About me
A career educator, Jane Schott joined the IHSAA as an assistant commissioner on July 1, 2024.
Schott administers the sport of girls basketball, girls and boys soccer, and girls and boys track & field.
She was hired having spent 30 years teaching and coaching at four different high schools including the last 17 years at West Lafayette Junior Senior High School where she was a teacher, assistant athletic director and the girls varsity basketball coach.
While at West Lafayette, she was a chemistry and eighth grader science teacher, coached the girls varsity basketball team to 239 victories over 17 seasons (307 for her career), and served as assistant athletics director since 2019.
She has been an active member of the Indiana Basketball Coaches Association serving as an assistant director since 2019 and a district representative from 2015-19.
Broadcasting also has been a prominent part of Schott’s career at the high school, collegiate and professional levels.
She has served as a television analyst for the IHSAA Girls Basketball State Finals since 2010, the radio analyst for Purdue Women’s Basketball since 1997, and radio analyst for the Indiana Fever from 1999-2010.
Schott earned a B.S. in Chemistry in 1992 and an M.S. in Chemical Education in 1997, both from Purdue University and attained a Building Administration License from Purdue in 2021.
The Tipton, Ind., native graduated as Valedictorian from Tipton High School in 1987 where she played basketball, volleyball and threw shot put and discus for the Blue Devils. She was named to the prestigious Indiana All-Stars basketball team her senior year and went on to play basketball for the Boilermakers (1987-91) and Hall of Fame coach Lin Dunn, the current GM for the Indiana Fever. She was a three-year Academic All-Big Ten selection and was awarded Purdue's Red Mackey Award for academic and athletic excellence.
Jane and her husband, Tom, have two adult sons, August and Sam.
