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Ryle senior golfer Caitlyn Richardson made varsity in the sixth grade just prior to the rule change moving the cutoff to seventh grade, making her one of the fi nal athletes to achieve a seven-year run. THANKS: JOSH RICHARDSON PHOTOS
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Caitlyn Richardson’s parents made a bet with her. If Caitlyn made the Ryle High School varsity golf team, they would buy her a new set of golf clubs. She got the clubs. The Richardson family didn’t doubt their daughter’s golf talent, but making varsity was still unexpected. Caitlyn was only in sixth grade. “When she fi rst started it was just something she liked to do,” Caitlyn’s father, Josh, said. “We went to the golf coach starting her fi fth-grade year and we didn’t know anything about when golf started. They were starting the season and he said to come back next year. When next year came, he strictly went by tryouts and averages and she was good enough to make it as a sixth-grader.” The Kentucky High School Athletic Association allows seventh- and eighth-grade students to participate in high school varsity athletics. Richardson made varsity in the sixth grade just prior to the rule change moving the cutoff to seventh grade, making her one of the fi nal athletes to achieve a seven-
year run. “It’s kind of humbling,” Caitlyn said of her seven varsity years. “Being young, I didn’t think I was that good or great or anything as a sixth-grader, but to realize over the years how I’ve been able to grow and to know (Maddy Stanton) and I are some of the last few to make it through that seven-year stretch makes it feel like more of a family. “We’ve gone through diff erent coaches, but with the players on the team you can grow closer to them when you’re there for so many years.” First-year Ryle head coach Alex Bruce, the third head coach during Caitlyn’s tenure, was a former Ryle standout who also played on varsity while in seventh and eighth grades. “For the most part, Caitlyn leads our team every single tournament,” Bruce said. “She is an awesome leader. She takes initiative in all of our practices and leads them. She’s super positive in the end and always congratulating everybody. We’ve actually had two coaches this year reach out after a match or a tournament and say that we were the best team that they played with in terms of attitude and being friendly or nice. I’m so proud of that with my girls. I haven’t had any problems with that which is amazing.”
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Part of Caitlyn’s leadership came from her experiences as a younger kid on a high school team. While her parents were concerned about her physical abilities being so young, another issue came up. “We were concerned how well she would handle walking 18 holes,” Josh Richardson said. “We showed up at the fi rst tournament and she was so much smaller. “We really weren’t prepared for, and didn’t think about, dealing with girls not liking her. Girls who were sophomores or juniors who thought since people graduated that was going to be their spot the next year and she beat them out. They didn’t like that a whole lot. That we weren’t really prepared for or expecting.” Undeterred, Caitlyn worked through the season and found herself on the regional team. “I knew some girls had been there for a couple of years and had their spot,” Caitlyn said. “I earned my spot too, but no one really saw (that) the same way the coach did. It was a little more diffi cult getting to know anyone and be a complete, full team.” After seven years on varsity, RichSee GOLFER, Page 2A
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Beer fl ows and bicyclists play polo inside one historic Northern Kentucky movie theater as another river city waits for a business model that will reinvigorate its Art Deco Marianne Theater. Bellevue has turned down an idea to turn the city-owned Marianne into condos, the only developer response to the city’s request for proposal, in a quest to fi nd another solution, said City Manager Frank Warnock. The city has owned the 6,900square-foot theater on Ky. 8, which still has a projector and theater seats inside, since 2014. Despite the Aug. 30 deadline passing to submit proposals to develop the National Register of Historic Places theater, the city is continuing to listen, Warnock said. Any deal to save the theater would include a covenant to preserve the Art Deco facade, he said. “If it’s economically feasible I’d be all for it,” Warnock said. “I’ve heard a brewpub, an entertainment venue, a radio station, there’s a lot of ideas but it’s going to take a substantial amount of money to rehabilitate the building.”
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