After Retirement
Today, Rick Mount still lives in his hometown of Lebanon, Indiana with his wife, Donna. His son, Rich, played on the Purdue basketball team for two seasons (1989–1991) before transferring to VCU. Rich, who also played at Lebanon, left high school with the ninth most points in Indiana high school history. He currently works as a police officer in Lebanon.
Rick Mount currently runs "shoot camps" for high school players throughout the Midwest, where each player will take 2,500 supervised shots. The instructional school is based solely on shooting and there is no scrimmaging involved.
An avid quail hunter in his spare time, he opened Rick Mount's Sports Shop, a hunting and fishing shop. Purdue is among Mount's customers for the "Shoot-A-Way" retrieval system, a device which returns a basketball down a track to a player after a shot. Rick did not attain his college degree, being 11-12 credits short, keeping him from becoming a high school coach.
In 1992, both Rick and his father were inducted into the Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame, located in New Castle, Indiana.
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