[1] Hailing from St. Louis, Schooley was unheralded coming out of high school and spent a year with the Omaha Lancers under Frank Serratore.
After graduating with a degree in Communications Schooley embarked on a brief professional career, spending the 1994–95 season with the Huntington Blizzard before bouncing between four teams the following year.
Schooley returned to the college ranks in 1997 as an assistant for Cornell but left after a season to join his former junior coach Serratore at Air Force in a similar role.
After serving as an assistant on the USA under-18 team at the junior world cup and a year later found himself promoted to associate head coach of the Falcons.
In the summer of 2004 Robert Morris University announced that they were adding several new sports as fully funded programs, including men's ice hockey.
[7] The Colonials found a new level of success in their new home, posting their first winning season in 2010–11 and continued the upwards swing by taking their first conference tournament title in 2014.