Katie O’Connor

Bio

Katie O’Connor joined Kansas Team Health  as the Director of Sports Nutrition Football in January 0f 2024. O’Connor previously served as LSU’s Assistant Football Performance Dietitian since August of 2022.

In her role with the football performance staff, Katie oversees all meal/snack procurement, team hydration needs, individual supplement plans, body composition testing, individual meal-plans, the teams nutritional education and game-day nutrition operations.

Prior to  her time at LSU, Katie served as the first Director of Performance Nutrition at Georgia Southern University. Her duties included providing nutrition education, counseling, team talks and coordinating nutrition care for 17 Division I teams all while building their nutrition department from the ground up.

Born and raised in Syracuse, New York, Katie received her bachelor’s degree in dietetics from The University of Vermont in 2018 and master’s degree in exercise physiology with a concentration in sports nutrition from Florida State University in 2021.