BASKETBALL SKILLS DEVELOPMENT

Amy Drechsler Margolis is a graduate of Greece Athena High School, NY (’97), where she began playing Varsity basketball as an eighth grader (’93).  During her five-year basketball career, her teams built an overall record of 100-16. She scored 1,362 points, collected 682 rebounds and blocked 213 shots.  Awards and recognition earned include: Three times selected for the Monroe County First Team, and once as a member of the second team. She was the Monroe County Division I Player of the Year in 1997. A three-time Section V All-Tournament selection, she was also recognized by local media and named three times to the Democrat and Chronicle’s All Greater Rochester Team and the Times Union’s Super 15 Team. She set Athena records for a single season in Field Goal Shooting Percentage (54%), Free Throw Shooting Percentage (82%), Blocked Shots (55), and a career record for blocked shots (213) despite missing her entire Junior year to an ACL injury.  On the national level, she was the first Rochester, NY Area female to be selected as a pre-season High School All-American candidate by Street and Smith’s, and in 1997, was a nominee for the NIKE/WBCA High School All-American Team.
A gifted athlete, she also earned Varsity letters during high school in softball, tennis as well as track and field. Her efforts were rewarded with a four-year full scholarship to NCAA Division I Providence College (Big East Conference) where she earned her bachelor’s degree in Elementary Education in 2001.  Post graduation and after her career on the hardwood ended Amy was inducted into the Section V (NY) Basketball Hall of Fame and Greece Athena (NY) High School Hall of Fame.
Amy earned her masters degree from Suny Geneseo (NY) in 2006 in Literacy Education and continued on to earn her administration degree at the building/district level for both elementary and secondary education.  Amy was an educator from 2001 to 2013 where she worked as an elementary teacher (6 years) and as assistant principal (7 years) in the Brockport Central School District.  Amy and her husband Matt relocated to the Boston area in 2020 from Rochester, NY.  Amy is currently an entrepreneur managing various business endeavors, she coaches AAU basketball and is a full-time mom to 4 school aged children (Evangeline, Jackson, Alexis and Brady).