'Core of the team': Seymour’s Richey earns coach of the year nomination

By Zach Spicer
First Posted: August 06, 2012 - 10:57 pm
Last Updated: August 07, 2012 - 12:17 am

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Seymour High School baseball head coach Jeremy Richey, center, talks to his team before the start of this past spring's Hoosier Hills Conference Tournament championship game at Jeffersonville.

"Just a little bit more hard work can equal that much more fun.”

Tanner Belcher said those inspirational words were often spoken this past spring by first-year Seymour High School baseball head coach Jeremy Richey.

“It was a lot more fun,” Belcher said of the Owls going 21-5 and finishing as runners-up in the Hoosier Hills Conference and sectional. “(Richey) is always honest. He was on everybody; he didn’t care who you were. If you were there and you were playing a position right, you were going to play.”

Belcher said he was just fine with Richey’s honesty.

“He’s a great coach of baseball, and I think he did great,” Belcher said. “He’s always got something to say on how you’re doing something and always working with you. He’s always getting on me, which I like, which means he cares.”

Belcher, who wrapped up his junior year in the spring, said it didn’t surprise him when he learned Richey is one of nearly a dozen nominated as 2012 Indiana High School Baseball Coaches Association coach of the year.

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