Rachel has worked as the sports dietitian at BYU for the past 18 years. She is a registered and certified

dietitian/nutritionist, certified specialist in sports dietetics, and has a Master's in Public Health. Rachel is passionate about nutrition and the power it has to improve health and quality of life. Her goal is to help her clients develop a healthy relationship with food in a way that promotes physical, emotional, and mental

 

Fueling athletes’ performance through nutrition education and provision of evidence-based meal plans and food selections that enable athletes to create healthy habits for life.

 

Co-teaches Health 201 and

provides team education as well as individual consultations on a variety of topics which include, but are

not limited to athletic performance, weight loss or weight gain, nutrition post-concussion/injury/surgery, meal planning, healthy eating while traveling/eating out, disordered eating, celiac disease nutrition, diabetes nutrition, etc.

 

Rachel is responsible for the Fueling Station/Nutrition Center which provides evidenced-based foods to help fuel athletes for practice, performance, and recovery. She is also a member of the BYU Athletics multi-disciplinary Health and Wellness Team.

 

Education

BS in Dietetics from BYU, 2003

Master’s in Public Health at BYU, 2023

Prior to BYU

Completed a one-year internship at Saint Francis Medical Center in Peoria, Illinois 2003-2004

Clinical dietitian at Utah Valley Regional Medical Center

Wellness/clinical dietitian at the Central Utah Clinic

Clinical dietitian Provo Canyon School

 

Personal/Family

Resides in Spanish Fork, Utah, with her husband Kevin and their son Tyler and daughter Ava