Jeff Kuhn earned all-star recognition on the basketball court, baseball field and in the classroom for New Richmond during his time in the Eastern Hills League and became New Richmond’s first Division I college basketball player. Jeff was named honorable mention All-league his junior year and after averaging 15 points (including five consecutive games of 20 or more points) and 15 rebounds a game his senior year earning 1^st team all-league honors, Jeff walked on and made the University of Cincinnati freshman team in 1962-63, out of more than 50 players who tried out to join the seven scholarship recruits. UC’s freshman team went undefeated that season, and was widely recognized as the best in the country. Jeff also was a four-year varsity starter in baseball as a pitcher, catcher and infielder for New Richmond. Jeff also excelled in the classroom and was a member of the National Honor Society and served as class vice-president his junior and senior years. Jeff majored in applied mathematics at the University of Cincinnati, and was awarded a Fellowship and two teaching assistantships to pursue graduate studies in applied math while making the academic dean’s list twice. He joined Western and Southern Life Insurance Company in 1967 as an actuarial student following a year of graduate school and remained with the company in full-time or part-time positions through 2014.

Michelle Sweet was a scholar athlete all four years in three sports at New Richmond. She was named Clermont County Sports Woman of the Year in 2009 as well as VFW Athlete of the Year. She ranks at the top of New Richmond’s record book in softball with a pitching record of 45-11 with more than 369 strikeouts (no records are available for her freshman year). Michelle was a 4-year varsity letter winner in softball as well as a 4-year 1^st team SBAAC All-Star, All-City Honorable Mention from 2007-2009 and a 3-year captain. Her record included a perfect game against Indian Hill in the 2008 sectional tournament. Michelle led the Lady Lions to three Southern Buckeye league titles (2006-08) and a Division II sectional title in 2009 when she pitched a shutout against McNicholas in the title game. Michelle won 16 games her senior year including pitching eight shutouts, a 0.66 ERA and ended No. 1 state ranked Western Brown’s 26-game regular season winning streak with an 11-1 win. She was named New Richmond’s defensive MVP in 2008 and all around MVP in 2009. Michelle was a four-year varsity player in soccer and was team captain her senior season which was cut short by injury. She was also captain of the Lady Lions basketball team her senior year. A National Honor Society member, Michelle graduated 5th in her class in 2009 with a GPA of 4.321. She graduated Magna Cum Laude from Ohio Northern University in 2015 with a Doctorate of Pharmacy degree. Michelle was also a member of the Rho Chi (Academic Honor Society in Pharmacy) as well as a member of Northern Without Borders completing a mission trip to the Dominican Republic. She played four years of softball at Ohio Northern and was named to the Ohio Athletic Conference (OAC) all-tournament team 2011 and OAC Honorable Mention in 2013. She was team captain in 2013 and was named NFCA Scholar Athlete 2011-2013. Her team also made an appearance in the D3 College World Series in 2012 being one of only 8 teams. Her team also made appearances in the Regionals 2010- 2012 and won the OAC the same years. 

A typical holiday visit home for Alex Lewis would be a trip to the pool at the ‘Y where he would swim twenty 500-yard workouts. That dedication and hard work resulted in Alex setting 11 school and league records at New Richmond and receiving a four-year athletic scholarship where he would become a four-year star for DI Cleveland State University where he qualified for the United States Nationals three times. Alex was a 13-time Horizon League champion counting relay events during his four years at Cleveland State and was named the conference’s swimmer of the year and swimmer of the meet in 2014. He was the college’s first swimmer to go under 20 seconds in the 50 Freestyle (19.56). Alex was a 3 time District Qualifier & a District Champion in 2009-10 in the 100 Butterfly. Alex was a two-time Division II state qualifier for New Richmond in both the 100 butterfly and 100 freestyle events, finishing 4^th in the state in the 100 freestyle and 5^th in the 100 butterfly his senior year.  Alex owns individual school and pool records in the 50 freestyle (22.21), 100 freestyle (s-47.09, p-48.37) and 100 butterfly (s-51.07, p-53.93), 200 freestyle (1:49.57) and was on record setting teams in the 200 freestyle (1:37.02), 400 freestyle (3:44.48) and 400 medley relays. He also holds league records in the 50 freestyle, 100 freestyle, 100 butterfly and 200 freestyle relay. Alex was named team MVP 3-years in a row.  Alex was also instrumental in establishing the NR Alumni Swim Meet held each year. After college, Alex was named head site coach at Xavier University for the Mercy Health Seawolves and produced six Junior Olympic qualifiers in two years. Alex currently is an assistant swim coach at Xavier University.