VERMONT SPORTS HALL OF FAME

Photo Credit- James Madison Athletic Comm

East Fairfield

Basketball

Inducted 2020

The state’s top high school basketball player as a senior, Sarah Schreib went from Essex High to Division I James Madison where she was an all-conference standout for the Dukes in the Colonial Athletic Association, one of the top women’s basketball conferences in NCAA Division I. She graduated as the all-time leading scorer at Essex and James Madison’s career leader in rebounds.

A talented post player, Schreib played for VSHOF inductee Jean Robinson at Essex and she left the program as its all-time leading scorer with 1,663 career points.  She helped Essex to the 1990 Division I title as a sophomore (26 points and 19 rebounds in champ game) and to the title game as a senior. That winter she was named the 1992 Vermont High School Player of the Year by Gatorade and the Burlington Free Press.

Schreib went on to James Madison, a power in the Colonial Athletic Association. After a redshirt year she was named the CAA Rookie of the Year in 1994, and earned all-conference honors her next three seasons, on the CAA All-Conference first team in 1994-95 and 1995-96, and the second team in 1996-97. 

She helped JMU to the NCAA tournament her junior year, the second of back-to-back 20 win seasons. That season she was also named to the CAA All-Championship team. Her last three seasons she led the Dukes in rebounds and her senior year she led the team in scoring. Twice a team captain, she finished her career as the school’s career leader in rebounds with 851 and was sixth in career points with 1,380. Schreib also played in the U.S. Olympic Festival in 1994, one of a handful of Vermonters to play in the national team evaluation tournament.

Also while at Essex High, Schreib was an excellent softball pitcher throwing several no-hitters for the D-I power Hornets, who won the state title in 1990.

Schreib currently is with Little Bellas, a mountain bike and cycling mentoring organization where the goal is to help young women reach their fullest potential.