Richlands High School (Richlands, Virginia)

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Richlands High School
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Richlands High School (Richlands, Virginia)
138 Tornado Alley

Cedar Bluff
,
Virginia
24609

United States
Coordinates 37°5′33.7″N81°46′36.8″W / 37.092694°N 81.776889°W / 37.092694; -81.776889
Information
School type Public, high school
School district Tazewell County Public Schools
PrincipalRickie Vencill
Teaching staff44.91 (FTE) (2018–19) [1]
Grades 9–12
Enrollment721 (2018–19) [1]
Student to teacher ratio16.05∶1 (2018–19) [1]
Color(s)Navy & White   
Athletics conference
MascotBlue Tornado
Rivals
Website rhs.tcpsva.org

Richlands High School is located in Richlands, Virginia in Tazewell County. Athletic teams compete in the Virginia High School League's AA Southwest District in Region IV.

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Academics

Athletic championships

The Richlands Blue Tornados have won two different VHSL AA State Championships and numerous Regional and District Championships in a variety of sports.

The Richlands Football team had posted an outstanding 33 game regular season win streak lasting from the 2004 season to the '07 season and 3 state championship game appearances. With 2 undefeated regular seasons in that time period, along with the "Perfect Storm" of 14–0 in the 2006 campaign culminating in a state championship, they have been marked with much recent success.

Their major rivals are Tazewell High School, and Graham High School.

Richlands and Tazewell play for the James C. Ramey Cup. Richlands leads the all-time series against their county rivals, 53-42-2, including 17 straight wins from 2004-2019. The Blues shut out the Bulldogs for four straight seasons from 1994-1997 (116-0) and from 2016-2019 (144-0), the Richlands High School Classes of 1998 and 2020, played their varsity careers without conceding a single point to Tazewell. [2]

Richlands also maintains long-standing active rivalries against their other county rival, the Graham G-Men. The two teams met for the 100th time in 2021, a 35-0 victory at Ernie Hicks Stadium for the G-Men. Graham leads the all-time series 56-39-5, including 6 straight victories dating to 2017.

Richlands also had a long-standing rivalry against the Grundy Golden Wave, having played every year from 1944 to 2010, and again from 2013 to 2016. Richlands leads that all-time series 58-23-3, winning every matchup between the two since 1998 (17 straight victories). The two teams have not met in regular season play since 2016, the result of Grundy’s reclassification to 1A play.

Richlands has also played Virginia High, Marion, Gate City, and Abingdon over 50 times each.

Richlands leads the RL-VA series, 40-28-2.

Richlands leads the RL-MAR series, 45-17-1.

Richlands leads the RL-GC series, 27-24-1.

Richlands leads the RL-AB series, 29-16-6.

State Football Champions 1992 & 2006

The Blue Tornado Football Team has a 550-385-34 record all-time. The Blues will play their 1,000th game in the 2024 or 2025 season. State Football Runner-Ups: 2004,2005,2007,2010,2016

State Softball Champions 1995, 1996 & 2019

Traditions

The School has a longstanding tradition of "Blue News" wherein the school's seniors write a news report each week. The tradition recently switched to a YouTube Channel. [3]

Marching band

The Richlands High School Blue Tornado Band has won many awards including overall best band at the AT&T Cotton Bowl and 14 time Virginia Honor Band titles. The Band has also participated in 2 of Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York City and the Inaugural Parades of multiple Virginia Governors.

Yearbook

The Tornado yearbook has won several honors in past years. The 2009 "Taking the World by Storm" book won a first place VHSL Award and Taylor Publishing National Yearbook Honorable Mention. The 2010 "Notorious" book also won a first place VHSL Award.

Scholastic Bowl

The 2021-22 Richlands High School Scholastic Bowl team coached by Christopher Hale finished third in the state competition, their second best performance to date.

The 2022-23 Richlands High School Scholastic Bowl team coached by Christopher Hale finished second in the state competition, their best performance to date.

Other

The school Has an E-Sports team [4]

DECA [5] [6]

The School has a Gifted Program [7] [8]

Notable alumni

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  2. ↑ "Richlands". fourseasonsfootball.com. Retrieved August 26, 2023.
  3. ↑ "Blue News - YouTube". www.youtube.com. Retrieved October 3, 2022.
  4. ↑ "RHS Esports". rhs.tcpsva.org. Retrieved October 3, 2022.
  5. ↑ "DECA Inc". www.deca.org. Retrieved October 3, 2022.
  6. ↑ "Deca". rhs.tcpsva.org. Retrieved October 3, 2022.
  7. ↑ "VDOE :: Gifted Education". doe.virginia.gov. Retrieved October 3, 2022.
  8. ↑ "Gifted". rhs.tcpsva.org. Retrieved October 3, 2022.
  9. ↑ "Michael Eugene Compton". databaseBasketball.com. Archived from the original on October 10, 2012. Retrieved November 10, 2012.
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