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New Richmond High School is located in New Richmond, Ohio, 15 minutes East of Cincinnati and on the beauriful Ohio River. The Lions are members of the Southern Buckeye Academic and Athletic Conference and play in Ohio High School Athletic Association Div. II in cross country and track.
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The 2011 New Richmond CC team
CROSS COUNTRY — Front row: Bobby Bingham, Skylar McDonald, Mikaela Rupp, Emily Erdman, Maddie Wallace and Erica Jones. Second row: Hannah Smiddy, Olivia Behymer, Newton McCullom, Taryn Rupp, Alex Ariapad, Ben Green, Kara Burns and Zoe Crabtree. Back row: Coach Ryan Shebesta, Julianne Molitor, Grant Gilman, Nick Gilman, Luke Gilday, Sam Ploucha, Jason Goodrich and Sarah Molitor.
Lions dominate 2010 SBAAC Cross Country
In all, five lions finished in the top eight to recieve 1st team SBAAC honors (Timmy Hall, Ben Fitzgerrel, Alex Ariapad, Luke Gilday, & Grant Gilman), with another lion (Mickie Doane) finishing in 14th to recieve 2nd Team SBAAC honors. According to records, this is the first league title won by the boys cross country team in over 15 years!
The girls cross country team overcame many injuries to place 3rd in the SBAAC American Division this past Saturday. Two lions (Veronica Burnam & Olivia Behymer) claimed 1st team SBAAC honors and one lion (Paige Anderson) claimed 2nd team SBAAC honors.
Results for all runners are below.
Girls (American Division)
Veronica Burnam (3rd) 21:28
Olivia Behymer (4th) 21:30
Paige Anderson (14th) 23:46
Raisa Finch (25th) 25:44
Skylar McDonald (26th) 25:48
Maddie Wallace (27th) 25:59
Julianne Molitor (31st) 26:22
Hannah Smiddy (32nd) 26:29
Heidi Richards (33rd) 26:32
Boys (American Division)
Timmy Hall (1st) 16:41
Ben Fitzgerrel (3rd) 17:21
Alex Ariapad (4th) 17:25
Luke Gilday (7th) 17:54
Grant Gilman (8th) 18:09
Mickie Doane (14th) 18:38
Tyler Behymer (27th) 19:31
Sam Ploucha (34th) 20:45
Andrew Meyers (40th) 22:22
Daniel Dooley (41st) 22:55
Newton McCullom (43rd) 39:05
Click here for complete 2010 SBAAC Boys Cross Country results
Click here for complete 2010 SBAAC Girls Cross Country results
Listen to Dave Hawkins interview the SBAAC Champions
Listen to Lions coach Rylan Shebesta's comments
Listen to Dave Hawkins interview Veronica Burnam and Olivia Behymer
Meet the NR coaching staff
Rylan Shebesta is starting his third season as coach of New Richmond's boys and girls cross country teams. Rylan, a tennis teaching
professional, alsocoaches boys tennis in the spring season. Both his boys and girls cross country teams scored second place finishes in the 2008 Southern Buckeye Conference American Diviision championships and his 2008 girls cross country team qualified for the OHSAA Div. II regionals for the first time in the school's history.Shebesta was a four-year soccer and three-year tennis athlete at Amelia High School and played tennis for four years at Indiana Wesleyan University. He also coached tennis for three years at Indiana Wesleyan, which won league titles all three years and qualified for teh NAIA Div. II nationals in two of those years.. He also coached boys varsity tennis for Marion (Ind.) High School for two years before returning to Ohio. Shebesta has been a tennis instructor at Beeachmnt Racquet Club for the past three years and also has coached tennis at Camp Takajo (Naples, Maine) and has served as head tennis Instructor at Grant County Tennis Camp (Marion, IN) for four years. He teaches Algebra I, Adv. Algebra II, Pre-Calculus and AP Calculus at New Richmond.
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Shelby Pride is in her second year as head coach of the New Richmond boys varsity track t
eam. Shelby graduated from Bethel-Tate High School in 2000, having played 4 years of Varsity Soccer, Basketball and Track and Field. She then went on to run Cross Country and Track and Field at Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia.
After earning her Bachelor’s in English Education and Masters in School Counseling, Shelby spent one year as a teacher and Girls Varsity Soccer and Track and Field coach at Riverside High School in Belle, West Virginia. She then returned home to Bethel to coach Girls Varsity Track and Field in 2008. Shelby now teaches English I and coaches Girls Varsity Soccer and Boys Track and Field at New Richmond High School.. She also is the head varsity coach of the New Richmond girls soccer team.
Terri Flamm adds another page to her impressive coaching resume this fall when she takes over the New Richmond 
girls tennis program in addition to her duties as the girls varsity track coach.
It will be the 6th sport that Flamm has coached at her alma mater, where she was a four-sport athlete. Flamm has also coached soccer, volleyball, softball and basketball during her 11-year career at New Richmond High School, where she teaches physical education.
New Richmond has won more than 20 league and district track titles over the past two decades and one constant in that success has been Gerry Reardon, who serves as an assistant coach for both the girls and boys varsity track teams. A health and weight training teacher at New Richmond High School, Reardon also served New Richmond as a football coach for 20 years, including four years as the head coach.