David Kulik has guided the Johnson & Wales (RI) University men’s soccer program to seven Great Northeast Athletic Conference (GNAC) finals appearances and five conference championships (2013-15,2019,2022) since his arrival in April 2012. In that time, the Wildcats have posted a 156-44-28 record (.746 winning pct.); the 156 wins rank No. 18 in the nation. During that span, JWU recorded 112 shutouts to go along with a team goals-against average (GAA) of .755 – both of which rank near the top of NCAA statistics.

Kulik – owns a career record of 259-129-51 (.648) over 23 seasons split between JWU and Clark (MA) University – he also serves as an Assistant Athletic Director at JWU. Those 259 career wins rank him second among active Division 3 Men's Soccer coaches in New England behind only Jon Anderson of Babson.

Since 2019 the Wildcats own a GNAC regular season record of 40-3-6 and are an incredible 43-1-6 in their last 50 home matches at the SMAC. This past season, the Wildcats were 14-2-5, winning the GNAC championship for a record 10th time while being 4th in the country in GAA .471 and 5th in shutout % .619. This is the 4th time a Kulik-coached team has been in the top 10 in the country in GAA and third in the top 5. The team ended the season on a school-record 17-match undefeated streak before bowing out in the NCAA tournament on penalties.

Kulik came to Providence after spending 12 years as the head men’s soccer coach at Clark (MA) in Worcester, Mass, the last six as an associate AD. He left the Cougars program as the all-time leader in wins (103). Before he arrived in Worcester, Kulik spent nearly a decade as an assistant coach at Yale University, Boston College, and Tufts University. A two-time New England Women’s and Men’s Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) Coach of the Year (2005, 2008), Kulik was a four-year member of the NCAA Division III National Soccer Committee (2008-11) and served as the national chair of the committee in 2010. He began a second four-year term as chairman for Region 1 in 2021.

A highly touted high school player, as a senior he was recognized as an Adidas and first-team NSCAA All-American.  Kulik played in the first national high school All-America match at Army-West Point which was broadcast on ESPN. He went on to play at Yale University, where he became the first student-athlete in the history of the program to start every game of their four-year career. He earned All-Ivy League and All-New England accolades in each of his four years playing for the Bulldogs, serving as captain as a senior. As a junior, Kulik helped the Bulldogs to an Ivy League Championship in 1986 following a 30-year drought.

During his college career, he was the recipient of the Walter J. McNerney Award as the team’s most valuable player and earned the Walter Leeman Senior Leadership Trophy as the player who upholds the ideals of Leeman through sportsmanship and team play. After Yale, he played professionally for the Boston Bolts and the Miami Freedom, competing in the American Soccer League championship in 1989 against the Ft. Lauderdale Strikers. In his first professional season, Kulik was named the team's hardest-working player and was fifth on the team in scoring with four goals and an assist.

Also active in the club soccer community, Kulik led his squads to numerous league titles, state championships, and trips to regional, national, and international tournaments with FC Greater Boston Bolts and Bruno United. Outside of his college and club coaching experience, Kulik coached for one year at the St. John’s School in San Juan Puerto Rico, and for one year at Central High School in San Angelo, Texas, where he guided the team to a school-record 17-win season being named the district Coach of the Year.

Kulik holds the United States Soccer Federation ‘A’ license and the National Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA) Advanced National Diploma. A 1988 graduate of Yale University with a degree in sociology/economics, he obtained an advanced degree in psychology from Tufts University in 1992.

Kulik resides in Boston, Massachusetts. He has one daughter, Sidnie, a neuroscience student at Amherst College who will attend the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.