Richard Stewart joined the Georgia Tech Athletic Association staff in August 2007 as assistant athletic trainer for men’s basketball, and was promoted last fall to the position of associate director of sports medicine. He also oversees men’s and women’s tennis.
Stewart came to Georgia Tech from Virginia Tech, where he was an assistant athletic trainer for football as well as a graduate assistant athletic trainer for football and men’s soccer before working for the Hokies in a full-time capacity. During his time at Virginia Tech, he also served as assistant athletic trainer for the Cologne Centurions of NFL Europe.
He graduated from Salisbury University in 2005 with a bachelor’s degree in athletic training and earned his master’s in health promotion and physical education in 2006 from Virginia Tech.
Stewart is a NATABOC Certified Athletic Trainer. He is a member of the National Athletic Trainer’s Association, Southeast Athletic Trainers’ Association, and the Georgia Athletic Trainers’ Association, and he is licensed by the state of Georgia as an athletic trainer.
Stewart is married to Rachel Matthews, the assistant athletics trainer for Tech’s women’s basketball team.
