Grinnell College Athletics

Hannah Wolf Schmidt ’08 established herself as one of the best players in Grinnell College women’s basketball history, recording a stellar playing career that wrapped up in 2008. She is listed in Grinnell’s record book 50 times and still owns numerous school records, including career 3-pointers with 323. That is 127 more than the second player on the list. She is also first in career 3-pointers attempted with 913 and ranks second in total points (1,668), scoring average (19.2 points per game), field goals (571), field goals attempted (1,434) and 3-point percentage (35.4 percent), as well as fourth in free throw percentage (80.2 percent). 

Far from just a scorer, though, she ranks sixth for career steals with 143, seventh in steals average with 1.6 a game, and ninth for assists with 230. Wolf also owns school single-season records for 3-pointers (99 while leading the NCAA in 3-pointers per game in 2004-05) and 3-point attempts (250). She also has Grinnell’s game record for free throw percentage by hitting 100 percent of her shots (10-of-10) in a 2007 contest. Wolf holds four of the program’s top six 3-point totals for a season. Besides her record-setting total in 2004-05, she had 80 treys in 2006-07, 75 in 2005-06, and 69 in 2007-08. She also has seven marks in the record book for 3-pointers in a game, with a high of eight and several contests with seven. In addition, she has two of the top point tallies in a game with 42 and 39. 

Wolf’s contributions were evident by the fact Grinnell rose at least one spot in the Midwest Conference standings each of her four seasons. Wolf’s accomplishments were certainly noticed by others. She was the Grinnell College Women’s Freshman Athlete of the Year in 2005 and the Grinnell College Outstanding Female Senior Athlete in a Team Sport in 2008. She is only the second player in program history to earn All-Region honors twice and also one of Grinnell’s few four-time All-MWC performers, earning a spot on the second team her first two seasons and making the leap to the elite unit as a junior and senior. Wolf also excelled in the classroom and is one of just four Grinnell basketball players to earn Academic All-Region honors from the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA). She was also Academic All-Conference on three occasions while majoring in psychology. She went on to earn a master’s in education from the University of Missouri-St. Louis. Since graduation, she has been teaching middle school math, including two years for Teach for America in Kansas City and then at Andersen Middle School at Millard Public Schools in Omaha. She married Grinnell graduate Mike Schmidt ’08 in 2010 and they have two daughters, Talia (5) and Nora (2).