Michelle’s Bio

Michelle Rockwell MS, RD, CSSD

Sports Nutrition Consultant

Michelle is a Registered Dietitian specializing in Sports Dietetics and Nutrition for Active Individuals. She consults with individual athletes and athletic teams locally and nationwide on issues related to enhancing performance and health status through nutrition intervention. Michelle serves as consultant to North Carolina State’s athletic department in addition to consulting with the athletic departments of several colleges and universities nation-wide. She serves as nutrition consultant to several professional teams and has served as a speaker, lecturer, and writer for several professional organizations, universities, and sports groups.

Co-founding RK Team Nutrition with Susan Kundrat MS, RD, CSSD has been a recent career highlight as educating students and healthcare professionals is a true passion of Michelle’s.

Previously, Michelle served as the Director of Sports Nutrition for the University of Florida Athletic Association from 1999-2005. In this role, Michelle directed nutrition education, counseling, and food service for the Gators’ 18 varsity teams. She actively collaborated with coaches and the sports medicine team to provide high level nutritional care to each athlete. She directed the Gator Training Table, body composition analysis, dietary supplement evaluation, the eating disorder team, and Sports Psychology services. She also served as a lecturor and preceptor for the University of Florida Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition and other campus departments.

Michelle has served as Sports Nutrition editor for SCAN’s Pulse newsletter and reviewer for the SCAN Sports Nutrition Manual. In 2004, she received the Recognized Young Dietitian of the Year Award for the state of Florida.

Michelle holds Master of Science and Bachelor of Science degrees from the Human Nutrition, Foods, & Exercise department at Virginia Tech where she was team captain and 5-time conference champion of the Hokies’ Track & Field team. She completed her Dietetics internship training at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. Michelle and her husband, John, have 2 children: Lewis (5) and Leah (3).