A dietician for the University of Nevada, Las Vegas athletic program says that eating healthy is a matter of compromise.
Kennedy Springer, the new director of performance nutrition at UNLV, outlook to being healthy is linked to a cancer battle she has beaten, according to a news release from the university.
“Not that nutrition caused my cancer or anything, but it just helped me realize that I would love being proactive in helping people establish a healthy lifestyle to help prevent some of these things,” Springer said.
The Utah native is going on five years of being cancer-free and began her sports nutrition-based position at the school in June. Her job involves providing feedback for all of the school’s sporting programs.
Springer previously worked for the University of Louisville as a sports dietician and is a member of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics and the Collegiate and Professional Sports Dietitian Association (CPSDA).
A former volleyball player and coach at Utah State University Eastern, Springer earned her bachelor’s degree in human nutrition from Southern Utah University in 2017 and her master’s degree in nutrition and integrative physiology from the University of Utah in 2020.
Springer started her career interning for the Intermountain Healthcare TOSH Sport Science Department in Murray, Utah, and was the Gatorade Sports Nutrition Immersion Fellow at the University of Washington from August 2020 to April 2021.
