Samantha Partida joined the Texas Performance Nutrition staff in 2020. Prior to her time at Texas, she worked as a sports dietitian in the Gatorade Sports Nutrition Immersion Program fellowship at North Carolina State University. After that, she transitioned into a full-time position at NCSU where she worked with football, women\u2019s basketball, volleyball, gymnastics, softball, rifle. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Partida earned a Bachelor of Science in nutrition and completed her dietetic internship through the Coordinated Program in Dietetics in 2013 at the University of Texas. She worked as a clinical dietitian for people with disabilities after college before realizing her passion for sports nutrition. She returned to school to obtain a Master of Science degree in exercise and nutrition science from Lipscomb University where she studied nutrition intervention in active middle school and high school students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Partida is a registered and licensed dietitian in Texas and is a certified specialist in sports dietetics. She is an active member of the Collegiate and Professional Sports Dietetics Association as a member of the diversity and inclusion committee. She is a native of New Braunfels, TX and has a labrador\/golden retriever named Daisy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":564,"template":"","class_list":{"0":"post-563","1":"speaker","2":"type-speaker","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"entry"},"acf":{"speaker_title":"Assistant Sports Dietitian","speaker_last_name":"Partida","speaker_classification":["Featured Guests"]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/the-team-behind-the-team\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker\/563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/the-team-behind-the-team\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/the-team-behind-the-team\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/speaker"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/the-team-behind-the-team\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker\/563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":566,"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/the-team-behind-the-team\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker\/563\/revisions\/566"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/the-team-behind-the-team\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/the-team-behind-the-team\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}