Member Of Rockville's 'Big 3' Hoop Trio Named To Hall Of Fame

VERNON, CT — Amy Schrag (Class of 1987), who earned All-Central Connecticut Conference recognition in soccer, basketball and tennis in her four-sport career between 1983 and 1987, is the third announced 2019 inductee into the Rockville High School Athletic Hall of Fame.

The seventh-annual induction ceremony is slated for Sunday, Sept. 15 at the high school.

Schrag joins gymnastics and volleyball letterwinner Julie Blowers Bertsch (2003) and cross country and track and field standout Patrick Brand (1975) as the announced members in the eight-person Class of 2019.

A 1 p.m. reception precedes the 2 p.m. induction ceremony. Tickets are priced at $20, with children 12 and younger admitted free. Tickets can be reserved by contacting committee chair Scott Smith at 860-604-6618 or at smithsc33@sbcglobal.net.

Schrag was a four-year basketball point guard who also played three seasons as a soccer goalie (starting for three seasons in both sports). Schrag played hree years of tennis in the spring after playing softball as a freshman.

A three-sport captain, the 5-foot-7 inch Schrag was a basketball and soccer teammate of 2013 RHS Hall of Fame inductee Betsy Anderson McShea (1987) and basketball teammate of 2016 inductee Sarah Turkington Kallajian (1988). The trio formed a Big Three in basketball that decimated the competition and sparked the Rams to the Class LL championship game in 1986 and into the Class LL semifinals in 1987. Each of those teams won 21 games and lost a combined total of only four and were 26-2 in CCC competition.

In Schrag’s senior season, the Rams won their first 20 games and completed a perfect (14-0) conference season. In a 17-point conference win over Windham in early January of that year – the team’s first victory ever over the Whips – Schrag had 16 points, eight assists and four rebounds.Two weeks later, Schrag paced the state's sixth-ranked team to an easy conference win over Fermi with 18 points and six assists. In a four-point loss to third-seeded Danbury in the state semifinals in March, Schrag tossed in a career-high 19 points in the final official game of her career.

As a junior — in what could be described as the program’s most important win — each of the Big Three played all 32 minutes and combined for 52 of the team’s 55 points in an eight-point win over Danbury that vaulted the Rams into their first-ever state title game. Schrag chipped in eight points in the game and was a big part of the ‘jungle defense’ that helped RHS back from nine points down at the half.

As a senior, Schrag was among ten RHS seniors to qualify for the annual National Merit Scholarship Program, was RHS’s female recipient of the CIAC Scholar-Athlete Award, and was presented with the prestigious Allen E. Dresser Award for academics. The final game of her basketball career came in the CHSCA Senior All-Star Game at Morgan School when Schrag and two-sport teammate Andersen competed for the LL-L East Team.

In four years with Schrag, the RHS basketball team won 68 and lost 18 overall, advancing to the state quarterfinals in her sophomore season prior to its appearance in the finals and semifinals, respectively, in her final two season. In the conference, the Rams were 45-9 with Schrag, winning two titles and placing second once.

Schrag was named to the All-CCC team in two of her three soccer seasons, backstopping the Rams to a combined conference record of 26-7-2, two second-place finishes and one third place. In her senior season, the Rams were 11-3-0 in the conference.

As a junior in the spring of 1986, Schrag and doubles partner Ashley Liebke earned All-CCC recognition in tennis.

Upon graduation from RHS, Schrag played four seasons of basketball and softball at Division III Bates College.