West Virginia University Athletics

Haley Bishop joined the Mountaineer Football staff as the director of sports nutrition in January 2021.

At West Virginia, Bishop develops and oversees the nutritional needs for the football student-athletes. She counsels individuals and groups on daily nutrition for performance and health. She researches the most recent scientific evidence and turns it into practical sports nutrition recommendations and tracks and documents the outcomes of nutrition services. She serves as a food and nutrition resource for the program, providing education and maintaining professional competency and skills required for practice.

Bishop develops and counsels in hydration protocols, addresses nutritional challenges to performance, evaluates nutritional supplements, develops all menus and oversees fueling and refueling stations.

Bishop came to West Virginia after spending more than two years as the director of sports nutrition at Virginia Commonwealth. Prior to that she served as a sports nutrition fellow working with men’s basketball and swimming and diving at Arkansas while assisting with football (2018), an intern for St. Vincent’s Performance Center’s NFL Pre Combine Training Program in 2016, student intern at UAB (2015-16) and a sports nutrition football graduate assistant at Samford (2016-17).

She is a registered dietitian and is a board certified specialist in sports dietetics by the commission on dietetic registration. She is ServSafe Food protection manager certified by the National Restaurant Association and is certified in CPR, AED, first aid and blood pathogen certified by the American Heart Association. She holds professional affiliations with the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, Collegiate and Professional Sports Dietitians Association and the Women Leaders in Collegiate Sports.

A native of Taylorsville, Georgia, Bishop graduated from Samford with a bachelor of science degree in nutrition and dietetics in 2016 and her master’s degree in nutrition science/dietetic internship in 2017. In 2016, Bishop was selected for the outstanding research award with her abstract being published in the International Society of Sports Nutrition and was the recipient of the outstanding campus and community service award at Samford.