The Richfield Spartan Foundation is proud to support a variety of honors and awards recognizing outstanding achievement in our community. Over the years we have continued to expand the number and value of the awards distributed due to the generosity of individuals and sources such as the Desmond Foundation and the Patch Foundation.
Tom Spooner Award
This award is presented annually to the outstanding male senior athlete who demonstrates outstanding achievement in athletics, citizenship and academic excellence. The award is named for Tom Spooner, a Richfield High School athlete, who died from leukemia in 1959 and personified these criteria. Previous Tom Spooner award recipients include:
1957: Larry Molsather 1958: Dick Schubbe 1959: Doug Carlson 1960: Bill Davis and Marty Richardson 1961: Bob Werness 1962: Jim Mitchell 1963: Tim Wheeler 1964: Mike Sadek 1965: Barry Bishop 1966: Doug Edmonson and Tom Kiedrowski 1967: Scott Stein and Doug Schindler 1968: Doug Kingsriter 1969: Mark Flanders and Steve Cook
1970: Robert Slonski 1971: Larry Habegger 1972: Chuck Viskocil 1973: Doug Goebel 1974: Steve Bender 1975: Doug Nelson 1976: Mike Voelker 1977: Brian Holt 1978: Paul Franzmeier 1979: Dan Lerom
1980: Scott Schuveiller 1981: Randy Westlund 1982: Ivan Zubar 1983: Paul Gisselquist 1984: Bill Krohn 1985: Mark Hollingsoworth 1986: Dan Palmer 1987: Jeff Ziebol 1988: Steve Holman 1989: Chito Arcilla
1990: Jason Janu 1991: Amos Casey 1992: Hai Le 1993: Casey Johnson 1994: Mark Holman 1995: Paul Scanlon 1996: Nate Ashmead 1997: Neal Gambaiani 1998: David Ashmead 1999: Charles Case
2000: Joe Pavelko 2001: Ta Ho 2002: Patrick Akpaette 2003: Wade Vrieze 2004: Stuart Lindgren 2005: Tate Quale 2006: Dustin Driefke 2007: Trevor Olson 2008: Will Neilsen 2009: Renard Robinson 2010: Corey Fitzgerald 2011: Zak Beaudet 2012: Max Hamilton 2013: Duncan Pederson 2014: Obsa Ali 2015: Marcus Voigt 2016: Tommy Fallon 2017: Patrick Voigt 2018: Connor Swetala
