Mike Schrage enters his eighth year working with the Duke basketball program and fifth in the role of director of basketball operations in 2005-06. In addition to his operations duties, Schrage will continue to help in other facets, including recruiting coordination for the team. He served as academic and recruiting coordinator from 1999-2002, his first three years at Duke.

In his current role, Schrage organizes several office activities, including scouting video, overseeing film exchange, and assisting the coaches in day-to-day operations. He also oversees and helps with a number of logistical duties, including practice coordination and team travel.

Schrage also has served as the director of Mike Krzyzewski’s Basketball Camp the past four summers. In addition, he has also helped coordinate the annual fall Coaches’ Clinic as well as the K Academy the past four years. Schrage was a four-year student manager at Indiana from 1994-98 under Bob Knight and coached and coordinated camps during the summers. In 1996, he worked with the U.S. Olympic Basketball Team as a  member of its support staff.

Schrage also served as the video coordinator and assisted the USA Basketball Senior National Team staff with daily operations at the 2006 World Championship games in Japan. He is scheduled to serve in the same capacity through the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

After graduating from Indiana with a B.S. in kinesiology in 1998, Schrage was an administrative assistant for the Mississippi men’s basketball team in 1998-99. There, he performed many of the same duties as he does now. In his one year working under head coach Rod Barnes, Schrage was part of the first Mississippi team to win an NCAA Tournament game. During his 11 years in college basketball, Schrage has worked for an NCAA Tournament team every year.

Originally from Atlanta and a graduate of St. Pius X High School, Schrage and his wife, Amanda, have one son, Andrew, and a daughter, Sophie.