About Me
I didn’t start out in sports nutrition.
When I entered college, I believed I had my entire life planned. My goal was to become an athletic trainer and eventually be the first female athletic trainer in the NFL, focused on preventing, managing, and treating injuries. I knew the path, the timeline, and exactly how I thought my life would unfold.
But during my freshman year, I became deeply unsettled.
For the first time, I questioned whether athletic training was truly what I wanted to do. That uncertainty was unsettling and frightening because my identity was tied to that plan. I felt stuck, unsure, and frustrated, without a clear alternative.
During a routine meeting, the head athletic trainer at the university acknowledged that she could tell I was struggling. She asked what was going on—and I didn’t even fully know how to explain it. I just knew something wasn’t right.
Then she asked me one question:
“What about sports nutrition?”
I remember thinking, Sports nutrition? That exists?
At that point, I believed nutrition was only for hospitals or sick people, and I had no interest in that. But I loved how the body works. I loved exercise physiology, sport, movement, and helping athletes pursue big goals.
She suggested we write to Nancy Clark, a recognized leader in sports nutrition. To my surprise, Nancy wrote back. Her response was simple but clear:
Exercise physiology and nutrition belong together.
That moment changed everything.
I realized athletic training gave me deep understanding of how the body functions under stress—injury patterns, workload, biomechanics, physiology. Nutrition was the missing piece: the fuel that determines whether the body can perform, recover, and adapt.
As I continued forward, something became clear to me that I hadn’t seen before. I started noticing athletes training hard and following their coaches’ instructions—yet still breaking down. I watched athletes dominate entire seasons only to get injured or sick right before district, regional, state, or national championships. I saw athletes constantly tired, sore, unable to recover, struggling with stomach issues, frustrated that they couldn’t gain muscle or lean out despite doing “everything right.”
They were told to “just eat more” or “watch what they eat.”
But nothing changed.
That’s when I uncovered a truth that many people miss:
Performance problems often aren’t caused by training, they’re caused by misfueling.
When fueling doesn’t match training demands, growth, and competition schedules, athletes pay the price. It shows up as fatigue, injuries, illness, poor recovery, confidence issues, and performance breakdowns—often at the worst possible time.
Through this work, I developed the ability to see patterns others overlook. I can identify misfueling long before it turns into injury, burnout, or lost opportunities. I can anticipate when athletes are headed toward breakdown—even when everything looks “fine” on the surface.
That perspective changed my life and my work.
Today, my mission is clear: I fix misfueling before it limits performance—so athletes can stay healthy, recover properly, and perform when it matters most.
