From Memphis, Tennessee, to Camden, New Jersey, and now the rolling hills of Arkansas, freshman wing Billy Richmond has been through the wringer of personal growth, and is now looking to turn his dreams into reality with the Razorbacks heading into the 2024-25 season.
Richmond — and those who have been by his side through the process — sat down to detail the journey in Whistle’s original “No Days Off” last week.
“I’ve been training Billy since he was seven years old,” Richmond’s trainer Jevonte Holmes said. “What makes me most proud of Billy is the things that he had to overcome, him coming out of high school from eighth grade to ninth grade being a 6-foot guard.
“The growing pains he went through from his ninth grade year going to his sophomore year, 6-foot-0 to 6-foot-5. I knew at times he wanted to shut down and didn’t really want to go through it, but to see …