ATHLETIC TRAINER

Katrina Mendoza, Head Certified Athletic Trainer

Ms. Mendoza is entering her 11th year at Rickards. Her duties include the education, prevention, care, and rehabilitation of athletic injuries. She works with the Tallahassee Sports Medicine Advisory Board which consists of local athletic trainers and Tallahassee Orthopedic Center medical professionals. She is also an off-campus Clinical Instructor for Florida State University Sports Medicine.

She is a Florida State University graduate with her Bachelors in Exercise Science with emphasis in Athletic Training/Sports Medicine and a Masters in Science Education. In addition to her Athletic Trainer duties, she teaches science at Rickards and heads up the

James S. Rickards HS Sports Medicine Program.

Prior to Rickards, she had taught and helped with athletic training duties at Griffin Middle School and Lincoln High School.