Dr. Goodall teaches received her BS in Biology with a minor in Chemistry from the Virginia Military Institute (VMI) in Lexington, Virginia in 2004. After graduation, she headed to graduate school to pursue her interests in science research and received her Ph.D. in Molecular Medicine with an emphasis on Cardiovascular Physiology from the University of Maryland School of Medicine in 2010. Her research explored cardiac signaling cascades that are upregulated during heart failure. She then completed her post-doctoral research at the same school, but in a different lab where she examined skeletal muscle injury and repair associated with Duchenne muscular dystrophy. During this time, she also taught Exercise Physiology and Biology Labs at Washington College.

When she is not teaching, she takes every opportunity to enjoy spending quality time with her wonderful husband, son, and two daughters! She is an exercise enthusiast and loves starting her day with an early morning spin class on her Peloton bike. She also enjoys volleyball, being outside, gardening, and spending time near the water in the summer.