Lawrence Central High School
Tim Richey graduated from Tri-Central High School in 1981. His participation in AAU meets cultivated the love for track and field. He credits his coaching success to three influential mentors, his high school coach Clark Chambers (Tri-Central, North Miami, and Huntington North), Bloomington South coach Larry Williams and Lawrence Central coach Mike Holman.

Tim learned how to build a winning track and field program form Coach Chambers in high school and was able to revisit those early lessons in later years.

Richey student taught at Bloomington South, under Coach Williams, who had state champion-caliber vaulters and jumpers in his program that first year. Williams remained one of Richey’s mentors during his whole career.

After coaching basketball at various levels for ten years, Coach Richey took the helm of the boys and girls track and field teams at White River Valley. Soon, there were 95 kids ranging in grades 6 – 12 roaming the track, with one assistant coach. Richey’s experiences with the Indiana Track Club at Indiana University were vital to his success building the WRV program and becoming a better coach.

While at WRV, Richey had four athletes earn state championships medals, including 3-time state champion, 1-time runner-up, and 5-time All-American pole vaulter Matt Campbell (16’9”).

Coach Richey next move was to Lawrence Central as an assistant to Mike Holman from 2002 – 2009. The coaching experiences he had with Mike were a critical part of Richey’s success along the way. In 2009, Richey became head coach of the girls coach at Lawrence Central, and in 2012, he became the boys head coach. The girls were state champions in 210 and 2014 and runners-up in 2013; the boys were state champions in 2012. One of the highlights of his time at LC was watching his girls become the Marion County champs for five consecutive years, 2010 to 2014, His boys’ team was ranked #2 in the state in 2020.

Richey has had six state-champion pole -vaulters, including the very first female state champion of the event, Tori Allen, in 2003. LC also has four All-American vaulters, and a National Champion in Kimyanna Rudolph (13’2.5”) in 2012. Tim Richey has had an incredible blessed career with great coaching mentor and student-athletes to learn alongside.