Causes We Care About
Fort Worth Stock Show & Rodeo (FWSSR)
Jake Richter serves on the FWSSR Board and the Calf Scramble and Greeting Committees, which plays a crucial role in fulfilling the Stock Show’s mission - supporting youth education and funding enhancements at the Will Rogers Memorial Center
Junior Achievement of the Chisholm Trail
Jake Richter currently serves as a board member for Junior Achievement of the Chisholm Trail. Junior Achievement’s mission is to inspire and prepare young people to succeed. The inspiration piece comes from community volunteers who not only deliver our lessons, but share their experience.
Near Southside, Inc.
Jake Richter's role as a board member of Near Southside, Inc. helps to promote the redevelopment of Fort Worth’s Near Southside as a vibrant, urban, mixed-use neighborhood.
Fort Worth - Tarrant County A&M Club
As a past-president of the Tarrant County A&M Club, Jake Richter still supports local club events that raise money for scholarships to future Aggies from Tarrant County
Learn More About Jake Richter's Background, Family & Hobbies
Jake's Background
Jake Richter was born in San Antonio, TX. He spent most of his youth in the Texas Hill Country before graduating from Texas A&M University with a Bachelor of Science degree. While at A&M he was a member of the Corps of Cadets, Company A-2, and Muleskinner in Parsons Mounted Cavalry.
Jake's Family
After graduation, Jake made Fort Worth his home and lives in the historic Fairmount neighborhood. Jake loves spending time with his two best buddies, Baron and Bronco.
Jake's Hobbies
When not hard at work, Jake and his family spend their summers exploring the mountains across the country in their 1979 Airstream Argosy, which Jake rehabbed over nearly a year finding time during long nights and weekends.
He enjoys hiking, hunting, fishing, camping, and finding old ugly projects that he loves to take on. Ask him about his latest project—he’s sure to have one!
On the Trails
Jake is a busybody by nature, hyper-focused, and dedicated to the task at hand until it is completed. So, he can be found spending the rest of his free time training for or running 100-mile ultramarathons!
High Lonesome 100 Mile Trail Race
The High Lonesome 100 is a high flying endurance race in the Sawatch range of the Colorado Rocky Mountains. With 22,500' of vertical gain and reaching an elevation of 13,150', it's a hell of a course. The race runs in a loop through some of the most beautiful single track in the state, and takes runners on the Continental Divide and Colorado Trail, through 2 ghost towns, over 5 alpine passes, through remote basins, and over soaring ridges.
Jake's ultraunning adventures take him from the local cobblestone streets of the Cowtown 50K in Fort Worth, Texas, the high-altitude mountains at the Ouray 100 in Colorado, and even to the island trails of the TransLantau 100K in Hong Kong!