Sports

As the Richmond News reported, the 2026 class of the Richmond Spartan Athletic Hall of Fame included members of the 2003 varsity football team and standout prep athletes of the 1980s. It also included a pioneer in the history of Richmond track and field, a state wrestling champion, and a longtime coach and teacher.

Many Richmond sports fans are used to seeing Adilyn Swope on basketball courts. In a few months, they might have opportunities to see her on tennis courts, too.

HIGGINSIVLLE – The newcomers to the high school girls basketball program at Richmond are getting some tastes of competition a few months before their 202627 season begins. As the Richmond News reported June 5, the Spartans participated in a late-May shootout at Lawson.

After a record-breaking 2026 track and field season at Richmond, Malikiah Tharp is looking to 2027 – to a point. With fall sports practices set to kick off in August, Tharp said June 1 that he’s spending his summer break focusing on his fall sport – football.

The 2003 varsity football team provided bookends for the 2026 Richmond Spartan Athletic Hall of Fame induction ceremony. Dan Lanning, a member of that squad, was the first of six individuals inducted during the June 6 event, held in the Richmond High School commons area.

Latimer Cavanah and Brody Farnan are back on the links roughly two weeks after Richmond’s varsity boys golf season ended. For Farnan, playing a round of golf with friends is practically a daily occurrence, he said Monday after doing summer weight training and conditioning exercises on the Richmond High School campus.

Richmond’s varsity girls basketball squad will have plenty of new faces when the 2026-27 season tips off in November, according to coach Kaylee Vantrump. As of Monday, only four members of the 2025-26 squad had committed to return, Vantrump said after a team camp session in the high school gym.

to PRO High heat, drop kicks, random observations and points that amuse are all part of the wide, wide world of sports at the community and national levels. My apathy as a sports fan is growing.