In July 2018, Julia Rapicavoli joined the University of Miami as a staff physical therapist\/assistant athletic trainer, working in the former capacity with numerous sports and in the latter role with women\u2019s tennis. In June 2021, she earned a promotion to director of rehabilitation\/associate athletic trainer, retaining her responsibilities and taking on additional oversight.<\/p>\n
Prior to her hiring,\u00a0Rapicavoli\u00a0spent over a year in\u00a0the UM Sports Physical Therapy Residency Program, which she graduated from in July 2018, and as a member of the The Lennar Foundation Medical Center staff.<\/p>\n
Rapicavoli\u00a0worked with the Hurricanes football team as a student athletic trainer from 2010-12 before graduating from Miami in 2012. She earned a doctorate of physical therapy from Northwestern University in 2015 and also spent time that year as a student physical therapist for the Miami football team.<\/p>\n
A Miami native, Rapicavoli\u00a0became a\u00a0licensed physical therapist in 2015 and received her Certified and Licensed Athletic Trainer designation from the National Athletic Trainers Association\u00a0in 2012.<\/p>\n
Before returning to her alma mater, Rapicavoli served as a physical therapist in outpatient orthopedics in San Francisco for two years.<\/p>\n
Rapicavoli and her husband, Alex, have one daughter, Charlotte.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In July 2018, Julia Rapicavoli joined the University of Miami as a staff physical therapist\/assistant athletic trainer, working…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":391564,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-391563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=391563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391563\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/391564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}