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- Title:
- Director of Sports Nutrition
- Email:
- drnguyen@ncsu.edu
- Phone:
- (919) 513-7123
Diana Nguyen is the Director of Sports Nutrition for NC State Athletics. Nguyen’s top priority is to help each individual athlete achieve his and her performance goals through nutrition.
Nguyen presides over all aspects of the Wolfpack Sports Nutrition program and oversees the needs of 23 varsity teams. She also oversees the fueling stations across the athletic facilities and the athletic training table meals.
She came to NC State from Texas A&M University, where she served as an Assistant Director for Performance Nutrition. She assisted in all aspects of nutritional services for student-athletes at Texas A&M, overseeing the nutrition for the women’s soccer, volleyball, softball, equestrian, track and field, men’s and women’s swimming and diving and men’s and women’s tennis teams.
Prior to her tenure at Texas A&M she was a sports nutrition Graduate Assistant with the Virginia Tech Athletics Department, counseling student-athletes as well as conducting various projects in the nutrition field. She has also served as a nutrition consultant with The Weight Club of Blacksburg and conducted body composition testing at the Christiansburg Recreational Center.
Nguyen completed her dietetic internship at the University of Virginia Health System. She earned a B.S. degree in human nutrition, foods and exercise with a minor in psychology, as well as master’s degrees in health promotion and sports nutrition from Virginia Tech. She and her husband, Dat, have two children, Madison and Maverick.
