Local RVA kid - 6’6 190 lbs Point Guard • 4.2 GPA per his twitter profile ..
Donovan Richardson - 2025 Commit
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Nice, I mentioned him in the general tracker thread a couple times over the past year as someone we appeared to be keeping an eye on. Was in for an unofficial visit about six weeks ago. Mississippi State and Charleston offers among a few others so far.
hopefully he wants to stay close to home to play and learn.
One day after Will Harper commits, Donovan has committed as the second member of HS '25 class! Love that we were able to keep him in Richmond! Staff is on a roll!
Welcome to Spider Nation! Richardson attends Steward School here in Richmond. Other notable offers include Charleston, Murray State, and Mississippi State. Took unofficial visits to UVA and VT Tech. Appears that he reclassified to the class of 2025. No profile on 247 that I could find, but rated #166 in the class on prep hoops website. Biggest thing is he plays point guard but is 6’6”! I don’t think we’ve ever had a PG that tall. Will be interesting to see what role he will have here.
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Donovan Richardson, Steward - Prep Hoops
Donovan Richardson is a class of 2025 Virginia high school basketball player for Steward. Read more about him on Prep Hoops.
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Donovan Richardson on Hudl
Watch Donovan Richardson's videos and highlights on Hudl. More info: Collegiate School - Basketball - Boys Varsity / SG / Class of 2025 / Richmond, VA
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How come everything I’ve read says he goes to Stewart, and not Collegiate?Welcome to Spider Nation! Richardson attends Collegiate here in Richmond. Other notable offers include Charleston, Murray State, and Mississippi State. Took unofficial visits to UVA and VT Tech. Appears that he reclassified to the class of 2025. No profile on 247 that I could find, but rated #166 in the class on prep hoops website. Biggest thing is he plays point guard but is 6’6”! I don’t think we’ve ever had a PG that tall. Will be interesting to see what role he will have here.
Donovan Richardson, Steward - Prep Hoops
Donovan Richardson is a class of 2025 Virginia high school basketball player for Steward. Read more about him on Prep Hoops.
Donovan Richardson on Hudl
Watch Donovan Richardson's videos and highlights on Hudl. More info: Collegiate School - Basketball - Boys Varsity / SG / Class of 2025 / Richmond, VA
You’re right. Looking at his profile, looks like he does attend Steward School now. He must’ve attended Collegiate earlier in high school
Yeah, he was at Collegiate for three years, reclassifying from 2024 to 2025 while he was there. Transferred to Steward before last year and obviously has one more year there.
LFG....This former Spartan is quite happy. Wild to see the talent were putting out these days!
Scott Ungerer at 6'7" under Beilein.
One of our best passers ever.
Ryan Butler ran the point for the second year of the Mooney era until KA got here. Granted, it was more out of necessity (Courtney Nelson left when Mooney came in), but he did run the point initially…
love long guys with guard skills, whether we play them at guard or not.
looks like another great commitment.
looks like another great commitment.
Those were the days...don't forget 6'7" forward Oumar Sylla running point in Moon's first year. We only had 7 active scholarship players, with 6'6" Monty Sanders being the shortest.
we invented positionless basketball.
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love securing a high level local kid, looks like I will be trying to fit some Steward School games into my schedule come fall and winter. Welcome Donovan!
JOC tracked down Donovan and his coach to get some quotes...
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Donovan Richardson of The Steward School felt 'fit' with Spiders
“I love Coach (Chris) Mooney and his staff. They’re very high-character individuals, and I feel like my game meshes perfectly with their system."
Nice pick up, like the sounds of his game. Impressive that he had offers from Princeton, Harvard and Yale. In addition to the obvious impressive academics all three have been very good hoops destinations recently. We have often been in the dreaded sandwich spot between the ivies and p6 schools with little result but no p6 schools this time.
I like that he is local and obviously academics won't be an issue. I don't like that we were by his best basketball offer.
I'd give all of our portal pick-ups B+ to A grades, both of our high school recruits, my grade would probably be a C. Players who are players in high school are sought after by other big name basketball schools, at least schools who compete at our level.
I'd give all of our portal pick-ups B+ to A grades, both of our high school recruits, my grade would probably be a C. Players who are players in high school are sought after by other big name basketball schools, at least schools who compete at our level.
Each season that passes makes me realize how much of a crapshoot high school recruiting is. Guys like Trevor Smith, Isaiah Wilson, Sal Koureissi all had long offer sheets but didn’t pan out for us. Meanwhile guys like Tyne, Cayo, Golden didn’t have many offers, but had success for us. Definitely an art and not a science
Good point. All things being equal though, you would much rather be signing kids that other similar programs to ours covet than kids who are not coveted by similar programs.
And it probably seems like more a crapshoot to Spider fans because Mooney has proven to be a below average shot in high school recruiting.
Perhaps we signed these guys early to give ourselves some flexibility, like maybe we bundle them in a 2-for-1 trade to some SoCon school for a first-team all-conference guy as part of an NIL deal before he can enter the portal? Seems logical these days.
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