ISU Bengal

Issue date: 4/19/06 Section: Sports

Media Credit: Brian Autenrieth David Schroeder last season. Schroeder will return for another year.

Pocatello, ID - With a new coaching staff hot on the recruiting trail, head coach Joe O'Brien might have just gotten his most important recruit of all, and it didn't take a plane ticket to get him. The NCAA has announced that David Schroeder's medical hardship waiver has been granted, giving him a sixth-year of eligibility and making him a senior for the 2006-07 basketball season.

Schroeder was also granted his waiver for outdoor track, meaning he will compete in that sport in the spring of 2007 as well.

Schroeder was second on the team in scoring last season with a 15.4 scoring average, and he led the team with 68 three-pointers. He was named All-Big Sky Conference last year, and he ended the year needing just five three-pointers to become the school's all-time record holder for career threes.

David also has 760 career points, putting him just 240 away from becoming just the 17th player with 1,000 points in Idaho State history, and the first to hit that magical milestone since 1997, and only the fourth since 1979.

Schroeder has played just two full seasons at Idaho State, in 2002-03 and in 2005-06. In 2001-02, David redshirted while recovering from a torn ACL he suffered in high school.

David then missed the 2003-04 season after tearing his ACL at Midnight Madness, the season's opening practice, and then he tore his other ACL in overtime of the third game of the 2004-05 season, a game in which he scored a then career-high 29 points against Southern Utah.

"I am very excited to be able to play again in 2006-07 and finish a full career," said David Schroeder. "I'm looking forward to getting back to basketball when track ends and working towards a great senior season." Schroeder has already earned his undergraduate degree in business management and he is working towards his Master's degree in finance."

"This is great news for David and the basketball program," said head coach Joe O'Brien, who is currently on the road recruiting.

"David is obviously a hard worker, a great basketball player, and a great student. This will allow him to not only finish his basketball and track career, but finish his Master's work as well."

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