Randi Richardson is a Clinical Assistant Professor and the Director of Clinical Education in the School of Kinesiology and Rehabilitation Sciences. She received her Bachelor of Science in Kinesiology and Sports Medicine from Mississippi College, where she also played collegiate softball. She graduated with her doctoral degree in physical therapy from the University of Mississippi in 2010.

After receiving her doctorate, Richardson completed a post-professional residency in Sports Physical Therapy at the University of Mississippi, where she worked with high school, collegiate, and professional athletes.  Richardson is a board-certified clinical specialist by the American Board of Physical Therapy Specialties, both in Orthopedics and Sports Physical Therapy.   Richardson’s experience has heavily focused on treating the athletic patient population from initial injury to return to sport. She has administrative experience in mentoring and directing an Accredited Orthopedic Physical Therapy Residency and managing a large outpatient orthopedic and sports medicine clinic in the Orlando area. Richardson was instrumental in starting a UCF faculty-led physical therapy clinical practice on the UCF campus.

She is currently teaching musculoskeletal evaluation and treatment, therapeutic exercise, and orthopedic integrations using lectures and simulation-based learning to doctoral physical therapy students.  In addition to her teaching, Richardson provides numerous service opportunities for learning with the UCF Marching Knights and the UCF Army and Air Force ROTC programs for UCF DPT students. Her research is focused on the early identification of functional limitations and targeted interventions in tactical athletes, and she is currently pursuing her PhD in Kinesiology at UCF.