Dot Richardson - Liberty University head softball coach on honoring the Lord and winning Olympic Gold in 1996

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🗓️ 12 April 2024

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Dot Richardson is the head softball coach at Liberty University. She was named to her position on July 17, 2013 and since then, has taken the Flames to three NCAA Regionals and six straight full seasons of 40 wins or more. In 2023, Liberty eliminated No. 2 UCLA and Grand Canyon to make a Regional Final for the third time in program history and set a school single-season record for wins over Top-25 teams (4).

Prior to coaching, Richardson was an elite softball player, starting in college at UCLA where she helped the Bruins to their first ever NCAA championship in 1982 and was named NCAA Player of the Decade in the 1980's. In 1996, she was a member Team USA that captured their first ever Olympic Gold Medal in softball. She repeated the effort four years later and won a second Gold medal in 2000. Today on the podcast, we talk to Dot Richardson about coaching at Liberty, impacting lives for the kingdom, honoring the Lord with her words and actions and being bold in her faith.

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0:00.0	What's up, guys? Today on Sports Spectrum, I'm really excited for this conversation with Liberty Head Softball Coach. Dot Richardson.
0:08.7	Buckle up is all I got to say, because she's one of the most decorated softball people, not just players, ever, right?
0:16.8	She's the Liberty University Head Softball coach, but in college, she was at UCLA.
0:21.8	She was on the team to win their first ever NCAA championship in 1982 at UCLA.
0:28.5	Goes and gets an MD degree, becomes a doctor, the University of Louisville School of Medicine in 1993.
0:35.8	And then in 1996 and 2000, she's on the USA Olympic softball
0:41.4	team that wins the gold medal, including that 96 team. That was the first team USA club to ever
0:48.5	win a gold medal in softball. That was in Atlanta. And then she just goes into this career as a doctor, an executive director at the
0:58.4	National Training Center in Florida.
1:00.7	And ultimately, God pivots her into becoming the head coach at Liberty, a calling, as she
1:06.5	calls it, to be the head coach at Liberty.
1:08.6	And have they ever done quite the, quite the thing,
1:13.1	I'll just say in softball at Liberty? And listen, in the last six full seasons, they've won at
1:19.3	least 40 games. She's taken Liberty to two NCAA regionals. In 2023, Liberty eliminated number two UCLA and Grand Canyon to make a regional final for the third time in program history and set the program single season record for wins over top 25 teams with four.
1:39.4	The accolades go on and on.
1:41.1	She was the NCAA player of the decades in the 1980s, but more important than all of
1:47.5	those things. Dot Richardson is a devout follower in love with Jesus, and you can just sense
1:54.1	that. I think the whole conversation was pretty much centered around Christ, which I love. I did
1:58.5	ask her one question about about particularly specifically about softball
2:02.9	and who she thinks the greatest softball player that she's ever seen is. But man, the Lord is in
2:10.4	this conversation. Can't wait for you to hear it with Dot Richardson from Liberty. It's coming
2:14.4	up in just a moment here on Sports Spectrum. Real quick, just want to remind you about our Sports Spectrum magazine. You can subscribe right now over
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