Dr. Brandy Schneider is currently the Truman State University Master of Athletic Training Program Director. She has been a Certified Athletic Trainer for 20 years and a Performance Enhancement Specialist (PES) for one year. Dr. Schneider is active in the Athletic Training profession serving on state, district, and national committees. At Truman, she is a member of the IRB committee, Graduate Council, and faculty sponsor to Alpha Sigma Gamma. She earned her Bachelors of Science in Exercise Science from Truman State University and Masters in Kinesiology-Athletic Training from the University of Arkansas. In 2012, she earned an EdD-Learning and Leadership from the University of Tennessee-Chattanooga. 

As an athletic trainer, Dr. Schneider has held positions in a rehabilitation clinic, high school, and collegiate settings. She has presented on topics including being an inclusive educator, bullying in athletic training, educational standards and implementation, preceptorship/the preceptor role, dance education, and injury recognition for the physical educator and performer. Her research interests lie within the scholarship of teaching and learning theories, active learning techniques, injury prevention, the adolescent athlete, sport psychology, and student education.