Jeremy Ford

In November 2021, Jeremy Ford joined the South Carolina staff as assistant director of Olympic sports nutrition, working primarily with the Gamecocks’ men’s and women’s basketball and volleyball. He joined a growing nutrition staff that works in consultation with the mental health performance team, athletic training and sports performance staffs and team doctors to ensure the total well-being of student-athletes.

At South Carolina, Ford is the primary contact for his sports on team meal planning and individual consultations with student-athletes on nutritional issues. He also coordinates educational opportunities for teams and student-athletes such as grocery story visits and cooking demonstrations, and he implemented hydration and supplementation protocols.

Prior to joining the South Carolina staff, Ford was a sports dietitian at James Madison for the 2020-21 season working with its men’s and women’s basketball programs. As the two teams’ first full-time dietitian, he operated the basketball-only nutrition station, including staff and inventory management, in addition to traditional dietitian duties with those student-athletes. Ford also used his role to provide educational opportunities to student-athletes via the @fuelingjmuduke Instagram account.

A year into his master’s degree in sports medicine, Ford discovered his passion for performance nutrition, realizing the importance of nutrition on people in all walks of life. Seeing an opportunity to marry his love for sports performance and his desire to reach as many people as possible through nutrition, he began work on a bachelor’s degree in food and nutrition at Alabama while still completing his original master’s degree at Armstrong State.

During his studies, Ford was a performance nutrition intern at UAB and then Alabama. He also served as an adjunct instructor teaching intro to nutrition and nutrition for performance at Alabama and worked as a master trainer at Crunch Fitness in Tuscaloosa.

Ford is a registered dietitian nutritionist, a certified strength and conditional specialist (NSCA, CSCS), a basic life support provider and a ServSafe food manager.

In addition to his master’s in sports medicine from Armstrong State (2018) and is bachelor’s in food and nutrition from Alabama (2020), Ford has a bachelor’s in health science on the human performance track from Armstrong State (2016).