Schmidli has been a teacher, coach, and administrator for 32 years. He started at North Harrison in 1988 and stayed for nine years. He went to Putnam County for 14 years, and returned to North Harrison for the final nine. “I don’t know what I’ll do, but I’ll go to my grave a Shamrock fan,” he said.
As a coach, Schmidli built up the girls basketball and girls softball program. The softball team won its first and only softball title in 1994 after having gone to state the year before. He also rebuilt the girls basketball program, which broke the stranglehold of Princeton on the district in 1997 behind the play of Jill Wilcoxson and Chandra Saksek. That team finished 19-10.
In Putnam County, Schmidli won his second state softball title coaching the Midgets; they won it the same year that North Harrison went to state again, in 2004. He also built the girls basketball team into a solid program.
Returning to North Harrison, Schmidli became the principal and also started up the junior high softball program, developing the girls team that would go to state in 2017 and take third. He also tried his hand at coaching boys, building up the Shamrocks from a doormat to a team that got a winning season last year at 14-12.
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