Nick Hoffman

Biography

Nick Hoffman enters his third season as an assistant coach at USC Upstate during the 2025 season after being announced to the coaching staff on August 11, 2022. In 2024, Upstate captured 36 victories, giving the program a fourth consecutive season with 35 or more wins, the longest such streak in program history. The Spartans also returned to the Big South Tournament Championship Game for the second straight season. Working with the team's pitchers and catchers, under Hoffman's direction Upstate catchers threw out double-digit would-be base stealers (13) while the battery defense combined to pick off 13 runners as the group stopped 26 potential base stealers. The pitching staff in 2024 struck out a program-record 510 hitters, eclipsing the program record for single-season strikeouts for the second consecutive season. Assisting with the team's baserunning in 2024, helped the group reach 80-plus stolen bases for the third consecutive season, stealing 82 bags in 95 attempts, a success rate of 86.3 percent--a six-percent improvement from the season prior. In 2023, Hoffman helped guide USC Upstate to one of the most successful seasons in program history as the program reached its first-ever Big South Tournament Championship Game while collecting a program-best 38 overall wins and 21 conference wins (non-40-game conference schedule) en route to the No. 2 seed in the Big South Championship. Working primarily with the team’s pitchers and catchers, Hoffman oversaw a group of backstops