Schulz was a Parade Magazine High School All American as a soccer player at Air Academy High School in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
In 1980, the San Jose Earthquakes of the North American Soccer League drafted Schulz out of high school.
[1] In June 1985, he was back with the Earthquakes, now playing in the Western Soccer Alliance.
In 1990, he played a single season with the expansion Colorado Foxes in the American Professional Soccer League.
In 1992, he signed with he expansion Denver Thunder in the National Professional Soccer League.