at Tennessee Wesleyan College where he graduated Magna Cum Laude. He was a two-time NAIA Scholar All-American and a three-year member of the Appalachian Athletic Conference All-Academic Team.

After college, Schirmer went on to play professionally in Hong Kong for one year and later spent five seasons with the Urawa Reds Football Club in Urawa, Japan.

Schirmer earned his Bachelor of Science in Business Finance from Tennessee Wesleyan in 2004 while minoring in Economics. He currently resides in Jacksonville