LaReine Schock-Leonard joined the Mountaineer Olympic Sports staff as the Director of Sports Nutrition in May 2021.
Schock-Leonard oversees all nutritional needs for Olympic Sport athletes, including clinical or performance-based one-on-one counseling, menu planning, eating disorder treatment, utilization of practice and competition fueling, and development and implementation of team-specific nutrition educations that encompass performance nutrition strategies, grocery store tours, and cooking classes.
Her individual sport responsibilities include: volleyball, men’s soccer, cross country, track, men’s basketball, wrestling, rifle
A native of Rose Hill, Kansas, Schock-Leonard came to West Virginia after serving nine months as the Director of Sports Nutrition for North Dakota State University, where she was responsible for all of the previously mentioned nutritional needs of the university’s 450 student-athletes. She also aided in the development of a new eating disorder treatment protocol for Bison athletics.
Prior to that, she served as a Sports Nutrition Graduate assistant for the Ole Miss volleyball and softball teams, as well as worked with the Ole Miss Rebel football team and Clemson Olympic sports as a dietetic intern from fall 2018 to spring 2020. She also served as a sports nutrition intern at the University of Tulsa in the summer and fall of 2016, where she was involved in most nutrition operations for football and basketball, as well as provided nutrition education to the women’s soccer and volleyball teams.
Schock-Leonard graduated from Wichita State with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Exercise Science in 2016 and from the University of Mississippi with a Master of Science in Food and Nutrition Services. She completed over 1,300 hours of supervised practice in clinical, food service, public health and sports performance with an emphasis in sports as part of her dietetic internship at the University of Mississippi.
She holds professional affiliations with the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, the Collegiate and Professional Sports Dietitians Association, and the International Society for Kinanthropometry.
