HAMLET — In addition to being Richmond Senior High School’s new athletic director, Robert Ransom will also serve as one of the school’s four assistant principals, according to a press release issued Friday morning.
Ransom, who was approved Thursday by the Richmond County Board of Education in a closed-session meeting to fill the spot after former athletic director Ricky Young resigned earlier this month, had spent the last three school years as the head principal at Rohanen and Cordova middle schools.
“I’m looking forward to combining my love of education with my passion for sports,” he said in a statement.
The press release also highlighted some of Ransom’s pre-principal positions, including having spent his first 13 years as a physical education teacher and coach for football, both boys and girls basketball, baseball (middle and high school and American Legion), and golf.
The press release also said Ransom would miss his students and faculty at Cordova.
“I could not have asked for a better place to be a principal,” he said. “The faculty is like family to me and we all put our students first.”
Richmond’s head principal Jim Butler will be reunited with Ransom as an administrative team. The pair spent nearly a decade working together at two other schools.
“Having worked closely with Rob for nine years at Washington Street School and Hamlet Middle, I know the strong work ethic, organizational skills and energy that he brings to everything he does,” said Butler. “Ransom is taking over a strong program and he will continue to build on the great tradition of Raider sports.”
Ransom’s departure from Cordova will allow for Joyce McRae, former principal at Richmond County Ninth Grade Academy, to move into that position. RCNGA will now have Derrick Watkins as head principal, where he’s served as an assistant principal the last couple of years.
In the 10 years Young was at the high school, he was the head varsity baseball coach, and spent the last five and a half school years as the AD. While Ransom expressed he was “open to the opportunity” to being involved with the athletic programs at Richmond, no decision to replace Young’s post as head baseball coach has been made at this time.
The Richmond Observer plans to have more on this story following an interview with Ransom.
