Jimmy James

4 weeks ago | thecollegianur.com | Jimmy James

Editor's Note: The views and opinions expressed in this article do not reflect those of The Collegian. It’s hard to describe exactly how much University of Richmond basketball means to me. If you walked into my Gateway Village apartment room on campus, you’d definitely see it in the Grant Golden jersey hanging in my closet or the Matt Grace flag hanging on the wall above my bed. But to put it in words is a much more difficult task.

1 month ago | magazine.richmond.edu | Jimmy James

It’s not every day you get to start a company as a 22 year-old. Well, such is the reality for 16 University of Richmond students each year who are accepted into the Bench Top Innovations program. I am one of them. Bench Top is a year-long course split into two semesters taken by students of all different majors and minors — not just those falling under the umbrella of the business school.

2 months ago | thecollegianur.com | Jimmy James

College basketball in March elicits a range of emotions. One minute, you’re riding the highest of highs, celebrating the most significant victory in your program’s history, then you come back down to reality and realize a quick turnaround to play one of the top teams in the country is looming a little over 48 hours away.

2 months ago | thecollegianur.com | Jimmy James

Trodding back down to the other end of the court, junior forward Maggie Doogan smiled. There were four and a half minutes to play in the fourth quarter, and a made 3-pointer had just brought her scoring total to 30 on the night. Surprisingly, Doogan missed four of her first five shots of the contest, but it didn’t take much longer after that for the University of Richmond women’s basketball team’s leading scorer to make her mark at historic Pauley Pavilion in Los Angeles, Calif.

2 months ago | thecollegianur.com | Jimmy James

University of Richmond women’s basketball senior guard Katie Hill said it best following the Spiders’ one-point loss to Saint Joseph’s University in the Atlantic 10 tournament semifinals on March 8 – that the sooner than expected exit from the tournament would not define their season. There was still postseason basketball left to be played, Hill noted in the postgame press conference. And she was right.