Fueling & Recovery
Meal Planning
Nutrition During Injury & Illness
Supplements & Sport Foods
Medical Team Injury and Illness Papers
Written by the GRP Medical Team to inform on common injuries and illnesses
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Megan Chacosky
June 21, 2024: Updated research on Relative Energy Deficiency in Sports (REDS), and how athletes and staff can contribute to more positive fueling and body image cultures
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Will Ruth
July 24, 2024: Answers to and discussions around GRP-submitted questions about strength training and its role and value for high-performance endurance/power-endurance sports.
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Will and Megan
August 22, 2024
Review and discussion of the "Sleep" paper in the Portal.
About the Support Team
We support athletes in the healthy pursuit of elite sport performance through conscientious, holistic, collaborative, and evidence-based nutrition, strength and conditioning, and medical practice.
Work with the Whole Athlete
We strive to find, encourage, and pursue balance of elite sport performance practices and athlete physical, mental, and emotional health.
Sport performance is a long-term process, and we advocate for practices that support sustainable outcomes for the athlete, sport community, and environment.
We facilitate athlete autonomy through education and coaching to teach personal wellness and fitness skills for life in and beyond high-performance sport.
Fortify Athlete Excellence
We support the trainable skill of athlete availability through rigorous, evidence-based nutritional and strength and conditioning practices.
We seek greater knowledge through research, discussion, and experience, and share sport performance resources to improve coach and athlete understanding.
We focus on the process, not just outcome achievements, for ourselves and our athletes.
Pursue with Curiosity
We remain open-minded about varying points of view, perceived challenges, the means to pursue excellence, and the support of others.
We seek to understand the athlete experience, knowing that there are many successful paths in high-performance sport.
The athlete is a partner in, not a product of, their training and development within and beyond high-performance sport.
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I started working at Craftsbury as a sport dietitian and chef during the summer of 2022. Prior to moving to Craftsbury, I’ve lived in UT, CA, and NY, serving in a similar nutrition role supporting a total of 19 U.S. Olympic sports, two Winter Olympic Games, and countless travel chef tours all over the world since finishing grad school.
I attended the University of Utah for my MS in Nutrition & Dietetics, which led to my initial foot in the Olympic sport door with U.S. Ski & Snowboard, and my Registered Dietitian and Certified Specialist in Sport Dietetics board certifications.
On the road to sport nutrition, I lived a brief life as a fine dining pastry chef; it was ironically in culinary school, where I also competed in NCAA soccer and lacrosse, my interest in combining sport and food in sustainable ways cohesively came to life and led to the start of my current career.
Outside of work, I am often found petting other people’s dogs, trying to keep up with the highly competitive community CraftFit classes, or enjoying meals with friends who do most of the cooking.
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I have been the GRP Strength Coach since fall of 2022. I have been at Craftsbury since 2019, starting out as a coach in the sculling camp program and then moving into camp management. I have a BS in Kinesiology with an emphasis Sport Psychology, an MA in Sport Coaching, and an NSCA-CSCS certification.
My wife, Emily, and I moved to nearby Barre in 2019 from Bellingham, WA. It was technically her job with the State that brought us here, but I knew about Craftsbury through the rowing world already and was all-in on the move as well. We have a little fixer-upper house on 10 acres of former farm and forest land, slowly working to restore both.
I rowed and wrestled in high school in Olympia, WA (2006-2010), and then played lacrosse and began competing in strength sports at Western Washington University in Bellingham (2010-2014). As a Kinesiology major, I started coaching via a year-long weightroom internship with the WWU track and field team. I stayed in Bellingham after I graduated and coached high school lacrosse and was the strength coach and assistant coach for the WWU men’s club rowing team (2014-2019). I have been enjoying learning to ski at Craftsbury for yet another sport experience.
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I am a Primary Care Sports Medicine physician based in New Haven, CT and have been working with the GRP since summer 2021 as a volunteer physician, primarily via telemedicine. I am board certified in Internal Medicine, Pediatrics, and Sports Medicine.
I attended Williams College, the University of Chicago medical school, and residency at Yale-New Haven Hospital. Experiences as an often-injured collegiate rower led me to a fellowship in Sports Medicine at the Hospital for Special Surgery in NYC, where I worked with the NY Giants and Mets.
Currently, I am also a physician for Yale Athletics, the primary care physician for the WNBA CT Sun, the associate program director for the Yale Med-Peds residency program, and co-editor of a national curriculum on outpatient Pediatrics care.
I first came to Craftsbury in 2019 as a sculling camper! I love any opportunity to escape the flatlands of CT. When not working, I cherish spending time with my husband and 2-year old daughter, usually doing whatever she wants!