2012: Appeared in43 games with 40 starts for the Spartans as a junior… Hit.265 with 10 doubles, one triple, four home runs and 28 runs battedin… Drove in a season-high four runs on May 12 againstKennesaw State, going two-for-four with a double and a home runwhile also scoring two runs… Came back the following game atMercer and tallied three hits, including a home run and two runsbatted in… Posted a .987 fielding percentage at first basewith 355 putouts and 25 assists.
2011: Appeared inand made 52 starts as a corner infielder… Finished campaignwith a .297 batting average to go along with 36 RBI and 34 runsscored… Finished season second on the team with 12 doublesand was tied for second in RBI while ranking third in hits(62)… Opened season on a 15-game hitting streak and tallieda hit in 20 of the first 22 contests… Was 2-for-4 with onerun and one RBI in 16-4 win against George Mason (Feb. 18)…Had two hits and drove in three against Xavier (Feb. 19)…Collected one hit to go along with two RBI and one run in victoryover Iona (Feb. 20)… Had two hits and two RBI as Upstateclaimed a 12-7 victory over North Carolina A&T (Feb.23)… Collected two hits and two RBI at both Wofford (Mar. 1)and Gardner-Webb (Mar. 2)… Was 2-for-4 at the plate againstthe College of Charleston (Mar. 8)… Scored a pair of runs inUpstate’s 13-10 win at Charleston Southern (Mar. 9)…Tallied three hits, three runs and one RBI in a 7-6 win atJacksonville (Mar. 12)… Finished 2-for-3 with one run andone RBI in finale against North Florida (Mar. 19)… Was2-for-5 with two runs and two RBI in 8-5 victory over Furman (Mar.22)… Had two hits and two RBI in series opening win at FGCU(Mar. 25)… Collected two hits in three consecutive games(No. 20 Stetson, Apr. 2; at No. 3 South Carolina, Apr. 5;Gardner-Webb, Apr. 6)… Scored a pair of runs against theBulldogs… Finished 3-for-5 with two runs and two RBIincluding a walk-off solo blast in the bottom of the10th against Belmont (Apr. 9)… Was the firstwalk-off homer for the Spartans in the D-I era… Was 2-for-4with one RBI against ETSU (Apr. 12)… Was 2-for-3 with tworuns in series finale at Lipscomb (Apr. 17)… Had two hitsand scored one run against the College of Charleston (Apr.20)… Tallied three hits and three RBI in Upstate’s13-9 win over Kennesaw State (May 7)... A member of the A-SunAll-Academic Team.
2010: Appeared in43 games, made 34 starts at first base and seven as the designatedhitter... Had four straight games of two hits from Feb. 27 throughMar. 3... Collected a hit in collegiate debut against PresbyterianCollege on Feb. 20... Finished 2-for-4 with two RBI and a runagainst both Dayton (Feb. 27) and Butler (Feb. 28)... Was 2-for-5with two RBI and a run in the series finale against Jacksonville(Apr. 3)... Had two hits, three RBI and scored two runs in theSpartans 11-10 win over College of Charleston (Apr. 13)... Hadthree hits, including first career homerun, to go along with threeRBI in the series opener against Campbell (Apr. 16)... Collectedthree hits, one RBI and one run in the first game of thedoubleheader against Campbell (Apr. 17)... Was 2-for-4 at the platewith two runs at Stetson (May 8)... Finished with three hits, twoRBI and one run against The Citadel (May 12)... Had two hits andscored two runs against both Kennesaw State (May 15) and William& Mary (May 18).
HighSchool: A four-year letterwinner in baseball atGeorge Jenkins High School... Earned 2009 Rawlings/Perfect GamePreseason Florida Region All-High School Senior Team HonorableMention honors... Earned All-Polk County honors as a junior andsenior and was also a senior all-area all-star... Hit .448 with a.543 on-base percentage as a senior, earning Florida Class 5AHonorable Mention All-State honors... Blasted 17 homers in hiscareer... An Academic Merit Scholar and a team captain as asenior... A member of Chet Lemon''s Juice, which won the AAUNationals and Under Armour National Tournament and Perfect GameNational Tournament Championships in club baseball.
Personal: Born on Jan. 5, 1991... Given nameis Roy Richardson III... Son of Roy Richardson, Jr., and WendiRichardson... Has a younger sister, Regan... Grandfather, JimWaller, played football at the University of Missouri in 1964-65...Majoring in psychology... Hobbies include hunting, fishing,basbeall, golf and water sports... Favorite movie is "30 Minutes orLess"... Favorite food is pizza... Favorite TV show is "PawnStars"... Favorite actor is Adam Sandler... Favorite song is "If Icould do it again"... Favorite book is "Needful Things" by StephenKing... Favorite sports figure is Usain Bolt... Hero growing up wasNomar Garciaparra... Admires his grandfather... Wants to be a kingcrab fisherman... Chose Upstate over Florida Gulf Coast.
