By Andy Loigu

The youngest of three sisters who helped Warren Hills continue its stellar field hockey tradition, Nicole Schott moved into third place for blocked shots in the history of the women’s basketball program at The College of New Jersey (TCNJ) in her recently concluded senior season. She helped the Lions roar to a 22-7 record, 13-1 at home.

She started 24 games and posted a .453 field goal percentage and .789 free throw shooting percentage (45 for 57) in her senior season while blocking 49 shots.

For her four-year career she scored 715 points (7.3 per-game average) and pulled down 495 rebounds. She produced a .737 career free-throw shooting percentage.

In her junior season she led the team in field goals and free throws made, points scored and shots blocked, playing hard at both ends of the floor.

Looking back, she gave her mom and dad, Diana and Brooks Schott, credit for “a great experience” with basketball at TCNJ.

“I had to put in lots of work before getting to TCNJ and I could not have done it without my family’s support,” she said. “They drove me hours to tournaments and instructional camps that used to kill their whole weekend. Without them, I would not have ended up at such a great school, playing my favorite sport.”

Bruce Schott, who attended most of the field hockey games in which his granddaughters Lauren, Lindsey, and Nicole played from 2004 to 2014, had a standout Warren Hills baseball career of his own as a pitcher, which gave him an opportunity to take part in spring training with the Los Angeles Dodgers, which he turned down in order to pursue other career interests.

This is an extraordinary sports family which also shines professionally and in community service. His granddaughters were at Hawk Pointe Golf Club for the third annual recognition dinner in October of 2012, when their grandpa was inducted into the Warren County Hall of Fame.

Nicole was the tallest player on both the field hockey and girls basketball teams as a Blue Streak. She also stood tall as a Warren Hills student, making the National Honor Society and serving The Arc of Warren County as a lifeguard and counselor. Now, she is an IT business partner intern at Celgene in Summit. She also serves Habitat for Humanity ReStore and Hope in the Hills of Warren, helping elderly, disabled, and low-income persons improve the quality of their lives.

She scored 847 points in girls hoops at Warren Hills, 256 in her senior season.

Being the younger sister of Lauren and Lindsey Schott, she had a tough act to follow.

Lindsey graduated from Lehigh University in 2016, where she played field hockey at the Division One level in the ultra skilled Patriot League, while earning a degree in industrial engineering. She currently is an associate engineer at Pfizer. Lindsey scored 26 goals and 16 assists in her senior season at Warren Hills, including three goals and an assist in an 8-0 emulsification of Hackettstown. As a Blue Streak, she earned Warren County Player of the Year accolades from the local media.

The oldest sister, Lauren, holds a doctorate degree from Rutgers University of Camden and works as a physical therapist at Carolinas HealthCare System. Earlier, she studied kinesiology and exercise science at West Chester University of Pennsylvania. She was a member of the Division II national champion field hockey team, after being an All-Conference player at Warren Hills.

All three sisters will always be remembered fondly by the Warren Hills sports community.

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