{"id":1741,"date":"2015-04-22T21:20:06","date_gmt":"2015-04-22T21:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/?p=1741"},"modified":"2015-11-12T18:42:10","modified_gmt":"2015-11-12T18:42:10","slug":"ryan-richmond-15-signs-with-bentley-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/2015\/04\/22\/ryan-richmond-15-signs-with-bentley-university\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryan Richmond ’15 Signs with Bentley"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The high point in the boys varsity basketball regular season\u2014the championship game would come later\u2014happened early, against the perennial power house Phillips Exeter Academy.<\/p>\n

The two schools had been dueling back and forth all game. First the Williston Northampton boys took the lead, then Exeter came back in the second half.<\/p>\n

\u201cNow they\u2019re up 10 on us and it\u2019s like four minutes to go,\u201d recalls Coach Michael Shelton. \u201cAs a coach, you\u2019re like, \u2018Man, this is crunch time.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

A three-point shot by Chris Hudson tied the game 66-66. With 15 seconds left, the ball went out of bounds and Coach Shelton called in Ryan Richmond \u201915.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe call Ryan\u2019s number and he just comes off and it\u2019s just like how you see on TV,\u201d said Coach Shelton. \u201cHe takes a couple of dribbles, then 18 feet\u2026right down the middle of the key. He just drains it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Such was the strength of Williston\u2019s point guard, who Coach Shelton praised for being able to handle pressure, knock down the big shots, and be a leader, even after disappointing games.<\/p>\n

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\u201cHe is the ultimate competitor,\u201d Coach Shelton said. \u201cNo moment was too big for him.\u201d<\/p>\n

In March, after a 23-3 record, Williston would edge rival Suffield Academy by 51-48 to take the NEPSAC Class A Championship game. Helping lead the charge was Mr. Richmond, who was named Tournament MVP.<\/p>\n

This week, Mr. Richmond celebrated another big moment when he signed a National Letter of Intent to play at Bentley University in Waltham, Massachusetts.<\/p>\n

He said he chose Bentley not only for its great basketball legacy, but prestige in the field of business.<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel that it offered me the most promising future,\u201d he wrote in an email, adding \u201cIt\u2019s right beside Boston, which reminds me of home.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Bentley Falcons are a Division II team and had a 15-12 overall record from last season. Since the team lacks what Mr. Richardson describes as a \u201cprimary ball handler,\u201d he noted that he would be able to make an impact quickly at the school.<\/p>\n

Mr. Richmond also said head coach Joe Lawson and his assistant Jay Fremeau were another plus.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe coaching staff is great,\u201d Mr. Richmond noted. \u201cThey support their players and demand the most of them, which will only help me develop as a basketball player and man.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The high point in the boys varsity basketball regular season\u2014the championship game would come later\u2014happened early, against the perennial power house Phillips Exeter Academy. The two schools had been dueling back and forth all game. First the Williston Northampton boys took the lead, then Exeter came back in the second half. \u201cNow they\u2019re up 10 … Continue reading Ryan Richmond ’15 Signs with Bentley<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,364],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-athletics-news","category-ncaa-commitments"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1741"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1741"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1772,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1741\/revisions\/1772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}