Corey Schmidt was promoted to Assistant Coach on April 29, 2019, after spending the prior four seasons as the director of basketball operation for New Orleans’ men’s basketball team. Schmidt is responsible for coordinating the team’s camps, video exchange, statistical analysis, advanced scouting and on-campus recruiting as well as working with UNO’s game operations staff and managing the program’s travel on road trips. Since working in college athletics, Schmidt has been a part of five regular season conference titles, four tournament crowns, four NCAA Tournament appearances, one NIT selection and a CBI selection.
 
2016-17 was a season for the ages for the Privateers as New Orleans went 20-12 overall en route to a Southland Conference regular season and conference tournament crown. The following season, UNO advanced to the second round of the College Basketball Invitational.
 
Schmidt came to the Lakefront following six years – four as a student (2009-13) and two as a graduate assistant (2013-15) – at his alma mater, Belmont University. During his time with the Bruins, he helped organize and input data into recruiting data bases and assisted with mailouts to potential recruits, prepared per-possession statistics for scouting reports, assisted with video pre-scout and using JumpForward recruiting software as well as Synergy enhanced-skills software.
 
His efforts helped Belmont post a 150-53 overall record, an 88-18 mark in conference action and five trips to the postseason. The Bruins claimed American Sun regular-season titles from 2009-10 through 2011-12 and did the same the next two seasons as members of the Ohio Valley Conference. Belmont won the 2011 and 2012 A-Sun Tournament titles as well as the 2013 and 2014 OVC Tournament championships – earning the leagues’ automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament on each occasion – while earning a spot in the National Invitational Tournament in 2015.
 
In addition to his collegiate experience, Schmidt also served as the Upward Stars-National’s sixth-grade coach and clinician from 2014-15, Grassland Middle School’s fifth- and sixth-grade AAU coach from 2012-14 and Pure Sweat Basketball’s individual skills development coach from 2010-15. He also served as an AAU coach for Centennial High’s summer teams in 2010 and 2011.
 
At each stop, he helped plan workouts and develop players while assisting in all aspects of practice and gameday on-court coaching. Schmidt also helped instill leadership skills in the student-athletes and gain an understanding of sportsmanship and teamwork.
 
A native of Nashville, Tenn., Schmidt completed his bachelor’s degree in computer science from Belmont in May 2013 – graduating with honors – and earned his master’s in sports administration from the University in May 2015. He resides in New Orleans.