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Luke Rich signs to swim NCAA D1 at USI By Mig Feuser Adair Progress Staff Writer Adair County High School's swimming talent Luke Rich signed his intent to continue his academic and athletic career at the University of Southern Indiana. "That's a milestone accomplishment," Adair County Schools' Superintendent Jason Faulkner said at the beginning of the event on Monday night, "the likelihood of a high school athlete to go on to the next level in their sport is very, very small. So we are super excited about that." The University of Southern Indiana Screaming Eagles Athletic department is a competitive member of the NCAA Division I and the Ohio Valley Conference. Men's Soccer, and Men's and Women's Swimming and Diving are members of the Summit League. This is an impressive accomplishment for Luke and everyone who has supported him along the way could not be more proud. Following Faulkner, Luke's teacher Rebecca Cravens mentioned that she "had the great pleasure of getting to know Luke over the last couple of years, in the classroom as one of my students, as well as an athlete. Everything I asked of him in the classroom and as an athlete, he has gone just above and beyond." His head coach Nick Coe remembered Luke's high school swimming career, "breaking records over records," and he especially appreciated "the role model that Luke has been for the program that was started seven years ago." Dee Wilkins, Luke's SKYUSA coach from Bowling Green, who said that he "had the greatest nine years of coaching Luke. He traveled for nine years four to five times a week to Bowling Green to practice with me. Others had to go one mile, he had a hundred." Luke's brother Will Rich remembered how he often drove his twelve years younger sibling to practice and gave him the advice not to listen to "you can't" advice. Both of Luke's parents, Bryan and Alma Rich, talked about how Luke strived to be good at the sport he loved swimming in Columbia, Russell Springs and Bowling Green. Luke had the last word before signing his letter of intention: "I would like to thank everybody, and especially everybody here. You all have supported me, no matter what. All of you have helped me in some sort of way. All of you wanted me not just to be a successful swimmer, but a successful person." This story was posted on 2023-11-24 09:38:44
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