Profile: Owasso’s new Sports Nutritionist, Jentri Sinor
By Isaac Krueger
Jentri Sinor is the newest addition to the Owasso Rams Athletics staff, and she offers expertise in a unique side of the world of sports: nutrition. As a sports nutritionist, she looks to inform and give athletes techniques on proper nutrition, a key part of training. Her compassion for the athletes and passion for nutrition showed early in her search for a career.
Photo of Sinor taken by Jordan Johnson
As a registered dietitian just out of graduate school, a private practice would have been the easy answer. However, Sinor decided to embark on a different kind of entrepreneurship and, instead, pitched and constructed her own position as the Sports Nutritionist here at Owasso High School. She pioneered her way to becoming the first high school athlete-specific nutritionist in the state of Oklahoma.
“I presented the qualities I could bring to the table and then I got a meeting set up, and after that meeting, things just kind of started rolling,” Sinor remarked.
This drive to forge her own path came from her past as a high school athlete, where she struggled to maintain a proper diet. As an Owasso High School alumni and former All-State softball player herself, she now hopes to inform athletes about the importance of nutrition and prevent players from struggling to sustain the proper fuel for their bodies.
“I really love sports nutrition and I know when I was a high school athlete, that’s when I needed the most help nutrition-wise,” Sinor admitted. “I want to get in early and prevent that from happening to other people.”
Getting the correct nutrients is a key part of every athlete’s, and ultimately everyone’s, success and recovery. She looks to not just inform and aid players in their time as high school athletes, but she strides to give them insight that will help them at the next level and for the rest of their lives.
Sinor presumes, “The information that kids are learning now is something that they’re going to be able to take with them, knowing that they’re getting it from a reliable source and an evidence-based source.”
Her driven and compassionate nature makes her a perfect fit for the job, and Owasso athletes are already reaping the benefits of an elevated diet thanks to Sinor. Athletes can go to the performance lunch line for daily meals and schedule one-on-one conversations with Sinor to see what things they specifically need in order to receive the greatest benefit from their diet. Sinor is an excellent addition to the Owasso Athletics staff, and she is ecstatic to help any athlete that needs guidance.