University of Georgia Athletics
UGA's Ketterly Wins CPSDA Excellence Award
June 14, 2013 | General
June 14, 2013
ATHENS, Ga. --- Jen Ketterly, Director of Sports Nutrition for the UGA Athletic Association, recently received the "Excellence/Perseverance Award" from the Collegiate & Professional Sports Dietitians Association (CPSDA) at the group's annual convention in St. Louis, Mo. The honor is given annually "in recognition of immeasurable enthusiasm and extraordinary dedication" to the profession and organization.
"Jen does an outstanding job directing our sports nutrition program," said Ron Courson, UGA's Senior Associate Athletic Director for Sports Medicine. "She is nationally recognized for her expertise and we are proud to have her as a member of our athletic association. This prestigious award is well deserved and we are delighted that the Collegiate & Professional Sports Dietitians Association recognized her for her many contributions to the field of sports nutrition."
Ketterly manages nutrition education, writes individual performance nutrition plans, monitors body composition, evaluates nutritional supplements and plans pre-game and travel meals for Georgia's student-athletes. She specifically is responsible for supervising the nutrition care of UGA's football, basketball, volleyball and women's golf programs.
Prior to joining the UGA staff in 2011, Ketterly served as Director of Sports Nutrition at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and also worked in a similar position at the University of Connecticut's Student Health Services and Department of Athletics from 2000-03. In 1999, Ketterly was a program assistant for the University of Kentucky Wellness Program where she worked with all aspects of the statewide-distance programming, which covers all of the satellite, community and technical campuses in the UK system, and assisted in planning wellness days and health screenings.
In addition to Ketterly's honor UGA Director of Athletics Greg McGarity received the organization's Tom Osborne Award, which is presented "to the coach or administrator who embodies the spirit and embraces the value of nutrition." Dr. Osborne, who led Nebraska to three national championships as head football coach and who has recently retired as the school's AD, is widely recognized by Sports RDs for making "Performance Nutrition" an essential and fully functioning component of the Cornhuskers' athletic department in the 1980s.
The Collegiate & Professional Sports Dietitians Association (CPSDA) is a member-driven national not-for-profit organization chartered in 2010. The CPSDA vision is to demonstrate to athletes, coaches and to those directing athletic programs that CPSDA "Professional" members (Sports RDs working day-to-day with athletes) contribute to successful athletic programs in a variety of measurable ways. CPSDA Professional Members are Performance Nutrition Professionals who help enhance the performance of athletes; aid in their recovery after exercise; help to recruit athletes to their schools; and direct food and dietary supplement cost-containment programs.
