University of Richmond Athletics
Richmond Announces Its Athletics Hall of Fame Class of 2006
02/13/2006 | General
Feb. 13, 2006
UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND, Va. - The 1988 Sweet Sixteen Men's Basketball squad headlines the University of Richmond Department of Athletics' Hall of Fame class of 2006, to be inducted Saturday, Feb. 18, at 4 p.m. Joining the winningest team in Spiders men's basketball history is a four-person class which includes: Richard Razzetti (men's tennis), Dr. Lindsay Struthers Bell (field hockey, lacrosse, women's basketball), Pat Turchetta (football) and Peter Woolfolk (men's basketball). Induction ceremonies will be held in the Robins Pavilion of the Jepson Alumni Center at 4 p.m., Feb. 18. The Class of 2006 will also be honored at halftime of the Spider men's basketball contest against nationally-ranked George Washingon at 7 p.m. in the Robins Center.
1988 Sweet Sixteen Men's Basketball Team
Picked to win the Colonial Athletic Association in 1988, coach Dick Tarrant's team did not disappoint by going 11-3 in the league and finishing the season with a school record 26 wins.
More memorable than the CAA Championship and the 11-3 mark in the league, is what the team did with its NCAA Tournament berth. The Spiders became only the second team in NCAA Tournament history to oust the defending National Champion from the first round, when they topped Indiana 72-69 in 1988. Rodney Rice scored 21 points, including a jumper with less than a minute to play which gave the Spiders the lead for good. Richmond, which avenged two previous postseason losses to Indiana, held the Bob Knight-led Hoosiers scoreless over the last 2:40 to secure a berth in the NCAA Tournament's second round in Hartford, Conn.
Led by Peter Woolfolk's 27 points, the Spiders advanced to their first-ever NCAA Sweet Sixteen by topping the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets, 59-55, in the second round of the NCAA Tournament in Hartford, Conn. The Yellow Jackets, led by Dennis Scott and Brian Oliver's combined 30-point effort, were held to a dismal 5-of-22 showing from three-point. Woolfolk keyed the win by going 11-for-21 from the floor and hauled in nine boards. The victory was the second of the season for Coach Tarrant's team over the Yellow Jackets. The Spiders won at Georgia Tech, 73-67, Dec. 22.
Richmond went on to fall at the hands of the nation's top-ranked Temple team in the NCAA Sweet Sixteen, 69-47, but set the school mark for most wins in a season with 26.
The 1988 team still holds all-time records in the following categories: single-season wins (26), single-game three-point field goal percentage (75.0, 6-of-8 against ECU on 2/20/88), single-season three-point field goal percentage (43.8, 116-of-265) and single-season assists (546).
Richard Razzetti (`85)
Richmond's all-time leader in men's tennis singles and doubles wins, Richard Razzetti lettered all four seasons for the Spiders before graduating in 1985. Razzetti was a two-time ECAC South doubles champion (1983-84) and also garnered the 1984 ECAC singles championship. In 1985 Razetti ranked as high as 17th in the USTA National Amateur Circuit in singles and was part of a doubles duo ranked fourth in the USTA National Amateur Circuit.
The Spider men's tennis MVP in 1982 and 1985, he also helped the Richmond squad to a No. 35 NCAA ranking in 1985.
After graduating, Razzetti competed professionally for two years where he garnered two wins over players ranked in the Top-500. Since his professional playing days ended, he has found a home in Richmond and has worked more than 17 years in Federal Law Enforcement. He is currently assigned to the Richmond Joint Terrorism Task Force -- a multi-agency enforcement initiative to combat terrorism.
Dr. Lindsay Struthers Bell (`71)
Dr. Struthers Bell will be the first-ever female student-athlete from the 70's decade inducted into the Richmond Athletics Hall after a long-standing athletic career for the Spiders.
Struthers Bell played three seasons of field hockey from 1968-70, and two seasons of lacrosse in 1968 and 1971, all while playing four years of basketball at Richmond. Struthers Bell was a two-time captain for the Spider cagers, co-captain with Marilyn Bray as a junior, then lone captain of the 1970-71 squad as a senior. During her senior season she helped guide the squad to a perfect 13-0 record and a Virginia Federation of Intercollegiate Sport for College Women Championship. The team garnered four wins in four days over Hollins (36-31), Lynchburg (54-43), Roanoke (43-37) and Bridgewater (40-29) for the championship.
After graduating from Richmond with a biology degree in 1971, Struthers Bell attended the University of South Florida's College of Medicine where she received her doctorate in 1974. She currently resides in St. Petersburg, Fla., where she practices medicine.
Pat Turchetta (`70)
A member of Richmond's All-Time Football Squad as announced in 1990, Pat Turchetta was a highly-decorated Spider on the gridiron. Turchetta earned two Virginia All-State honors in 1968-69, while being part of the 1968 Tangerine Bowl Champion which was honored as the 2005 Richmond Athletic's Hall of Fame Team of Distinction.
The Richmond linebacker, was twice named the Spider Athlete of the Week over his three-year career as well as earning World News College Defensive Player of the Week and Southern Conference Player of the Week honors. In 1969 he was awarded the University of Richmond Spider Club Award and was named part of the "Headknockers Club."
The two-time All-Southern Conference selection, was awarded the University of Richmond Captain's Club Harold Ronick Memorial Scholarship in 1966 prior to attending Richmond.
Turchetta now resides in State College, Pa.
Peter Woolfolk (`88)
The sixth-leading scorer in Richmond men's basketball history with 1,604 total points, Peter Woolfolk will be honored as an individual and will join his 1988 teammates on the Hall of Fame Class of 2006 Team of Distinction.
Woolfolk, the leading scorer for the 1988 Sweet Sixteen squad, ranks 10th on the Spiders' all-time single-season scoring list with 587 points in 1988. His 859 career rebounds rank fourth all-time at Richmond. He also ranks in Richmond annals in single-season field goal percentage (56.1), single-season field goals made (235), career field goals made (666), single-game rebounds (20) and single-season rebounds (294).
The 1987-88 season is fondly remembered by Spider hoops fans, and Woolfolk's name reigns supreme helping Richmond to its first-ever NCAA Sweet Sixteen. Woolfolk, who now resides in Richmond, played perhaps his best game ever in the second round of the NCAA Tournament against Georgia Tech. The forward poured in a game-high 27 points, going 11-of-21 from the field, while grabbing nine rebounds en route to a 59-55 win over the Yellow Jackets to help secure a berth in the NCAA's Sweet Sixteen.
