Jennifer Fields, PhD

Assistant Professor @UConn | Nutritional Sciences
Research: Sports Nutrition, Load Monitoring, Metabolism, Body Composition

[UConn Nutritional Sciences @UConn_Nutrition]

Join us in congratulating Dr. Jennifer Fields on receiving the Nutritional Research Award and the Terry J. Housh Outstanding Young Investigator of the Year Award from the National Strength & Conditioning Association.
#uconn_nutrition #sportsnutrition #nutrition

[Jennifer Fields, PhD @Jenfields521]

@SMCollinsPhD @NSCA Thank you, Sean!

[Jennifer Fields, PhD @Jenfields521]

feeling so blessed and honored. thank you @NSCA

[Jennifer Fields, PhD @Jenfields521]

So excited to be a mentor in this amazing program! @NSCA

[Jennifer Fields, PhD @Jenfields521]

Love getting to talk about this research 🫶

https://t.co/lGPekNd8zl

[UConn Nutritional Sciences @UConn_Nutrition]

What Should Be on Your Plate? Student Athletes Don’t Know.

A new UConn Nutritional Sciences study by Jennifer Fields reveals major gaps in athletes' knowledge about proper fueling for health & performance.

https://t.co/MRJtcLqshP

Photo by Christian Tenguan on Unsplash

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✴️Nutrition education interventions focusing on general nutrition concepts and sport-related fueling strategies are needed for adolescent athletes✴️ @AJagim @dr_mtjones8 👏

[Jennifer Fields, PhD @Jenfields521]

🚨Newest pub assessing individual variation in athlete workloads across a season @dr_mtjones8 @AJagim

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New 👏 Pub 👏 @MegKMagee @AJagim @dr_mtjones8 @JSCRonline

[Jennifer Fields, PhD @Jenfields521]

Honored to have contributed 2 chapters to @NSCA's newest edition textbook with @dr_mtjones8 @AJagim

[Jennifer Fields, PhD @Jenfields521]

Proud of you @kuhlmanick! Your hard work and dedication is well recognized by this research excellence scholarship!

[UConn Nutritional Sciences @UConn_Nutrition]

Last Friday, @UConn_Nutrition awarded 4 NUSC graduate students with well-deserved scholarships! Left to right we have Briana Nosal and her advisor Dr. Chun, Yi Wang and her advisor Dr. Luo, Nicholas Kuhlman (not pictured) and his advisor Dr. Fields.

Congratulations to all!

[UConn Nutritional Sciences @UConn_Nutrition]

Dr. Jennifer Fields in the Department of Nutritional Sciences gave a guest lecture on nutrition in athlete performance in Dr. Ji-Young Lee's Concepts of Nutrition course
Graduate students joining the department this fall learn skills that they need to succeed in their program!

[UConn Nutritional Sciences @UConn_Nutrition]

In Dr. Clinton Mathias' First Year Experience - Nutritional Sciences Community course, guest speaker, Dr. Jennifer Fields gave an intuitive presentation on the importance of nutrition in performance optimization of athletes!

[Jennifer Fields, PhD @Jenfields521]

Newest pub out!

"These findings can help practitioners better interpret RMR values to classify an athlete with a low, moderate, or high RMR when compared to other athletes and how these values may subsequently influence BF%." @AJagim @dr_mtjones8

[Jennifer Fields, PhD @Jenfields521]

Newest pub out! "Significant disparities in absolute external load parameters were observed among SOC, LAX, and FH, challenging the conventional grouping of these sports as “field sports” and highlighting their unique match workload profiles."
@dr_mtjones8 @AJagim @kuhlmanick

[Biology of Sport @BiolSport]

📊This study shows a strong link between external loads and sRPE-load, supporting the use of sRPE-load as a practical tool to estimate workload in soccer players⚽️
✍️Nicholas M. Kuhlman, Margaret T. Jones, et al.
🔓#OpenAccess🔗 https://t.co/kcuuT5kPYz

[Jennifer Fields, PhD @Jenfields521]

Calling all runners for a study on collagen peptides! Please email if interested in learning more.

[Jennifer Fields, PhD @Jenfields521]

Calling all of your nutritional supplement papers for this special issue! @AJagim @nutrients

[Jennifer Fields, PhD @Jenfields521]

"85.7% of our college MGYM athletes exhibited LEA (20.98 ± 5.2 kcals/kg FFM), with non-LEA athletes (n = 2) marginally surpassing the <30 kcal/kg of fat-free mass (FFM) threshold (30.58 ± 0.2 kcals/kg FFM)."

Great work @kuhlmanick 👏

[Andrew Jagim, PhD @AJagim]

Fresh off the press! Dietary intake, energy availability, and power in men collegiate gymnasts. ⁦@Jenfields521⁩ ⁦@dr_mtjones8⁩ https://t.co/EFJ4qQOPiI

[Jennifer Fields, PhD @Jenfields521]

CONGRATS @kuhlmanick !! Very much deserved and extremely proud. Looking forward to getting started on our research examining the effects of collagen peptides on bone metabolism in women runners 🦴🏃‍♀️👩‍🔬

[UConn Nutritional Sciences @UConn_Nutrition]

Nutritional Sciences graduate student Nick Kuhlman was awarded the 2024 Doctoral Student Research Grant by the National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA) Foundation for his dissertation research on the effects of (1/2)