New Ricmond Golfers Travel to Granville

The New Richmond High School Golfers traveled to Granville ,Ohio to participate in the Granville High School Invitational on August 10th. The Lions placed ninth in a very tough field of high school golfers from all around Ohio. The Lions shot a 332 and were led in scoring by Sophomore Chris Mazzaro with a 77. Also scoring for the Lions were Senior Evan McKinley 82, Sophomore Kyle Heidlage 86, Senior David Ohntrup and Sophomore Bryce Kroeger 87, and Senior Henry Heidlage 89. The Lions travel to Glenview Golf Course to play in the Princeton Invitational on 8/14 and also travel to Friendly Meadows on 8/15 to take on Amelia.

Impact testing for athletes explained

New Richmond High School athletic director Doug Foote and Wellington Orthopaedic and Sports Medicine trainer Megan Barhorst explain the school's program for monitoring our athletes for concussions in this video report.

NRHS Gym gets makeover

The New Richmond High School gymnasium got a makeover this summer with new lights and a refinished floor complete with new center court and OHSAA logos.

NRHS AD Doug Foote stands by the new center court logo.

NRHS' refinished gyn floor features a new OHSAA logo.

Fall practice underway

Practice for all fall sports started Aug. 1. Here's a view of Friday morning's football practice from the roof of New Richmond Middle School taken by Supt. Adam Bird.

NRHS athletes monitored for concussions

New Richmond High School is turning to technology to closely monitor its athletes for concussions.

“It’s called Baseline Testing for Concussions,” explained NRHS athletic director Doug Foote, who is having athletes in all sports undergo online ImPACT (Immediate Post Concussion Assessment and Cognitive Testing) testing prior to competing during the 2012-13 school year.

“Our trainer Megan Barhorst is running the program,” said Foote. “We are going to test all our athletes now and then we’ll do it every two years. We’ll do all the incoming freshmen and then do juniors after that. They have to come in and do a test on a computer and then if they get hit in the head in any way, form or fashion we will redo their test and see where they are at and we will have a baseline for that test.”

The non-invasive computerized test is set up in a video game format and takes about 15 to 20 minutes. It tracks information such as memory, reaction time, speed and concentration.

Wellington trainer Megan Barhorst explains the ImPACT testing to senior football player Luke Hoskins while seniors (from left) Alex Horn and Clay Loadman complete their 20-minute test that will give the school a baseline for testing for possible concussions in the future.

“However, it is not an IQ test,” said Barhorst, who is assigned to New Richmond High School by Wellington Orthopaedic and Sports Medicine and is in her fourth year at New Richmond.

Concussions have not been a major problem during Barhorst’s time at New Richmond but they remain an area of great concern for the school.

“We had four concussions all of last year,” said Barhorst. “That is not bad at all for us, but what we are trying to avoid are concussions slipping by and us not noticing them.”

“It’s a great program and a lot of schools are doing it,” said Foote. “Supt. (Adam) Bird and I have been talking about it for about a year and we decided to implement the program this year.”

“For first time, all NRHS athletes will get baseline concussion testing before the season starts,” said Bird. “Thanks to Doug Foote for making this happen.”

Six Lady Lions named all-city

New Richmond's 4x400 meter relay team of seniors Sarah Shoemaker and Mikaela Rupp, junior Sarah Glenn and sophmore Olivia Behymer, sophomore high jumper Hannah Hall and sophmore pole vaulter Aly Skaggs have been named to the Cincinnati Enquirer's first team Div. II track all-star team.

The team of Shoemaker, Rupp, Glenn and Behymer won the district and finished sixth in the regional meet, just missing qualifying for the state meet.

Hall was fourth in the district high jump, third in the regional and finished 14th in the state. 

Skaggs finished third in the district pole vault and was eighth in the regional. 

Click here to view the Enquirer track all-stars.

Finan named academic All-American

Former New Richmond Lion Eric Finan (Class of 2007) was named a Capital One First-Team Academic All-American June 21.

Finan finished second in Ohio in Division II cross country and second in the state Dvi. II 3200 meter run for New Richmond High School where he holds the school record in both the 1600 and 3200 meter runs. He was his class valedictorian.


To qualify, a student-athlete must be a varsity starter or key reserve, maintain a cumulative GPA of 3.30 on a scale of 4.00. Finan holds a 3.785 GPA in the University of Cincinnati’s master of business administration program after earning an undergraduate degree in mechanical engineering with a 3.897 GPA. 


Finan also received Cincinnati’s Legion of Excellence Award for the highest GPA on his team. He had been on the dean’s list every academic quarter he attended UC and was a Big East Academic All-Star from 2008-2010.


He received All-America honors in both track and cross country during his UC career.


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