License to Thrive

"Is there a doctor in the (club)house?"

You know her as captian of the Olympic softball team that won the gold medal
in 1996 and 2000 but did you also know that she was working her way through
medical school at the same time? 

While growing up, in addition to a doctor, Dot Richardson wanted to be an astronaut,a singer and an actress.  her father was in the Air Force so she lived in several places during her childhood including England, New Mexico, Guam and Kansas.

Dot Richardson was a star athlete at UCLA where she was a three-time All American and named the NCAA Player of the Decade for the 1980's.  She was inducted into the UCLA Hall of Fame in 1996 and is currently featured in UCLA's "Big Moment" campaign:

http://spotlight.ucla.edu/video/ucla-moment_dot.mov

As an Olympian, Richardson was the first woman to hit a home run in
the Olympic Games and her two-run home run helped the United States team
wn the first Olympic gold medal ever awarded in softball in 1996.

She is currently the Executive Director and Medical Director for the USA National Training Center in Florida.  She has also authored two (2) books.