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[[File:Race Across America Brad Cooper and Jerry Schemmel.jpg|250px|right|thumb|Schemmel''(right)'' with Brad Cooper, participating in the Race Across America on June 18, 2015]]
In June 2015, Schemmel competed in the Race Across America, a 3,000-mile bicycle race from [[Oceanside, California]], to [[Annapolis, Maryland]], as part of a two-person relay team. He and Brad Cooper won the two-person relay division, finishing in 7 days, 14 hours. In 2021, he attempted RAAM as a solo racer but was forced to withdraw from the race when he encountered 120 degree temps in the Mojave Desert and suffered from Heat Stroke. In 2016, he was a member of a four-person relay that set the a record for the "Colorado Crossing," a 468-mile cycling race from the Utah/Colorado border to the Kansas/Colorado border. In 2017, he set the solo age group record in the same event, finishing in 33 hours, 3 minutes, just 54 minutes from the all-time speed record for the event, set in 1992. Schemmel has also completed nine triathlons and three marathons.
Schemmel is a 1982 graduate of [[Washburn University]]; he earned a law degree from the same school in 1985. He played [[baseball]] at Washburn and coached there for three years. He spent a year with the [[Continental Basketball Association]], serving as both Deputy Commissioner and Commissioner.
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