Staff Directory
- Title:
- Vice President, Director of Intercollegiate Athletics
- Email:
- Phone:
- 330-672-3120
Updated February 2026
Randale L. Richmond is the Vice President and Director of Intercollegiate Athletics at Kent State University. He began his tenure as the university’s 12th Athletic Director on May 1, 2021. He was promoted to Vice President, Director of Intercollegiate Athletics in the Spring of 2023.
This is Richmond’s second stint at Kent State University. He previously spent 10 years with the Golden Flashes, working in Student-Athlete Academic Services and Compliance. Richmond began as a graduate assistant before serving as an Assistant Director of Compliance from 2006 onward. He was elevated to the Assistant Athletic Director of Compliance in 2010, then promoted to Associate Athletic Director of Student-Athlete Academic Services & Compliance in 2012. Richmond served in that role until 2015, when he was hired by Old Dominion University.
Richmond arrived at Old Dominion University in February of 2015 as the Sr. Associate Athletic Director for Sport Administration and Student-Athlete Welfare. In that role, he was responsible for leadership, oversight, and supervision of Student-Athlete Academic Services, Leadership Development, and NCAA Compliance. He also served as the Sport Administrator for the men’s basketball, field hockey, baseball, men’s soccer, and men’s and women’s swimming programs. During his oversight of those sports, he had a direct impact on fundraising and program enhancement, raising over $1.5 million and increasing the men’s soccer fundraising efforts by over 500%. In addition, Richmond served on several campus committees, including the Brother 2 Brother Steering Committee and the President’s Task Force on Inclusive Excellence, where he co-chaired. He took the lead in developing and enhancing numerous programs at Old Dominion, including revamping the Monarchs’ Competitive Excellence Plan and implementing a Sport Administration Executive Summary to track each sport’s success against the goals set in Old Dominion’s strategic plan. He also launched the New Employee Welcome Plan, which helps new employees experience early success and connect with current employees.
During his time at ODU, Richmond successfully led the department through an NCAA Academic Performance Program Review, a Conference USA (C-USA) Compliance Audit, and an internal Institutional Control Review. Under his leadership, ODU implemented several progressive student-athlete programs, including its first-ever Student-Athlete Leadership Academy. The Monarch Athletic Department achieved all-time highs in Academic Progress Rate (APR) and Graduation Success Rate (GSR) scores, and in the department Grade Point Average (GPA). ODU led Conference USA in Commissioner’s Honor Roll recipients in each of his final four seasons with the Monarchs. In terms of Sport Administration, both the baseball and men’s soccer programs realized great success in fundraising, classroom performance, and on the field, with both teams earning national rankings and the men’s soccer program winning its second C-USA Championship in 2017.
Richmond currently sits on the NCAA Division I Baseball Oversight Committee and is the chair of the Mid-American Conference Basketball Committee. He previously served on the LEAD1 Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Working Group and was a member of the National Association for Athletic Compliance (NAAC) Thought Leaders Group, where he also co-chaired the NAAC Convention Committee. He participated in the Collegiate Athletics Leadership Symposium, the D1A Athletics Director’s Institute, and the NAAC ACE Mentoring Program. He was also a graduate of the NCAA Leadership Institute, where he was selected as the graduation speaker for the 2015 class. In 2014, Richmond was named to Crain’s Cleveland Business list of “Who to Watch in Education” and to Kaleidoscope Magazine’s “40 Under 40 Club” in 2013.
The Akron, Ohio, native earned his Bachelor of Arts from Baldwin-Wallace College in 2004, majoring in history and minoring in sociology. He then earned his Master of Education degree from Kent State in 2006. He can be found on Twitter @RandaleRichmond.
Randale and his wife, Ja’Alycia, have two sons, Ramahn and Ramar, and one daughter, Jayla.
