| Current position | |
|---|---|
| Title | Head coach |
| Team | Salisbury |
| Conference | CAC |
| Record | 559–65 |
| Annual salary | $110,000[1] |
| Biographical details | |
| Born | Watertown, New York |
| Playing career | |
| Lacrosse | |
| 1979–1982 | St. Lawrence |
| Basketball | |
| c. 1980 | St. Lawrence |
| Position(s) | Midfielder (lacrosse) |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| Lacrosse | |
| 1983–1984 | Salisbury (assistant) |
| 1985 | SUNY Potsdam |
| 1986–1988 | St. Lawrence (assistant) |
| 1989–present | Salisbury |
| Basketball | |
| 1985–1988 | St. Lawrence |
| Women's soccer | |
| 1994–2000 | Salisbury |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 559–65 (lacrosse) 32–44 (basketball) 102–28–5 (women's soccer) |
| Accomplishments and honors | |
| Championships | |
| Lacrosse 13 NCAA Division III (1994, 1995, 1999, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2011, 2012, 2016, 2017, 2023) 19 CAC (1995–2009, 2011–2012, 2014–2015) Men's basketball ICAC (1988) Women's soccer 2 CAC (1994, 2000) | |
| Awards | |
| 3× USILA Division III Coach of the Year (1991, 2008, 2012) 9× CAC Coach of the Year (1996, 2002–2003, 2005–2008, 2010, 2012) 2× FieldTurf Tarkett Division III Coach of the Year (2006–2007) USILA Howdy Myers Man of the Year (2012) Second-Team All-American (1982) St. Lawrence University Hall of Fame | |
| Records | |
| U.S. Lacrosse Hall of Fame Inducted in 2013 | |
James Berkman is an American college lacrosse coach. He has served as the head coach at Salisbury University since 1989, after spending one season as the head coach at State University of New York at Potsdam (SUNY Potsdam) in 1985. Salisbury has won 12 NCAA Division III Men's Lacrosse Championships and 19 Capital Athletic Conference (CAC) titles during his tenure with the Sea Gulls.[2] He has been named the Division III coach of the year four times and the CAC Coach of the Year ten times.
In 2008, Berkman surpassed Jack Emmer's former record of 326 wins to become the all-time winningest NCAA men's lacrosse coach.