Jeff Schneider bio

I started my relationship with the Bexley City Schools in 1960 as a 1st grader at Cassingham Elementary and graduated from Bexley High School in 1972. I graduated with a Bachelors Degree in Music Education from The Ohio State University in 1976 and completed my Masters in Music Education from VanderCook College of Music in Chicago in 1993.

I taught and coached for two years in the Lima City School District before returning to the Bexley City Schools as band director in the fall of 1979. I remained in that position 28 years until my retirement in June, 2007. I taught all aspects of the band program in grades 5 thru 12 and also taught Humanities and AP Music Theory at the high school. Highlights of all those years were the performances of the “Pride of the Lions,” the Bexley High School marching band at the Hall of Fame Bowl in 1991, the Peach Bowl in 1995, the Outback Bowl in 1999 and 2005 and two performances at Disney World’s Magic Music Days at Epcot Center. I was recognized in 1986 as the Bexley Jaycees Outstanding Educator, in 1997 as the Bexley Education Foundation’s Educator of the Year and in 2005 as a Jennings Scholar.

In my spare time away from the band I found much satisfaction in coaching. From 1985 to 1997 I was the high school girls junior varsity basketball coach and from 1999 to 2007 I coached the middle school boys 7th grade basketball team. I was the high school girls track team’s head coach from 1980 to 1996. In those 17 years the girls track team had 43 state qualifiers, 21 All-Ohio performers and 8 state champions. They won five league, one sectional, one district and one regional championship and were district runners-up six times. In 1991 they were State Meet runners-up. I was named league coach of the year five times and district coach of the year twice. I returned to the high school track program as an assistant coach in 2002 and continue in that position today.

Since retiring from the Bexley City Schools I have kept busy by mentoring in several schools in Central Ohio and I volunteer at the Ohio State School for the Blind as an assistant to their instrumental music program and marching band. We are busily preparing for our appearance in the 2010 Rose Parade in Pasadena.

My father, C. Donn Schneider (1945), three sisters – Terree Milbery (1970), Heidi Schneider (1974), Megan Yannie (1978) and brother, Bart Schneider (1983) are also Bexley graduates.
 

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