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Episode 08 - Liz Wluka - Fueling a Student Athlete's Performance
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In this week's episode of Beyond the Whiteboard, we are discussing how to fuel our High School and College age students with University of Connecticut Director of Sports Nutrition, Liz Wluka.
Liz joined the UConn athletics staff in August 2017. As a registered dietitian and a certified specialist in sports dietetics, Wluka provides individual counseling as well as team nutrition education to enhance the health and performance of all student-athletes. In this role, she is responsible for planning, developing, and implementing all performance nutrition services provided to all 24 teams.
Liz went to UCONN following an eight-month sports nutrition fellowship called “SNIP” Sports Nutrition Immersion Program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. This fellowship is through the CPSDA organization (Collegiate and Professional Sports Dietitians Association) sponsored by Gatorade. Liz was one of 10 participants chosen across the country to participate in this exclusive training program as a sports dietitian. Wluka completed her dietetic internship at Pepperdine University in 2016 and previously worked in the sports nutrition department at UCLA.
She graduated from Syracuse University in 2015 and earned her bachelor’s degree in nutrition. During her undergraduate career at Syracuse, Wluka studied abroad in Sydney, Australia.
A native of Sharon, Mass., Wluka was selected for both the Boston Globe and Herald All-Scholastic teams in 2011 in the sport of basketball. Wluka was also selected Hockomock League MVP her senior season, becoming the first Sharon high female basketball player to receive this award in three decades.
She is a member of the Collegiate and Professional Sports Dietitians Association and the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.
We will cover:
A students athletes lifestyle - School, Sport, Stress, Sleep - Repeat
How in super competitive world, nutrition can give them the edge
Educating your student Athlete about nutrition
How to build meals and snacks to fuel their performance.
We even break down an entire game day meal plan.
Resources
Follow Liz and UCONN Huskies
Instagram: @fuelinghuskies
Website: www.uconnhuskies.com
Favorite Book: The Success Principles by Jack Canfield
Favorite Website: www.sportsrd.org
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