New Richmond High School Sports Hall of Fame inducting four new members

Posted by author January 24, 2025 Sports

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The New Richmond High School Sports Hall of Fame will be inducting four new members on Saturday, Jan. 25.

Two former student-athletes, Chris Kilgore and Tyler Anderson, and two coaches, Jim Robinson and Doug Smiddy, will be honored following a basketball game against Bethel-Tate.

Kilgore, a 2004 graduate, earned varsity letters in football, basketball and baseball for the Lions. A two-time all-conference honoree in football, Kilgore made his biggest mark on the baseball diamond.

By the end of his preps career, Kilgore was New Richmond’s record holder with 147 hits, 139 runs, 32 doubles, 42 steals and 226 total bases.

Anderson was a football player and pole vaulter, winning a pole vaulting district title and qualifying for regionals after clearing 12 feet and eight inches on a jump.

In football, Anderson held multiple career, season and game records. He rushed 503 times for 3,511 yards and 59 touchdowns and holds the single-year school records of 30 touchdowns, 2,003 rushing yards and 2,141 total yards.

After getting his coaching career started at Dayton Jefferson in 1979, Robinson made the move to New Richmond where he spent over 40 years coaching at all levels, including freshman football, junior varsity basketball and varsity baseball. The baseball Lions finished as district champs in 1985 and regional runner-up in 1991 under Robinson.

Off the field, Robinson was a yearbook and student council advisor for decades.

Finally, Smiddy spent 35 years at New Richmond where he coaches middle and high school cross country, middle and high school wrestling and high school track and field.

New Richmond’s youth wrestling and running clubs were started by Smiddy.