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Mike Schneider is in his fourth season as the director of basketball operations at the University of Utah. His job, simply stated, is to handle all of the management and administrative details for the Utes, so the coaches and players can focus on game preparation.
Among his duties, Schneider manages the budget, schedules team travel, works with the team's academic advisors, and coordinates the basketball schedule. Also, he represents the basketball staff in working with the athletics director and all others within the department of athletics. Schneider coordinates with the Alumni Association, Crimson Club and the Scholarship Circle in their functions, as well as community and charitable activities that impact on the basketball team. Outside the athletics department, he serves as a liaison between the men's basketball team and other University departments and other organizations.
Schneider retired as a Colonel from the United States Army. He started his career in the Army as an Infantry Officer after graduating from the U. S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y. Before his retirement, he served as the Chief Counsel for Standards of Conduct and Professional Responsibility for the Department of the Army (1988-99). He also served as the chief counsel at Fort Belvoir in Virginia (1990-92), Fort Riley in Kansas (1993-95) and Fort Lewis in Washington (1996-98).
Upon completion of the Judge Advocate General's Graduate Program in Charlottesville, Va, Schneider remained as a Professor, teaching in the LL.M. degree program and the Continuing Education program at the school (1981-84). Additionally, Schneider was a an adjunct professor at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (1978-80, 1986-87) and an instructor at Central Texas College in 1994.
Athletics have been an integral part of his life. While working on his law degree at Marquette University (J.D.1977), Schneider was the athletics director at St. Catherine School in Milwaukee, Wis., from 1974-77. He also coached for many years in the service in basketball and softball and was an instructor at coaching clinics. Schneider played on the baseball team as a freshman at West Point and participated on many basketball, baseball and softball teams throughout his military career.
Academics has played an important part in Schneider's life. In addition to his undergraduate degree from West Point and his law degrees, he has an M.A. in business and management from Central Michigan University (1979) and an M.S. in resource management from the Industrial College of the Armed Forces (1996). He is an experienced teacher, having taught at every level of a student's development. In summary, Mike Schneider brings his vast management skills, superb academic background and his extensive athletic experience to the men's basketball program.
The Milwaukee, Wis., native was born on Mar. 31, 1948. Mike and his wife, Colleen, have a son (Chris), four daughters (Stacey, Carrie, Catherine and Karen) and a grandson (Tory). Colleen is a former adjunct professor at George Washington University, where she earned her M.F.A. and taught ceramics. Currently, she exhibits her work at local shows and galleries.
Majerus on Schneider
"Mike is a great A.D. waiting to happen. Anybody that has a law degree and master's in business, and is a West Point graduate, would be a president's dream. Mike's taken a tremendous amount of work away from the staff, which allows them to teach, coach, recruit and scout. He has the respect of everyone in our program, and is a terrific bridge between the staff and the players, the players' parents, the administration and the collegiate community. He is without question the best administrative assistant in the business."
