The Richmond Rugby Football Club is pleased to announce the hiring of Ben Hickey as the club's head coach for the 2015 - 2016 season.

Ben trained as a rugby union assistant coach last year under outgoing coach Kevin Nielsen, and after several succesful interim coaching stints with Richmond's first and second teams last year the club is pleased to suppourt Ben in the next step of his rugby union coaching career.

Ben comes to the RRFC from a stint with the Richmond Bears (2013) and Valley Warriors (2014/15) rugby league squads and has also been a part of the staff for the BC Bulldogs representative rugby league squad. He has a wealth of rugby knowledge (from both codes) and will be ably assisted by former RRFC director of rugby Mike Shellard.

The club looks forward to an exciting 2015 - 2016 with Ben at the helm and wish him all the best this season.