Performance Nutrition
LSU Performance Nutrition is committed to helping each individual athlete achieve sustained success and reach their full potential on and off the field. We provide leading nutrition education and resources to optimize nutrient quality, quantity, and timing.
SPORT PERFORMANCE AND HEALTH IS NOT DEFINED BY A NUMBER ON A SCALE.
Our goal as performance dietitians is to provide education and resources that teach our athletes to live a healthy lifestyle that is sustainable beyond their time at LSU. We take a whole food first approach to proper nutrition and teach athletes how to fuel their bodies from the grocery store to their plate.
Athletics Performance Nutrition Center
Purpose-built for the unique needs of elite-level athletes. The Performance Nutrition Center is focused on long-term health and a life-long-commitment to the well-being of the student-athlete. It offers high-quality food with thoughtful intent to the customized needs of individual athletes and is staffed by registered dietitians certified in sports performance working hand-in-hand with a leading sports performance chef on location, every day.
Lyndsey Eckenrode joined the LSU performance nutrition staff in January 2023 and is in her second season with the Tigers.
Before starting at LSU, Lyndsey served as the Assistant Director of Sports Nutrition for Olympic Sports at West Virginia University. She has participated in athletics at Ole Miss, Ohio State, and the UFC Performance Institute.
Born and raised in Bloomsburg, PA, Eckenrode earned her undergraduate degree in nutrition at Ole Miss and completed her dietetic internship and master’s degree in health and rehabilitation sciences at Ohio State University. She is a Registered Dietitian.
Eckenrode enjoys spending time with family and friends, working out, playing pickleball, and trying new local restaurants in her spare time.