Coaching Staff

Coach Richmond has been a High School wrestling coach and mathematics teacher in the city of Folsom for 16 years. As a coach his team has won 12 league championships, are 9 x section finalists, and were Section Champions and State Dual Runner-ups in 2020.  He has had multiple state placers, state champions, and Fargo all-americans during his time coaching.  Coach Richmond wrestled at Kennedy High School in Cypress from 1997-2001, where he was a two-time Empire League Champion, sub-section champion, two-time Southern Section finalist, section champion as a senior, and a two-time state qualifier placing third as a senior. Coach Richmond compiled a 46-1 record as a senior, 40 of his wins coming by either fall or tech fall. Richmond won League, District, County, & National Army Reserve Scholar Athlete of the Year Awards as well. He then went on to wrestle at the NCAA Division I level for U.C. Davis where he was a three-time Pac-10 place winner finishing up among the career leaders in pins. Coach Richmond was a two-year captain for UCD and served as a volunteer assistant coach after graduating with a degree in Economics in 2006. Coach Richmond then went on to earn his teaching credential for mathematics and masters degree in education from UC Davis. Coach Richmond has continued to compete in wrestling compiling 4 Veteran National Wrestling Championships. Coach Richmond also trains and competes in brazilian jiu-jitsu (submission grappling) and is currently a black belt. He has won a World Championship in both Gi and No-Gi.