NOW Sports Dietitian Experts
Sports dietitians offer crucial advice to support an athlete’s training and performance through ideal nutrition. Want to up your sports nutrition game? Meet NOW’s sports dietitian partners, who specialize in working with athletes at both the collegiate and Olympic levels, to get expert nutrition tips to maximize performance.
Dana Angelo White, MS, RD, ATC
Dana is a registered dietitian, certified athletic trainer, journalist, nutrition and fitness consultant and author of 9 cookbooks.
Dana is the sports dietitian and associate clinical professor of Athletic Training and Sports Medicine at Quinnipiac University in Connecticut. She has been practicing as a dual credentialed certified athletic trainer and registered dietitian for nearly 20 years. She is an ambassador for F45 Training in Fairfield, Connecticut, a member of the USOC Sports Dietitian Registry and National Athletic Trainers’ Association liaison to the Sports and Human Performance Nutrition subgroup of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.
Dana is the nutrition expert for FoodNetwork.com and has served on advisory boards for Verywell, Greatist, Applegate, Chobani and has worked as a spokesperson for Gatorade, National Honey Board, National Mango Board and Cooking Light Magazine. She has made appearances on Good Day Street Talk, Food Network.com, Access Hollywood, ABC Nightly News, NBC Connecticut, GMA Health, New York Live and Better Connecticut.
Dana’s work has been featured on Food Network.com, Verywell.com, Cooking Light.com, Today’s Dietitian, SHAPE, SEVENTEEN, Prevention, Muscle & Fitness, Men’s Health, Men’s Fitness, and Maxim.
Dana earned her master’s degree in nutrition education from Teachers’ College-Columbia University and a bachelor’s degree in Sports Medicine from Quinnipiac. You will often find her HIIT training or out on her paddleboard; she resides in Connecticut with her husband and 3 daughters.
Reilly Beatty, MS, RD CSSD
Reilly has been a Registered Dietitian and Board Certified Sports Dietitian for over four years. In conjunction with her certifications, she earned a dual master’s degree in Nutrition and Exercise Science in 2017.
As a Board Certified Specialist in Sports Dietetics, Reilly is one of only 17 dietitians that hold this sport-specific credential in South Carolina. Individuals with this credential have over 2000 practice hours in sports and are the go-to specialists in helping athletes fuel.
After struggling for years on how to fuel her body like a busy D1 student-athlete, Reilly has dedicated her professional career to helping athletes not make those same mistakes.
Over the past nine years, Reilly has worked at high-performing centers and universities in Southern California. From being Director of Performance Nutrition at UCLA, prepping Team USA for international trips, and helping develop the first sports nutrition program at multiple local D1 universities, she has used simple and easy nutrition to make athletes great.
She currently runs RBSN virtually in the Carolinas and works with high-performance teams across the country. Through her private practice, Reilly is the team dietitian for Gotham FC and the United States Performance Center where she works with Team USA Field Hockey and Team USA Taekwondo.
Reilly currently lives in Charleston, SC with her husband and two dogs.