Hall of Honor
Stacy Schmidt was a hometown hero in Hartland, Wisconsin, where she starred on basketball teams that won three conference championships and a state title. Her accomplishments came naturally since she grew up in a home with a father who was a basketball coach. As she explained in a Beloit Daily News article in 1992, “I was pretty much a chip off the old block.” Once a Buccaneer, Stacy quickly proved that her years of experience on the court, her love of the game, and the continued support of her No. 1 fans, her parents, made for a winning combination. As a sophomore, the 5-foot-6 guard became the College’s first woman to break the 400-point mark in one season and paced the team in scoring with a 19.8 average. She led the nation in free-throw percentage at 91.7 as a senior and in 1991 was named a third-team Fast Break All-American. Stacy still holds three Beloit records: she is the women’s all-time scoring leader with 1,462 points (16.2 average), is first in field goals (617) and is tops in free-throw percentage (82.5). Her honors include selection as a three-time first-team all-conference player, Buc MVP, Peterson Award recipient as Beloit’s outstanding senior-woman scholar-athlete, and “B” Blanket winner. A part-time pre-kindergarten teacher, she resides in Knoxville, Tennessee, with her husband Rob, Beloit Class of 1990, and their three children.
